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'Are you a U.S. Citizen?' |
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 Syracuse journalism student and MAJA member Mariam Jukaku details her recent run-in with the law, an experience that has prompted many journalists to ponder the finer points of press freedom and national security.
The full story is at the Syracuse Post-Standard. Mariam writes: I’ve been reassured by my professors, my advisers at the Post-Standard where I’m an intern and by the dean of my school that I did nothing wrong. I was on a public sidewalk and I have every right to take pictures. The security officers were wrong in deleting my photographs. I can’t prove they were profiling me because of my race or religion. I like to believe they were not. But what is more important and more obvious to me is that the environment of fear we are living in is so great, it makes security guards nervous when students do something as innocuous as take pictures of a building. It makes them so nervous they feel that the only thing they can do is delete the pictures, demand identification and detain the student for questioning... Following is her account.
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Awista Ayub - A Beacon of Hope for the Children of Afghanistan |
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On October 18, 1979, a child named Awista Ayub was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. Nearly a quarter of a century later, she would become an internationally recognized beacon of hope to a generation of young girls, survivors of the fallen Taliban regime. As a result of Awista’s visionary Afghan Youth Sports Exchange program, a new generation of girls has learned the simple joy of kicking around a soccer ball, after decades of war and struggle in their homeland.
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Illume Magazine publishes second issue |
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The Muslim publication Illume Magazine has released its second issue, featuring an interview with comedian and activist Preacher Moss, and a piece by Imam Zaid Shakir of Zaytuna Institute about Alia Ansari, an Afghani-American mother of six who was gunned down in Fremont, CA for being Muslim.
Some articles on the magazine's website are available for free, others require a subscription.
Ilume Media's aim is "to connect to the peoples of America and to the global electronic community in an effort to present the beauty of Islam through web and print media."
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Removing Hamas: Brinkmanship Tactics or Coup D’etat |
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Op-Ed By Nicola Nasser* Within the context of a U.S.-Israeli determined campaign to remove the elected Islamic Resistance Movement from power, the best of the Palestinian mainstream anti-occupation activists of Fatah and Hamas are being polarized into a deadlocked divide that is already threatening an historic national unity with a looming civil war as a result of either risky brinkmanship tactics or what Hamas says a coup d’etat.
Either way the external campaign has succeeded in mobilizing an array of a minority of local would-be losers of any change to the pre-Hamas status quo to exacerbate inter-Palestinian disputes into a crisis by launching their own campaign to bring about the downfall of Hamas, using brinkmanship tactics that could hardly be distinguished from a coup d’etat.
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