A Request for help from the Brothers and Sisters at UC Irvine

A Request for help from the Brothers and Sisters at UC Irvine

By AT Reader on February 10, 2010

-In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful-
Assalamu alaykum (peace be upon you),
You may have heard of the recent event at UC Irvine with Michael Oren, the ambassador of Israel to the US.
While he was invited by a student organization to speak on US-Israeli relations, the UCI Law School and the Political Science Department [...]

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MLK’s Legacy: Non-violent Advocacy Today

MLK’s Legacy: Non-violent Advocacy Today

By Hana Khan on January 19, 2010

History, in my opinion, is useless unless we implement its lessons to our present society. Great leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr., would have struggled and sacrificed in vain if the proceeding generations fail to draw upon the fundamental principles from such historical movements that managed to pull society from the ugly and dark [...]

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Separated By Bars: The Mousavi Family Endures

Separated By Bars: The Mousavi Family Endures

By Maral Ali on December 26, 2009

By Maral Ali
Al-Talib meets with former UCLA graduate student Zeinab Mousavi to talk about the Mousavi family’s experience of having their father be imprisoned in the Terre Haute, Indiana CMU.
Al-Talib: Since his transfer to the Terre Haute CMU, how often has your family been able to visit Mr. Mousavi?
Mousavi: A couple times. My mom [...]

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UCLA Alum named “Outstanding Young American”

UCLA Alum named “Outstanding Young American”

By Zenith Rahman on December 26, 2009

By Zenith Rahman
A young Muslim man from Southern California was named of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the United States Junior Chamber on September 26th.
Atif Moon, a UCLA alumnus, co-founded the Center for Global Understanding (CFGU) when he felt the need to create a public organization which integrated and voiced Muslim [...]

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Putting Faith into Practice: Muslim Medical Students Create Free Clinic in South LA

Putting Faith into Practice: Muslim Medical Students Create Free Clinic in South LA

By Sussan Fazel on December 8, 2009

Mayes’ daughter, Lichelle James, gets her blood pressure taken by one of Umma Clinic’s nurses.

Lola Mayes rushed home from work mid-morning because one of her daughters was ill and needed urgent care. Her daughter’s Medi-Cal insurance had recently been cut. Like the other times her family needed medical attention, she took her daughter to [...]

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Israeli Blockades

Israeli Blockades

By altalib on April 20, 2009

www.guardian.co.uk

by Yousef Farsakh
As the situation in Gaza deteriorates and the world’s superpower endorses the growing violence by not bringing accountability to Israel’s actions, many have forgotten about the humanitarian blockade of the West Bank. While not remotely as deadly and evil as the blockade, siege, and now massacre in Gaza, the world must not forget [...]

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The Hummingbird: A Reflection on Nature

The Hummingbird: A Reflection on Nature

By Kutibh Chihabi on July 24, 2010

Taking a short walk outside this hot, sunny day in Riverside, California exposed to me to one of Allah’s miracles. In my backyard, perched in the tiny space of one of the lamppost’s corners was a tiny nest. Resting on that nest was a mother hummingbird, gracefully feeding her young. As I approached it out [...]

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Action Alert: CA Senator Introduces Bill Supporting Flotilla Attack

By altalib on July 1, 2010

Original article can be found here.
ACTION ALERT
(BAY AREA 06/30/2010) –  Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Thousand Oaks, introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 117, which declares California’s support of Israel’s deadly May 31 attack on the Freedom Flotilla. The bill also affirms the state’s support of Israel’s siege on Gaza and its “right to protect and [...]

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Blowback: UC Irvine’s draconian overreaction to a protest against Israel – latimes.com

By AT Reader on June 21, 2010

Blowback: UC Irvine’s draconian overreaction to a protest against Israel – latimes.com.
Students across the country are monitoring events at UC Irvine as pro- Israel groups try to reestablish their deterrence capacity on American campuses. After a 4-month-long investigation, UC Irvine’s administration last week announced an unprecedented recommendation to suspend for one year the Muslim Student Union [...]

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UCI MSU Appeals Recommendation to Suspend MSU

UCI MSU Appeals Recommendation to Suspend MSU

By Hana Khan on June 16, 2010

UC Irvine’s Senior Executive Director of Student Housing recently gave a recommendation to suspend the UCI’s Muslim Student Union group for one year. The allegations arose as a result to a UCI-hosted event at which Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was disrupted several times by students, some of whom were members of UCI’s MSU. The MSU, [...]

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CAIR Calls for FBI Probe of Attack on Calif. Muslim

By AT Reader on June 13, 2010

CAIR Calls for FBI Probe of Attack on Calif. Muslim
Sunnyvale Muslim reportedly beaten after being call ‘terrorist’
(SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 06/12/2010) – The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) today called on the FBI to initiate a hate crime investigation into an attack on a local Muslim allegedly beaten after being called [...]

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URGENT: Vote Today on Even More Military Aid to Israel!

By AT Reader on May 19, 2010

Original article here

Last week, the Obama Administration notified Israel that it would support the authorization and appropriation of$205 million of U.S. tax-payer money to Israel to purchase ten batteries of the “Iron Dome” missile defense system.

If authorized and appropriated by Congress, this money would be above and beyond the Obama Administration’s record-breaking FY2011 budget request [...]

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Michigan man leads immigration protest in Arizona

By Yahya Fahimuddin on May 18, 2010

Original Story here
Iranian-born student risking deportation to push DREAM Act passage
By TODD A. HEYWOOD 5/17/10 3:22 PM
Mohammad Abdollahi in a Youtube video explaining his situation

Mohammad Abdollahi of Ann Arbor came to America from Iran as a three-year-old when his father was accepted for a Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan. But due to an [...]

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UCSD Muslim Student Responds to David Horowitz Event

By AT Reader on May 16, 2010

Original Post can be found here
To the General and Campus Communities:
As you are all well aware, I am the one who spoke at the David Horowitz event this past Monday May 10, 2010.
Allow me to begin by stating that I do NOT condone murder, I do NOT condone genocide, and I do [...]

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Akhira not the Dunya

By Kutibh Chihabi on April 30, 2010

What is the purpose of life on earth according to the Qur’an? Why did God create us?
“And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.” [Qur'an, 51:56]
What is the significance of this verse? In this verse, our Creator is [...]

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