DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 September) – I had this impulse to aptly draw a cartoon: “Joker in the pack bending over while holding a giant silver plate (not platter) with a giant silver bullet on it; balancing himself in
Stir not the grassesby gentle breeze it trembles In the womb of slumber it recoils Its coolness sends chill to the boneswracking its nerves to fiery storm Oblivious to Destiny in storeFret not Dear BelovedIt’s decreed to its measure Take heedNever does our
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /02 October) — I can feel an overpowering presence like the lone giant jackfruit tree towering imposingly over the graveyard of Ma-a cemetery. Under the sweltering heat in February, not even the coolest cirrus clouds against the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 Aug) — Facebook asks me on my blank wall: “What’s on my mind?” Looking at a photo of the Islamic Online University of a red rose cupped in two hands with the message “Modesty is
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 August) — If a subordinate’s hair does not meet the standard length prescribed by the Philippine National Police (PNP), must it be compulsively trimmed off by his superior instantaneously? Is that the right course of official
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 July) — With all due respect to Scott Stapp who wrote “My Sacrifice” lyrics and made it a hit song with his band Creed, this piece of mine is about my Qurbani or Sacrifice in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 July) — I often hear lamentation from parents/guardians who need more than one laptop for their children who are virtual learners; from illiterate senior citizens who serve as sole guardian to their grandkids whose single
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 July) — Responsible journalism and lawful arrests under rule of law are both crucial. If you click this link https://fb.watch/v/eJS1cK0lM/, you can view SMNI news’ “Arestado ang magkapatid na kasapi ng Abu Sayyaf na responsable
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 July) — Human Rights Violations? Contact Bangsa Moro Task Force for Legal Assistance! Just as time and again it has been proven that there is huge potential value in bridging leaders network, I learned from
Subhan Allah! Not blinding at all Oh never! Squinting I gaze in awe through eyes half-closed Bathed in heavenly glow Making me smile Softly feeling blessed! Majestic! No wonder Allah made an oath Benedicting fajr “By the dawn” at 89th!
(Warina Sushil A. Jukuy wrote this poem Friday night, 17 April 2020, for her younger sister, Wadrayna Jukuy – Dimafelix, a Muslim Tausug nurse-frontliner in New Jersey in the United States, who is now “slowly but surely on her 19th
MANILA (MindaNews / 26 August) — Her youthful voice sounded tearful as she narrated her hijab case when she called me up today. Fifteen-year old Terwasurnajwa Anni Matugol is a Grade 9 student at Notre Dame of Siasi in Sulu
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/09 April) — Some very young Muslim women approached me three weeks ago. They expressed their anxiety over the fact that academic policies have compelled them to take off their hijab, specifically the head veil or khimar. School authorities ordered them as nursing students to take off their head veils while they are on hospital duty in the course of their RLE practicum. Naturally, these veiled Muslimah are apprehensive. School authorities quashed their mild protestations with the following lame, controversial, and debatable reasons: that the veil is dirty (this is either a slanderous or libelous statement); that the veil is just a cultural costume or worse a fashion just because some Muslims wear hijab while others do not (highly fallacious); and that seeing veiled nurses on duty has traumatized hospital patients (are they running out of lucid alibi? Even surgeonshave to be fully clothed in sterilized gowns their masks resemble the niqab except the color of course).
