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Prayer and Protest By Sarah Brummett Contributing Writer (Washington Square News) March 30, 2006 [More than 40 NYU Students from NYU's Islamic Center] originally planned to protest the presentation of the cartoons, but the event’s sponsor, the Objectivist Club, decided to only display blank panels after NYU demanded that it close the event off to [...]

After a questionable off-season, with questions looming over Pedro Martinez’s health, things look better as Pedro was impressive in his spring training debut. Pedro is listed as good to go for the third game of the season. Anyways, as promised, here’s my annual Mets Season Preview: Projected Starting Lineup: SS – Jose Reyes – Premiere [...]

Last Friday, after praying Jummah at NYU, I spent some time chilling with one of my best friends, Haroon. We caught the 4:00 showing of V for Vendetta. Coming into the movie I had no idea what it was about and was actually quite releuctant in seeing it, but I am really glad I did [...]

I have been thinking about this topic, and was intially planning on refraining from addressing it. However, we live in a time where it is important to freely discuss and open matters, particularly those that are already being discussed around – and about – us. Now in Afghanistan, we had Abdul Rahman, a convert to [...]

Due to school, i havent been able to keep up with sports much. I still have yet to write my annual Mets Season Preview, but inshallah ill get to that later this week before the season begins. (Can you believe the Mets season starts in less than one week!?) However I did catch last nights [...]

A little over two weeks ago, my alma mater, Stony Brook, held an event titled SBU MSA Blasphemy or Freedom. A reader of my site notifed me that the video from this event was online at google video! Jazakallah khair to whoever recorded it! The camera angles are a little weird though… I havent yet [...]

Reza Aslan, has been quite active on the media circuit as of late. He has been featured on NPR, The Guardian, Meet the Press, The Daily Show (first time) (second time), Meena, and this past Friday night, on Real Time with Bill Maher. Although his book has been out for over a year, I’m glad [...]

(Forwarded to me by Brother Khalid Latif, Chaplain, NYU) On March 29th, this upcoming wednesday, an event is being held by a student organization at NYU called the Objectivist Club. The event’s purpose is to analyze the issue of free speech with an emphasis put on a series of cartoons recently published in a Danish [...]

Yes, that’s right. The Stony Brook bros continued with the Deen’z List legacy this spring, carrying on the historic team name to a new season of intramural softball. This is the first season in which yours truly is not organizing and leading our squad. Today was the New Deen’s List’s first game, and guess what [...]

For those of you who aren’t aware of this recent feud, heres a quick overview: South Park Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, made an episode last year titled “Trapped in the Closet (Click for full plot synposis)“. This episode featured one of the main characters, Stan, being recruited by Scientologists to not only join [...]

Sources: Seeker’s Digest, Guidance Media

Source: Onegoodmove [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Warning: Large File, you may want to dowload (a higher quality version, here, and play it on your own computer. In this talk, Sociobiology founder Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University) explains why we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions, denies that “evolutionism” is a faith, and says [...]

Source: Media Matters In an ABC Nightline segment featuring Rev. Franklin Graham’s controversial comments about Islam… Graham … refuses to pretend he believes all religions are equal, because he doesn’t believe it. He has always stood by a remark he made in 2001, in the aftermath of September 11th, that Islam is an evil and [...]

Source: Sunnipath “You should not neglect your time or use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account, structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night, and assign to each period a fixed and specific function. This is how to bring out the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period.But [...]

Thats right! The person who made those shirts that Isam wore in his latest Outlandish video, Kom Igen (see stills from the video below), has contacted me and has these shirts available for purchase! And if that isnt great enough news, all proceeds from the t-shirt sales go straight towards a noble cause. These shirts [...]