Vivien Thomas August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an African-American surgical technician who helped develop the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher to many of the country’s most prominent surgeons. See Movie: Something the Lord Made

Now I am not a colorful personality on screen and I could never pull off anything remotely funny let alone do so on a video. But I am sure there are Muslimahs out there that can put together a great parody on a short youtube clip, titled “Shit People Say to Hijabis”.

I thought about this, because coincidently after having watched “Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls”, I encountered a WTF comment and quite remarkably it came from an INTELLIGENT friend.

As usual the matter concerns the hair under the hijab. I was at my friend’s house and had mentioned how dry my hair was becoming (winter and I are not friends, she makes plans to move to hot place) and that I was looking for good hair products.

My friend goes: “Do you wash your hair?”

For full post see: http://guulo.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/shit-people-say-to-hijabis/

Aww mashaAllah. Since being on Tumblr i’ve seen the most adorable children that touch my heart

simpllybeautiful:

look at her! shes too adorable

(Source: parachuteman, via rawdahrahmah)

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Projections-Impressive designs, not sure if it could be justified considering social justice/poverty should be priority

“Words can’t describe how I felt,” says Canadian-born Somali team member Khatra Mahdi about last week’s triumph. “We were all jumping up and down, there were tears in the girls’ eyes — history was made right there,” she adds.

The victory marked a remarkable feat for the Somali players as it came against a backdrop fraught with difficulties and danger.

Notwithstanding Somalia’s prolonged civil war and shattered sports infrastructure, the team says it had to prepare for the Games in the bullet-ridden police headquarters in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. There, the women would train for two to three hours a day under the watchful eye of security officers, tasked to safeguard them against religious militants targeting women playing the sport.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/22/sport/basketball-somalia-women-al-shabaab/index.html

Informative Lecture by Sh. Hamza Yusuf on the ethics of Commerce and much much more about making our world a better place.