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25th Unity Dinner Bigger, Better
September 22, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, TMO
Detroit–September 18–The CIOM's annual unity dinner happened again for the 25th time, this time in a new venue, the Detroit Institute of Arts. Hundreds of Muslims attended, representing the majority of the Southeast Michigan mosques.
A full program welcomed the visitors, with a screening of "On a Wing and a Prayer," tours of Detroit's art gallery, a children's program, and speeches by many prominent people including the Muslim filmmaker Alex Kronemer, Archbishop Allen A. Vigneron, Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly, and Craig Fahle of WDET. CIOM speakers included Dr. Muzammil Ahmed, Victor Ghalib Begg, and Dr. Abdalmajid Katranji.
Alex Kronemer spoke on the importance of communicating across boundaries of race and religion, and of the importance of being a positive force in the world while negative forces hold so much sway over the human mind.
Archbishop Vigneron spoke eloquently on the importance of cooperation across religious lines on issues where there is mutual agreement, and he emphasized those areas, namely that God is One, that He created the universe, that He created the human race, giving them reason and freedom, that He spoke to His creatures, teaching them, that all men and women will be held to account. He offered powerful arguments to show that despite popular wisdom to the contrary, faith and religion have always been powerful forces behind scientific inquiry.
Day of Goodness
April 22, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, MMNS
Southfield–April 21–Small fundraiser highlights up and coming local Muslim organizations, delivers goodness despite missing keynote speaker.
The Islamic Shura Council of Michigan's "Day of Goodness" last Saturday night was deprived of its keynote speaker due to a problem with specialized visas.
However, many prominent and active Muslims from local organizations still attended, perhaps showing more in quality than in quantity, with about 100 people present, but among those people perhaps 10 imams, and the leadership of the many organizations associated with the Islamic Shura Council of Michigan.
The event is essentially a fundraiser, and by the end of the evening it had earned approximately $75,000 towards its stated goal of $150,000. The event was in a conference room at the Southfield Westin hotel on Town Center Drive.
ISCOM Chair Dr. Mouhib Ayas explained that intended keynote speaker Jamal Badawi's visa did not permit him to speak at Not-for-profit fundraisers. So Badawi was not able to speak despite his coming to Michigan from Canada, and despite his having given the khutbah at the Bloomfield Muslim Unity Center earlier in the day.
ISCOM was established in 2005 as a non-profit umbrella organization with, according to the dayofgoodness website, "the mission of providing coordination between and building cohesiveness among the Islamic centers mosques, and organizations in Michigan. The council works for the betterment of all Muslims, to advance Muslim interests, and to promote Islamic values."
The chairman of the Board of Directors is Mouhib Ayas, and its Vice Chair is Arif Huskic. Attorney Misbah Shahid is the Secretary, and several other prominent Southeast Michigan Muslims are also on the board–the executive assistant and first employee is Reheem Hanifa.
20 different mosques, comprising the majority of the major mosques in Southeast Michigan, including the biggest Shi'a mosque and most of the big Sunni mosques, are involved.
Dr. Ayas gave a long but interesting presentation with a slideshow demonstrating the accomplishments of ISCOM. He pointed out the association of ISCOM with Gleaners Food Bank, and also showed the institutional progress the organization has made by hiring a grant writer to apply for available grants–this alone has netted thousands of dollars in projects and may likely bring more projects in the near future. One project the grant writing process obtained was a $25,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield project.
One program he spoke about was the "Maintaining Houses of Allah" program, which is designed to address the disparity between the wealthy mosques and the mosques with less money that are sometimes dilapidated and run down for lack of funds.
In a moving presentation Dr. Ayas pointed to pictures, first of a wealthy mosque then of a more destitute mosque, saying "This is a house of Allah, and this is a house of Allah," driving home the point that ISCOM is working to benefit Muslims who really need help in order to worship Allah in clean and nice mosques.
Another ISCOM project is working with MSA's, using them really as a lever to connect to non-Muslims in universities–"we need to start influencing minds when people are young." He explained the goal is to meet future leaders of this country early on, and Dr. Ayas gave examples of programs where non-Muslim students fasted (not during Ramadan) in order to understand the effects of fasting on Muslims.
Dr. Ayas explained also that in order for the institution to move forward, ISCOM needs to start hiring professional full-time people, and he gave the example of Mr. Reheem Hanifa who has begun working full-time for the organization.
Dr. Ayas also showed a fairly inspiring diagram which showed ISCOM as the hub of a wheel reaching about 15 different important Muslim organizations in Southeast Michigan, including Muslim Family Services, MSA's, the Huda Clinic, Islamic schools, and more.
There was a presentation by a relatively new organization called Muslim Social Services, www.muslimsocialservices.com, whose mission is to extend the reach and value of social services to Muslims in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
There was a strong fundraising effort by a young but dedicated medical student, Farhan Abdul Aziz. He told a beautiful story of a Chinese Muslim who travelled to the United States and passed away knowing nobody, but who was able to be buried by Muslims because of the social service institutions that had been set up in the city in which she died, which drove home the vital importance of such institutions.
For more information about ISCOM, you can visit either www.islamicshuracouncil.com or www.dayofgoodness.com. You can also contact Dr. Ayas at 248-705-9137.
Tariq Ramadan, Keynote Speaker at SoundVision Fundraiser
April 15, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, MMNS
Sunday–April 11–Tariq Ramadan is not what you probably expect.
Tariq Ramadan
You might expect someone barred by the Bush administration to have an Arabic accent, to have an angry or at least emotional manner of public speaking, but the reality is Tariq Ramadan better fits the mold of a French intellectual than the typical Muslim populist. In fact, from his nature it does not appear that he has any intentions towards seeking any political power, other than spiritual and intellectual power or accomplishments.
The subject of a six-year ban by the Bush administration, ended only recently by Secretary of State Clinton, speaks English and even Arabic with a French Swiss accent, and has the breezy intellectual worldly air of a French intellectual–he seems as though he has certainty about many things. For example during his speech he interrupted emotional applause for one popular point that he had emphasized, saying "let me explain the rules," instructing listeners not to clap during his speech ("not because it is a fatwa, although it is") and then going on to say that the emotional reaction to his words may detract from what "we are trying to accomplish."
Tariq Ramadan is called, by the reactionary right, an "Islamist" of Egyptian ancestry. (By Islamist do they mean someone who likes Islam? So is George Bush a Christianist?) In fact it may be his ancestry which scared the Bush administration more than any other fact about him. His mother's father was Hassan al-Banna, the Supreme Guide and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. His father was Said Ramadan, who was also prominently involved in Ikhwan, and who married Hassan al-Banna's daughter. He was raised in Switzerland, where his famous parents sought refuge from Nasser's Arab nationalist animosity to the Ikhwan.
Ramadan is now 48 years old. He is no firebrand. He was ranked by the British Prospect and American Foreign Policy magazines eightth in a list of the world's top 100 contemporary intellectuals in 2008. He has authored several books, focusing on the issue of Islam and the West. He wears his intellectualism on his sleeve–on Sunday he said of his most recent book that he had made it very thin so that American journalists would actually read it, although he complained that they still do not.
Ramadan is in the book 500 Most Influential Muslims–2009, being listed in the Scholars section. He is even an honorable mention for the top 50 listings in the book.
His entry in the book is as follows:
Ramadan is Europe's preeminent Muslim intellectual writing about Islam in public life. He is a professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University and formerly a visiting professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has a weekly television show, 'Islam and Life', on Press TV, and is an advisor to the European Union on religion. He has written 15 books and produced over 100 recordings.
