A correlation between having a beard and being a professor has been uncovered by scientists, suggesting a reason for discrimination against women in academia. A study of 1,800 male academics has revealed professors are twice as likely as lecturers to have bristles. The survey, which appears today in The Pharmaceutical Journal, was done by doctoral students Sarah Carter and Kristina à ström who were inspired by an "impressively hairy" supervisor at the University of London. "Sixteen members of our 18-strong research group are female. Would we, and do we, face discrimination?" they asked.
The answer appears to be yes. While 10.5 per cent of lecturers were bewhiskered, the figure rose to 13.6 per cent for senior lecturers, 16.7 per cent for readers and 21.4 per cent for professors. One theory is that being unshorn makes men more likely to be appointed to professorships, as facial hair is linked with high testosterone and aggression. However, one well-known bearded professor, Sir Alec Jeffreys, said yesterday: "I grew my beard back in 1968, out of laziness and to cover a sulphuric acid burn on my jaw incurred during a home experiment that went awry."
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I dunno...I've seen more than a few impressively hairy Womyn's Studies professors in my time. :-D
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The man who saved America -- and probably the world -- is living out his days on a measly pension in a dank apartment in a forlorn suburb of Moscow. He has a bad stomach, varicose veins and a mangy spotted dog named Jack the Ripper. Stanislav Petrov has a small life now. He takes Jack for walks, makes a medicinal tea from herbs he picks in a nearby park and harangues his 34-year-old son about getting off the computer and finding a girlfriend. There was a time when Petrov, now 65 and a widower, was almost larger than life. He was a privileged member of the Soviet Union's military elite, a lieutenant colonel on the fast track to a generalship. He was educated, squared away and trustworthy, and that's why he was in the commander's chair on Sept. 26, 1983, the night the world nearly blew up.
Tensions were high: Weeks earlier, on Sept. 1, Soviet fighters had shot down a Korean airliner, killing all 269 people aboard. Petrov was in charge of the secret bunker where a team of 120 technicians and military officers monitored the Soviet Union's early-warning system. It was just after midnight when a new satellite array known as Oko, or The Eye, spotted five U.S. missiles heading toward Moscow. The Eye discerned that they were Minuteman II nuclear missiles. Petrov's computer was demanding that he follow the prescribed protocol and confirm an incoming attack to his superiors. A red light on the computer that read START! kept flashing at him. And there was this baleful message: MISSILE ATTACK!
Petrov had written the emergency protocol himself, and he knew he should immediately pick up the hot line at his desk to tell his superiors that the Motherland was under attack. He also knew that time was short. The senior political and military chiefs in the Kremlin would have only about 12 minutes to wake up, get to their phones, digest Petrov's information and decide on a counterattack.
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Sometimes we forget that both sides in the Cold War had good people in their militaries. Thanks for the post Tipper.
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Joining Japan's long list of dubious taste bud ticklers such as raw horseflesh ice cream, mayonnaise pizza toppings and fecund beans are ice-cream hot dogs, the hottest and coolest culinary delight from Osaka that's now melting in mouths from people all over the country, according to Shukan Taishu. Ice dogs -- a chunk of vanilla ice cream slapped into a sizzling hot dog roll -- are the brainchild of Rokko Bokujo Arai, a small store located in the Amerika-mura section of Osaka's Minami entertainment district. Since the store opened in September last year, growing numbers of particularly young gourmands of grossness seem keen on giving their eye teeth for ice dogs. "We used to be a barbershop," ice dog originator Eiko Arai tells Shukan Taishu. "We've been in business in the same place the whole time since 1968. About 20 years ago, though (Minami) became a young people's place and our barbershop became something of a fish out of water."
Acting on a realization that there was a need to change would eventually give birth to the ice dog. "We knew we needed to come up with a different line of business," Arai says. "We ran a normal hot dog joint for about a year, before deciding to start using ice cream instead of franks and the ice dog idea was born." Arai's steaming fried rolls packed with chilled ice cream lightly fried so it develops a skin is still a hot choice even during Osaka's icy winters. "They're 300 yen each. We sell over 100 ice dogs a day. We fry the surface, so they don't melt too easily," Arai says. "But there are lots of young buyers, so you get couples asking us to split an ice dog between them, or even some who ask that they be cut into threes."
Sisters Yori and Yoshie Harada barked with delight at tucking into their ice dogs. "Both the outside and the inside have their own sublime tastes," the Yoshie tells Shukan Taishu. "My sister came all the way from Aichi Prefecture just to eat this."
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Berlin's popular and flamboyant Mayor Klaus Wowereit is mired in an embarrassing scandal following a gaffe on national television when he was unable to say what year World War II started.
