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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...
Juan Williams’ Firing Not Justified (AOL News)
Posted in Online, Op-Eds, Print on Oct 22nd, 2010
(Oct. 22) — “Believe it or not, I prefer driving a car instead of riding a camel.”
I have successfully used this phrase as an ice-breaker in the beginning of my noncredit course titled “Islam: Fact and Fiction” at Harford Community College. The course is interactive and covers a broad range of hot-button issues regarding Islam. In the beginning of each course, we agree on a set of ground rules as a group. Out of approximately 10 ground rules, I always propose that students can ask any questions, without having to worry about my sensitivity. Everyone agrees.
And that makes...
Lessons learned from round 1 of swine flu (todayshospitalist.com)
Posted in Media, Online on Sep 14th, 2009
While the disease burden so far has been mild, hospitalists are preparing for a resurgence
by Phyllis Maguire
Published in the September 2009 issue of Today’s Hospitalist
One of the first signs that H1N1 influenza had hit Bel Air, Md., was the number of flu tests being sent to the lab at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center. Doctors typically order only 10 flu tests there during the month of June. But that month, that testing burden increased many-fold.
“We were doing over 100 tests,” says Faheem Younus, MD, one of the hospital’s infectious disease specialists. “Out of that testing, we noted...
Muslim Group Explains Beliefs (recordonline.com)
Posted in Media, Online on Aug 24th, 2008
MILTON — A group of young men met visitors in the parking lot and immediately began to explain everything.
They said they came from all across the United States — Houston, Seattle, Baltimore, New York and on and on. They do not condone violence. In fact, they said, they have no meaning for the word “jihad” other than as a personal struggle and conversation. They talked about “jihad of the pen.” They explained their respect for 124,000 prophets, including Jesus. That guided the conversation to Jesus and Christianity, both of which, they eagerly explained, share many more...
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