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Prof. Inamul Haq honored with Community Service Award
CHICAGO, IL– Prof. Inamul Haq was honored with the Community Builders Chicago’s community service award at its annual convention held last week.
An Intellectual Affair…
“Verily, never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves”
Female Professor of Neuroscience Converts to Islam
Very nice video about a woman, a professor of neuroscience, who converts to Islam
Biden in Lebanon–Is Obama Next
[T]he rank of a U.S. envoy to a developing country is directly proportional to the urgency of sabotaging that country’s popular will. Biden is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit that country in more than 25 years, so this visit is of the utmost urgency!
Bogus Bomb Plot
It is disgusting and outrageous that the FBI is sending provocateurs into mosques…
Saudi’s Miss Beautiful …Morals
RIYADH: Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so no one can tell what she looks like. She also admits she’s a little on the plump side.
The Kuwaiti Quartet
Political crisis has marred the growth and development of Kuwait for the past few years as political upheaval has been the order of the day. The entire government has resigned no less than five times and the democratically elected parliament has been dissolved thrice in only a matter of years with the most recent dissolution coming just a few months ago.
Pay to Play
Last week, an acquaintance of mine, one who’s fairly well versed on the financial markets, asked me why the fundamentals of our economy aren’t being considered by investors who seem bent on piling their money into a rising stock market. I told him that as far as I could tell, the state of our economy doesn’t seem to be much of a concern to the ones doing the buying.
Fiqh Class at the Bloomfield Muslim Unity Center
Bloomfield Hills–May 24–Imam Musa is one of the many extraordinary imams of the Southeast Michigan community who engage in a humble and comfortable manner with their congregations, teaching by lecture and also by example about the great religion of Islam.
Imam Abdullah Bey El-Amin of Detroit’s Muslim Center Runs for Detroit City Council
Farmington–May 27–Imam El-Amin announced last Thursday evening that he is running for Detroit City Council.
Community News (V11-I23)
CT school district considers Muslim holidays / NYC Jewish-Muslim interfaith directory launches / Islamic college proposed in Berkeley — Zaytuna / Interfaith ride of discovery in New Jersey
Houstonian Corner (V11-I23)
Pakistani Ladies Parliamentarians / ISGH Floodlight Festival / Houston Community Events
AL-AWDA Convention
The seventh annual convention of AL-AWDA, the Palestinian Right of Return Coalition, was held in Garden Grove, Ca. this past weekend.
Palestine Awareness at UCLA
The event was part of Palestine Awareness Week, a collaborative effort held for the purpose of educating the larger UCLA community about the situation in Palestine.
How MI5 Blackmails British Muslims
Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants.
New Indian Govt. Faces Problems From Day One
NEW DELHI: Paradoxically, even before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had settled, taking charge for the second continuous term of Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, trouble from unexpected quarters surfaced.
They May Not Want The Bomb–And Other Unexpected Truths
Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex).
New York’s Historic Candidacy of a Muslim for Comptroller
He said, “It is imperative in these challenging times that our community gets represented in the city politics, it is frustrating for all the Muslim population which is 600,000 strong–that they have nobody to champion their cause.”
EEG
EEG’s explained, for kids–the science of recording and analyzing the electrical activity of the brain.