Ramadan did not in his SoundVision speech show real leanings either toward extremist Islamic views nor even towards the strong organization-based approach to Islam of Ikhwan. Rather he focused on his theme of building consciousness of God through spiritual endeavor, a consciousness of God which would empower one to seek his or her rights when those rights are denied by people (he emphasized Western anti-Muslim people) who overreach their authority in working to the detriment of Muslims.
Ramadan certainly understands the West better than his grandfather did (whose entire reaction to the West came from an unpleasant encounter with a drunk European), and to casual observation it is clear that the younger Ramadan has imbibed its values more than even he probably realizes.
He remains, despite being a European intellectual, a Muslim intellectual as well. He thinks and speaks and writes about living Islam in a real context. He thinks about what God says that He wants from us in His Holy Book, and Ramadan endeavors to accomplish that.
Soundvision's event was, even aside from its invitation of such a memorable figure, very impressive. The event filled the Burton Hall banquet facility nearly to capacity, with approximately 600 guests in attendance.
There was a description of the difficulties and opportunities that lie before SoundVision and then a fundraiser which appeared to gross approximately $150,000 in about 20 minutes. There was a dinner and appetizers.
Many prominent Muslms from Southeast Michigan were in attendance, among them CAIR Michigan's executive director Dawud Walid, Ghalib Begg of CIOM, recently selected by the Detroit News as one of a handful of "Michiganians of the Year," and many prominent Michigan imams.
Dawud Walid spoke on the importance of SoundVision to his own family, citing the books and videos he has bought for his own children from SoundVision.
There was a brief video by SoundVision, emphasizing the Adam's World show, with a "One Big Family" soundtrack.
Janaan Hashim, a SoundVision director, spoke at length about SoundVision and its strategic goals–and perhaps her speech did the most to reveal the terrible importance of SoundVision's work.
Ms. Hashim is an attorney, journalist and teacher, as well as a mother.
The theme for SoundVision's future was plastered throughout the fundraiser event, "Helping Tomorrow's Muslims today." Ms. Hashim emphasized this meant helping them now.
She showed the terrible current state of Muslim youths by showing a chart of anger among youths aged 18-29 by religion, which showed anger among Muslim youths at 26%, which was almost double the rate for Protestants and Mormons (14% each).
She showed statistics that 75% of American Muslims felt that they had been discriminated against or had witnessed discimination, 12% of Muslim students in New York public schools felt doubt about Islam. 7% of Muslims had been assaulted.
95% of Muslim youths, she said, are in normal public schools, and do not attend Juma'a prayers. Less than 5% of Muslim youths go to Muslim schools.
Where do the children spend their time? On average, they spend 53 hours per week online, 7 hours and 38 minutes per day.
Hashim quickly demonstrated the overwhelmingly negative nature of the information about Islam–much of it provided directly by people who hate Islam and Muslims, like Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes.
Hashim pointed out that many Muslim youths respond to these many overwhelming pressures by changing their names, possibly even changing religions, or at least by caving in to such pressures as drinking alcohol or joining gangs. She cited a statistic that 47% of Muslim college students report having drunk alcohol, and about 10% report binge drinking.
"We must rethink things for kids," she said. "We must reallocate our resources."
Therefore Muslims need to create a powerful online alternative to these hate sites that assault the minds of our children with their ignorance and negative stereotypes of Islam.
SoundVision came up with a thorough plan to address these challenges after one year of research. This is their strategic plan: 1) they plan 1,000 pieces of new content in the next 12 months; 2) they plan to emphasize new media for ipods, pda's, iphones, etc.; 3) they plan mega-websites, age specific, and their model is the Disney websites (they intend good sites competitive with Disney); 4) they plan to make it all free (because they need to connect to the 95% who are slipping through the cracks); 5) Weekend 2.0–a web-based Islamic School 2.0 with lesson plans for existing schools, teaching basic Islam; 6) Networking among stake holders–creative arts hubs to allow youngsters to engage in creative activities; 7) Crucial Concepts (to teach skills, values, pluralism, response to objections, citizenship training, and career and marital counseling).
Ms. Hashim explained that much of this work has already been completed: SoundVision has enlisted the help of 270 artists, scholars, 18 editors.
SoundVision's website is ranked a very respectable 100,000 on Alexa's ranking system (The Muslim Observer has risen to about 335,000 over several years of assiduous work).
SoundVision pioneered Adam's World, the Al-Qari software, Islamic songs, and a Muslim radio program (which in fact is hosted by Ms. Hashim).
She emphasized that SoundVision is at the cutting edge, and that its software has attracted attention for its very high quality and for its advanced technical competence.
In fact SoundVision has pointed out a potential disaster that faces the American Muslim community, but has also stepped forward to face our problems.
CAIR Michigan's Watershed Annual Banquet
April 1, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, MMNS
Dearborn–March 31–This year's CAIR banquet really was special. Every year, CAIR Michigan and many other organizations have gala awards and fundraising banquets, but typically in the past Michigan's Muslim organizations have been less connected to the political landscape than some ethnic organizations which have in the Southeast Michigan region managed over several decades to establish long term ties with all levels of the political landscape, from the local to the federal level.
The Muslim organizations however, from the mosque level up to the level of national organizations, have not opened strong and lasting relations with any political groups (other than coordinated discussion groups and organized means of complaining to politicians and mainstream media about perceived and real injustices), other than an occasional speech by a political celebrity.
Perhaps a stronger movement has been the involvement of individuals in politics, such as for instance Farhan Bhatti, Deputy Campaign Manager at Virg Bernero for Michigan. There are Muslims who have been elected to individual office, such as Rashida Tlaib in the Michigan legislature, and Keith Ellison in the US congress.
This year's CAIR gala, with about 1,000 attendees including many powerful audience members from the business, media, and political community, on the other hand, seemed to offer the potential of a long-term conflation of interests between the Muslim community and America's established civil rights aristocracy. Present at this year's fundraiser was Nihad Awad, who founded CAIR and set it up as a not-for-profit franchise operation of sorts, with now branch offices across the country to advocate for Muslims. Mr. Awad is not always able to attend all of these gala events, but it seemed that he sensed the importance of this particular one.
But the real jewels in the crown of the 2010 CAIR Michigan fundraiser were the civil rights workers who for sixty years have been deeply involved at their own personal peril with the struggle for civil rights in the USA.
Jesse Jackson Sr., the keynote speaker, was one of those. But there was also Rep. John Conyers (D-MI-14), whom Jackson described as "perhaps the only man who was ever endorsed by Martin Luther King." There was Rep. John Dingell (D-MI-15). There were many others, including the strong gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero (currently Lansing's mayor).
But famous people frequently collect together–many famous politicians have given stilted practiced speeches before Muslims, hoping to say what pleases their audience and earns their political support, but rarely does the politician seem to be present in deference to his or her own inner principles–and this is perhaps the characteristic of Sunday afternoon's banquet that was uncommon. Famous people with shared bonds of suffering coalescing in defense of a group they perhaps had not previously thought of as being within their shared interests.
The feeling wasn't just from their presence in the same room; rather the feeling was in the mutual love between those famous people, and their expression of that love in the context of the protection of Muslims against injustice from government interference. Jackson and Conyers both spoke of the famous people they had met and worked with through the years, including King, and Rosa Parks (who worked for Conyers for many years), and their describing the debts of gratitude they owed one to another–for example Jackson's mentioning of MLK's endorsement of Conyers, and Conyers mentioning publicly his gratitude to John Dingell for supporting him in his early days in the US House of Representatives.
