Scholarship opportunities

A number of companies and organizations have donated money for scholarships for African-Americans, but much of it is being returned because of a lack of interest.
Use this information and/or pass it on to family members and friends. #40 (below) should be of particular interest to those trying to recover from living within a “movement”
1.) BELL [...]

Black men must rein in the young

Something politically incorrect from the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mitchell shared an elephant tale that I had heard before. It’s instructive.
Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa had a problem with juvenile elephants attacking endangered white rhinos several years ago. The attacks were unprovoked. A number of rhinos were sexually assaulted; some were killed.
Managers of the reserve [...]

In the best interest

This is from an article the Washington Post in which

Fundraiser for Homeless Shelter

I encourage everyone to support this worthy project this Sunday July 29. Maryam Funches co-founded this organization
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Support Homeless Muslim Women
Attend the Al-Nissa Health Center Annual Shelter & Health Fundraising Dinner

Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 3:00PM
(Registration * Seating 2 - 3pm)
ADAMS Center
(All Dulles Area Muslim Society)
46903 Sugarland Road, Sterling, VA
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Imam Khalid Griggs, Sis [...]

And you still deny it?

For those that denied that “The New Passing” exists, check out this post

Muslims getting sick of the carnage

Update: Muslims can take this survey of attitudes on the West
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While the numbers are still too large, this poll shows that more and more Muslims are sickened by the carnage on constant display by the lunatic fringe (they attacked a children’s hospital today) and are rejecting suicide terror as a means of defense along with [...]

American Dreamers

Newsweek has some articles and multimedia galleries on Muslims in America
Here are some of them:
What it’s like to wear hijab
Doing battle with the internet jihadees (AKA the lunatics who condone murder)
The ideals we share
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Additionally there is this article that reports a power struggle between some of the madmen with foam at the mouth

More from D’Souza…

More fair thoughts by Dinesh D’Souza on the Turkish elections and some pundits’ thoughts of a “good Muslim”:
From the point of view of these pundits, the only good Muslim is an ex-Muslim, and the best protection for Christians living in a Muslim country is secularism. But Christians no less than Muslims are threatened by Turkey’s [...]

WaPo: “Muslims Speak Out”

With all that has happened recently, the Washington Post has a series of articles and views from Muslims of differing walks of life on controversial topics. This Sunday, they ran, ‘As American as you are’, ‘Why do they hate us‘, ‘Losing my jihadism‘ and ‘Bush still doesn’t get it‘
I think that many - especially in [...]

D’Souza on Turkey and secularism

Dinesh D’Souza on the upcoming Turkish elections
Turks today are finding militant secularism to be a problem. Volkan Aytar of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation tells the New York Times, “This narrow shirt of secularism has become a little too tight and choking for Turkish society.” Why should women be barred from wearing veils [...]

Points from a Newsweek Poll

Some interesting points found in this poll by Newsweek

Most Americans surveyed (52 percent) view Muslims who live here as more peaceable than those living outside the United States.
A solid majority of Americans (63 percent) believe most Muslims in this country do not condone violence
41 percent of Americans feel Muslim culture glorifies suicide. (Wonder if those [...]

Request for help

A good friend of mine sent the following and I encourage everyone to help in whatever way they can as young Muslim women like Sehrish put lie to the image of all Muslims as irrational medievalists
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Many of us are often concerned about portraying an accurate image of Islam and Muslims, getting involved with domestic social [...]

Maniacs love kill and mutilate

Do these maniacs have a heart in their chests?
A Muslim missionary who tipped off authorities about the activities and whereabouts of al-Qaida-linked militants on a southern Philippine island has been found dead and his body mutilated, a military official said Thursday.
Meanwhile, you mean to tell me that we are still no safer from these nuts [...]

Articles of Interest 7/17/07

Feeling way too white - A white person decides to visit a black neighborhood
Moreover, and more to the point, there are black folks where I live, and I can’t say that I know them any better than I do those in Austin. At parties or school functions, we chat and trade news; occasionally, we reference [...]

Fear of Science

This is from an article on the contemporary fear of science in the Muslim world in Nature Magazine based on a lecture by Ziauddin Sardar

On Islam and science two things can be stated with some certainty. One, science thrived during the classical period of Islam; two, science in Muslim society has suffered a drastic decline. [...]