Archive for March, 2008
Innocent Muslim’s Story of Imprisonment for 5 years at Guantanamo Bay
1 Comment Published by Haseeb March 31st, 2008 in Current NewsSubhanallah, stories like this make me so ashamed of my country. I cannot understand how anyone in this country can justify Guantanamo Bay. Making up charges, torturing… it is an unconstitutional discrimatory prison (ALL Detainees are Muslim), and it must be shut down immediately! And to think, there are probably hundreds of cases of […]
After a very sad and disappointing end to the 2007 baseball season, the Mets, with several key new acquisitions, should nonetheless be the team to beat in the NL. With opening day tomorrow, here is my annual Mets Season Preview for 2008 (2007, 2006, 2005).
Starting Lineup
1. Jose Reyes - SS Arguably the best player […]
A Response to “Fitna” (Film by Geert Wilders)
15 Comments Published by Haseeb March 28th, 2008 in Islam, EventsDutch Politician Geert Wilders film ‘Fitna’ was released on the web yesterday. It is basically a 15 minute film with selections of Suras from the Qur’an, interspersed with newspaper clippings and media clips. It basically tries to show the Quran as a book of violence, intolerance, anti-semitism, and essentially, Islam as a religion of terror […]
Baba Ali
Asif Ali
Aman Ali
The Muslim Funnymentalists
NYTimes: Many Muslims Turn to Home Schooling
7 Comments Published by Haseeb March 26th, 2008 in Uncategorized, Islam, Current NewsSource:NYTimes
Many Muslims Turn to Home Schooling
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
LODI, Calif. — Like dozens of other Pakistani-American girls here, Hajra Bibi stopped attending the local public school when she reached puberty, and began studying at home.
Her family wanted her to clean and cook for her male relatives, and had also worried that other American children would […]
haha this reminds me of the SASL peeps!!!
Barack Obama: ‘A More Perfect Union’
4 Comments Published by Haseeb March 18th, 2008 in Politics/Media, Current NewsBelow is the complete transcript of this very speech:
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: ‘A More Perfect Union’
Philadelphia, PA | March 18, 2008
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these […]
Great article in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine by Professor Noah Feldman (Harvard Law School professor & author of several great books including After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building, and the upcoming The Fall and Rise of the Islamic […]
Over 20 of my brother’s friends gathered today to celebrate naveed’s birthday.
We gathered at my house around 5pm to Surprise him as soon as he got home!
Happy bday naveed!!
Stephen invites Hussein Ibish on the show to find out if Obama is a secret Muslim
Oh snap, its habib!!!
NYTimes: Obama and the Bigots
1 Comment Published by Haseeb March 9th, 2008 in Politics/Media, Current NewsSource: NYTimes
To his credit, Mr. Obama has spoken respectfully of Islam (he told me last year, on the record, that the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset”). If he were to go further — “and so what if I were Muslim?” — many Americans would see […]
Religious Identity Formation Among Bangladeshi American Muslim Adolescents
0 Comments Published by Haseeb March 7th, 2008 in Islam, Science/MedicineReligious Identity Formation Among Bangladeshi American Muslim Adolescents
By Sadia R. Chaudhury & Lisa Miller from Columbia University
Soon to be Published in the Journal of Adolescent Research later this year
Although Islam is the fastest growing religion in America, very little research has been conducted on the lived experiences of Muslim-Americans. In this pilot study, the first […]
Newsday: NY student who dumped Qurans in toilet gets community service
1 Comment Published by Haseeb March 5th, 2008 in Current NewsRemember this guy who twice desecrated the Holy Quran at Pace University? He pleaded guilty and has been ordered to complete 300 hours of community service.
Source: Newsday
NEW YORK (AP) _ A former Pace University student who twice threw copies of the Quran into a toilet at the school after disputes with Muslims pleaded guilty […]
Obama Says Islam Smear Offensive To Muslims
2 Comments Published by Haseeb March 4th, 2008 in Politics/Media, Current NewsSource: Ali Eteraz
Barack Obama’s exact words:
“I have never been a Muslim. Am not a Muslim. These emails are obviously not just offensive to me, somebody who is a devout Christian, who’s been going to the same Church for the last twenty years, but its also offensive to Muslims, because it plays […]

























