Muslim Unity Day Recap

The 4th Annual Muslim Unity Day was this past Saturday, August 9 at Six Flags, Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, CA. The amusement park was filled with upwards of 2,500 Muslims, mixing in with the thousands of others that spent the day at the park.
Many organizations participated in Muslim Unity Day, including Islamic bookstores, clothing stores, [...]

Muslim Unity Day in the Bay Area - August 9

Muslim Unity Day at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo will be this Saturday, August 9, InshAllah.

Tickets can be purchased from the website or by any of the people listed on the website. This is the fourth MUD event and the first time it will be held at Six Flags. It’s sure to be awesome so [...]

Illume 2.0 - Check it Out

Javed Ali, founder of Illume Magazine, has relaunched the Illume’s website: www.Illumemedia.org. The site includes articles from the new issue, regular columns, and community blogs, the latter of which are exclusive to the website.
From the editor’s note:
Storytelling has been used throughout history to preserve culture and to instill moral values within a community. It [...]

United States Reinstate Fulbright Grants

Last week, the United States State Department pulled out seven Fulbright Grants to Palestinians in Gaza because the Israeli government wouldn’t let them out.
However, it is now being reported that the U.S. has reinstated the Fulbright Grants and is working to get the students out of Gaza and into the U.S. Check out the story [...]

U.S. Officials Urged to Quit using “Islam” in Terrorism Talk

There is a guide going around in government circles by the National Counter-Terrorism Center that U.S. officials need to cease and desist using “Islam” and other words associated with the religion when talking about terrorists. For instance, they are not to mention Al-Qaeda as a Muslim or Islamic group.
The guide being passed around for [...]

Are Americans Ready for “Little Mosque on the Prairie”?

Here is an interesting article, written by Greg Sellnow about the Canadian sitcom: “Little Mosque on the Prairie” which may be coming to U.S. networks soon:
Little Mosque
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Jeff Cohen: My Misadventures in Corporate Media

This is an excellent talk by Jeff Cohen, a former cable news pundit (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC) and Media Critique who co-founded FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) who discusses the insides of Corporate Media:
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Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media

Congrats to SBIA Media Scholarship 2007 Awardees!!!

Asalaamu-Alaykum All
On behalf of the SBIA Media Committee, I would like to thank everyone
who submitted an application for the SBIA 2007 Media Scholarship Fund.
The Media Scholarship Selection Committee was very impressed with all
the skills, talents and expertise of each candidate. All the
applicants have the potential to succeed in giving an effective voice
to the Muslim [...]

Video Clips from SBIA Ramadan Open House 2007

Check out Clips from the SBIA Ramadan Open House 2007:
Part 1
Part 2
Special Thanks to Br. Dawan Muhammad with the SBIA Media Committee for putting this together on short notice!
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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

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