What was different this year was that CAIR did not just bring politicians to speak for their own interests, rather CAIR Michigan bought into a movement, a movement that has been intrinsically and vitally important to the American landscape for the better part of a century, carrying with them the ghosts and spirits of men who gave their lives in that journey.
Nihad Awad offered his goal, a vision of a seemingly impossible world, post-911, in which Muslims face no discrimination–he argued that CAIR is working toward that goal from where we are now.
Jesse Jackson is a famous man, and in consideration of his famous personal failings it is sometimes surprising to see him still on the national stage–but in seeing him speak you understand the source of his sway across the American public–his voice carries so strongly and he has a magic in his delivery that is present in person but that is not felt through the television. He speaks with vivid images and polished phrases and a very powerful and loud delivery, almost more like a musician or conductor than a politician, but he speaks logically and intelligently also, intimately conversant with the big picture of American politics, even if sometimes the details he cites are not precisely accurate (accidentally he cited the total number of coalition KIA in Iraq and Afghanistan together as Americans KIA in Iraq).
But on the broad points he has very sharp insight. For example he stated that what is vital in the civil rights movement is to "change the frame. Once you change the frame, you can change the furniture around whenever you want."
Thus, he argued that after the recent health care legislation, eventually there must be a public option, although the public option was compromised away in the course of the bill being passed.
The theme of his speech was an argument to get Muslims to buy into a broader political agenda.
He argued that Muslims have to engage in issues beyond Muslim issues, offering the analogy that if one is in a burning house, he must try to put out the fire for the entire house–if the house is saved his room will be saved but it is impossible to save his room without saving the house.
He cited as examples labor union issues and health care issues.
Perhaps the most inspiring thing he said was that "we are not the left, we are the moral center," thus dismissing the arguments from reactionaries who term his agenda a leftist agenda. And this connected to another powerful theme from his speech, that "we are winning" in this struggle by the grace of God, and it is because God supports us because we are right. He cited the achievements of abolition and civil rights, labor, and, at length, health care.
He said not to worry about government informants, arguing the view that the solution is to be completely above board and transparent and above reproach. He said that several informants were intimately connected with the civil rights movement, saying that "our controller who signed all of our checks was a government informant."
"Yes it does get dark," he said, "innocent people get hurt, there is pain, but there is joy in the morning."
"Through it all, keep marching, fighting, pursue excellence, don't have time to hate."
The involvement of the civil rights community with Muslims seems to have begun Sunday evening, and the person likely responsible is CAIR Michigan's Executive Director Dawud Walid, who had the vision to pursue this goal, and who also has worked to bridge gaps between African Americans and other Muslims, and Sunni and Shi'a.
It remains to be seen whether the large-scale involvement of Muslims as players on the political (and not religious) landscape is healthy or potentially dangerous, and it remains to be seen whether non-Muslims from the civil rights community will be good partners in working toward civil rights for Muslims; also it remains to be seen to what extent Muslims can endorse the agenda of a civil rights community that too often supports for example abortion services and homosexual issues; but perhaps these are the details, the furniture. What is important is that the frame may have changed–to one where a Muslim organization has built a bridge or harmony and good will to an entire movement that is intrinsic to the American political landscape–this seems to be an important move in a good direction.
Islam – America's Answer to the Race Problem
March 11, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Imam Abdullah El-Amin, MMNS
Repeated from earlier article.
"O mankind. We created you from a single (pair) of a male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other (not that you may despise each other). Surely the most honored of you in the sight of ALLAH is he or she who is the most righteous of you. And ALLAH has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).
There is none more aware of the differences of human beings than the One who created them. It is through the generosity and graciousness of ALLAH that He made us different nations, tribes and colors. Just think for a moment how dull the world would be if everyone were pink and thought exactly alike. We could not learn from each other – and thus, we could not grow. But ALLAH, with His infinite wisdom, has made us different- so we may know each other.
In the early 1960's, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) returned from his pilgrimage to Mecca and made the profound statement that "America needs to look at Islam as the answer to its race problem." Here was a man whose mind had been previously clouded by erroneous assertions of Black superiority and Caucasian devilishness. While on hajj he wrote to his wife that he had sat down and eaten with blonde-haired, blue-eyed people and there was no racism there – only brotherhood.
Recently, in Southeast Michigan where I live, there have been a rash of ugly racial incidents and feelings put out. There have been cross-burnings and even opposition to the building of a major mall because it would attract people from other cities nearby. Southeast Michigan has the reputation of being one of the most racially segregated areas in the country. Cities separated by a few miles are 90% African-American and 98% Caucasian respectively.
This can be looked at negatively as a sign of hatred, which in some cases it might very well be. But what is more important than where people live is what is in their hearts. ALLAH says regardless of where we live or were born, ALLAH says we are one ummah, and He is Lord (21:92)
In my nearly 30 years as a Muslim, I am a witness that Muslims, for the most part, look upon other Muslims as brothers and sisters, regardless of their culture, ethnic background, or school of thought. As an example, a Muslim from China can meet a Muslim from the Netherlands while they are vacationing in Brazil, and there is an instant kinship and recognition – and most times a universal greeting of As Salaam alaikum. I have seen this in no other group of people whether it be religious or fraternal. Even Muslims who don't necessarily like each other still share this kinship. And it is not fake. You know in your soul and heart if someone really likes you or not.
This is a blessing from ALLAH to those who are adherents to the highest form of existence for a human being…Islam.
Our charge now is to exercise this brotherhood by more visible interaction of the various Islamic communities. Even if we live, work and play in different areas, we must make a conscious effort to be seen interacting and cooperating with each other. This is not only good for us, but it will also be a sign and a help to those who are not Muslim. It will raise the esteem of Muslims in the general society as having something very positive and beneficial to contribute to the entire world.
Let's look in our communities and see how we can aggressively promote this religion. Do you want to end racism?…..try Islam.
As Salaam alaikum
Al Hajj Imam Abdullah El-Amin
Michigan Muslims Help Haiti
January 28, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By TMO Stringer
Doctors from around the world have travelled to the island of Hispanola, on which stands the beleaguered and battered nation of Haiti.
It is an honor for the Muslims of Southeast Michigan that several doctors from the Muslim community are among the many doctors and others who have gone to the nation to offer their assistance.
Muslim doctors travelling to Haiti from the Michigan area include Dr. M. Azhar Ali, MD (Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery) and Dr. Khalid Rao, MD (Internal Medicine).
Hojjaj Party at Bloomfield Muslim Unity Center (BMUC)
January 14, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, MMNS
Bloomfield–January 10–Many Muslims made the hajj pilgrimage this year from the Southeast Michigan region, and so the Bloomfield Muslim Unity Center had a party this past Sunday night to celebrate their noble accomplishment.
About 150 people were present at the function which was in mood more spiritual than most of the other functions at the center. The marks of hajj were in fact visible on some of the attendees, many of whom had shaved their heads at the end of the hajj and were still growing back their hair.
Imam Musa explained to TMO that "This year there were less people because of swine flu."
BMUC presented small token gifts to about 10 people who recently came back from hajj, and a slide show played through the event, showing familiar faces and familiar places that one might not have seen together before, like Imam Musa on Arafat for example.
