Education
Why Do White Guys Hate My Hijab?
And these young white men in their pickup trucks feel it’s their absolute right to “gaze” at women on and off campus.
Young Muslims and Alcohol IAGD Monthly Annual Dinner
About 150 people joined for the monthly dinner on Saturday June 1st 2013 at 70pm at the IAGD masjid in Rochester Hills. The topic, Young Muslims and Alcohol…
Lifelong Learning
Our lives are highly inundated with technology and it has becoming increasingly hard to distinguish the wheat from the chaff.
Nadeem Khan Honored with Teaching Award
Dr. Nadeem Khan, Davis & Elkins College professor of economics and finance, was honored during the college’s annual Academic Awards and Recognition Convocation ceremony with the 2013 Lois Latham Award for Teaching Excellence. The award is presented annually to an outstanding D&E educator who is characterized by a distinguished intellectual career; enthusiasm for scholarship and [...]
No Plan? Then Risk Having the State of Michigan Take Your Assets…
There was a very interesting article I came across in the New York Times on April 27th, 2013. It was titled: “He Left a Fortune, to No One.”
Prof. Zubairi and Photonless Communication
In the bizarre world of quantum physics, objects can be in more than one place at a time and future events can change the past. New research involving a Texas A&M University professor makes that microscopic realm even a bit stranger.
Mariyum Khan Receives Top Girl Scouts Honor
STOCKBRIDGE, GA–Mariyum Khan, a senior at a suburban Atlanta high school, has won one of the top honors of Girls Scouts. She was one of the 113 girls presented with gold awards by the Greater Atlanta Girl Scout Council, the Neighbor Newspapers reported. For her gold award project, Khan focused on veterans, organizing an information [...]
TMO Foundation Essay Contest
Essay Contest Rules: Please visit the TMO Foundation website for more information and rules–the list printed here is not exhaustive and may be changed so please visit the website): Essays must be submitted by July 8th. Several prizes / scholarships will be awarded in each category to the best essays as selected by a panel [...]
The Value of Light in Dark Moments
Last night, I participated in a solidarity visit to the home of Suhad Abu Zmiro, a wonderful young Israeli Arab woman, who was attacked by Jewish youngsters in early March in a hate crime attack in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem. This incident, which was widely publicized, led to much outrage among much of the mainstream Jewish population of Israel.
Pork DNA Found in Primary School’s ‘Halal’ Sausages
A London primary school has been feeding Muslim children sausages containing pork DNA.
“Consider Your Identity”–Ingrid Mattson, Leading Scholar
Canadian Muslims should join the discussion on what having a Canadian identity means, according to Dr. Ingrid Mattson, a well-known academic and Muslim leader.
Harvard Recognizes Quranic Ayah as One of the Greatest Expressions of Justice
“O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allah , even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives. Whether one is rich or poor, Allah is more worthy of both. So follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just. And if you distort [your testimony] or refuse [to give it], then indeed Allah is ever, with what you do, Acquainted
Zain Syed Wins Texas Agriculture Award
Zain Syed, a seventh-grader from Paris Junior High School is the winner of the Texas Department of Agriculture’s monthly GROW award.
IVC Visitors to The Muslim Observer
Farmington–November 12, 2012–The United States State Department periodically brings visitors to the United States from around the world in order to show them the true nature of this country.
Khan Academy Founder Receives McGraw Award
Salman Khan, the founder of the popular online-lecture repository called Khan Academy, was named one of four winners of the 2012 Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education…
Imam Masmari of Bloomfield’s Muslim Unity Center Explains Hajj Step by Step
lesson on how to perform hajj. does not contain every single step–but is a good starting point for learning
HAJJ: The Global Annual Congregation of Muslims
“There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood ……. You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought patterns previously held.”
- Malcolm X
Who Will Tell Your Story?
TMO Foundation’s Third Annual Fundraiser and Awards Banquet
Static Electricity (for kids)
Static electricity is an electric charge built up on persons or objects through friction.
