Curiosity killed the cat. I was thoroughly curious about the short movie clip, Fitnah, which brought fire into the Muslim world. Every newspaper I stumbled upon, the article flared almost half the page of every newspaper. The television showed annoyed Muslim leaders urging the clip to be removed and destroyed.

I didn’t know the full extend of the damaged caused until I watched it on the internet. It was short movie clip, but it felt as if it was the longest years in my life. Islam portrayed as butchers of innocents, berserkers that seeks out the blood of non-Muslim and wanted psychopaths.

I was shaking in suppressed anger to the point that I had to cover my eyes as the pictures flashed through my 17″ TFT LCD Monitor. The pictures were grotesque and the translation of the Quran were manipulated. It served as a seed of anger for Muslim around the world to roar in anger. The Devil must have been very proud of himself as he watch the beauty of his toy’s latest creation.

What was Geert Wilder thinking? This is not a freedom of speech. This is insulting a sensitive issue. There must always be a counterbalance in everything we do and to know the borderline of a certain issue. All of us respect and loves freedom of speech but to insult a religion is way crossing the line.

Of all the things, why insult a religion? Can’t he come up with another topic if he seem to be so bored with his political life? There are millions of people who are in the pits of death, people in poverty and Iraqi innocents dying in gunfire. If he wants to make a change, then that solve those.

To sniff out Islam and making it as the works of the Devil is a wholly unfair and biased subject. What makes Islam seem so bad that he came up with the idea? To be putting his eggs on what the media has been airing out is absurdly childish.

Sure there are Muslim extremist causing havoc in the world but did he showed the viewers how many innocent Muslim were caught in the fray? Did he show how many Muslim were dead in Palestine? Did he show how many Muslim organisations did their part in handing out aids to those who are in need even to those who are non-Muslim?

No he didn’t.

Furthermore he should put a stand to his movie clip if he were really genuine in freedom of speech. Why run from something which he had originally started? Or has he already anticipated the mass chaos he will cause and that is why he is running away, satisfied with the outcome.

I will not be bothered by his outrageous insult to my religion. Whatever that was shown is just a test to see if we Muslim will fall for the Devil’s work and cause an all out war between religion. I will uphold the peace taught by our Prophet and will maintain the resemblance of nonchalant. I hope other Muslim brothers and sisters do the same.

Nevertheless, some questions are still left unanswered.

Is he trying to create an all out war between religion? Or is he being paid by some terrorist groups to create a worldwide chaos?

That was the insult thrown in my face a few days ago. I was having having dinner and happily chugging down my late night coffee until someone walks in and spoiled my evening.

First off, I am a Muslim woman. I do my obligatory five times a day prayers. I recite the Quran and can give an almost good recital of Surah Al-Yasin. I fast during the month of Ramadan, did my Terawih prayers during that month. I have never been rude to my parents, not that I can remember, and a filial child. In short, I am a Muslim Woman.

But I don’t wear the Hijab and sometimes favor the clothes that shows my knees below.

Unfortunately during that evening, I was wearing my comfortable three quarter jeans and t-shirt since it was my off day and so I decided to lay off my normal long pants/jeans while I get comfortable at my mother’s food stall. That day, a customer came to buy food and while the brother Muslim made purchase, he took note of my attire.

In a sarcastic tone, he made a comment that a Muslim woman in his country (he’s a foreigner, mind you) would always wear clothes that cover her bodily parts even her face. Since my mother was wearing the hijab, he made the comment to my mother. At this point my left eyebrow was raised and my mother was giving the sly glance at me but I chose to ignore him.

Then he went on praising about the Muslim in his country which I ceased to listen until he touched the subject on women. He went on saying how docile the women, how they always followed the men’s orders and that women should never be allowed to work and that their place is at home. That will be the best Muslim women role model.

He made a huge mistake in degrading the women in my presence. I am a feminist and I have my dad to be credited for. He made us belief that women can be as good as men and had always given historical facts of the Wives of our Prophet Muhammad as his reference.

I was gritting my teeth when I made the sub-zero comment to him. I told him straight to his face that Prophet Muhammad’s wife, Khadijah is a successful business woman and even financed his struggle to spread Islam.

He was opening his mouth to retort when I slashed him with another comment. What use is wearing a hijab when the wearer herself has indulged in alcohol and has legions of lovers. What use is wearing the hijab when the wearer stabs her friends in the back and make falsehood.

