Opinion: Is ‘i’-Contact Killing Eye Contact? (AOL News)
Posted in Op-Eds on Dec 20th, 2010
‘Tis the season to experience family reunions, engagement announcements, friendship renewals and feud settlements. All of which requires one essential behavior: eye contact.
But this holiday season, don’t count on that.
Today, eye contact is to our social kingdom what giant pandas are to the animal kingdom – endangered. Instead of real eye contact, we are becoming cozy with the illusion of “i”-contact.
Just take a look at the most popular holiday gifts and you will understand: iPads and iPhones. During my last trip to Towson Mall in suburban Maryland, I watched as almost...
Muslim Sect Members Spread Message At The Fair (wisn.com)
Posted in Media, Online, Print on Dec 14th, 2010
WEST ALLIS, Wis. — Young members of a Muslim sect delivered a message of peace Friday at the Wisconsin State Fair.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community’s message is no more terrorism. But that’s a message not everyone here at the fair is buying.
“I didn’t really open (the pamphlet). I read it. I knew it was a Muslim issue, and it bothers me a little bit,” one fairgoer said.
“Whenever you hand someone something they’re going to be thinking, What is this?” said Maanaan Sabir. “There’s a brick wall up. We have to make sure when that brick wall is...
What Muslim nations can learn…(Christian Science Monitor)
Posted in Op-Eds on Dec 6th, 2010
As a “Muslimerican” of Pakistani descent I woke up to a double whammy earlier this fall when Transparency International released its 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, a ranking of all countries based on level of corruption. Pakistan fell eight steps down on the ranking to number 143. And only four out of the 48 Muslim majority countries made it above 50 on the overall ranking.
But why should the Muslim world care about this? Powerful extremists in the Muslim world are becoming increasingly enamored with a flawed understanding of sharia law, calling for strict punishments for...
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