With the Name Allah, the Gracious, the Compassionate BIRTH BY VOLCANIC EJECTION A Speculative Essay on the Origin of the Moon by Hakeem Muhammad (Lester A. Knibbs) At 10:00 a.m. on August 27, 1883, climaxing three months of violent activity, Krakatoa exploded. This Indonesian volcano propelled ash to a height of 50Continue reading “The Violent Volcanic Birth of the Moon”
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Sodomized Flesh — Taste! Eat!
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989), also known as Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian politician, revolutionary, and cleric, was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last ShahContinue reading “Sodomized Flesh — Taste! Eat!”
A Serious Life — Part One
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth The praise belongs to Allah. When I was five, I started taking piano lessons. I was anxious to practice. Every day, I rushed home from school to practice. On cold wintry days, I dunked my hands in hot water because IContinue reading “A Serious Life — Part One”
A Few Muslim Scholars (from 800 C.E. to 1773 C.E.)
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth The following is a short list of just a few of the most notable scholars of the Muslim civilization, many of them well-known to educated European and North American scholars. al-Khwarizmi. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (d. 863). Mathematician. Scientist. Astronomer. Geographer.Continue reading “A Few Muslim Scholars (from 800 C.E. to 1773 C.E.)”
Stranded in the Faggot Spasm
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth the African American manis strandedin a perpetualfaggot-spasm in a speechon any subject at allhe suddenlylurches into afaggot-spasm talking on-and-onabout faggots a collective effortfalls apartcan’t you see himhe’s a faggotso nothinggets donebecause of theperpetualfaggot-spasm we are still sodomizedby the middle passageby theContinue reading “Stranded in the Faggot Spasm”
godzilla gargle
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth i brush my teethvigorouslyback and forthup and downside to side stick the brushway in andbrush the backof my tongue hack upas much phlegmas possible gulpa handful of waterthrow back my head andgodzilla gargle AAAAAAARRRGH!!! nowlisten to mewhen I speak hear meContinue reading “godzilla gargle”
Triple Bait-and-Switch: A Ramadan Dilemma
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth I hardly know where to begin. Part One: The First Bait-and-Switch In August 1971 – a reasonable starting point, perhaps – a friend and fellow musician returned from a several-months-long out-of-town journey clean shaven (including his head) and dressed in aContinue reading “Triple Bait-and-Switch: A Ramadan Dilemma”
God is just
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth no extremeof wrathful violenceagainst this countryby African Americanscould exceed the limits of justice no extremeof wrathful violenceagainst this countryby the original inhabitantsof these landscould exceed the limits of justice no extremeof wrathful violenceagainst this countryby the Arab and Afghanand Iranian peoplesofContinue reading “God is just”
The Rule of Five — Preliminary Notes
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth The Rule of Five: Preliminary Notes for a Plan of Action (preliminary comments 7/15/2017): I began developing this idea long before a Trump presidency was even conceivable. Now that it is a reality, the timescale seems wholly inadequate. We may haveContinue reading “The Rule of Five — Preliminary Notes”
Ancestors and Cousins
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth Moses Towe Jr. was my mother’s father. He would not allow smoking, drinking, gambling, or dancing in his house. Those are not Christian prohibitions — even though he was the choirmaster and a trustee of the New Chapel Baptist Church inContinue reading “Ancestors and Cousins”
Which Way Is Up? 