Driven by curiosity’s sake.
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Taking White Parents Advice- Bad Idea for Immigrant Kids
Taking the advice of White Parents to deal with your immigrant parents is a bad idea. Its similar to getting advice from your White friends about how to do things. (See Russell Peters video below) I learned real quick that while I might be living in America, there is no way that my White friends… Read more
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MSA- New Year, New Board, Same Problems
How can the board of a student organization ensure a productive year? That was the question that developed over the coarse of a conversation I had with one of my High-School-Student-Mentees-turned-college-student-leader at his UC’s MSA (Muslim Student Association). I honestly didn’t think I would be able to give him a proper answer to his questions… Read more
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Comedian silences the audience, tells them to “man up Nigga, this is the real world”
I found the video being shared on facebook.com by a several friends. It was originally picked up by www.upworthy.com and has gotten over half a million views already. While the actual video was recorded back in 2003, the upload on youtube.com seems to be much more recent, back in July, 2012. Its telling to listen… Read more
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Ann Coulter says Immigration is not a civil rights issue, 5 historical reasons why it is
Jews menaced by a Cowboy in this 19th century anti-semitic drawing. Image: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA Read more
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5 Things Muslim Girls Should Know When Using an Online Marriage Service
When you hang out with single people, and happen to be single, the conversation usually comes around to the “marriage process”. Over time I started to notice a trend of things guys complained about while using online services like www.halfourdeen.com or even www.eharmony.com – the last friend gave me the impetus to do something when… Read more
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Ramadan Day 29- Christians wishing Muslims a Happy Eid!
This truly warms my heart, for Christians who don’t have to really wish Muslims anything, posting up a Eid Mubarak sign gives me pleasure in knowing that only in America can we create this type of faith based mutual understanding and respect! Read more
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Ramadan Day 27- The End of a Journey
With the blessings of Allah I accomplished the goal I had intended from the beginning of Ramadan this year, to finish the Quran. It was an intense journey requiring lots of discipline, dedication as well as force of will. Reading entire volume in one day, often in one sitting, out loud while fasting was not… Read more
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Ramadan Day 23- “The Throngs”: Made me cry
I made some goals for this Ramadan, one of them was to read the Quran in its entirety during the month. Today I got to the 23rd volume which contains Surah Az Zumar, which in English means the Chapter on ‘The Throngs”. So far I had not experienced the internalization of the Quran. Like having the Spirit… Read more