The Hojjaj party gave a chance for each of the hojjaj to present a few brief words either of advice, of admiration for having made hajj, or of lessons learned from making the hajj.
One piece of advice was to make the hajj while one is still young because in fact it is a demanding exercise.
Many of the returning hojjaj remarked that they didn't feel the exhaustion from the trip until after their return to home, because of having been so overwhelmed with fascination during their trip.
"Don't stay away too long from this place," advised one returnee. "Come back in a year or two."
One man said, "It is very hard to explain the feeling of seeing the Kaaba for the first time–it is something that comes from the heart."
One returnee was moved to tears, and said "I was amazed what Prophet (s) did for all of us."
The Unity Center will have an umra trip early this April.
Muslims, in Concert with Jews, Perform Acts of Kindness on Christmas Holiday
December 31, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Adapted from an Associated Press article by TMO
Detroit–December 25–Many Jews consider Christmas Day an opportunity to serve their community while Christian neighbors celebrate their holiday. This year, what's also known as Mitzvah Day in southeast Michigan is getting an added boost from Muslims.
For the first time, about 40 Muslims joined 900 Jews for what they call their largest annual day of volunteering. Leaders say it's a small but significant step in defusing tensions and promoting good will between the religions — particularly on a day that is sacred to Christianity, the third Abrahamic faith.
Mitzvah Day, a nearly 20-year tradition in the Detroit area also practiced in other communities, is so named because Mitzvah means "commandment" in Hebrew and is colloquially translated as a good deed.
The new partnership stemmed from a recent meeting between members of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit — which said it was unaware of any similar Mitzvah Day alliances.
The Jewish groups organize Mitzvah Day, which consists of volunteers helping 48 local social service agencies with tasks such as feeding the hungry and delivering toys to children in need.
Victor Begg, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan, said he was seeking a public way for the two faith communities to "build bridges of understanding and cooperation," which led to joining the Mitzvah Day effort.
"These guys are really organized," he explained to TMO, saying really there was no need for Muslim organizations to try to put together their own event when the event has already been sustained over a long period of time by the Jewish organizations.
"The general public is what we need to give the message to, our entire community," he said.
Not only are most Muslims and Jews available to serve on Christmas Day, but leaders also recognized a shared commitment to community service. Charity in Judaism is known as "tzedakah." Actually this Hebrew word is pronounced the same as sadaqa, which is an analogous Islamic term of doing charity.
"It's an interesting parallel," said Robert Cohen, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council. "Both of our faiths predispose us to engaging in this sort of thing."
Muslim and Jewish volunteers will work together at the Gleaners Community Food Bank in Pontiac, about 25 miles north of Detroit.
"We felt it was a perfect activity for people to be getting together like this because you work side by side with one or two other people as you're moving the boxes," Cohen said. "The grass-roots connection builds relationships on a personal level."
Cohen said the local bonds are important given global animosities. He said Muslims and Jews here "have serious differences about what happens in the Middle East," but that shouldn't be the only dynamic defining their relationship.
Begg added the two faiths can set an example in the Detroit area, which has historically large Jewish and Muslim populations.
"Whatever happens in the Middle East, we have no control over it," Begg said. "But here, our kids go to the same school, we work together. … We need to focus on building an inclusive community."
Mitzvah Day is planned months in advance, so the number of Muslim participants is modest to start, but both groups expect it will grow. Next year proves challenging for Jewish volunteers because Christmas falls on a Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath.
Details have yet to be worked out, though Cohen and others are considering moving Mitzvah Day. That would give Muslims the opportunity to try a solo run on Christmas, join Jewish groups on another day, or both.
Both Mr. Begg and Mitzvah Day organizers explained that next year it will be impossible for the Jewish organizations to do Mitzvah Day on Christmas Day because it falls on their Sabbath, Saturday, therefore 2010 might be an opportunity for CIOM and area mosques to do a similar event on their own.
The Muslim volunteers this year came mainly from two mosques, the Islamic Center of America, whose Eide Alawan has for decades been involved in community and interfaith outreach work, and Canton's MCWS mosque, from which about 20 volunteers came.
"The bottom line is we really want to do it together," Begg said.
Post-'Eid Gathering Fills Rock Financial Showplace
By Adil James, MMNS
Novi–November 29–Much better than last year. That was the consensus after this year's mass 'Eid celebration at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi.
"It was packed all day," said one vendor at the US Census booth, describing the events at the Rock Financial Showplace. "People asked lots of intelligent questions," she said, including many people who had worked for the 2000 census and wanted to do it again in 2010.
There were approximately ten different rides inside the Showplace, many bounce house style rides including slides, bounce houses, and even an imitation rock climbing wall over which children climbed to go down a slide on the other side.
There were many carnival rides, including go-carts and many different kinds of merry-go-rounds.
Mr. Muhammad Mohiuddin of CIOM explained that there were three main issues that the carnival planners emphasized after their first experience the previous year; first, they improved the layout of the 'Eid celebration by pushing more vendors to the front entrance and eating area, so that crowds had to filter through the vendors on their way to the rides. Second, there were more things for adults to do. Third, last year there had not been enough publicity so this year the event planners made a bigger effort to reach out to everyone in Southeast Michigan.
The music from last year, he explained, had not worked very well, in part because the sound of it was so overwhelming in a closed space, and so this year there were no bands and in fact this change also improved the layout of the Rock Showplace.
Vendors almost universally said that this year's 'Eid carnival was much better than the previous year. I talked to five vendors and while they did not all disclose how much money they had made they all seemed as though they had at least broken even on the day's events. Renting a booth at this year's 'Eid carnival cost about $150, which is in fact a reasonable price.
Many of the vendors had been at the previous year's carnival as well, and most agreed that this year had been better.
Dr. Alam S. Syed sold sunnah health products including honey and black seed, and looked satisfied with they day's receipts although he said "they should reduce the price" for vendors.
Mr. Brandon Metzger of Toner Solutions sold sunnah bathroom products and had sold about 20 units through the day, each for $50. These units are portable plastic bidets with sprayers that extend when water is coming out–they can be attached to any toilet in just a few minutes.
Muhamed Halilovic, an artist from the Canton community, sold very reasonably priced calligraphy and paintings of mosques in his native Bosnia. He was somewhat disappointed in his business for the day but perhaps next year will be better than this year.
An estimated 6,000 people attended this year's 'Eid carnival at the Rock Financial Showplace.
Southeast Michigan (V11-I49)
November 25, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Detroit 'Eid Carnival 2009/1430
Sunday, November 29, 2009 (The 3rd day of Eid al-Adha)
12:00pm-6:00pm at Rock Financial Showplace in Novi
(46100 Grand River, Novi, MI 48374)
For more information contact: firstname.lastname@example.com or your local community leaders
The new website will be launching very soon at http://www.eidcarnivaldetroit.com
Limited Tickets: Register in advance at www.eidcarnival.com (on line registration begins 11/13)
Tickets: $10/person or $40/family (includes 2 parents + their children) for admission, parking, and unlimited rides
'Oudhiya Program
Many local mosques are participating in the Michigan Oudhia/Qurbani, a collaborative program among major Islamic centers in Detroit area. The meat will be donated locally to needy families and to soup kitchen in Southeast Michigan.
To participate in this local program you can:
- Donate on line by loging into www.muslimunitycenter.org and clicking the Buy now link
- Mail your check to the unity center ASAP and write in the memo section write "Michigan Oudhia)
-Pay by Credit card at the Muslim Unity Center's office or by calling 248 857 9200.