The charismatic 51-year-old, the city's most popular mayor since Willy Brandt, also humiliated himself by being unable to spell "rhythm" correctly, prompting moans of embarrassment and howls of derisive laughter from a TV studio audience.
Ironically, Wowereit had been invited onto the nationally broadcast show on the RTL commercial TV network to comment on recent scholastic standings that showed German secondary school pupils were only mediocre
compared to pupils from the rest of Europe and America.
The show host read off several sample test questions that any high school student in Europe or America was expected to answer correctly.
Several involved trains starting in two different cities with the student expected to predict when and where they might meet. But other questions involved major dates in world history.
"Here's an easy one that everybody ought to know, and the mayor of Berlin will definitely know the answer," the TV show host said. Turning to Wowereit, he asked, "In what year did Germany invade Poland, spawning the Second World War, and in what year did that war end?"
Wowereit blushed. Then he rubbed his chin. He looked skyward.
"That was, er, ah, hmm, let me see, now," he stammered.
As the viewers nationwide gawped in disbelief, Wowereit shrugged and was about to give up when a voice from the audience shouted: "It was 1939 to 1945, you dolt."
"Oh yes, it started in nineteen thirty-, er, what?" Again the voice from the audience roared out: "Thirty-nine!" "Oh, yes, it started in 1939 and ended in 1945," the visibly embarrassed politician said.
Later on, the show host offered the mayor a chance to redeem himself by giving the correct spelling for the German word for "rhythm" - "rhythmus".
"Oh, I know that," the mayor started out confidently. "It's R-Y-T- H-M-U-S."
He was crest-fallen when informed that he had left out an "h".
The show host gave him one more chance, picking out a simple arithmetic problem.
"All right, Herr Mayor, how much is three plus eight-times-two?
The mayor scratched his head and then said hopefully: "Twenty?"
As the audience groaned again, the host said he was afraid the correct answer was actually nineteen, since "eight-times-two" counted as a unit added to three.
In the aftermath, the mayor's office was forced to issue a statement saying the mayor had been under stress lately and perhaps had suffered a bit of stage fright on live television.
"He most certainly knew the answers to both of those questions," his spokesman Michael Donnermeyer said. "It is only human to forget things. We all know how that is. Something is on the tip of your tongue and you forget it at an embarrassing moment. It's human nature."
Predictably, the conservative political opposition took the gaffe as evidence that Wowereit's Social Democrats are incompetent.
"This the mayor of Berlin, of all places, and he doesn't even know when World War II occurred. That's unforgivable," said Christian Democratic whip Michael Braun.
"Here we are talking about the new Holocaust monument and the 60th anniversary of V-E day is rapidly approaching and the mayor of Berlin brings shame and ignominy on our city with his ignorance before a national television audience. I'm ashamed to be a Berliner."
Tabloid newspapers had a feeding frenzy with the mayor's embarrassment.
"What kind of a nitwit do you have to be to run this town?", Berliner Kurier asked its readers. The B.Z. tabloid issued its own report card, telling the mayor to "stay after class".
Taking a potshot at the fact that Wowereit is openly homosexual, Berliner Kurier pointed out that he had made no mistakes when he appeared on a gay TV channel and correctly answered some delicate questions about gay life in Berlin.
"Asked when the back room at Tom's Bar opened, the lord mayor knew the date right down to within an hour of the time the doors opened," the newspaper chided.
Seeking to defuse the scandal, conservative opposition politician Katrin Schultze-Berndt advised: "The mayor ought to see to it that teachers are better trained and schools are better equipped so that the next generation of Berlin schoolchildren will be better educated than the mayor is."
To investigate Victor Yuschenko poisoning is a point of honor for the Ukrainian Security Service, Marina Ostapenko, its press service chief, said to the Ukrainian TV Channel Five. Service reputation is at stake with current allegations of its top officers involved in the attempt on the life of the opposition leader and presidential candidate. The service will spare no efforts to come at real culprits as soon as possible, she reassured. Ms. Ostapenko warned against far-fetched conclusions hastily made before detection is over. Victor Yushchenko sees only one occasion on which he could be poisoned. That was a dinner he had with Igor Smeshko, Ukrainian Security Service chief, and Vladimir Satsyuk, his deputy, the opposition leader said in a recent interview with the Associated Press.
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gonna follow up on the first failed efforts?
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Third times the charm Frank.
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Sounds like another "UN to investigate Oil-For-Food Scandal" operation.
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Line the 'cooks' up, polygragh all of them; summarily shoot the one who left for the restroom before the dinner!
