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Archive for March, 2007

Muslim cabbies in Minnesota

Assalamu `alaykum,
I found this article in an older TIME magazine last night while I was chilling with my mom at the hospital. It’s about two months old, but I thought it was pretty interesting. Also, note the Daniel Pipes reference.
Friday, Jan. 19, 2007
Minnesota’s Teetotal Taxis
By DAVID VAN BIEMA
 

(above: Rasheed Gardaad, 29, a cab driver for the past [...]

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an interesting website

Assalamu `alaykum,
So I somehow came across this really cool website. I’m not sure how I found it, either through google or through another blog, however I really wanted to share it. If you guys have heard of HijabMan, he was the one that started the site. Basically he posts pictures of Muslims doing various things [...]

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Self-image

Assalamu `alaykum,
So everytime I’m in the check-out line at Albertsons, I see magazine after magazine about celebrities and their lives. Sometimes the headlines refer to so-and-so doing drugs or another person who just got divorced, but recently there’s been a trend of weight loss stories. It seems like all of these celebrities feel the need [...]

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Protests in Latin American

Assalamu `alaykum,
President Bush did a 5-nation tour of Latin America recently. Here’s some of the warm welcoming he got:

From Uruguay to Argentina to Colombia, protesters made it pretty clear what they thought of President Bush.
I find it pretty interesting that even South American countries are critical of Bush. Some people on this campus tend [...]

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