Mayor Omar Ahmad (1964-2011): Serving the public while riding a Segway

May 11, 2011 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

Omar Ahmad, a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and the hardworking mayor of San Carlos, CA and a shining example of Muslims in public service, died suddenly at his home at the age of 46.

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Song "Find Heaven": A soundtrack to radicalization

May 3, 2011 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

A song and music video by musician Daniyal Noorani tells the story of a confused young man seeking answers about life’s important questions and shows how an individual lures this young man by telling him that he has the answer to life’s ultimate question: how to find heaven.

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Rally for Sanity and/or Fear: Muslims holding signs

October 31, 2010 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

Among the over 200,000 people who gathered this weekend in Washington, DC for the “Rally for Sanity and/or Fear” organized by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert was a sizable Muslim contingent, many of whom had some tongue-in-cheek messages. Here are some of the signs they carried.

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Profiling: Going in “Muslim garb” for Halloween

October 29, 2010 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

The only thing scarier than meeting someone in “Muslim garb” at an airport is the idea that people find safety in simplistic profiling of Muslims. Why do people so readily embrace such an irrational notion?

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Podcasts: altmuslim review 034

September 26, 2010 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

We talk about the drama around the recent attempts in Florida to burn the Qur’an, and defend free speech in the process. We also talk with bestselling author and international security analyst Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed.

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Free speech: A defense of free speech by Muslim Americans

September 21, 2010 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

A group of us felt strongly enough about the situation of cartoonist Molly Norris to issue a statement in defense of free speech, which Ms. Norris has been made aware of and is grateful for.

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30 Mosques in 30 Days project: “We’re not historians, but these stories are important”

September 13, 2010 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

Two young Muslim Americans decide to sample the diversity of the Muslim American community during Ramadan, and end up with a 30-state adventure that reveals more than they expected.

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Podcasts: altmuslim review 033

August 13, 2010 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

We’re baaaaack! We speak about the ongoing controversy over Park51 and what means for the future of lower Manhattan. Also, a discussion with Farhad Chowdhury of the M100 Foundation, which seeks to change the way Muslims pay zakat

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Park51 developer Sharif El-Gamal: “We want to build Park51 so it has something for everyone”

July 24, 2010 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

In the wake of growing public debate, we ask Sharif El-Gamal, the CEO of Soho Properties and the developer of Park51, some hard questions about the plans to develop a Muslim-run community center in lower Manhattan.

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Panel discussion: Our look at new media and the Muslim world

March 7, 2010 By Shahed Amanullah Leave a Comment

On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the UC Berkeley Centers of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East along with Arab Cultural and Community Center, Naseeb.com, Center for Islamic Studies at GTU, and altmuslim.com will be sponsoring a forum on how Muslim youth use new media. Join us!

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