And what good is wearing a hijab when she sports tight body contouring clothes the same as how non-hijab wearing women wears. And how can you confirm that hijab wearing women or even THAT customer does his obligatory prayers without failure?

I have seen many supposed proclaimed Muslim flinging around the pubs, bars and disco, sporting a drink or two and making out illicitly with their partners. I have seen them caught in the act of sexual acts and the media is flamed with those news and sadly, some of them consisted of hijab wearing women.

I know my laws in Islam. I know the prohibited items and acts that is hated by Allah s.w.t. And I am proud to admit that I have never done any of those in my life. Thus, I feel insulted when a person comes up to me and cynically throwing snide remarks about what a bad Muslim I am just because I was not wearing Hijab with the full dress.

I have made my decision in wearing the Hijab. I will wear the Hijab only when I’m ready to leave all my earthly dealings, which includes the desire to wear revealing clothes, to mingle with my friends which includes the opposite sex. I will not shame my religion by wearing the Hijab only to be seen in the hideouts of a concert or dancing with glee on the dance floor with an opposite sex who is not my Mahram.

Have you ever seen an angel before? Can you guarantee that when you die, you are without sins and you will be graced a straight way to heaven? No? If No, then shut up. You are not god. We are just humans and as humans we should always remember that we are scarred with sins and must always seek for HIS forgiveness.

Humans do not and cannot decide the fate of others and whether we are sinned or not. It is HIM who decides all. HE is our Creator, HE is the all Merciful and it is He who is the Judge.

Ending my tirade and stand for all Muslim women who had been discriminated before with my well known icy glare, it was not surprising when the customer clicked his jaw and hastily rushed back home.

Do not EVER insult Muslim women integrity in my presence. I will try to tolerate as much as I can but the moment my fuse is blown, you had better be prepared for a maelstrom.

I was reading through Gator Host blog just now and a particular article caught my sight. A particular Web Hoster, Host Garoo, is causing quite a storm in the Web Hosting market. No it’s not because of the extremely low price with good add-ons, it’s the design of the whole website and not to mention their package.

If you were to glance at the website, you’d see a staggering similarity of Host Garoo and Host Gator. Even their web hosting package has the same names and almost the same details on them. It’s pure plagiarism!

Don’t they ever check the meaning of the words plagiarism and copyrights act? They could be sued and.. well perhaps Host Gator should take advantage of it, they could earn millions with just the legal actions undertaken.

Seriously, if they ever want to borrow an idea, they should at least do some changes to it. Even the designs of website and the affiliation rewards are the same. What a joke! Did I mention that Host Garoo is owned by a UK company and the logo from the Down Under is nowhere near where the highlanders roam?

Nevertheless, plagiarism is a big threat to the world. Businesses could lose millions to a competitor who uses the same design and product and writers could lose their hard earned title and steady pay check from these copy cats.

Which is why I always have a Terms and Conditions page which can be found in Advertisers Read Me category. NO point of working so hard only to have it copied and someone else gets all the credit.

An amazing responses with different reactions to the latest post. Wow..  Well in reply to those who had commented on Don’t Be Cheated By Paid Survey, the reason why I chose to spend that cash on it was to appease the curiosity and also to learn their tricks into cheating other lambs into the mouth of the beast.

Furthermore the cash used was from my own bank account, so no worries there ChrisFaz.

So if anyone wishes to know the Paid Links, Paid Survey etc found in that website, you are more than welcome to email me. I will share the info with you.

Anyway I was suppose to post this up last Sunday when I was happily dining out on Ikan Bakar. For those who wish for the recipe, please email me and I’ll be glad to send you a copy of my own recipe.

Too bad for those that missed it!

Curiousity got the better of me. We have seen everywhere on the internet the advertisements, “Earn $3000 per month” or “I got $200 in just 1 hr” plastered all over the internet. Unfortunately those who did click on it and went into the website will be left frustrated as the website will only allow paid members to enter. So if you don’t fork out that USD 60.00 then you’re out.

I decided to test these advertisements out, to see for myself if I really could do what they had claimed to have earn. Who doesn’t want to earn a few hundreds by the hour right? So after filing through, I finally got the desired website I wanted, the Singapore version of Get Rich By Filling Up Surveys which had flamed the job classified ads.