Bloomfield Unity Center 'Eid Prayers (Friday 11/27)
Eid Program:
8:15:First Eid prayer
9:45: Second Eid Prayer
10:30 Eid Breakfast and kids program
1:40 Jumaah Prayer(the first Jumaah prayer will be cancelled the day of Eid)
IONA 'Eid Prayers
IONA is following FCNA on the issue of 'Eidul Adha, and FCNA in turn is following Saudi Arabia's announced days for hajj as determinants of when 'Eidul Adha falls.
This is also the conclusion of the European Council of Fatwa and Research.
'Eidul Adha at IONA will be at 8 AM at IONA center
· In order to lessen congestion in the parking lots, we ask you to car pool. Once IONA's parking lot is full, it will be closed and you will be directed to park at King Plaza's BACK parking lot. Additional parking is at the Professional Medical Building (behind King's Plaza by 12 Mile Rd.) Please use the back end of their parking lot.
· Please park in the designated parking areas only. Please do not park illegally. Parking on people's driveways or streets is not allowed.
- Absolutely no praying outside the building.
· No food will be served after the Eid prayer. Please DO NOT bring food of any kind nor any drinks to the center.
· We ask you to keep your children with you at all times.
"We look forward to your cooperation. Have a blessed and happy Eid."
Muslim Organizations Issue Statements Re. the Shooting of Imam Luqman Abdullah
November 5, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, Muslim Media News Service (MMNS)
Farmington—November 4—The shooting of Imam Luqman A. Abdullah by the FBI sparked controversy, partly because it stirred up memories of America's past persecution of African American leaders, partly because of the demeaning circumstances, and partly because news reports relating to the shooting have cast far reaching and highly unlikely aspersions on Imam Luqman.
The shooting spurred local and national Muslim organizations to issue alarmed press releases, the common theme of which was that they condemn any illegal activities if Imam Luqman was involved, but ask that news reports refrain from alleging any terrorist conspiracy absent any such evidence. Another theme echoed in several was the demand for an independent investigation into the events of the day.
The facts alleged by the reports do not conflict with one another, although only the MPAC statement actually explores the then-known facts of the incident. On Wednesday 10/28 the FBI raided 3 Dearborn warehouses, to arrest Imam Luqman and 11 associates on many federal criminal charges. At the end of the raid, Imam Luqman was dead, shot apparently 18 times.
The American Muslim Taskforce (AMT), Muslim Alliance of North America (MANA), Muslim Public Affairs Coalition (MPAC), Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Imams' Committee of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan (CIOM), ISNA, and Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR Michigan, all made statements regarding the incident.
The American Muslim Taskforce (an umbrella group including AMA, AMP, CAIR, ICNA, MANA, MAS-Freedom, MSA National, MUNA, and UMA) demanded an investigation and demanded that the government "stop injecting religion into this case," apparently operating on the belief that the government may have had a valid criminal case against Imam Luqman but no terrorism case and that his religion was extraneous to the events that took place.
The Imams Committee of Michigan's powerful CIOM unity group (representing most of Southeast Michigan's mosques including Sunni mosques and Shi'a mosques) met with the director of Michigan's FBI office (Mr. Andrew Arena, who had previously expressed satisfaction with his agents' handling of the case) to discuss what happened. They asked for clarification of what happened, without demanding a full investigation. They also emphasized that religion should not be brought into the case.
ISNA, America's largest and politically the strongest Muslim community organization, also made a statement saying it "is distrubed by the recent shootout." "The details of the incident are still sketchy," read the statement, "but the way the incident is presented as a terrorism case when the actual charges involve criminal conduct, including alleged fraud and theft."
ISNA joined the chorus asking for a full investigation of the incident also, while also expressing support fot the "vital work carried out by law enforcement agencies" and spoke against resisting arrest, saying "[t]he only morally and legally acceptable way to challenge the actions of law enforcement agents is by working through the justice system and the court of law."
MANA (which Imam Luqman was a part of) issued a statement which opened more directly the issues involved in the case, saying "Reference to 'the Ummah' as a 'nation-wide radical fundamentalist Sunni group consisting primarily of African Americans' is an offensive mis-characterization."
Further, the MANA statement said that "to those who have worked with Imam Luqman A. Abdullah, allegations of illegal activity, resisting arrest, and 'offensive jihad against the American government' are shocking and inconsistent."
MPAC's statement had one wise piece of advice, "With so much left unknown in the developing case, MPAC is warning government agencies and media outlets of the alarming exploitation of this isolated incident that is stigmatizing Muslim American communities around the country."
MPAC's primary concern appeared to be avoiding national backlash against Muslims based on the Imam Luqman shooting and resulting media coverage.
More facts have come to light since the organizations' statements were made, including that Imam Luqman apparently resisted arrest and shot an FBI dog that was loosed to attack him before going down in a hail of FBI bullets. Several senior Muslim community workers have explained that as Imam Luqman lay dying from 18 gunshot wounds, he was handcuffed to a stretcher and left to die while the FBI dog was medically evacuated by helicopter.
News reports around the incident portrayed Imam Luqman as a violent anti-government jihadist bent on a government takeover, but foiled by FBI action.
However the best report about the incident was in fact the one by this newspaper's Imam Abdullah El-Amin, who traced a convincing story about FBI provocateurs luring Imam Luqman into dealing in stolen merchandise and then springing the trap before he could escape, perhaps even orchestrating his reaction and demise.
Unfortunately the national theme in investigations of Muslims has largely been one of government provocateurs luring down-and-out Muslim men into situations they don't fully comprehend and which appear to be fully funded, planned, and coordinated from inside the FBI. Then the poor stooges are arrested in midnight raids by SWAT teams in body armor and paraded before camera crews as dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists. And the poor slobs are carted away through years of trials which often as not end in their being released.
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August 27, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Bloomfield Unity Montessori and Daycare
Farmington–August 25–Ms. Ayesha Ali, co-principal of the Bloomfield Unity Montessori and Daycare took some time to talk with TMO about her school this week.
This Montessori school is in fact not a direct competitor with most of the other Islamic day schools that TMO has interviewed in the past years, as it is a preschool–in fact it is a feeder for the other Islamic schools, like Huda and others.
The Bloomfield Montessori school has about 30 students, and is based inside the BMUC mosque. The Montessori program focuses on children up to six years old, and has accepted children as young as 8 weeks.
Inspired by the success of the Tawheed Center's hifz program, which has really become the gold standard for local mosque's religious instruction, Ms. Ali explained to TMO that the Bloomfield Montessori preschool will offer a hifz program patterned on Tawheed's–with reliance on Calvert's home school curriculum, and reliance on Shaykh Ahmad, a trained qari–to instruct the children in tajweed and memorization.
The hifz program at Bloomfield will be for 1st and 2nd grade students. Ms. Ali explained that "three or four" students have enrolled in the hifz program so far, and that the class will be capped at ten. The hifz program will cost $600 per month. The regular Montessori program is $700 per month. Preschool is $550 per month, and the school is available to parents for the entire year if they want.
Local Mosques and Ramadan
Farmington–August 26–FCNA calculations this year coincided with the Saudi ruling regarding the beginning of Ramadan, leaving most Southeast Michigan Sunni mosques on the same note with regard to the beginning and perhaps also the ending of Ramadan.
