Around two months ago, I had hoped to start a series on Islam and Knowledge Management. Though I have not gived up on this, time has not allowed me the opportunity.
But perhaps it’s good in another way. It has reinforced my belief that blogging and research do not go well together.
By not going well, I do not mean that nonsense blogging (the one liners, etc) is acceptable. Good content is always appreciated.
But it does mean that academified research is not necessary or essential for good blogging. Writing from a sense of experience, sharing ideas, insights, interesting info, broadening topics, etc. are aspects of good blogging.
Many academics are reluctant because they know that research takes time, blogging doesn’t have to. Research needs footnotes and references. The closest you get to a reference in blogging is trackback.
If blogging was required to be research based, this entry wouldn’t be here. I still maintain that blogging could be a perpetual charity (Sadaqa al-Jariyah)
This happenend on the the 10th of May already, but only saw this today. How did i see this?
Well, I was having problems with multiple incidences of FCKeditor in Firefox. Thought I’ll go there to look for help.
I’m using it with the tab panel from cross-browser.com, but still doesn’t work. Guess I’ll drop the tab-panel – not in the mood for debugging javascipt.
http://www.fckeditor.net/
“We were raped in police cells, say girls” reads this story on IOL. This incident occurred to girls who were locked up in a police cell with youths. The policeman on duty refused to take any action or be bothered by it.
On the outset, let me state that rape is a horrific beastly act of violence and I have no attempt to undermine its seriousness. But lets see whats happening…
In court, the youths and policeman are claiming that consensual sex took place, and this seems to be the main focus of the case – sadly so.
What would an Islamic court probably find in this matter?
None of them deny that ‘sex’ took place, and because it is fornication (zina), they are all guilty of this! It now remains to see whether it was coerced fornication – rape.
The ruling would be:
- Fornication - punishment of 100 strokes or stoning to death for non-virgins, applicable to both parties.
- Coerced fornication – stoning to death for the youths, girls are innocent
Morally, this is higher that what the court will have to look into, and sadly why it is only in instances like this that Islamic law gets appreciated.
This is another reason why rape is so uncommon in Islamic environments. It is the fear that the punishment of fornication will be applied to them. And even if this fornication was ‘consensual sex’, there is always the possibility that the woman can claim coerced fornication (rape).
Fornication is illegal and wrong in the first instance.
As from next year, pay-channel Mnet will not be allowed to have an ‘Open Time’ slot for all viewers, as decreed by the Independent (so they say) Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA).
Frankly, I couldn’t care less. I don’t have Mnet, but I hardly watch TV, let alone Mnet. SABC welcomed the ruling, and surprise-surprise, there’s the SABC’s spokesperson Paul Setsetse speaking on the ruling.
Hey, wasn’t he the spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice!! Yes he was, but now he’s General Manager of Corporate Communications for the SABC.
Did SABC like what he did in government, so appointed him? Was he disappointed with government, he left for the SABC. Or how about this – the Government was so impressed with him, they promoted him to the SABC.
Sorry for the cynism. There’s way too much co-incidences in the ANC government. It’s probably a co-incidence Zuma met Shaikh – whatever!!!!!!!!!!
SABC – South African Broadcasting Corporation
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