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday vowed no respite in Turkey's drive towards the European Union after winning a date from EU leaders to start entry talks. Returning to a hero's welcome after attending a historic summit in Brussels, Erdogan said: "This result will not spoil us. We will not rest on our laurels because our aim every day now is to move forwards, forwards, forwards." "This result is a signal to us to work even more from now on. We will work harder, but don't forget it is not only us, the government, we must all work harder," he said at Istanbul airport in the early hours of Saturday. Hundreds of excited supporters shouted "Turkey is proud of you" and waved Turkish and European Union flags as well as banners of Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), a conservative group with Islamist roots. "Tomorrow's Turkey will be very different from today's Turkey, both politically and economically," Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told the crowd.
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A EUROPEAN rocket roared into space from a pad in South America today, placing into orbit a surveillance satellite billed as giving France's military new abilities to spy worldwide. The unmanned craft lifted off smoothly from a launch centre in Kourou, French Guyana, at 1.36pm (3.26am AEDT Sunday) - the third and last launch of an Ariane-5 rocket this year, Arianespace said. The satellite and six smaller scientific ones were placed into orbit about an hour after liftoff. It was the first time in 11 years that an Ariane rocket carried as many as seven satellites on a single launch.
The Helios 2A military satellite, the rocket's main cargo, is to rotate in sun-synchronous orbit about 700km above the Earth, officials said. Among expected functions, the satellite is to monitor possible weapons proliferation, prepare and evaluate military operations and digitally map terrain for cruise-missile guidance, the French defence ministry said in a statement yesterday. Helios 2A, weighing 4.2 metric tons, is said to be able to spot objects as small as a textbook anywhere on Earth. Equipped with infrared sensors, it is expected to allow France's military to gather information at night from space for the first time. The optical satellite, while able to read heat signals emanating from Earth, will not be able to see through clouds - unlike satellites with radar technology. Helios 2A is part of a 10-year, 1.8 billion ($3.2 billion) program backed by Belgium and Spain. Such satellites are expected to last at least five years.
Among its predecessors, Helios 1B, which was launched in 1999, suffered a power problem and the military let it disintegrate in the upper layers of the atmosphere two months ago. The first satellite in the series, Helios 1A, went up in 1995 and is still operating. Also in the payload today was the Parasol satellite, which is to help study the effect of cloud cover and aerosols on global warming and the greenhouse effect, believed to occur when carbon dioxide emissions trap the sun's heat in the atmosphere. Parasol is part of a French-American space observation mission involving six satellites that can study the world's atmosphere and help give a complete idea of how human activity affects the environment. The launch marks the 165th Ariane mission since the European launcher first began operating in 1979. Arianespace is the commercial arm of the 13-country European Space Agency. Arianespace plans next month to launch a souped-up version of Ariane-5 that is capable of carrying a 10-tonne payload - about 3 tonnes more than the previous version. The new version has been grounded since the failure of a launch attempt two years ago, when it veered off course and was destroyed by ground control - leading to the loss of two costly satellites.
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Hmmmm...this is not good news. The Frogs are apt to sell that data to the highest bidder, and Al-Q can probably bid on things, and if not, Iran, Syria, Egypt or any of the you-name-it Islamic regimes will be able to get that info on us and our mil ops in the region.
700km is well within the range of our ASAT missiles. It's about time we validated the system. Since the ASAT is/can be launched from an F-15, any place on earth we can fly an F-15 to is the apparent launch point of the missile, in case the Frogs have the capability to track the ASAT back to it's source, which I doubt. I can think of a few sports on the globe that would make good release points, taking the heat off us.
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Launching a Satellite is one thing, but what about repairs? What if a problem in the components is found? Guess who they will have crawl for to get it fixed? That's right, us. And we can just put in a command over-ride when that happens. France launching a Satellite isn't big news.
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That is a good point about the Frog's selling that data, its not like their military is capable of acting on anything the satellite turns up.
Unless of course the info has something to do with unarmed black African civilians.
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I would not be at all suprised to know that we have an ASAT, but I don't think it's the old Altair system you're referring to. Altair was based on the old AGM-69 SRAM, which was removed from service in the late 80s after it was determined the rocket motors were cracking badly. There may very well be a couple out there, but at the very least the motors are a couple of decades old, and I'm not sure how safe they would be.
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They named the spy satellite the "al-Chirac"
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They can take all the photos they want, but it takes an experienced, trained interpreter to convert that into useful information. The few French photo interpreters I've met are mediocre at best. The people in the Middle East can buy the raw data, but can they use it? I've seen the French "SPOT" imagery - it's pretty good stuff, about on the par with our Landsat photography. I don't have a lot of fear about people using this to target the US, however. A 700km sun-synchronous orbit means it passes over a given part of the earth at the same (local) time every day, usually around local noon. It's not hard to determine what part of the earth's surface it'll cover at a given time. Easy to spoof. Remember my comments from a few days ago - it's the capabilities that make it a good or a poor imaging platform. If it can only scan within a few dozen degrees of NADIR, it has a limited capability. Without an all-weather capability, or a wide range, it's still capable, but not necessarily dangerous.