FCNA, the Fiqh Council of North America, which calculates based on the physical visibility of the moon in Mecca, determined that the Ramadan moon, which entered early Thursday morning, would not be visible after sunset in Saudi on Thursday therefore the Ramadan month was said to begin Saturday.
The Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia in somewhat of a surprise announcement on Thursday said also that fasting would begin Saturday.
Other nations fasting Saturday included Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei–the majority of Sunni nations. Four nations however began fasting Friday, including Turkey, Albania, Bosnia, and Libya.
Shi'a followers of the Lebanese marja Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah also began fasting Friday, relying also on calculations. However, followers of other Shi'a maraja began fasting Saturday.
Local Michigan mosques mainly began fasting Saturday, however with varying reasoning. The Tawheed Center of Farmington, the Muslim Center of Detroit, and Bloomfield Muslim Unity Center all began Saturday based on following the recommendations of FCNA.
The Flint Islamic Center, MCA of Ann Arbor, and the Grand Blanc Islamic Center began Saturday as well, but for the reason that Saudi Arabia had announced it would begin fasting on Saturday.
MCWS, the Canton mosque, also following FCNA. 'Isha and tarawih at MCWS will begin at 10 for the first 10 days, then 9:45 for the second 10 days, and 9:30 for the final 10 days.
Dr. Saleem of the Flint Islamic Center on Corunna explained that 'Eid will also be based on the Saudi 'Eid. 'Isha and tarawih at FIC will be at 10pm for the first 2 weeks and at 9:30pm for the final 2 weeks.
Flint is having a community dinner every Saturday night, with about 500 people, Dr. Saleem explained to TMO.
After Ramadan many of the local mosques likely including Flint, intend to participate in the mass 'Eid celebration at the Rock Financial Showplace, continuing last year's beginning of the tradition.


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If the world really comes to an end in 2012, what are the things you'd like to do before your time's up? That's the question we posed to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper a few weeks ago, in advance of New Year's Eve. Now we present Hickenlooper's Colorado-centric bucket list -- and tell us, what have you done on this list? What's on your Colorado bucket list?
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text: Patient CareHow do you tell your first patient they'll die? Medical school is filled with unspoken expectations. If I'm not worried I'll prove myself incompetent, I'm worried people will realize I don't always know what I'm talking about. I subconsciously expect that I'll pass tests and be able to answer an attending's questions about the mechanism of action of thiazide diuretics. If you had asked me before I started this year, I would have said that 90% of our job as physicians was to make people better and the other 10% was to help people to be comfortable as they passed away. This seemed a reasonable ratio to me, mostly healing and some comforting because of course, everyone has to die. I never realized how much I expected to heal my first patient. My first on call experience was uneventful at best. I didn't admit a single patient and spent the majority of the night bored, all dressed up in royal blue scrubs sitting in the medical student lounge hoping to be paged. I slept fitfully in the tiny call room until my alarm woke me the next morning, a little disappointed no one had needed my "healing touch" throughout the night. So I was more than a little eager to get my hands dirty with this patient care stuff my second night in the hospital. It was around dinnertime. My senior resident instructed me to see a patient in the emergency room with suspected pancreatitis. I immediately rifled through the pages of my pocket-sized books to quickly read up on the topic in the elevator and organized the jumbled history and physical forms on my clipboard as I walked through the hallways. Ed* complained of abdominal pain. An hour-and-a-half later, my senior yanked me out of the room to run to the cafeteria before it closed. But while Ed and I interacted, something magical happened. We introduced ourselves, I tried to make bad jokes at opportune moments, and he and I formed a physician-patient relationship. That night I told my fiancé, a fourth-year medical student, that if we looked hard enough in my 77-year-old patient, I was afraid we'd find something bad. My premonition was hauntingly accurate. His symptoms didn't fit the typical pattern of pancreatitis, and when we performed some diagnostic tests, they detected some liver lesions that were consistent with cancerous metastasis. I kept right on treating Ed, visiting him every morning, inquiring about his night's sleep and pressing dutifully on his abdomen so I could detail my findings in daily progress notes. I talked with his wife, watched baseball with him on call, and heard stories of their grandson, a basketball player traveling Europe this summer. Ed wanted me to accompany him to have his liver masses biopsies, so I asked the nurses to page me when they performed the procedure. Ed and I talked while they took samples of his liver to examine under the microscope. It was eleven days later we had to explain what all our testing meant. Ed had cancer and lots of it. The cancer was so bad that it had started in his esophagus, next to his stomach. This explained Ed's recent loss of appetite and weight loss. He had the eight liver masses we'd first seen with ultrasound and confirmed with CT scan. It spread to his anterior mediastinum, lungs, and the lymph nodes around his celiac trunk, a major artery in the abdomen. The oncologist wrote "no hope of cure" in Ed's chart and wanted to discuss comfort care with his family. I had been trying to prepare myself for a couple of days, knowing that the most likely result would be an unpleasant diagnosis. We walked in as a team: attending, senior resident, interns, and medical students. Ed paid close attention as our attending physician broke the terrible news. He seemed calm. Like everyday, he wanted to talk. He wanted to avoid the horrible truth of our presence, and we obliged him. 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Welcome to our Brave New World Order folks, because it's certainly a very different world for everyone than it was just one generation ago. James Brown once soulfully wailed "This is a MAAAAN'S WORLD….but it wouldn't be nuthin' without a woman to care!"
My how the times have changed.
We now have Maria Shriver exultantly declaring "It's a Woman's Nation!"
Isn't that special, dear.
The Center for American Progress (Put a CAP in the country, she's done for!) just released The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything.
Jack Donovan has already taken an in depth look at Oprah Winfrey's epilogue to this piece of femi-nazi propaganda, I'm going to focus on the forward by John Podesta and the first Chapter by Maria Shriver.
Now, the first thing one must notice, is that the tone of this report is one for which many people have been trying to point out for years now – that this is in fact a nation that has certainly become a society that promotes Matriarchal values and denigrates Patriarchal ones.
That masculinity in men has been castigated and demonized for decades now, while masculinity in women has been relentlessly promoted and inculcated into the mainstream, cultural consciousness. And one of the memes that has been relentlessly promoted is this idea that women are oppressed, inequal and downtrodden, which is what necessitates all of the laws, tax-funded programs, divorce court industries and welfare programs…to "fix" all of the problems of a "Male" nation.
On the face of it, it sure seems like they're declaring victory now, doesn't it?
But of course not. This is in fact a literal cultural revolution, and this is merely a momentary pause for the social engineers to reflect on their past successes in overthrowing the old world order of Patriarchy, on their ever increasing march towards "equality"
Let's have a look at what this report is citing as turning points in their campaign to win this gender war…
First, from the Preface, mangina feminist lackey and former Clinton White House member, John Podesta, writes:
Earlier this year, the Center for American Progress decided to closely examine the consequences of what we thought was a major tipping point in our nation's social and economic history: the emergence of working women as primary breadwinners for millions of families at the same time that their presence on America's payrolls grew to comprise fully half the nation's workforce. In addition, we were watching the Great Recession amplify and accelerate these trends. We are in the midst of a fundamental transformation of the way America works and lives.
Indeed, change is what this is all about. From a Patriarchal focused society in which men worked and women raised the next generation, we now live in a nation for which men and women work…and the afterschool program , the minimum wage day care worker, the retired grandparent, or as in many cases, the television and the computer are raising the next generation.
Is this really a change for the better?
When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what's happened to workers and their families and the challenges they now face, the movement of women out of the home and into paid employment stands out as a unique and powerful transformation.
