My name is Bilal Markis. On August 3rd, 2009 my 12 year old son Rasheed rode his bike through a red light and was run over by 2 SUVs driving in opposite directions. My son’s injuries were so severe that he lost one kidney and half of his liver, broke his pelvis, crushed one lung and lost 46…
This week, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie challenged Islamophobia by weighing in on the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ controversy. Watch Keith Olbermann: There is no ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann clarifies the misconceptions surrounding the community center. Send a note of thanks to…
As Al-Murasalah takes a new direction, insha’Allah for the better, I would like to aid the effort and provide my own opinion to the prompt that has been presented to those that in the program and now to the general MSA population. The prompt goes as such: “Some have used the argument that if Allah…
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…
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…
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…
By Judith Pererra of The Daily Bruin More than 75 students crowded the meeting room at Kerckhoff on Tuesday night when the Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a humanitarian resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza conflict by a vote of 8-2, with two councilmembers abstaining. The resolution, titled A Call for the Immediate…
