Standing up to ICE: students’ voices on ICE raids

Campus, Community

“Our food literally comes from immigrants. It comes from Mexican people. So to see us being treated as less and as animals, it’s just dehumanizing,” said Aaliyah Shakoor, a third-year biology student at San Diego Mesa College.  Although the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has enforced immigration laws for decades, its practices have…

The Virtues of the Noble Lands in Islamic History

Spirituality

“The best of you in Islam are those with the best character, if they have religious understanding.” (Sahih, Book 14, Musnad Aḥmad 10066) As history tends to emphasize on eras predominantly influenced by Western ideologies, few regions have been profoundly contested or were culturally transformed by Islamic conquerors and scholars from Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.…