Book Review - Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel

After I heard Eboo Patel speak at the Civic Engagements lecture at ISNA (ok, ok, I was only in there for the last 10 minutes but he closed the lecture with style with his final comments), I wanted to check out his book Acts of Faith in which he describes his trying to find his [...]

American Muslims for Palestine - Ramadan and the Soul for Jerusalem

On September 23, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) held a fundraiser at Chandni’s Restaurant to raise awareness for their organization. The event featured Dr. Hatem Bazian, Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, and Dr.Mohammad Rajabally to coordinate fundraising efforts.
Dr. Hatem Bazian, president of AMP, discussed that Muslims in the U.S. are not well informed [...]

Canadians and Niqab

Interesting article about the Canadian Niqab Voting controversy.
Check it out on AltMuslim.Com here:
http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/2597/

Updates to the Site

In the Multimedia section, I have added PSAs from the South Bay Islamic Association (SBIA), both 30 and 60 second versions, and a video of the DVD created by SBIA’s Media Committee regarding Media Activism and creating a Media Committee in one’s own masjid.
Check it out!

Conquering One’s Hate of Muslims

The latest radio podcast of This American Life features the episode “The Devil In Me” about people trying to conquer their demons.
Why am I mentioning this here? The first segment deals with an Iraqi War Veteran who develops a hatred for Muslims and Arabs when he comes back from the war because of all [...]

Ramadan Resources!

For those of us going by the moon sighting to signify the start of Ramadan, check out www.MoonSighting.com and www.CrescentWatch.org for moon sigthing reports tonight.
Also, Zaytuna and the South Bay Islamic Association will keep their sites updated with moon sighting information.

The Aftermath: American-Muslims After Sept. 11th

Jam-Productions.Com original documentary, “The Aftermath: American-Muslims After Sept. 11th” is now on YouTube (in 5 parts). Check it out at the link below, leave a comment and spread the word!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKMoz–mFtw
Peace
Irfan Rydhan
Jam-Productions.Com

Hayden: CIA had fewer than 100 prisoners

I love the part where he says:
Hayden said that journalists should stick to “exposing al-Qaida and its adherents for what they are.”
In other words, let the CIA do it’s work (i.e. have secret prisons and torture people), and don’t report on it…instead focus on the “real” terrorists!!!
Read the full article here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_hayden

Overall Thoughts on ISNA 2007

The last two blog posts were about specific sessions that I went to but instead of giving reviews of all the individual sessions I attended, I’d like to give my thoughts about ISNA 2007 in general.
Alhamdullilah, I thought it went pretty well.
A theme that I found while spending most of my time in Meet the [...]

ISNA 2007 - The Root Causes of Terrorism Session Review

One session at ISNA that was worthy of the main hall but was instead relegated to one of the smaller rooms was the session entitled The Root Causes of Terrorism with speakers Dr. Parvez Ahmed of CAIR, Dr. Robert Pape, and Dr. Hatem Bazian. The three of them discussed terrorism and whether or not Islam [...]

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