Unique? Hardly. Matriarchal cultures are as old as humanity itself. What we really seeing is a decline in civilization, since Patriarchal culture is what built civilization in the first place.
Women becoming primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners changed everything. But, even though we were all witness to this phenomenon's slow emergence over many years, these changes seem somehow to have snuck up on us. As a result, our policy landscape remains stuck in an idealized past, where the typical family was composed of a married-for-life couple with a full-time breadwinner and full-time homemaker who raised the children herself.
Well that seems to be certainly true. Even though this report celebrates women now comprising 50% of the workforce, 60% of college attendees, and a huge increase in the number of women now serving as the primary breadwinners of their family…divorce laws, child custody and alimony awards are still based on the assumptions that women are economically disadvantaged by their full time homemaker roles…even when they are not full time homemakers!
Of course, I hardly think Podesta is arguing for true "equality" when it comes to Family law…
No, what his argument consists of is to basically make a case for more Government programs to support the continued dismantling of Patriarchal family structures to promote the new ideal "Woman's Nation."
- Updating our basic labor standards to include family-friendly employee benefits
- Reforming our anti-discrimination laws so that employers cannot discriminate against or disproportionately exclude women when offering workplace benefits
- Updating our social insurance system to the reality of varied families and new family responsibilities, including the need for paid family leave and social security retirement benefits that take into account time spent out of the workforce caring for children and other relatives
- Increasing support to families for child care, early education, and elder care to help working parents cope with their dual responsibilities
Updating these government policies so that they account for the reality of the overwhelming majority of today's workers and families is the challenge we address in the pages that follow.
See, what women are really finding out is that entering the world of work did not make life better or easier. Instead, it gave them a whole new means of stress and responsibilities in their lives, so now we must use the government to ease the burdens of responsibilities that pursuing "empowerment" through careers has given them.
As one goes beyond Podesta's preface and into the first chapter of the report, penned by Shriver herself, that it becomes glaringly obvious that while Shriver and many other women are celebrating the so-called advancement of women's "equality," they are also documenting the ways in which the new reality is negatively impacting both men and women.
Not once does she or any of the other progressives (who are really nothing more than cultural revolutionaries and social engineers) ever stop to consider that the problems they are highlighting are caused directly by the cultural expectations that gear women towards careers rather than homemaking?
No, we must implement MORE government programs to make it easier on women to "Have it all."
Here's what Shriver writes:
Together, the results of these efforts provide a fascinating window into the changing American landscape. What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes.
It was a draw? But you're declaring victory by calling it a "Woman's Nation!" If it were a draw, wouldn't it simply be "A Nation?"
Doesn't sound like a draw to me. Oh, and what is this "negotiating between the sexes?" You mean where career mom tells her husband if he doesn't toe the line, she'll take him to divorce court, enslave him into peonage and take him away from his children? That kind of reality certainly doesn't look like a "draw" to me.
Virtually all married couples told the pollsters they're negotiating the rules of their relationships, work, and family. An overwhelming majority of both men and women said they're sitting down at their kitchen tables to coordinate their family's schedules, duties, and responsibilities, including child care and elder care, at least two to three times a week. Men said it was more like every day!
Indeed, during my conversation with powerful businesswomen on the West Coast, one told me she and her husband "are constantly renegotiating our agreement about what gets done, who does it — or do we hire somebody as opposed to doing it ourselves." And a man in Seattle told me he and his wife have to work out "who's gonna take care of the light bill? Who's gonna pay for the mortgage? It doesn't matter who's bringing the money in. The money is coming in, but decisions have to be made about how the money is going out."
Isn't wonderful to see all of this "PROGRESS?" See how a "Woman's Nation" promotes marital harmony? What a wonderful, Brave New World!
In the Rockefeller/Time poll, more than three-quarters of both men and women agreed that the increased participation of women in the workforce is a positive change for society.
Pay attention folks! The very foundation that is the largest funder of Women's studies programs and population control policies, the very foundation that is the primary mover in socially engineering this "woman's nation" has conducted a poll that supports their goals? You don't say?
Both sexes also agreed that men are becoming more financially dependent on women. And both women and men said they're still adjusting their lives, their expectations, and their assumptions to the change.
The findings matched what I heard in the street. Everywhere I went, people talked to me about how overstressed and in crisis they feel, especially when it comes to financial security. Women said that never before has so much been asked of them, and never have they delivered so much. Divorced mothers talked to me about trying to make do without child support. One single mother who had just lost her job told me she was utterly dependent on her family and friends just to stay afloat.
This folks is what this report refers to as PROGRESS…but it's not done yet, we need more of it!
Now, note that one of the themes Shriver and the author's of this report repeatedly make is the need for the Government to ensure that women get "equal pay for equal work." Yet the entire premise of that argument rests on the unfounded assumption that the reason for unequal pay is based on "inequality."
Yet…Shriver reports the following:
And women often define that power differently from men. One woman who had made it to CEO chose to give up the corner office and downgrade to a lower-rung position. She told me, "I will admit, it was fun, it was power, and I was dealing with a bunch of top dogs. But now I get to hang out with my kids when they come home from school. For me the definition of success is not being a CEO and not being the biggest dog and frankly not making the most money. It's living a balanced life."
This is the very reason WHY we have the so-called "gender wage gap." But this is not acknowledged at all. In fact, while the authors of the report are calling for "equal pay for equal work" what they are actually arguing for is MORE pay for women for doing LESS work!
One female corporate executive told me, "Women don't need equal pay. They actually need to be paid more, because the fact of the matter is that we typically are responsible for more within our families, and we have to pay to outsource more. Most of the men I have competed with for positions have had a stay-home wife at some point and many have had a wife throughout their entire marriage."
Here we have a female corporate executive, whining about having to compete with a man who has a stay-at-home wife, making it unfair for her to compete with him for positions?
Sorry lady, nothing is stopping you from finding a kitchen bitch husband who would give you the same advantages a full time man has with a stay at home wife!
Nothing that is, except for your own hypergamous instincts which cause you to shudder with revulsion at the thought of being married to a househusband who you'd have to support financially!
Yes Maria…all that you and the elite activists and social engineers that have promoted this cultural revolution, you can see all of the changes that have wrought havoc and confusion amongst so many people…yet you think that all that is being done is a good thing? That we need more of the same?
This report is full of inconsistencies. Women are now more equal than ever…but so much more work needs to be done…sexism is still rampant…but women have succeeded and we are a Women's Nation now…the cognitive dissonance is readily apparent to the objective reader that understands the full ramifications of the cultural and social upheaval we have all experienced in transforming our society into a "Woman's Nation." Just look at Shriver's conclusion:
As we move into this phase we're calling a woman's nation, women can turn their pivotal role as wage-earners, as consumers, as bosses, as opinion-shapers, as co-equal partners in whatever we do into a potent force for change. Emergent economic power gives women a new seat at the table — at the head of the table.
Wait…in the name of "equality," women now have a seat at the head of the table? This is a case in point for what Orwell pointed out in Animal Farm: "Some animals are more equal than other animals." Look at the logical inconsistency of this argument! This is proof positive that the idea of "equality" is nothing but a lie! In the name of pursuing "equality" a Woman's Nation is about woman becoming MORE EQUAL than men.
Back in 1960, President Kennedy talked about the torch being passed to "a new generation." Well, five decades later, the torch is being passed . . . to a new gender. There's no doubt in my mind that we women will lift that torch. We will carry it. And we will light a new way forward.
