Archive for December 2008
Yaser Birjas and ICNA’s Why Islam Campaign Featured on TV – El Paso’s KSTM News
from Muslim Matter’s.com
Shaykh Yaser Birjas and ICNA’s Why Islam campaign were featured on KSTM Channel 9 news in El Paso, TX. The feature was based off of a billboard put up by Why Islam, followed by a visit to the Islamic Center of El Paso, TX and a quick message to the local viewers in El Paso about what Islam and the 3,000 some Muslims in their own community are all about.
This video is nice because it highlights a successful result of the Why Islam campaign. The billboard they used got attention, it raised some awareness of Islam, and now with the help of the local news channel, thousands more are informed that if they have any questions they can either go to www.whyislam.org or go to the local Islamic Center where Yaser Birjas is. Now that’s what you call successful marketing!
May Allah (SWT) continue to help our da’wah grow and bless the likes of Why Islam, ICNA, the Islamic Center of El Paso, and our dear teacher Shaykh Yaser Birjas. Oh, and don’t forget MM Associate Haytham who found this video. 
Yaser Birjas: Defending the Prophet Against Orientalist Critique
Why do is it that non-Muslims are experts about Islam?
Duke University hires Muslim Chaplain (imam) + New Center For Muslim Life
Today on NPR there was an interview with Duke University’s first Muslim Chaplain: Imam Abdullah Antepli.
In even more remarkable news, he has helped form the new 1,400 square-foot Center For Muslim Life on campus!
Talk about upgrading your campus prayer room, Mashallah! 
The news is quite astonishing considering he was hired full time by Duke University to serve as a Muslim Student Association Muslim Chaplain / Adjunct Faculty of Islamic Studies. Duke University’s praiseworthy commitment to proactively moving beyond political rhetoric and instead focusing, as an educational institute, in serving it’s Muslim population’s needs and the educational needs of the campus, I hope will encourage other universities to follow suit. Only three other U.S. universities have full-time Muslim chaplains — Georgetown, Princeton and Yale.
“Chaplain Antepli was the overwhelming choice for the position by students, staff and faculty,” said Zoila Airall, assistant vice president for campus life at Duke. “He brings a wonderful combination of spirituality, inspiration and wisdom to this position.”
The new CENTER FOR MUSLIM LIFE is located in the old Robertson House which is right next to the Plant Accounting building on Swift Avenue. Please click here for map
Sydney Art Fuses Surf With Islam
by Nick Bryant
BBC News, Sydney 
Phillip George wants to bring Islamic art to a wider audience
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An Australian artist has produced a range of Islamic surfboards (apparently all the others are non Islamic) in an attempt to create a greater understanding between East and West make lots of cash.
…and now your thinking why a Muslim didn’t think of this. Shucks.
