WASHINGTON –(By
Dilshad D. Ali, IOL Correspondent )
As interested students race to beat the fast approaching enrolment deadline, Muslims are turning their sights to the Zaytuna College in California to see if America's first ever Muslim college will live up to the high expectations.
"We’ve been waiting for this time," Imam Zaid Shakir, a scholar-in-residence and lecturer at Zaytuna Institute and a co-founded of the college, told IslamOnline.net in an exclusive interview.
"It’s been a long road to get here, Alhamdulillah, and to know that we’re in this final part to getting freshman class set is very exciting."
Zaytuna College, a brainchild of Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, Imam Shakir and Professor Hatem Bazian, will stop accepting applications for its first freshman class of 2010 on March 1....Read More
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(Washington Post) President Obama announced Saturday the appointment of Rashad Hussain, a White House lawyer, to be his special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Obama made the announcement in a video conference to the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar. In his message, Obama called Hussain "an accomplished lawyer and a close and trusted member of my White House staff," who would strengthen his policy of outreach to the world's Muslims.
Obama has made repairing U.S. relations with the Islamic world an important element of his foreign policy, an effort highlighted by his call for a "new beginning" in a speech in Cairo last June. In the statement Saturday, Obama said Hussain has "played a key role in developing the partnerships I called for in Cairo," and would continue to do so in his new position. Obama noted that Hussain is a Hafiz of the Koran, someone who has memorized the holy Islamic text...Read More
BURJI ETHIOPIA, As Muslim NGOS denied permit in
Ethiopia Christian organizations are wandering within country, their
sustainable effort to convert Ethiopian Muslims to Christianity is
extensive. The issue is not to blame the unfortunate Ethiopian Muslims
or the missionaries but how Muslim organizations will get permit to
help their own brethren? What is our role to avert the situation?
Please find the link and evaluate the circumstances.
Are we able to do a bit? Even the slices from a bit task, May Allah
(swt) help us all. Kindly call Radio Bilal and leave your message on
the subject, we will be delighted to broadcast your concern to the
voiceless Ethiopian Muslims. For your Amharic and Oromiffa messages dial (202) 239-1485... Read More
CBS) Videotapes showing poor orphans from third world countries melt the hearts of prospective parents every day in this country.
Three
children, sisters from Ethiopia are shown in a video - ages, you are
told, 7, 4 and 6. Their mother is dead, their father dying of AIDS. A
life of prostitution is all but assured - if not adopted - saved - by a
loving American family. It was just such a pitch that spoke to Katie
and Calvin Bradshaw, reports CBS News chief investigative correspondent
Armen Keteyian. They adopted all three girls through a U.S. agency,
Christian World Adoption.
"Aside from the gender of the children, everything else proved to be a
complete lie," said Katie. While their mother was dead, their father
was healthy and very much alive. He was living, by local standards, a
middle-class life - an extended family able to take care of the girls
as middle sister Meya showed us first hand.
"My godmothers, my aunt, those are my mom's friends, my uncles, my dad, my dad's friends, that's my brother," she said. Read full story
BY NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA REPORTER Microsoft in collaboration with the Ethiopian Information Communication Technology Development Agency (EICTDA) launches Amharic language interface pack.
Now computer users in Ethiopia can download and start using Microsoft
Office Standard Edition 2007 and Windows Vista in Amharic language.
Three
children, sisters from Ethiopia are shown in a video - ages, you are
told, 7, 4 and 6. Their mother is dead, their father dying of AIDS. A
life of prostitution is all but assured - if not adopted - saved - by a
loving American family. It was just such a pitch that spoke to Katie
and Calvin Bradshaw, reports CBS News chief investigative correspondent
Armen Keteyian. They adopted all three girls through a U.S. agency,
Christian World Adoption.