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We're getting back to normal. Fewer and fewer Independent and Al-Guardian articles about Bush the Fascist or Americans the Nazis. More and more articles about weirdos and freaks.
Cosmetic surgery was always likely to become popular in Italy, where beautiful grooming and immaculate dressing are national obsessions. And the boom has arrived. The Italian Plastic Surgery Society records close to one million operations a year - business which is worth more than an annual â¬1bn (£680m). And the figures are rising rapidly. Italy is number one in the world for anti-wrinkle injections.
A year ago, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi disappeared from view for weeks. After an avalanche of media speculation he came clean in mid-January, admitting he had had a face-lift. It coincided with the 10th anniversary of his political party Forza Italia. He gave his new face its first public outing at the party's birthday rally. His fans roared their approval. "Silvio, sei bellissimo!" they screamed. In the summer, at his Sardinian villa, he again ducked out of sight for a spell, re-emerging to greet the Blairs wearing his famous bandanna. Journalists were sure he had hair implants, and during his recent appearances in London and Washington he showed off a brave new crop of scalp fuzz.
The new permissiveness was underlined in March with the launch of a reality TV programme on a Berlusconi-owned Mediaset channel entitled "Scalpel! Nobody is perfect!" Volunteers with prominent noses, large rumps or insignificant bosoms came on the show to have their wrongs put right by a top-flight plastic surgeon. The lure was that they did not have to pay. The downside (or not) was that the process was relayed liveand friends and relatives had a video monitor. The programme's host, a former politician called Irene Pivetti who had herself benefited from a dramatic make-over, said her programme was for the aid of people wishing to "remove a physical defect". And now the dam gates have opened, with results, like Loredana's lips, that are not always beguiling. A mischievous journalist, Roberto D'Agostino, coined the word labbrosaur to describe the bee-stung lip look that has blossomed up and down the country. The word Labbra means lip in Italian. Now he says: "In the 1980s it was only showbusiness stars who got on front pages thanks to their face-lifts, successful or otherwise. But from the 1990s everybody from starlets to the lady next door had started to think of the body as a machine that could be repaired. And it was then that the abuses began: the monsters whose parents can only recognise them by their voices, others who, to show expression, have to resort to their hands."
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When a women has her monthly periods can she read?
In principle a women in menses should not touch or recite the holy quraan.She may engage in any other form of zikr, for example: sending durood on nabi, taking the name of Allah etc.
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Is it true that Woman has been created from the CURVED Rib of Man, and hence the nature?
When Nabi Aadam (Alayhis salaam) was created, he was lonely. Allah created his spouse Hawaa (Alayhis salaam) from his left rib. The various creations of Allah Ta'ala have been created from different matter, the matter also has an effect in the nature of these creations. For example, Jinn have been created from fire, which has the quality of rising. Thus, Jinn generally have the quality of pride. Man has been created from sad [sand?], which has the quality of being low. Thus man is humble by nature.
Women, having been created from a rib and have a degree of imbalance in their nature. The Ahaadith give a few examples of this imbalanced nature of women. Women have a common trait of being ungrateful of their husband, and of being hasty in cursing those that hurt their feelings. Again, this does not mean that all women are ungrateful, but that should not willfully make an effort to be grateful, the quality of ungratefulness will manifest itself.
The husband is advised that in view of the wife's imbalanced nature, he should be patient and accept her as she is. He should not expect to completely correct her. If the husband does not have patience, and expects the wife to be perfect, there will be much turmoil in the home, to the extent that it will eventually lead in the marriage breaking down. This has been repeatedly confirmed through experience.
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Can a male or female jinn have sex with human beings while (the humans) are awake or while they are asleep?
Yes, this is possible and such incidents have been reported in the past.
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Can a Muslim view a female unclothed?
It is not permissible for a male to see the entire body of a strange female (Ghayr Mahram with whom marriage is permissible). The above ruling excludes a wife as it is permissible for the husband to look at his wife being uncovered. However, that too should be avoided as it is against morality and shame.
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Can I attend women only functions, like bridal/baby showers, if husband drops off & picks me up?
Bridal and baby showers are all un-Islamic customs. A Muslim is not permitted to attend such un-Islamic functions even if the function is open to ladies exclusively.
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If a man doesn't want to go to his barren and above 52 years of age wife for sexual needs will he be sinning according to shariah, till what time does he have to go, if he does'nt want to spend any night of the week with her but only with ther younger wife and is fulfilling rest of her needs equally, what then is he free not to spend any night with her.
