Mahabba and Al-Talib Newsmagazine held the fourth installment of “Convertsations” this past Thursday on February 25, 2016. Convertsations is a panel in which fellow brother and sister converts share the experiences and tribulations in their life that led them to take the shahada (Islamic proclamation of faith) and their life beyond that. For this quarter’s…
UCLA’s Muslim Student Association annually hosts Islam Appreciation Week on the university campus. It is a week “dedicated to understanding and celebrating the openness, inclusiveness, diversity and beauty of Islam.” Islam Appreciation Week consists of several events over the course of one week. These events cater to Muslims and non-Muslims interested in learning about Islam…
Fourteen people were killed and 22 were injured during the shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino on December 2nd. The two shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, identified as Muslims, which fueled a lot of anti-Muslim hate. Since the shooting, hate crimes against Muslims across America have been rising. Republican presidential…
On Thursday November 12, the Afrikan Student Union (ASU) at UCLA organized a walkout and rally to express solidarity with students at Missouri University whose President resigned in the face of protest and strikes for not sufficiently responding to anti-Black terror on Mizzou’s campus. Students walked out of their classes at 12:45pm, and the rally…
By: Cindy Toledo and Ayman Ahmed On Thursday, November 12th, as UCLA students stood in solidarity with the Afrikan students of The University of Missouri, UCLA students themselves were faced with discriminatory posters and images aimed at Muslim students and student groups on campus. These signs specifically targeted Students for Justice for Palestine (SJP)…
Spoken word artists Remi Kanazi and Sy Stokes and UCLA students shared the stage for Students For Justice in Palestine’s spoken word event “Oppressed but not Silenced.” On November 4th, a crowd of approximately fifty students gathered in Haines Hall to listen to the diverse performances navigate between themes of privilege, normalization and oppression. Sy…
On Wednesday night, October 28, the Mother Org Coalition at UCLA, composed of the Afrikan Student Union, American Indian Student Association, Asian Pacific Coalition, MEChA de UCLA, Muslim Student Association, Pacific Islands’ Student Association, Queer Alliance, Samahang Pilipino and Vietnamese Student Union, held an event to discuss the meaning of cultural appropriation and its role…
Statement of Support 10/22/15 We, the American Indian Student Association, Asian Pacific Coalition, MEChA de UCLA, Muslim Student Association, Pacific Islands’ Student Association, Queer Alliance, Samahang Pilipino, and Vietnamese Student Union at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), are part of the Mother Organization coalition, a coalition of student organizations at UCLA created in response to the low numbers…
Every time we log onto social media, more often than not we see that Muslims are the problem. It is dismaying, but we cannot remain passive. God Almighty placed us all on this Earth with a mission to spread peace and worship Him, and we will fail that mission if we continue to live apathetically…