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By Afnan Shukry The “Trees for Life- Planting Peace in Palestine” initiative was launched in the summer of 2006 with a clear goal in mind: to offset destruction caused onto olive groves in Palestine by replanting olive trees, a symbol of peace. Better yet, to replant hope into the hearts of Palestinians who lost it when they lost their only source of income at the hands of the Isreali Army. This year UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and [...]
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Balance suspended have we been since our brother Qabil (Cain) the dastardly deed did do between the vicissitude scales of war and peace a sinful legacy from him bequeathed to us unwittingly encouraging some to murder and some to peace attain misguided s/he who knows not this historical fact while riding thru life on steeds of love and hate struggle therefore daily for peace prepare diligently for war on the battlefield of patience to capture the prize of a balanced [...]
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As Salaamu Alaikum I wrote to you recently but briefly and I felt I should write and explain to you a little of what this experience is about. Surely most people here claim innocent many also become religious after they get here. That is not the cse with me. I backslid as a muslim and made decision that ultimately led to my coming here, now in the 9 years I have been in prison. Having aged, lost loved ones and [...]
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It’s not always sunny in California. Few were spared from the Governor’s drastic budget cuts. $6.5 billion slashed from K-14 education. $2 billion from UC and CSU. $1.3 billion from Medi-Cal. $1.8 billion from municipal government funds. $1 billion from social services for the elderly, disabled and uninsured. That, and the Legislature is now trying to sue the Governor for using line-item vetos on existing appropriations in an effort to close a $26 billion state budget deficit and also create [...]
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By Naqib Shifa The Post-Modern era consists of copious ethical discord due to its declining religiosity and lack of distinction between morality and immorality. Moreover, the rapid and time-eroding lifestyle that is propelled by incessant consumerism and affluence is -in large part- a stark hindrance toward religious growth and development. The symptoms of this religious stagnation include: rising rates in depression, domestic violence, and vain attempts to counteract spiritual emptiness through the likes of television and human-induced social therapy disciplines. [...]
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By Fatema Kahil They are indeed infamous: individuals who are always late. It seems that no matter what the circumstance or the occasion, they just can’t appear to be on time. Some even attempt to justify their chronic tardiness with a litany of excuses: traffic on the Interstate-5, a sick relative, or even DNA tuned to different time zones, forcing compliance with “Middle Eastern Standard Time,” “Brown Standard Time,” or most surprisingly, “Muslim Standard Time.” The cultural titles acquired as [...]
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By Sumaya Bezrati Less than a minute after the news broke about Michael Jackson’s passing, one of my relatives posted a video link on Facebook of what appeared to be Michael Jackson singing an Islamic nasheed called “Give Thanks to Allah.” Thousands of comments poured in from Muslims ecstatic to hear the “proof” that confirmed that MJ was actually a Muslim, as if that somehow validated their own personal faith. One Muslim youth even said that she felt better about [...]
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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 and my siblings have been there twice. You can only visit on weekdays, not on weekends, not on holidays, so it makes it [...]
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By Maral Ali The Terre Haute CMU contains a mostly Muslim prison population. One such case is Seyed Mahmood Mousavi, a Muslim community leader in Southern California who founded Masjid Al-Nabi in West Covina. He is the father of four children (the youngest is a sophomore at UCLA) and an active member of the local community. Because of his activism, he had been under the radar of the FBI for some time. On June 29, 2006, at six in the [...]
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By Maral Ali Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay have come to symbolize the face of the “War on Terror” and the many abuses that took place in that era, yet even with the end of the Bush Administration, a silent legacy remains in the form of secret illegal prisons in the United States designed to hold terrorists. The Communication Management Units (CMUs) are medium-security terrorism units located within the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana and in the US [...]
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