Today I did a filter search on the New York Times website. I figured this would be a good place to look at news since it’s one of our main sources of information here in the United State. I entered the word “Islam” in the search bar, and decided to look at the top five most recently constructed stories. Here are the results:
“Sectarian Conflict Kills a Least 17 in Northern Lebanon in Spillover of Syrian Civil War” by Josh Wood
The phenomenon of "floating islands of trash" is a rather well-known reality, but not the conventional way that I once originally thought. When I first heard about one "island" imparticular, also known as the "Garbage Patch" (although there are a host of other names for this thing), I just kept picturing this mass of empty soda bottles, milk jugs, barrels, anything plastic really, just hanging out in the middle of the ocean. Ben Landry ("Go Fish" blogger here on the Weave) mentions this floating island of plastic and its detrimental relationship with our fish, I encourage you to all check it out, for it sparked my curiosity in a new way. Trash is inarguably harming the global society, but who else is being negatively impacted by our materialistic ways? And...
This past week has been an eventful one for the UK. With the announcement of the royal baby and the Duchess of Cambridge being hospitalized for an extreme case of morning sickness, one would think that this is a time for celebration and anticipation. But no, the UK is in mourning over the loss of Jacintha Saldanha who committed suicide last Friday.
It all started with a phone call from Australian radio station, 2Day FM, with DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian. They decided to pull a prank on King Edward VII’s Hospital where Kate Middleton was being treated. Greig and Christian put on fake (and from what I hear, not very good) English accents and called the hospital saying they were the Queen and the Prince of Wales. To make a long story...
They are in Isolation, but they are not left Alone!
There were ten of them: Star, Erica, Alana, Hannah, Meghan, Brittany, Elizabeth, Savannah, Sean, and Thomas. They are college students. And they care… about the rights of those whose rights are denied once the door of the ‘box’ of the solitary confinement cell is being closed. On Sunday, December 9th, 2012 – Ten St. Lawrence University (SLU) students ended their hunger strike along with the vow of silence that lasted four days.
Solitary confinement in the 21st century seems to be some inconceivable relict of the past. As a teenager visiting with my Parents the concentration camps from the times of the Nazi terror – I saw cells used for such punishment. I thought that they are the past, until I met group of student activists at St....
Here is a type of child trafficking that I, not until recently, didn’t even think about: the trafficking of babies for adoption.
When researching for child trafficking cases in South and Central America, I came upon “ChildTrafficking.com” and while I was reading the material, I found this issue of “Illegal Adoption.” As I continued to read and research, I have found that the issue of stealing babies and selling them to lawyers or other “distributors” for illegal adoption is a huge issue in Central American countries, Guatemala, especially.
UNECEIFF reports that between 1,000 to 1,500 babies and children are trafficked every year out of or in Guatemala. Due to their weak adoption laws and the high rate of international couples wanting to adopt, a market has been created for...
I read this piece in my freshman year here at SLU. I was taking a basic International Politics class. It’s a relatively old event, but it’s very powerful and relevant to the content of this blog.
On June 6, 2002, Zayed M. Yasin gave the Harvard Commencement Speech. It was entitled “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad”. Before he even gave the speech, word spread around campus about his intentions and people were outraged. Jihad, in Arabic means “struggle”, but the controversy was over that fact that Muslim terrorists had just attacked the U.S., and Jihad was used as a word at this time which indicated to the American public that it meant “war”. Muslim’s use this word to indicate the internal struggle that it takes to be the best person you can...
Our global society continues to make rapid technological advances nearly every day. Many people, including myself, are left wondering where yesterday's new yet somehow "old" cellphones, computers, and pretty much every other tech gadget really go.
Technology waste, also known as "e-waste" is a relatively new and unique part of our global trash epidemic. Regardless, e-waste is targeting the same socio-ecomonic group and locations as material and toxic dumping grounds. Point blank, exporting e-waste into areas without the proper systems to dispose of, break down, or recycle the materials is illegal. End of story.
So, how did the trade evolve? GreenPeace International has a substantial section of their webpage devoted to e-waste and to explaining many of the factors that influence and have shaped e-waste and the trading associated with it.
"In the 1990s,...
I saw this on the YNN news network today. Although this is not trafficking, it does have to do with children, and just goes to show these kind crimes happen everywhere. Even in upstate New York. This is a short article since the arrest just happened, but I thought it would be interesting to share. More information to come!
...I wonder if I ever walked past him in Walmart?
http://northernny.ynn.com/content/top_stories/619130/suny-potsdam-studen...
To follow up on the last post, here is a blog by Qasim Rashid which confronts the stereotype assuming that a Muslim-American Identity doesn't exist.
Why can't a Muslim be from America?
In 2011, a television series featuring the lives of American-Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, was aired on The Learning Channel (TLC). The name of the show was All-American Muslim. To provide a little context to the setting, Dearborn is home to the highest concentration of Muslims in the United States, and consists of many different enclaves based on origin of the family. The five families that the show portrays are all Lebanese-Americans and include the: Amen, Aoude, Bazzy-Aliahmad, Jaafar, and Zaban families. The object of the All-American Muslim, was to showcase five Muslim families, highlighting that they may be different in some ways, but in others, and for the most part, their lives really don’t vary all that much from what the average “American” family experiences....
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