Being ’so’ righteous, I decided on not cheating them by doing the usual Black Hat PayPal trick on them and paid up the amount, a blathering USD 36.00 that is after 50% discount. (blast them!) So while I await for my “money manual”, the confirmation email and the receipt was emailed to me within seconds. (Good service when it comes to slashing our cash away)

Instead of showing me the lists of all the works I had to do, considering the ads sounded I was up for a job, what I got was totally different. It showed me a whole list of paid survey companies, Paid email companies and Mystery Shopping Companies which is not even related to Singapore. It was also not surprising to find a note from them that WE have to sign up with everyone of them and hope they will reply to us.

All THAT FOR $36.00!!! I got cheated…..

Not only that they even have a page, Bonus Extra, as a note on how to underhand Google Adsense and fiddle their system. They also give tips and notes on how to earn from affiliation by driving traffic to your website. I find this totally stupid.

You can see for yourself on the page image I took from it.

How in the world do you expect to earn anything from $0.0006 for all the clicks, surveys and emails read. A waste of time if you ask me. I can’t be always sitting in front of my computer and scouring through everyone of the paid sites to get my meager $1.00!

So let it be a lesson to everyone out there. DO NOT pay for those “Get Rich Fast” websites. Its purely stupid and a waste of money. Now I need to work extra hard just to get my USD36.00 back.

So much for their stupid testimonials. I bet all of them are from the same household.

I’m really grumbling about it. The temptation to pull my Black Hat trick on them is very tempting… Grr… But that would make me as bad as them.

As you have observed, a few changes has been taken place at Zackire.com. Although the changes doesn’t have any major site appearance effect, it has covered almost all of the items that was mentioned in the previous posts.

I have ditched the unnecessary disclosure act and instead implemented an Advertiser’s Log Book. This will be updated once in a while as not all of the terms and conditions have been fully covered, although the basics are firmly stated in that post.

Feeds from Helium.com, well those interesting writings will be seen in this site. I’m not trying to popularise Helium.com but I love reading, and if it’s worth my every laugh, nod or even tears, I don’t see why I can’t share the articles from those well gifted writers in Helium.com

Spammers have also been banned from Zackire.com after much warnings. I have banned the IP address from spammers from sniffing into Zackire.com and thanks to Akismet, almost 2000 spam comments, emails and their affiliation has been rooted out.

Efforts to increase the PR of Zackire.com is also taking place even though it has been 6mths Zackire.com first started. But its a good progress! From an Unranked Alexa and Technocrati to a rank of 3,963,709 and still climbing, that’s a real achievement for Zackire.com. After all, we don’t really bother publisizing and promoting Zackire.com unlike other websites.

I’m trying to include a Calendar of Event so readers would know the updates and events that will be taking place with Zackire.com or the members of Zackire.com. After all, what started as a personal blog has now metamorphosised into a Knowledge Blog.

The post for tips in Making Money Online is still in the progress of writing, so don’t panic Tarif. I will publish it up online. And thanks for your email.

So basically thats about it.  We will post further notice if there are any other changes in the foreseen future.

Syikin

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1) Zackire.com DO NOT JUST BLOG FOR MONEY. Just because you see a review of a product or website doesn’t mean it is a paid post. Most posts or reviews written are based on voluntary works. Should you wish to purchase any articles written on Zackire.com, kindly forward your enquiries to Purchase of Article.

Our articles are based on per article and ranges from USD$10 to USD$65 per article and full ownership and publishing will be handed to the publisher. Our articles quality ranges on the amount being paid for the ownership.

If you pay us a low amount like USD$5, then you will get an article worthy for that amount. However should you pay us USD$40, then you will get a wide and comprehensive article. We have been paid USD$120 for an article for a publisher before and was given a good recommendation by them.

2) All works written on Helium.com under the author of Nur Asyikin Abdul Majid are originally written. Copying the articles and content are strictly prohibited. Should you wish to have purchase the article on Helium.com, you have to approach Helium.com for the sales and purchase agreement.

3) Zackire.com runs on Ads. Yes, we run on advertisement from PayPerClick, PayPerVisit to other forms of advertisement found in Adsbrite, Aductions and NuffNagg. The funds collected are used to support the hosting and maintanence of Zackire.com.

