Who Is Behind This Blog??
Im Nobody special just someone whos had special things happen in her life.
I became muslim at 19 years old. Got married nearly a year after that and so began my education in the school of Hard Knocks.
Some may think I write out of a sense of vindictiveness but thats not the case. I blog because to NOT write makes me ill. To NOT be able to express my creativity feels like suffocation to me …so you may find a rant. You may find information. You may find a poem but all in all you will find me.
Crazy. Stubborn. Dysfunctional.BI-Polar.Me.
If you dont like what I have to say then you dont have to read but I dont write with malice. Its just MY LIFE.
Mary sung it why cant I write it?
I called my blog The Myopic Visions of a Neurotic Foundling because thats the world as I see it.
Im Neurotic. Im a foundling.(I have no family in the US other than my kids so I must be a lost one…right)
I see the world through my skewered(at times) honest(mostly) and to the point short sighted eyes. Its also a reference to my needing extremly strong corrective lenses.
So all in all thats Me.
On the 11th March 2009..My 13 yr old died. He had a sudden cardiac death. He basically dropped down and died. My life is changed. I will never be the same again but I have this gift for writing. The same gift that Al-Haarith had and Im going to make sure that I use this gift to remember my son. Thats the new direction for this blog. Its dedicated to him and his memory. Maybe someone will benefit from these words in some way.
Myopic Vision
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Greetings. I’m the religion reporter for the Star-Ledger in New Jersey. I’ve been reading your blogs and feel your perspective could be helpful for a story I’m reporting. Any chance you could please contact me? Either 973-392-***7 or at my e-mail address. Thank you.
My Edit: I thought about it and then said naaah. The muslims got enough on their plate without me heaping another helping of we so bad next to the we arent good men which sits on the sistersneedtostfu.
So Ill pass on that
Salaam,
I love the new look of your blog!
as-salaam alaykum,
I hope you are doing well. I am writing to ask whether it would be possible for you to write a quick blerb about the high-profile Palestinian-American political prisoner Dr. Sami Al-Arian or post our new YouTube video of his case on your blog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPdpxxBR2jk). Right now, Dr. Al-Arian is at a very critical juncture, and could have his sentence unjustly prolonged any day now. Please see press release (below) for more details.
Thank you very much for your time.
Sincerely,
John Halliwell
Moderator
Sami Al-Arian Action Committee
PRESS RELEASE
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace
April 2, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPdpxxBR2jk
http://www.freesaminow.com
To Protest Indefinite Detention, Sami Al-Arian on Hunger Strike
New YouTube video describes his case, highlights his plight
The Department of Justice under the Bush administration continues to manipulate the legal system to keep Dr. Sami Al-Arian imprisoned indefinitely.
Sami Al-Arian, a computer engineering professor from Tampa, Florida, was arrested on charges of supporting a designated terrorist organization in 2003. Al-Arian proclaimed his innocence and maintained the charges were purely political. Almost three years later, a federal jury reached that same conclusion. Al-Arian was acquitted of the most serious charges against him following a six-month trial in 2005. The jury voted 10 to 2 for acquittal on the remaining charges. Dr. Al-Arian, to end his legal nightmare, then signed a plea bargain with the government that stated he would be released and deported as soon as possible. During the negotiations for the plea bargain, the government agreed to a stipulation by Dr. Al-Arian that he would not be called upon to testify in any other trial. The prosecutors accordingly removed the cooperation clause that is standard in plea agreements in the Middle District of Florida.
In total defiance of this agreement, a federal prosecutor from Virginia, Gordon Kromberg, has been trying for two years to force Al-Arian to testify before grand juries in an unrelated case. A judge announced on March 3rd, only weeks before Al-Arian’s scheduled release date, that he would be summoned before a third grand jury. While Virginia prosecutors did not deny the understanding of no-cooperation, they claimed that the absence of an explicit clause exempting Dr. Al-Arian from testimony allowed them to continue trying to force his testimony. Dr. Al-Arian, who is diabetic, began a hunger strike on March 3rd, his third since he his arrest five years ago, to protest this continued government harassment. He has since lost more than 30 pounds and has grown considerably weaker. Al-Arian’s hunger strike is his last recourse against the Bush administration’s manipulation of the grand jury system to convict him.