In principle, according to Shari'ah if a person has more than one wife then he has to exercise equality between them in all those aspects which are in his control and also equality in the number of days spent between them. However, with regards to those aspects which a person has no control over, e.g. amount of love he has, sexual relations, etc. equality is not necessary. (Aalamgiri vol.1 pg.340)
However, if one of the wives happily agree to forego her rights, then this will also be permissible. It should also be borne in mind that both those women are his wives and have desires which ought to be fulfilled. It is her due right that her husband satisfies her sexual desires as well.
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Is it true that women who go to heaven will have one husband whom they will have to share amongst 70 other women as men will have 70 wives. This is certainly not fair nor is it justice. I'm sure Allah loves us all and women will be treated equally amongst men, because we also are humans like them and do the same deeds as them, so why will women have to share their husband. I'm not saying women should have more than one husband but sharing with 70 others is certainly outrageous, if a man was to share one wife amongst 70 other men, he would think the same.
It appears that your concern devolves around women's feelings. Obviously, our hearts and its feelings are in the control of Allah and He has promised every dweller of Jannah peace and contentment.
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Could you please specify what special nounties the believing, pious and obedient wives will enjoy in Jannah? The books I have read about Jannah clearly state the many beautiful women the men will enjoy. Nothing is clearly stated about the men that the women might enjoy.
Women in Jannah will get whatever they desire. Allah Ta'ala states, 'And you will receive in Jannah whatever you desire.' (Surah41 Aayat31). The pious, worldly women will be made the queens of Jannat and be of a higher rank than the Hoors. Their beauty will far excel the beauty of the Hoors.
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Who will keep the believing women company in Jannah and satisfy their desires while their husbands are engaged with the Hoors?
Their husbands will satisfy their desires.
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Will their be any males created similar to the hoors that are created for the men?
No.
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Will a husband still love and desire his worldly wife in Jannah? Will he ever become bored with her due to him having many other wives in Jannah?
He will always love her and never become bored with her. It should be borne in mind that Jannah is unlike this world. Allah will ensure that every inhabitant of Jannah will always be in extreme joy and happiness. Instead of worrying about whether we will be happy in Jannat, we should accept Allah's guarantee that we will be happy therein and concern ourselves with ensuring that we please Allah sufficiently to be granted entry into Jannah.
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If men will be rewarded with a certain number of chaste partners in Jannah, then what will women be rewarded with?
While a man will get many Hurs in jannah, a women would be made the queen of Jannah. Her beauty will far outshine the beauty of the hurs. Umme Salamah R.A narrates that she said to Rasûlullah SAW "O Rasûlullah, are the women of this world superior or the hûrs?" He replied, "The women of this world will have superiority over the hûrs just as the outer lining of a garment has superiority over the inner lining."
Umme Salamah R.A then asked, "O Rasûlullah, what is the reason for this?" He answered, "Because they performed salâh, fasted, and worshipped [Allah]. Allah will put light on their faces and silk on their bodies. [The human women] will be fair in complexion and will wear green clothing and yellow jewelry. Their incense-burners will be made of pearls and their combs will be of gold. They will say, 'We are the women who will stay forever and we will never die. We are the women who will always remain in comfort and we will never undergo difficulty. We are the women who will stay and we will never leave. Listen, we are happy women and we will never become sad. Glad tidings to those men for whom we are and who are for us.'" (Tabrânî)
Muhammed ibn Ka'b Al-Qurazi t narrates from a person of the Ansâr (people of Madînah) that Rasûlullah SAW said, "I take the oath of that Being who sent me with the truth, you are not more acquainted with your wives and houses than the people of Jannat. A person of Jannat will come to 72 wives which Allah specially created in Jannat (hûrs) and 2 human wives. The human wives will have virtue over the [hûrs] because they worshipped Allah in the world.(Targheeb Vol.4 Pg.534) This will be the high position of the women of the world in Jannah.
If a women had more than one husband, she will choose which one of them to stay with, and she will choose the one with the best character. As for those women who never married or their husband were mushriks, they will be allowed to marry whichever worldly man, they so wish, in Jannah. Thus every man in Jannah will have 2 wives from the world.
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Can a woman remove the following hair if her husband orders her or her husband desires (1) Hairs upon legs and hands (2) Hairs below the chin (3) Hairs upon the chicks, face (4) Hairs in the nose coming out of the nose (5) Hairs below the nose and above the upper lip i.e. moustaches place (6) Hairs between the eye-brows
A female may remove all the hairs referred to in point 1 till 5. It is not permissible to remove hair between the eyebrows.