A NEW Gender?
President Kennedy talked about the torch passed to a new generation…a term which includes both men and women.
But now, Shriver and the elite social engineers that have created this "woman's nation" have disenfranchised men and they call it progress!
Note the celebrations that women now comprise almost 50% of the breadwinner role…through Men losing their jobs in record numbers thanks to the current recession!
This is progress?
Translation: Woman are "advancing" because men are suffering!
It is indeed a Woman's Nation…and we are worse off for it – both women, men and especially children.


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This is a fun shampoo to use. But I know I probably won't use it for long. I am a "shampoo junkie". I use them all. Expensive and cheap. Salon and Wal-mart brands. That's just the fun of shampoos I guess. The Alberto VO5 Kiwi Lime Squeeze has a nice clean smell. It cleans your hair and leaves it soft and silky. I looked everywhere for the Pina Colada scent and finally found it at the Dollar Tree! I have not used it yet but it smells nice too.
Terrific stuff. I can't believe it's so cheap! Washes out effortlessly so it's perfect for thick hair.
The scent of this shampoo is delicious! For about $1, it rivals some of the more expensive brands. I use this in conjuction with the Vo5 Kiwi Lime Squeeze Conditioner. Rave from me. :-)
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4 I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself; | 4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. |
5 I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. | 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. |
6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. | 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. |
7 I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house; I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. | 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. |
8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight. | 8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired men and women singers, and a harem as well--the delights of the heart of man. |
9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. | 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me. |
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Returning to the University of Washington to join co-editor Jon Marmor on Columns has been a homecoming of sorts for me, a return to something at once familiar and new. Here is Red Square, crisscrossed by backpacks and skinny jeans. Here is the Quad, with its students nestled together under cherry trees. Here are the labs and classrooms, leaking their chalky dust.
Here are the ivory towers, tumbling down.
Gone, it seems, are the days when academia sat away from society, prognosticating from above. These days I can't help but notice how our research is becoming increasingly relevant. More human. More real. Even in the face of serious budget challenges, UW researchers, faculty and students are seeking out entrepreneurial ways of solving current problems and inventing new ways of studying age-old dilemmas.
Nowhere is that more evident than in the story of lecturer Jason De Leon's game-changing approach to studying undocumented migration. Using archaeology—a science most associate with lost cultures—he is documenting a host of issues surrounding the very real experience of modern migration from Mexico to the U.S. Young, engaged and passionate, De Leon is giving this "dusty science" a facelift unlike any seen in years.
But that is just one of the stories of ingenuity in this issue. Turn the page and there's the story of one of medicine's most lifesaving devices—the Scribner shunt—invented 50 years ago at the UW and the foundation of what made long-term dialysis possible. Turn the page again and we discover how UW researchers are on track to cure color-blindness, better detect breast cancer and diagnose intestinal cancers.
All the while, UW students are developing X PRIZEs and doing "neat things" with bacteria.
Hardly the kind of ivory tower work so many people associate with academia. The UW I find myself returning to is innovative, entrepreneurial, alive. I am lucky to be here, helping tell its stories.
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Energy Deregulation Business Opportunities Home Based Business That Anyone Can Start
By: Deana Nall
As the energy deregulation business opportunities industry enters open markets, possibilities abound in this new, deregulated area.
Energy deregulation business opportunities can sound complicated. But for energy customers, these ground breaking industry changes come down to one crucial concept: choice.
Before energy deregulation business opportunities, one utility company provided customers with energy service. In 1978, Congress passed the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, which laid the groundwork for energy deregulation business opportunity and competition by opening up wholesale power markets to non-utility producers of electricity. Congress voted to promote greater competition in the bulk power market with the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 1992. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) implemented the intent of the Act in 1996 with Orders 888 and 889, with the stated objective to "remove impediments to competition in wholesale trade and to bring more efficient, lower cost power to the Nation's electricity customers." The FERC orders required open and equal access to jurisdictional utilities' transmission lines for all electricity producers, thus facilitating the states' restructuring of the electric power industry to allow customers direct access to retail power generation, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Under energy deregulation, the delivery of energy is still regulated and is the responsibility of the local utility company. But customers now have the freedom to choose their energy supplier. With the creation of energy deregulation business opportunities, competition in an industry in which there was once none, customers can, for the first time, choose their energy provider. And they've been responding in huge numbers. Because the old incumbent utility companies no longer hold a monopoly on the energy market, customers have switching to alternative energy suppliers. This has introduced competition into an industry in which it had never previously existed.
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Because energy deregulation has opened energy deregulation business opportunities markets to competition, government mandates no longer control retail pricing. Instead, rates are now based on the market forces. Now, energy customers can shop for the best rates. Of the states currently in various stages of energy deregulation, half are at or below the national average for utility rates, based on the EIA's 2008 statistics. And energy deregulation benefits more that customers' pocketbooks. Most energy deregulated states are utilizing clean and natural energy sources. The majority of states still operating under government regulations rely on "dirty" sources of energy-primarily coal. But in energy deregulated state such as Texas, "dirty" energy sources are being phased out. Coal is no longer a majority source of power generation. In fact, more than 60 percent of power sources in Texas come from "clean" and-or renewable sources such as natural gas, wind, solar and biomass.
The benefits of energy deregulation business opportunities don't end there. With competition comes innovation. While operating under government regulations, utility companies had no motivation to innovate. In fact, the energy industry operated virtually the same way for more than a century. But now that energy deregulation business opportunities and energy customers have a voice, energy companies can't afford not to innovate. As a result, energy deregulation business opportunities companies are exploring new ways to deliver a higher-quality, more cost-effective product to their customers. One example of up-and coming innovative technology in the energy deregulated industry is the smart grid. An intelligent monitoring system, the smart grid is essentially a data-driven overlay two-way communications on the transmission and delivery of electricity to customers' homes. Eliminating the need for meter readers, the smart grid will utilize digitally based smart meters that will allow the energy supplier to read from a remote location. Once this revolutionary system is fully implemented, consumer will be able to monitor their usage in real time and communicate digitally with their energy provider in return.
With energy deregulation more recently under way, its future appears just as bright. Now that healthy competition has become part of the utility industry equation, energy customers are exercising their power to choose. And because energy is something everyone uses, energy deregulation industry is now a prime business opportunity.


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4. No more Paul, Steve Berman, or Ken Kaniff skits
It's unclear exactly why Em has abandoned the skits depicting his manager's disappointment and the label rep's outrage at the latest album being turned in. It's probably a simple manner of Eminem finally being accepted by the industry at large, so skits about how much of a headache he is would seem disingenuous now (those kind of conversations probably don't go on anymore). Ken Kaniff was a nasty-sounding pervert that embodied all of the seedy sexual acts that Marshall would ridicule in his rhymes. Rumor has it that you can hear Ken pop up on the bonus tracks for MMLP2.


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When the occult-obsessed Reich sets its sights on an ancient artifact held in Washington, D.C.'s Smithsonian Castle, the ruthless Hermann Von Heïzinger plans an unprecedented raid on U.S. soil...and only Major John MacNeal and the elite soldiers of the 42nd Marines stand before them. There's more to this mission than meets the eye, however. Why has the enigmatic Matriarchy mobilized its forces? And to whom is the mysterious mercenary Wolf truly loyal? Prepare for an epic battle that will rage deep into America's heartland!
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