Ya'll know I've converted when I start dressin' in my Shukronline wear. 

Yo man, it'll be like, "Hey homies! check out my Muslim Flavah!"

I'll be the BMAM (big muslim at the masjid) and all the sistahs will be sweatin it saying, "who is that fine brother in the baggies and matching nero shirt."

Plus a free kufi!  

Guess this future bumper sticker: "WWMW?"

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I just ordered the kimono tunic.

Finally, some Muslim porn: http://www.shukronline.com/wd1801.html !

A Salafi in worship, a Sufi in society, a Secularist in government.

a hint of eyelashes!

I just had, like, five orgasms.

Haraam.

Oh good, it wasn't just me!  I was beginning to think that I should sign up SA or something.

Am i the only one who doesn’t really like their
clothes? Some of the designs are good, but the fit
looks frumpy on the models. I think i can be modest
without looking like my grandma!

I thought most of the picture backgrounds look like they were shot in Syria. Maybe its by some of those guys and gals that fled to Abu Nur in Damascus to recreate thier “Islamic” lives by rooting them in Arabism…as if thier North American homes weren’t good enough.

A Salafi in worship, a Sufi in society, a Secularist in government.

Assaulting Porn Spam

Please remove this trash, posted twice, also in contributors section. It is just an add for filth.

I deleted the comment/post.  Not because of its content, but rather because simply posting an article with no commentary related to the original post is not a "comment."  The user should register, get a user blog and post the articles he wants there.  We err on the side of free speech here.  So Mr. Cohen, whoever you are, feel free to repost the article but after registering and creating your own user blog.  We all have the option of not reading your user blog.  But who knows, maybe he has something to say that we have not considered?  Maybe he is entertaining or even interesting?  He's going to have to show us the goods!

In fact, all you regular readers should register.  Y'all show us what you got!  

Yeah, Shukr is pretty frumpish. We need some subversive designs….

Hey your all pretty…sarcastic. I’m converting soon when I have done enough revision. And when i do i will buy my clothes from shukr to begin because i think their trousers and skirts are damn cute. i do think they cud diverse a bit with the patters on the tops and what not. they may be conservative but that doesnt necessarily mean boring

For those looking for modern, modest clothes that have a bit more flare you should check out Al-Farah. They have a website as well as a retail store in Anaheim, CA. They also have the most beautiful hijabs!

Al- Farah’s got some cute stuff, but Shukr’s stuff is better designed and better constructed. Al-Farah’s got better prices, however.

I watched a documentary about life in Iran on PBS educational television, which included a visit to a store for women's clothing. From a distance, the chadors all look alike, and appear as black shrouds. But actually, each chador is uniquely designed in a subtle fashion to appeal to the natural desire for diversity and style. I found the segment interesting.

Human ingenuity always finds a way to overcome restrictions and limitations.

P.S. – I learned that chador comes from a word which means "tent."

(One size fits New Jersey) 

Laury, spam advertising, wake up bonkers!

Thanks, Sitaram!

You know, as I travel about, I will often pass by conservative young

Muslim women in traditional attire of hijab, or whatever is conservative in

her country, and, as we pass, I give her a big, warm, friendly, fatherly

smile (I am almost 60), and I can see that they feel very good by such

a gesture of acceptance in this otherwise zenophobic world of ours.

I believe my smile wells up from my knowledge of many religions,

cultures, peoples, languages, and historical periods, and communicates

to the other that we are not different. I smile at them because I am them,

in that I understand something of what it is to be them, and see the

world through their eyes.

I observe the same reaction when I, a Causian, smile warmly at an

African-American, and radiate to them my feeling that we are the same,

and I am happy to see them, or speak with them.

I am reminded of that old song from the 1970s,

http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/paul/lyrics/dc5/everyb~1.html

Love is but a song to sing

Feels the way we'll die

You can make the mountains ring

Or make the angels cry

Though the bird is on the wing And you may know not why

Oh! Come on you people now

Smile on your brother

Everybody get together

Try to love one another right now

So, if you ever wonder why Sitaram came here, and has stayed;

it has something to do with a smile.

Very frumpy. I thought I would find some nice scarves-
always looking for them now that I have no hair. They
are great tied around hats. At home long scarves with
headbands are comfy—-oHhh Omar just an Arab man
or a bedouin woman in some bad Egyptian t.v serial.

Ginan

pharmacy spam-BONKERS

Once again, thanks, Sitaram!

Spam link! Bonkers. There must be some way to ban such posters, no? Can’t you ban their IP address?

