Activism on Campus - Palestinian Awareness Week

On Wednesday, April 25th, the students at San Jose State did something a bit different in honor of Palestinian Awareness Week. Instead of scheduling a lecture to explain how life for a Palestinian is, they showed it.
Securing a section of campus, students from the club Students for Change staged a dramatization of a checkpoint, [...]

Can We Talk About God?

Last night I attended a lecture titled Can We Talk About God? Devotion and Extremism in the Modern Age, which took place at UC Berkeley’s International House.
The talk featured Roger Scruton, a conservative British philosopher and Imam Zaid Shakir, scholar at Zaytuna Institute, which also co sponsored the event with KPFA and Cody’s Books.
The [...]

America at a Crossroads - Muslims in America

PBS recently featured an 11 part series titles America at a Crossroads, a series of independently produced documentaries that hope to “explore the challenges confronting the post-9/11 world.”
One segment, titled The Muslim Americans, was of most interest as they producers delved into the world of Muslims living here in America, including immigrants as well as [...]

Muslim Youth Leadership Seminar - 5/5/07

YOUTH LEADERSHIP SEMINAR 2007
CIVIC EMPOWERMENT: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, MEDIA LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
WAH- EMPOWER & REVIVE YOUTH PROJECT cordially invites you to its annual Youth Leadership Conference/Seminar.
Come learn the essential skills of Political, Media, and Community Leadership. This year, we are offering a unique mix of lectures, hands-on experience, and live examples of youth bringing [...]

Western Muslims Need A “Fourth Estate”

Western Muslims Need A “Fourth Estate”
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We started altmuslim.com because we could no longer tolerate the absence of an independent Muslim media. We would be happy if the emergence of one made us redundant.
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By Shahed Amanullah, April 9, 2007
The editors of altmuslim.com are approached by the news media on a weekly - and sometimes even daily [...]

The Double Standards That Exist

Pamela Taylor, co-founder of Muslims for Progressive Values, wrote a good article about the double standards that exist for Muslims. The article is featured on Newsweek - Washington Post’s website:
Double Standards, Misinformation, and Vitriol
Taylor, a writer featured on the site’s Faith panel, says the following in her article:
“Our journalists need to do a better job [...]

Fellowships available to cover UN proceedings in New York

Fellowships available to cover UN proceedings in New York
The Dag Hammarskjöld Scholarship Fund for Journalists is now accepting applications from young journalists for its 2007 fellowship program. The application deadline is April 17.
The fellowship is open to radio, television and print journalists from around the world who are interested in traveling to New York [...]

Article on Muslim Event

Inside BayArea has always done a good job reporting Muslim events in the Bay Area. Here is a recent article about the Mawlid event at Zaytuna on March 30th:
Article on Zaytuna

NY Times Review of Tariq Ramadan and his book

Today, the New York Times published a review of Tariq Ramadan’s In the Footsteps of the Prophet, a biography of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and lessons that can be taken from his (pbuh) life to show that Islam is compatible with the Western Democracy.
The article titled The Many Faces of Tariq Ramadan by Stephanie Giry is [...]