Muslim awesome sauce + light housekeeping

…only not in that order. First, the housekeeping!

As is the way with the internet, I’ve discovered a connection with someone that I didn’t know I had — and it turns out that she, unlike your humble servant, is an actual-factual Professional Writer, with a recently-published collection of short stories, an upcoming novel, and teaching gig at American University to prove it. (And I learned of our previously unsuspected [by me - she knew about it!] connection when I discovered I’d been linked to from her blog!).

So I’m honored to introduce Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (in an aside: Is that a title, or is that a title?), now residing in the Smart People blogroll. If you happen to be in southern Illinois (so near! And yet so far!), she’ll be in Carbondale this weekend for the Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival, and if you’re in the DC area, she’ll be doing a couple of readings in the District in November (including at the storied Politics and Prose…). Verily, I call upon you to check it!

(Update: And now I’ve added TheRaven to the blogroll affectionately known as The Lovely Folks @ Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Place — and you know what you must do. You must check it!)

Aaaand now, to the Muslim awesome sauce:

There is a new tumblr out there, created in response to the statement made by Juan Williams (he of fired-by-NPR, now-making-more-money-at-Fox-News fame) that he gets nervous when he’s on a plane and sees “people in Muslim garb.” The tumblr’s name? Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things.

I am really, truly hard-pressed to choose just one favorite — no, I can’t, I have to choose two. It’s these two (captions as they appear on the site):

This is Javed “Hijabman” Memon. This Muslim is sporting a chapeau made of balloons.

and

This unfortunate Muslim is wearing Ed Hardy. He is called Salman Khan.

Here’s another favorite, though for a very different reason:

US Army Specialist and Muslim Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan wore camouflage, up until the day he was killed in combat in Iraq, fighting for his country. Not pictured: the bronze star and purple heart he earned posthumously.

Please go check out the whole thing, for it really is quite awesome! And while you’re there, make sure to read the lovely note of thanks that the anonymous tumblr-er (? Really, I have no idea) wrote upon getting a metric ton of attention over the weekend — and while there, you might consider clicking on the link that will allow you to purchase this:

or possibly this:

Ok, I’m off to buy one of the latter. BBL!

 

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Posted by emilylhauser on October 24, 2010

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