American Opinions, Muslims, and the Media

by Abiya Ahmed
The Pew Research Center’s new poll on U.S. Muslims, released last week, discloses as much about American Muslims as its reporting does about American media and their treatment of Muslim-related stories. From its coverage, one may also draw valuable inferences about the media’s functions – both descriptive and normative – in our war-ridden [...]

MediaandIslam.com Interviewed by IslamCrunch.com

Here is the direct link….enjoy:
IslamCrunch Interview

New Newsletter Up

The Media and Islam issue for May 2007 is now in the Multimedia section. This newsletter is distributed in local masjids in the Bay Area such as SBIA and MCA.
This issue contains an article about President Carter’s recent visit to the Bay Area, a review of the Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, a [...]

What Polls About US Muslims Don’t Tell You

Shahed Amanullah at altmuslim.com presents an interesting look at the recent poll on American Muslims conducted by Pew Research: What Polls About US Muslims Don’t Tell You.

Entertainment in a Post 9/11 America

I meant to blog this ages ago, but the movie Civic Duty is now in limited release.From the description on IMDB: “An American accountant bombarded with cable news and the media’s obsession with terrorist plots in the post 9-11 world, receives a jolt when an unattached Islamic graduate student moves in next door.”
Should be [...]

Study on American Muslims Makes for Internet Frenzy

The Pew Research’s study on Muslim Americans generated a lot of buzz on the Internet yesterday. The first article I saw about it was on BBC, as indicated in the last post. The title of that one was “Muslims ‘well integrated’ in U.S.” and the article proceeded to summarize the findings of the study and [...]

A Study on Muslim Americans

The BBC news site summarized a report about Muslims in America. This report, released today by the Pew Research Center, studied the attitude and behavior of Muslims in America. The BBC summary is here:
Muslims Well Integrated’ in U.S.
The basic findings revolve around the fact that American Muslims are well integrated and mostly moderate, rejecting extremism.
Read [...]

Time.com 2007 Tech Production intern

Time.com 2007 Tech Production intern
Description:
Under the supervision of the Director, Product Development & Management for time.com, the intern will be responsible for assigning the staff in various phases of production. The intern will have the opportunity to learn about all phases of online magazine web production for time.com.
Producing articles
Writing headlines
AP heads
Research and [...]

6 Men Arrested in a Terror Plot Against Fort Dix

NY Times Story
6 Muslim men were arrested for allegedly planning a plot to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey.
The news originally broke yesterday, but more details emerged today. The article in New York Times, and any other news source for that matter, are quick to indicate that these were Muslim men. They are called “Islamic [...]

New Articles Posted

New articles have been posted on the Multimedia page:
President Carter Speaks at U.C. Berkeley campus by Irfan Rydhan
Acts of Terrorism by Joseph Strohmier