I can’t ban IP’s because a number of these spammers come from different IP’s. I’d end up banning a whole host of IP addresses, locking out innocent users :(

I kind of suspected such is the case.

Ilan. Suggestion. I have a few years of webmaster experience, running phpBB forums. If you ever need someone to delete spam, I visit here several times a day, every day. If you need someone to delete the spam posts, I am happy to do that.
You have my word I would only delete spam, and hmmm… you could even have a holding area and audit trail of my deletes. You have my word I would never use my secret power on any post other than pharmacy/cheesecake spam.

Come to think of it, since we have so few active bloggers here, you could impliment something to allow each of us to delete spam, with a holding area and an audit trail, an no power to edit the posts of others, but only to delete them. This sounds like a feasible solution. If someone misuses their power, then they will pay some consequences. So abuse of power would be very foolish and immature.

Plan B – Only allow registered trusted users to use links in posts. The whole, and sole, power of the spammer is the hyperlink. Take that away and the spammer is de-clawed.

Easier than that. if we click through to the registered user who made the post with the spam, all we have to do is block that one user. We can just block them as they come up, so we only get first time spammers. It really blows my mind that they can get computer programs to do this! Or are these actual people? This most recent spam was coming out of Russia. Maybe its just work, you know, like telemarketers? God help them.

CrazyQuilt entry codes, that are not machine readible, and are barely humanly decipherable, are a guard against programmatic posting of spam.
Also, I suppose, administrator authorization of new members before they can post.

I’m going to post this in an announcement soon, but I’m probably going to upgrade us to Drupal 5 very, very soon. Like, next week soon. I’ll implement some new policies and additional stuff then, including perhaps the use of a captcha again and some more stuff. Sucks that I have to do this, but I guess it’s necessary.

Sitaram, thank you for the offer; if this persists, I may well take you up on it.

Should you choose to grant me some moderator power, I promise to exercise it with ethical dignity.

Now I am curious about Drupal 5, which I presume is what powers this message board. I have installed phpBB, and participated in Vbulliten boards.

I know that the big problem with phpBB (which is free) is that amatures install it, and do not keep up with upgrades/patches, and so their board becomes easy victim to hackers.

That is why leasing a board from professionals has certain advantages.

Here is one free open source message board which may be solid.

http://www.simplemachines.org/

I say this because a heavy forum master I know switched to it.

I know the webmaster of myfreeforums.org which is phpBB based, and his is a full time job keeping all the hosted forums free of hackers and spammers. He has hardware devices as well as software patroling the security of the servers.

And no matter what you use, someone always seems to find an exploit or weakness, which then needs a patch.

Drupal: Now that I know what it is (and I found one ilanbashir support question posted)

Here is a page on IRC chat Drupal support

http://drupal.org/node/108355

Message Board Hosting:

I became curious to find a host that I saw two years ago. Couldn't find them, but found this which is interesting to explore, to see the various styles of boards. And they have an impressive list of client organizations.

http://www.bulletinboards.com/Bulletin-Board.cfm

I went looking for free Drupal hosting, but no luck. I was curious to create

board just to test drive it.

I did notice, at the drupal.org site, the comment that most hosts run

php in "safe" mode, which interferes with the performance of drupal.

This makes me wonder if Drupal is plagued by exploits inherent in

php, such as code injection (not that I know much about any of this.)

Testing Drupal5:

Someone at drupal.org claims that drupal runs fine at a free site at

http://5gigs.com/

and you get 5 gigs of space.

So, here is an idea. Sign up for a free account there, and then upload your upgrade to drupal5. Test it out, use it as a backup, and testing ground. And for a few dollars a month you could get much more disk space and bandwidth.

Light dawns on marblehead:  It just dawned on me that I should

google on "captcha"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha 

All I could think to call them is "crazyquilt"

Wikipedia calls them "reverse Turing tests".

Alan Turing was a gay man whose mathematical genius helped

crack the German cryptology code, which helped win World War II.

After the war, Turing committed suicide because he was so

persecuted for being gay.

Turing tried to invision a test which could prove, NOT that someone was

a human and not a computer, but rather that a computer had

achieved such a true artificial intelligence that no amount of questioning

it would reveal that it was a machine and not a person.

Drupal warning:  Im sure you already know this, but…. 4.7 stuff wont

work for 5.0 

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  Modules are plugins for Drupal that extend its core functionality.

  
  


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  Modules released for

  
  


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  Drupal 4.7 will not work for Drupal 5.0. These contributed modules

  
  


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Yes, I saw. I’m working on weaning off some of the contrib mods, we’ll see what happens.