whats the plot

amazing... i came across people asking about islam on y! answers before, but never upon a muslim asking a question about islam on answers until right now. i was doing a search on google for "arabic tirmithi" and came up with several questions on y! answers, including this one about shopping du3a2s, asked on y! answers malaysia. even more interesting is the fact that there's a category for ramadan under holidays and it's full of questions by muslims (i mean, after all, it is y! answers malaysia, right? :)).

dang, i was being paid to make da3wa and i didn't even know it, al7amdulillah

i guess since it's already been made public on techcrunch, i can post about this here... but yes, y! answers development is moving to europe. we already had some developers there, but now it will be driven entirely out of europe.

as for the us developers, we were all moved onto another project. while this is a change that i personally welcome (it's nice to have something new to work on every once in a while, esp if you're currently in a lull with what you are doing), it is kind of sad because answers was sort of like a child to many of the developers. although i wasn't there from the very beginning of its initiation, i was there early enough and for long enough to feel this way.

in other y! news, i found this to be great. it's about time

one of my coworkers sent me this today. pretty funny that they blatantly ripped off the images and such. on a similar note, it seems as though there's way too much red tape to go through in order to get something like this officially done.

why would you ask a question like this unless you're just asking for trouble?

muslim nobel prize winner, muhammad yunus, was the target of one of yahoo's advertising campaign's for answers - i am happy to have a question of his on the site

while working on y! answers, i sometimes go to the homepage and have a particular question catch my eye. sometimes, i can't help but wonder, "what are these people thinking..."

here's one recent example:
. can a muslim be a good american? -- totally ridiculous question, read it through and you'll see what i mean. the guy lists a bunch of stereotypes and unresearched ideas to reach a conclusion at the end that:

"Therefore after much study and deliberation....perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both "good" Muslims and good Americans. Call it what you wish....it's still the truth.."

yeah...