June 2011 – Page 2

Events

LIVE CHAT WITH HUSSEIN RASHID – Prepare New York

islamoyankeeJune 18, 2011

LIVE CHAT WITH HUSSEIN RASHID – Prepare New York. On Tuesday, June 21st from 12-1pm EST PrepareNY.com will be hosting another Online Chat designed to spark a new kind of conversation as we approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11. This week’s featured guest will be: Hussein Rashid, Founder of the “Islamicate” blog site and contributor to the upcoming book “I Speak For Myself: American Men on Being Muslim.” https://islamicate.com/islamicate Theme for the chat is “Religion and Politics.”

“My Fellow American” Launches

islamoyankeeJune 9, 2011

A new online project, “My Fellow American,” enables people of all faiths and backgrounds to share a story about a Muslim they know personally. The centerpiece of the project is a short teaser film that juxtaposes voices of hate with everyday Muslim Americans. It serves as a call-to-action for people of all faiths to stand up against this climate of hate speech and Islamophobia. [from ‘My Fellow American’: Short Film Offers Platform for Combatting Islamophobia h/t Crescent Post ] The official site is here. My earlier post is here.

Web/Tech

Connected Citizens: The Power, Potential and Peril of Networks

islamoyankeeJune 9, 2011

Connected Citizens: The Power, Potential and Peril of Networks – Knight Foundation. Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. New networks are emerging everywhere. It’s exciting—and frightening. What is this new network-centric world? What does it mean for community change?

Politics

Inbox Influence reveals your connections’ connections

islamoyankeeJune 9, 2011

Inbox Influence reveals your connections’ connections » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism. A new tool from the Sunlight Foundation would seem to seek to tweak that paradigm. It’s called Inbox Influence, a Gmail plugin that requires exactly one step: installing it. When an email message arrives — from a company, a political candidate, a PR person, your aunt — you’ll see statistics about that entity’s political connections. The plugin detects names in body text, email addresses, and links.

Politics

Quote For The Day – From The Daily Dish

islamoyankeeJune 3, 2011

“Four American vets stood up, men from Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne who had been under fire with Tim and me many times in eastern Afghanistan. They filed out of their pew carrying two folded American flags that had been sent by Senator John McCain, himself a veteran of Vietnam. The young men presented my country’s flag to the Hetherington family and then to Idil [Hetherington’s girlfriend whose parents emigrated from Somalia]. I missed most of that beautiful moment because I was crying too hard, but later I did savor one comforting thought: this may be one of the…

Intra-faith

Imam fights street crime with mosque fight club – CNN Belief Blog – CNN.com Blogs

islamoyankeeJune 2, 2011

Imam fights street crime with mosque fight club – CNN Belief Blog – CNN.com Blogs. He smiles and points out that the gym is named after one of the most famous Muslims in the world: Muhammad Ali. “I don’t look at it as such a violent thing, and I know the real violence is in guns and weapons and different things that happen in our community.”

Video

The Young Conservative’s Hip Hop Guide to Muslims

islamoyankeeJune 2, 2011

Satire alert from The Atlantic humor, humor

Women

Muslim Women’s Shelter Provides Refuge, Support : NPR

islamoyankeeJune 2, 2011

Muslim Women’s Shelter Provides Refuge, Support : NPR. As families come together over the holidays, the victims of domestic abuse are often sequestered in shelters — a situation that’s especially difficult for Muslim women, because few facilities meet their cultural and religious needs.

Current Affairs

Joseph Ward III: A Living Hell: LGBT Iranians and the Islamic State

islamoyankeeJune 1, 2011

Joseph Ward III: A Living Hell: LGBT Iranians and the Islamic State. Like many gay Iranians, Hamid was pressured by his parents to marry a woman based on prevailing traditions in Iran. But knowing he was a gay man, he and his wife divorced, and he was soon kidnapped by local authorities because of his appearance and beaten half to death in his home. “A man with long hair is not a man,” he was told by an officer of the basij, the Iranian security force. “…Of course [your wife] would divorce you.”

Books

Young Writer Tackles Race, Religion, American Identity – The Takeaway

islamoyankeeJune 1, 2011

Young Writer Tackles Race, Religion, American Identity – The Takeaway. Every year, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards honor the best high school and middle school students in a variety of categories, including painting, journalism and fiction. Past winners include leaders and luminaries in their respective fields, including Joyce Carol Oates, Andy Warhol and Truman Capote. Some 185,000 pieces of art and writing submitted this year, and eighteen-year-old Haris Durrani was one of seven high school seniors to win a gold medal for a portfolio of writing, out of 3,000 portfolio entries.