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If a women has very thick eyebrows and small hairs around it, will it be permissible for her to bleach bits of it? If we were looking for a husband for her, and she is not as beautiful as it is, and with that eyebrow, it makes her look worse, will it be permissible for her to bleach in this case, as we are finding difficulty looking for a husband for her?
Mullah Ali Qari (R.A) has commentated that plucking of the facial hair is haraam (prohibited) for a woman with the exception of moustache or beard hairs, if any woman is unfortunate enough to be troubled by these. (Mirqaat Vol.8 Pg.295; Ashrafiyyah). However, if the eyebrows have become so dense that it is unseemly for a woman and incites abhorrence in her husband, it is permissible to trim it to a more appropriate and normal size. (Ahsanul Fataawa Vol.8 pg.76)
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A lot of maulanas agree that the hair INBETWEEN the eyebrows is not part of the eyebrows & thus permissable to remove if the eyebrows meet here.( I'm talking about the hair above the bridge of the nose ), although it's not allowed to shape any other part of the eyebrows.( Thay say that Only the hair above the eye is what's not allowed to be removed)I have read a question similar to mine that has been given the standard reply. Please clarify.
Hadhrat ibn Abbaas (Radhhallaahu Anhu) narrates that Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Ãlayhi Wasallam) cursed a Naamisa (a female who plucks the eyebrows of another) and a Mutanammasa (a female whose eyebrows are plucked). (Abu Dawud pg.574 Rashidiyya) In view of the above Hadith, it is not permissible to remove the hair under the eyebrows. It is also not permissible to remove the hair between the eyebrows even if it is unkempt. (Fataawa Mahmoodiya vol.5 pg.181)
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I want to remove the hair in between my eyebrows, above my nose, and extending into my hair-line. Can I pluck stray hairs? Can I trim bushy eyebrows?
No, it is not permissible for females to pluck their eyebrows. Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) cursed a Mutanammisa (a female who seeks to remove her eyebrows).
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You say Allah does not like those who alter their looks, But how comes women can stop having children or not have them at all just to keep her figure nice for her husband when having a kid is such a big issue in Islam. so what is wrong with plucking bushy eyebrows just to look beautiful for your husband?
Your understanding that a woman can practice birth control to maintain her beauty and shape for her husband is incorrect. Contraception (Azl = Coitus Interruptus) is permissible on a limited scale for valid reasons - reasons considered by the Shariäh to be valid. The circumstances which will permit reversible and permanent contraception differ.
Reversible contraception: Among the reasons accepted by the Shariäh as valid for practising reversible contraception are: a) Physical weakness.b) Sickness.c) The wife maintaining her beauty or figure for the sake of her husband. d) The couple being on a journey or in a distant land. e) Adverse political conditions, e.g. children are forcibly separated from their parents as is advocated by communism; etc. f) The couple decide to separate in the near future. g) The wife is an immoral person.
Permanent contraception is permissible only if the woman's life is in danger or her health is seriously threatened.
As regards plucking eye brows, that is prohibited by Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam). The above are general rulings and certainly does not mean that Shari'ah does not take into cognisance circumstances.
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Can we (women) cut our hair just to remove split ends?
Women may cut their hair to remove split ends.
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Is it permitted to colur the hair more than one coluor at one time? Also is it permissible to curl the hair so that it remains so for several months? What does the Shariäh say with regard to dying hair? Is it permissible to dye one's hair?
Pure black dye is not permissible. Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Ãlayhi Wasallam) said, "There will be people who will come later (in my Ummah) and apply black dye. They will not even smell the fragrance of paradise." (Abu Daawood). However, it is permissible for a Mujaahid (warrior) to apply black dye in order to give the impression of being young. (Jawahirul Fiqh vol2 pg421)
To dye the hair any other colour besides black e.g. Mehndi or Katm (type of grass) is permissible. This was the practice of Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) and the Sahaaba (Radhiyallaahu Ãnhum). (Jawahirul Fiqh vol2 pg421)
A female may design her hair with the condition she does not follow the custom of the Kuffaar and does not expose her hair before Ghayr Mahaarim (males permitted to marry)
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I'm 14 years old and I have hit puberty but my mum has not said anything to me about shaving what shall I do?
It was only in the last century that people in the west came to realize the importance of shaving off hair under the arms pits and from the pubic area. Do remove the hair from these two areas before they gain the length of a grain of rice. Do also cut your nails frequently as this is another area where harmful organisms accumulate. In fact it is advisable to trim your nails and remove pubic hair when you make ghusl every Friday. It is just so refreshing and gives you a feeling of cleanliness almost immediately.
