I’m a couple of days late on this but Riz MC, aka Riz Ahmed, posted a new video for one of his songs “Sour Times” on 7/7, the anniversary of the London bombings of 2005.

In addition to being a hip hop artist, Riz Ahmed is also an actor and has been in a number of things, like Road to Guantanamo and the new British film Shifty. He was also in the BBC miniseries Britz, which I wrote a bit about when it came on in the U.S. on BBCA.

Anyways, check out the video and listen to the lyrics! Very cool.

It has come to my attention that maybe my standards for people in general and Muslims specifically are too high. In my previous post about the lady who made up the ridiculous story regarding my car accident, I said:

On Twitter, I mentioned that the worst part was that the lady is Pakistani and Muslim. I understand her behavior would have been deplorable regardless of her race or religion but for me, this fact made the whole ordeal just a bit more incredulous.

I shouldn’t be making religion part of this discussion as the fact that she is Muslim has nothing to do with anything.That is merely one aspect of her, as has been pointed out to me.

Looking back at my last post, I can see that maybe I might have to clear up on more thing - I would never judge one’s “Muslim-ness”. A person does what they do and it’s not up to me or anyone else to say how good or how bad of a Muslim one is. Because in the end, I don’t know how good of a person I am so who am I or anyone else to pass on judgment, y’know?

So… yeah

And for the record folks, dissenting opinions are welcome. Yeah, cousin I’m talking to you :p