Where do you think we get the funds from? It’s not cheap to maintain a website these days…

4) Comments are well appreciated on Zackire.com. However we do not accept spam and your IP will be forever banned from entering Zackire.com. We hate spams, so don’t bother us with it.

edited: 18th March 2008, 10th Rabiulawal

I was jumping in my seat when I opened my mail box today. My articles written in Helium.com has attracted a publisher and they are keen in buying my works!

Woohoo!!

All that brain draining articles paid off. I’m so happy! I was almost disheartened at the lack of response from the publishers in the first few days on my writing. But after 2 weeks of of my first written article, it finally paid off! I’m so happy!

You can read it at the link below.

Oh yeah I’ve already set up a page specially for Advertisers who finds difficulty in getting the advertising companies that meets their criteria. It has a whole list of good advertising companies which had been tried and tested by me, so its fool proof. I haven’t manage to complete all of the list of advertisers and will try to post of all it by the end of this month.

I’ve been trying to decide whether to move my blog into another category instead of the parent directory due to some problems in the codes but that will be decided in the later future for new possibilities.

I’ve also received an email from a reader in Zackire.com with regards to making money online. I will post another full detailed article on this topic in a few days. Currently my schedule is a bit tight but I will make sure it’s up and written before this month ends.

I’m also tidying up MyBlog Log.com… Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification

Until next time my fellow readers!

PS: Don’t forget to leave me a comment. Thanks!

It’s amazing what knowledge at your fingertips can do for you. I’m talking about searching for information on the internet. Previously before fast speed bandwidth and internet was fully introduced to the world, encyclopedias, dictionaries and libraries are the only sources for information.

I remembered the times when I diligently searched a word in the thick Webster dictionary just for the meaning of a word. But now with the internet, I just had to open an internet browser, log into the internet and Google the word up.

However this knowledge is also a killer. Many of times knowledge found on the internet are abused and this knowledge are always mistaken as experience. I’m talking about the irony of the articles written in Helium.com. Ever since the contests and marketplace was introduced, I have read many articles that was just a Cut and Paste bi-product from an information off a website.

And many of the times I laughed my head off as the information written was off topic and wrongly misinterpreted. For instance in the line of “Commodities Futures“. The author is to write two parts article regarding the future of commodities. Although there were impressive accounts and information collected from Bloomberg with their stock market symbols and the current market prices per Metric Tonne or per gram, the information written was obviously written off the book.

The analytical article didn’t impress me one bit nor does it give the right foresight. Information for commodities are found in London Metal Exchange and New York Mercantile Exchange and other major commodities exchanges. Bloomberg are just traders my dears…

Just for the prize of USD$75, writers took up the challenge of writing topics which they had no hands on experience in. To be able to write analytical topics like the future of commodities needs at least an experience of 2 years in that area. It’s not simply taken from off the book or off the press page. I can bet that most of them don’t even know the difference between a D2 Russian Gas Oil and Mazut 100. Imagine the damage it will cause if business analytics topics were written by these beginners.

No doubt it will give amusement for readers who have experience in the field but can you just imagine if a new blood were to try to venture into this particular field and stumble into the wrongly written report. His brokerage life will go into shambles.

Therefore writers who are currently involved in Helium.com, PLEASE and I’m begging you… Write an article which you have good knowledge in. Do not try to write any articles which you have no experience in. It only serve as a joke to people like me and will certainly rate your articles badly.

I was doing the usual monthly maintanence when I caught sight of an online gambling advertisements on one of my websites. Other than having my eyes popping out from my socket at the obscene graphics of the advertisement, no other damage was suffered.

I scrambled to edit my advertisement approvals and this time I checked it to make sure that it was manually approved. Now previously I used auto approved thinking no harm could be inflicted since I trusted Adsbrite. But they didn’t tell me that they support online gambling advertisements. I did a through check and luckily the little error was corrected.

Hopefully no lawsuits are in the process of flying to my residential address.

All this time I was happily enjoying the cents that came up from the advertisement. I didn’t bother checking the price of the advertisers that bid on my websites. It impressed me to see that the max bid an advertiser placed onto my website was $150  CPM (cost per 1000 views on the advertiser’s website) and $1.00 CPC (Cost per click).

If only I had un-checked auto approved option. I could have been earning a few thousands easily. Haiz.. But at least I have corrected the error and now just need a little strategy to make everything right.

Hopefully someone clicks on my advertisements.. I’ll treat you coffee!! hehehe..