The Daily Life of a Muslim Muttaqun.com (Be sure to click the American flag for the English version of this page, unless of course you prefer another language.) Then, of course, the indespensible: How Do I Swear in Arabic?
Judaism, like Islam, I researched mostly on the fly. I had more help in this regard, however, because I know a number of people who were raised Jewish. For instance, the opening chapter of Messiah Node was taken almost directly from my experience (minus the angels and Elijah, of course,) at the Seder of my friend Andrea Gorrilla (yes, that’s her real name). Andrea, like Rebeckah, liked to change the genders (even of God’s pronoun) in the haggadah to be more inclusive. I really, really, REALLY wanted to include the semantic argument she and her sister Elaine had over what the gender neutral word for “forefathers” was. (We eventually decided “forebears” would work.) However, it just didn’t fit into the story. Similarly, in Messiah Node Mouse’s reflection on the party he attended where a bunch of people looked up the f-word in the dictonary and discovered that a “fucker” was a “habitual bungler” is also based on a real-life party that I attended at fellow author Kelly McCullough’s house (
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- The Daily Life of a Muslim Muttaqun.com (Be sure to click the American flag for the English version of this page, unless of course you prefer another language.) Then, of course, the indespensible: How Do I Swear in Arabic?
- Where does an American flag patch go when worn on the shirt sleeve?
- When did Betsy Ross sew the first American flag?
