Yea... exactly. >< sigh maybe time to get windows OS on your mac?

:D HOW was the workout?

:O oh wow ! MAKING PROGRESS! Did you invest in a scale/measuring tape?

The only art program I know for mac is paint.NET

In the holy texts, Islam is supposed to be a peaceful religion. However, some people today are either misinterpreting the texts or using it for their own agenda and using the word as a means of oppression. Of course, I wouldn't say this applies to the religion entirely and not just to Islam. I do wonder if Islamic woman over in 2nd/3rd world countries feel like prisoners, the ones where Islamic law applies to the entire country. It's completely different to living in a 1st world country where you're free from Islamic rule (but not your family >>). If you're still covering up then ultimately it's your choice and not the states' choice for you, you're just doing it for yourself and your spirituality.
Sometimes the conquered are forced to comply to the religion of the conquerors whether that be Christianity, Islam or some other major religion. There's a great history of that. In media you do hear a lot of terrible things like people throwing acid at young women to protest women having an education or the father that kills his daughter after she refuses to wear a hijab/burka because she disgraced the family.

I live in a suburb that went from majority white to sudden influx of Muslim and African people and now they're building a mosque on my street. I don't mind but the lady that came around asking us to sign forms was really rude and forceful. It's our property, you can't force us to sign forms and let you put anchors, cranes and scaffolding onto/near our property :\ She even implied threats of bringing it to court and saying that, "I'll be approved in no time," which is an out right lie. It'll take forever for her to pass this in housing court as the property owners have a right to say no to construction especially since they were offering NO compensation whatever in their paperwork and didn't give us the lawful time 6 weeks like you're supposed. They gave it to us with 10 days to sign and was like, "read this and sign. K thanks, if you don't we bring it court." Even my neighbours were pissed at how short notice it was.

I hope they plan to build a car park with that Mosque because so many people park on the walkway. The grass looks so sad and jacked up >> It's never going to grow back.