Disclaimer

Dear reader,

This blog is now entering its sixth year of mixed reviews.

Many, many of you have written/ tweeted/ texted/ emailed/ telephoned/ personally met me to say kind, appreciative things about my blog - whereas a few others have, for some time, been waging an imaginary holy war with their (admittedly awesome-) mental caricature of me, which potentially involves the CIA, gay conspirators, Zionists and Velociraptors. (Oh please let there be Velociraptors, please!)

At the rate at which our country's going nuts - overrun by fanatics of increasingly mindless fervor, it was only appropriate that I quickly slap this disclaimer on my home page before somebody got hurt.

a) All the written content on this blog are entirely my personal views and opinion (Elementary, my dear Watson. If it were your personal opinion, it would be on your blog)

b) This web page existed harmlessly on a Google server, innocently minding its own business, until you decided to summon it by the magic of the Internet. Having done that, you have surrendered all rights to be 'offended' and/or otherwise inconvenienced by the contents of this blog.

c) By visiting this blog, you agree to give me total rights to print, publish, rip into and destroy any comments you post here. You also agree to grant me complete and exclusive ownership over your emails, your soul, your wife, your kids, and any paraphernalia you send my way. If these terms are unacceptable to you, please do not post funny shit and expect me to not ridicule them.

d) The single biggest price I have paid by writing this blog has been my near complete loss of privacy. That sucks, because I'm a shy, socially awkward introvert in real life. Some of you have found it fitting to post photographs of me (stolen from my Facebook, without my permission) on various websites. Others have simply opted to plainly invent stories about me, hoping to obtain a few page hits by riding on this blog's popularity. If you do such stuff, I don't like you. Go away.

e) I'm not the Maakana show guy. If I were him, that show would have at least had some fundies.

And velociraptors.

f) I am not a secret secularist  trying to secretly convert an unsuspecting nation to secularism. That's a common misconception. I am an open secularist, openly trying to convince this nation to adopt a decent, secular constitution that treats all humans with dignity. If you think that's a bad idea, please try to convince me otherwise.

For those of you who enjoy reading this blog, do keep sending me criticisms, interesting links and stuff.

For those who get 'offended' and want to hurt me for it, remember:  You do not get offended because I write this blog. You get offended because you keep coming back to read more. Exercise your reader discretion wisely, and everything should be fine.

Cheers!


- Yameen Rasheed,
   March 2011

~Peace!