Archive for the 'Culture Issues' Category
As a senior interrogator in Iraq (and a former criminal investigator), there was a lesson I learned that served me well: there’s more to be learned from what someone doesn’t say than from what they do say. Let me dissect former Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech on National Security using this model and my interrogation [...]
As a side note, Sr. Hadia was the first female president of MSA National and is a board member of CAIR National.
Last month, as I was watching the news coverage of President Obama’s visit to Turkey, I thought back to an awkward experience I had as an undergraduate student applying for a job at my [...]
Reporting from Cairo — Egyptians are cautiously rejoicing over the recent appointment of a veiled Egyptian American Muslim woman as an advisor to President Obama.
Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, was appointed this month to Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Arabs are closely watching for [...]
Even though it’s a week or two old now, this is an eye opening article from The Christian Science Monitor.
What’s more alarming is how true this becomes when you replace the word “Evangelical” with “Muslim” and “Gospel” with “Quran”. Try it and see how it reads.
Oneida, Ky. – We are on the verge – within [...]
This is a very interesting article about a new survey. It illustrates the deepening crisis of faith in America.
Be sure to check out the full article using the link below. It has very useful comparative graphs, charts, and other statistical information comparing the increase/decrease in following amongst religions.
When it comes to religion, the USA is [...]
By now everyone’s probably heard about the report released yesterday about Muslims in America. The report was a research project completed by Gallup in partnership with the Coexist Foundation.
A synopsis of the report can be found here:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the first-ever nationally representative study of a randomly selected sample of Muslim Americans, Gallup reveals [...]
She will be joining the Lady Tigers at the University of Memphis this fall.
SPRINGFIELD – Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir walks quietly through the halls of the New Leadership Charter School. She is soft-spoken and polite. The youngest child of a devout Muslim family, the 5-foot-3-inch senior believes in modesty, and is determined not to call attention to [...]
President-Elect Obama has appointed the first ever South Asian to the position of Surgeon General, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, more commonly known from his show “House Call” on CNN and his apperances on CBS.
By Howard Kurtz
President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN [...]
Seems like “old fashioned family values” is the way to go.
Pledges of no sex until marriage don’t work, especially if taken by 15- or 16-year-olds, according to a recent study in the journal Pediatrics. Despite broken promises, however, virginity-pledging teens were considerably more conservative in their overall sexual behaviors than teens in general—a fact that [...]
An interesting read from the L.A. Times.
A poll finds more Americans disagree with the statement that ‘Jews control Hollywood.’ But here’s one Jew who doesn’t.
I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from [...]
