Post Tagged with: "9/11"

10Sep
2011

Growing up Muslim in Post 9/11 America: Representing My Faith

“Come on…get up…get up….HURRRYYY!” my dad was yelling at all of us, probably because we had all slept in again. I still wasn’t back on track with my schedule, getting over the jetlag from our summer travels, and really wasn’t looking forward to lugging my tired body over to school that day.

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2May
2011

Reflections on Bin Laden’s Death: “The Man Gone Horribly Wrong”

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“OSAMA BIN LADEN DEAD, BODY IN US CUSTODY,” read the large block letters beneath President Obama’s face. The President’s measured words spilled about me and echoes back up from the downstairs TV. Fifteen Minutes Earlier My family was relaxing. We’d all had a lazy Sunday, so we decided to catch a late dinner, and we were all doing our own thing. Dad was watching the playoffs downstairs. I was relaxing. My brother was cranking his music. Mom decided to turn [...]

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24Apr
2009

A Little Reminder from MSA West

By Nader Nasr In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful      The 11th Annual MSA West Conference was recently held at UC Riverside. For me personally, it was my first annual MSA West Conference, and to be perfectly honest, I was not as excited before the event as I should”ve been. When I had first registered for it, I was thinking, Man, a whole weekend wasted (stakhfar”Allah)1?, and I was arrogant and ignorant enough to believe that it really [...]

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