The true motives of the prosecutor in this case are clear: U.S. Attorney Kromberg has made outrageously bigoted statements against Muslims:
http://www.washington-report.org/archives/April_2007/0704030.html
Kromberg has publicly stated that he believes in punishing by “other means” those he thinks are guilty but who were acquitted in court. He successfully engineered the perjury conviction of Sabri ben Kahla, another American Muslim acquitted of terrorism charges who now faces ten years in prison.
This is the Catch-22 of Sami Al-Arian: either he testifies and is charged and sentenced with perjury, or he refuses to testify and is found in criminal contempt. On March 20th, Dr. Al-Arian was brought before the third grand jury, where he refused to testify. Any day now, he may be charged and tried for criminal contempt and sentenced to a minimum of five years.
This case is a travesty of the American justice system. To raise your voice against this, please sign the petition in support of Dr. Al-Arian (petition.freesaminow.com). For a summary of this case, please watch the newly-made gripping YouTube video based on the critically-acclaimed documentary USA vs. Al-Arian at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPdpxxBR2jk.
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My Edit: Not a political blog. Not an attempt to be trite. But I approved this so whoever wants to know can. Hope thats enough for ya!
salam
in addition to the short real life stories you write, the nick of your blog is what most attracts me… it sums up everything… keep blogging sister… wassalam
- Imad
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My Edit: Jazak Allahu Khair for that sis. I write cause I dont have much else I enjoy doing. What do I do for fun(other than eat the flesh of my ex’s?) Well I write so I guess thats my lot.
assalam alaikum
“Crazy. Stubborn. Dysfunctional.BI-Polar.Me.”
I never thought another replica of me exists somewhere on this planet!! how ironic!
nice blog sis, keep it up. People like us have to go through what we go through in order to write a blog as amazing as this!!
wassalam
lol. Brother..I said that tongue in cheek. I think we all have some bi-polarism inside of us. I consider myself more neurotic than bi-polar ..I dont suffer from depressions but I do have moments of blinding, crazed rage.
But there are twins for all of us
Barak Allahu Feek
lol sorry that I higlighted that… i am also neurotic… it is the blinding and crazed rage that I understand by bi-polarism… i am thinking of making a movie or writing a book about my great bi-polar “adventures”!! you want to share some of yours lol?!
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But you know, despite the agony and mess they cause, they are a main source of laughter for me, subhanallah!!!
any way as u said and as arabs say, Allah (swt) creates 40 replicas of each person, so there u go lol!
wa feeki baraka Allahu
take care wassalam
ha! No need to apologize at all. For me my rages came after I got married. I know it sounds trite but its the truth. I felt disrespected a lot. If I was to blog about everything that happened to me then I would probably make a lot of enimies because this stuff cant be made up. I get enraged when Im cheated on..or someone trys to pull the wool over my eyes. Enraged when you are tying to practice and the other people around you juat want to play games. The reason I blog is also because I am going to write a book ..Ive been asked to do so so I guess I have to but Ill save all the juice salacious stuff for that. Ha! This is so long it coulda been a blog..right? Anyways Id love to know about your madness.
Wsalaam
interesting, you raced me to the book idea! then I’ll make a movie, lol!…
sad to hear about your marriage xp… i had one too.. thanx to my bi-polarism, I admit
… actually i do have a blog (u r welcome!) but every time i want to blog, i become speechless (or is it writeless!?)… or i dont have the let-it-all-out skills you women have!!
i’d love to share my madness with you, but I wonder if this is the right place… can email me if you want.. maybe my stories will help you in you book plan!!
Salam
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Assalaamu Alaikum…
I’m assuming you have abandoned this blog due to lack of activity. I came across you on Umar Lee’s blog and thought you were my sister up until the very last few paragraphs! I am deeply sorry that you have had this experience as I experienced ‘burnout’ (was ‘born’ Muslim and happily became an atheist after dealings with TROID…) and my sister also had an experience being married to a man who is still widely listened to today, makes a phat salary preaching Islam and still finds it difficult to pay child support to his first set of children whom he abandoned when he decided his wife was ‘too dark’ and married a newly converted Italian sister (also by deceptive means)….
I am alhamdulillah back in the fold of Islaam and am trying to follow the true meaning of Salafiyah (by not using the name and seeking knowledge rather then having opinions forced onto me) and wanted to say that I hope that you are doing well and that all your various issues have played out in a positive light…
Alhmadulillah Ahkee.