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out of ignorance i used to pluck my eye brows. i did it for a long time and then i heard the hadith of nabi saw. now i cant stop doing it coz it looks terrible. 1. please advise. if i repent and ask Allah 2 4give me, will Nabi SAW still curse me? i did not do it 4 beauty purposes... they were really big. i wear hijab. shukran
You should repent and ask Allah to forgive you. You should also stop plucking them. If your eyebrows continue growing to such an extent that they become double the size of a normal person's eyebrows, then there could be permissible for you to trim them to a normal size, not smaller than that.
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Is waxing of eyebrows allowed in Islam? If not what is the alternative ?
Mullah Ali Qari (R.A) has commentated that plucking of the facial hair is haraam (prohibited) for a woman with the exception of moustache or beard hairs, if any woman is unfortunate enough to be troubled by these. (Mirqaat Vol.8 Pg.295; Ashrafiyyah). However, if the eyebrows have become so dense that it is unseemly for a woman and incites abhorrence in her husband, it is permissible to trim it to a more appropriate and normal size.
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Is it ok to have an operation to remove scarring on the face?
It is permissible to have the scars on the face removed through an operation.
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Is it obligatory to remove pubic hair for women?
Yes, it is obligatory for women to remove pubic hair.
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Is it obligatory to remove pubic hair for women?
Yes, it is obligatory for women to remove pubic hair.
Careful with that axe, Eugene
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An Iranian official said on Saturday he was waiting for orders on whether to stone or hang a woman convicted of adultery, the latest in a chain of death sentences passed against women for "fornication". The official from Iran's conservative judiciary said Hajieh Esmailvand's prison sentence, that began in January 2000, would end in less than a month - a jail term in the northern city of Jolfa that was always intended as a precursor to execution. "Her (death) sentence is approved by the Supreme Court, but there are no orders to carry out the sentence. We do not yet know if it is by stoning or hanging," he told Reuters.
Hanging is the most usual death penalty in Iran but some adulterers have been stoned. Stoning has sparked scathing international criticism, with victims being buried up to their midriffs and then pelted to death with medium-size stones that should not be so large as to kill instantly.
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The world should be outraged. But it's not. This is the religion of peace. No better eaxpmle can exists for the absolute seperation of church and state. Anyone who claims islam is trustworthy has feces for brains.
We are too trust these same people to not use nuclear weapons if they should obtain them? Right. Europe get you head out of your ass.
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We are too trust these same people to not use nuclear weapons if they should obtain them?
I am not sure who you are referring to here, the Iranian mullahs or AQ extremists. AQ loose cannons-yes, definitely they'd use nuclear weapons, in a heartbeat, but not likely directed at Europe. Why for? They gaining control through immigration and birth rates. Europe is their future state.
As for Iranian mullahs, no, IMO. The mullahs are quite happy to be powerful and in control of a potentially very rich nation to feather their own secret Swiss bank accounts. The mullahs just want the nukes as a defensive deterrrent to US regime change ideas. It strikes me that the mullahs are similar to the weasel running N.K. - evil and power hungry but not committed to having their own faces blown off in a retalitory nuke strike from the West. But Islamic nation states are a concern because extremist individuals like AQ members, who hang out in places like Iran and Pakistan, could manage to get their hands on the nukes stored in those nations.
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We must respect their culture. One man's stoning is another man's freedom fighter.
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This people won't listen Klu.
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Stoning in it's traditional sense was used to share the death of the victim with an entire village. It went something like this.
The victim was staked to the ground and a sturdy, but not to heavy board was placed on them. Each villager, in turn, would pick up a hand-sized stone and place it on the board, as the weight increased in small increments, the person was slowly crushed to death.
Makes one part of the total justice system. No abstensions allowed!
...On behalf of United Poultry Concerns, I am writing to express our objection to your Grand Canyon and Natural History commercials and to request that in future ads you do not place any more birds in literally or implicitly harmful situations.
Having talked with your advertising manager Al Johnson who faxed me the letter from the American Humane Association's communications manager Karen Rosa, I still don't know whether the duck(s) in those ads were physically harmed. But even if no ducks were harmed, the Grand Canyon commercial implies that the duck fell from an enormous height and landed hard. In the final shot it looks like the duck was pushed off something about 6 feet high. (Pekin ducks don't fly or jump from heights.)
We ask that you stop putting animal abuse images in people's minds. As a former juvenile probation officer in Baltimore who is now the head of an animal protection organization, I know that many children and teenagers are influenced by programming that treats animals derisively and/or places them in unnatural, potentially harmful situations. We ask you not to cater any further to this mentality... I thought they were going to protest the commercial that showed a duck in bed with two people. You know what THAT implied.
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"I still donât know whether the duck(s) in those ads were physically harmed. But even if no ducks were harmed, the Grand Canyon commercial implies that the duck fell from an enormous height and landed hard..."
...Man, this maroon must have apoplexy watching a Three Stooges short...
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Oh, those are people. People don't feel pain like animals do.
...A study by NPD Group, an independent marketing information company, found that the percentage of American adults on any low-carb diet in 2004 peaked at 9.1 percent in February and dropped to 4.9 percent by early November. Further, it said only one of four people surveyed was significantly cutting carbs and "virtually none" were reducing carbs as much as the diets recommended. That means many companies that rode the low-carb wave are either out of business or refocusing their strategies... I think that the Marketing industry has been told to end the lo-carb diet craze by the hi-carb manufacturers of breads, junk food, beer, etc. I noticed that a health food chain had stripped all the lo-carb from their shelves, even though it was still selling well, and four other food chains I called on the same day said they were doing the same. None had noticed any reduction in sales, but all advised me that "the lo-carb diet craze is over."
I conclude that Americans just plain got sick of low-carb diets (or, that everyone who was going to try one already had, and lost the weight he wanted, or failed to). My basis for this insight is that whenever I wanted to buy plain old high-carb bread and tortillas, there were very few on the shelf. Always plenty of low-carb crap, though.
Guess you won't be wanting those Christmas cookies, will you? *grab*
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Say what you want, low fat didnt work (actually put weight on, plus blood chemistry was shot to crap ), its my "Metabolic Syndrome X" and lo-carb wroked and continues to work for me. Lipids, cholesterol, insulin function, etc - all fixed up and no need for medication. Just have to stay away from the carbs - especially sugars and starches. But I can continue to chow down on the fish, chicken, pork and beef. Its like the diet says - this isnt for everyone. And anyone claioming to "debunk" it is full of crap - there are now plenty of studies that support "atkins" style diets. Its just that, like "low fat" and other diets, one size does not fit all.
SO yes, you CAN have those christmas cookies - here take the whole bag.
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Too funny. It's like the MSM, and Hollywood. They believe that they can fight reality with simple slogans like "the lo-carb craze is over". Over in their dreams. Everyone I know, over the age of 25, is at least trying to cut their carbs, because the diet actually works. Unless they are planning on stripping the shelves of dairy, meat and milk products, all that this will do is open new distribution channels for low carb foods on the web and specialty locations.
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That's why OS gave away the bag. Being a predator pisces I eat fish, especially salmon. No ecoli burgers for me. Caeser salads with chicken.
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Say what you want, low fat didnt work (actually put weight on, plus blood chemistry was shot to crap ), its my "Metabolic Syndrome X" and lo-carb wroked and continues to work for me. Lipids, cholesterol, insulin function, etc - all fixed up and no need for medication. Just have to stay away from the carbs - especially sugars and starches. But I can continue to chow down on the fish, chicken, pork and beef. Its like the diet says - this isnt for everyone. And anyone claioming to "debunk" it is full of crap - there are now plenty of studies that support "atkins" style diets. Its just that, like "low fat" and other diets, one size does not fit all.
SO yes, you CAN have those christmas cookies - here take the whole bag.
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Say what you want, low fat didnt work (actually put weight on, plus blood chemistry was shot to crap ), its my "Metabolic Syndrome X" and lo-carb wroked and continues to work for me. Lipids, cholesterol, insulin function, etc - all fixed up and no need for medication. Just have to stay away from the carbs - especially sugars and starches. But I can continue to chow down on the fish, chicken, pork and beef. Its like the diet says - this isnt for everyone. And anyone claioming to "debunk" it is full of crap - there are now plenty of studies that support "atkins" style diets. Its just that, like "low fat" and other diets, one size does not fit all.
SO yes, you CAN have those christmas cookies - here take the whole bag.
Keep reassuring yourself you matter. When the WoT's over, you're in the same category as Burundi. And the best you're ever gonna make is Luxembourg.
LAHORE: Pakistan is enjoying favourable geo-strategic position in the world, according to speakers at a seminar at the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU). The university, on its silver jubilee celebrations, arranged the seminar titled "Emerging Scenario — Domestic, Regional and International — in 2005" in collaboration with the Pakistan National Forum on Saturday. Senator SM Zafar said Liaqat Ali Khan, the first prime minister, had been invited by Washington and Moscow, General Ayub Khan signed CETO and SENTO, General Yahya Khan played a key role in the China-United States rapprochement, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto presided the world Islamic conference in Lahore and General Ziaul Haq fought the war of Afghanistan. He stressed the role of the South Asian Association Regional Conference. He added domestic sustainability was important to maintain every country's image abroad. "People of Pakistan have democratic values but lack techniques of democracy," he said.
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