Press Release Statements and Articles
Go to the Stanford Daily online at daily.stanford.edu, then type in "Muslim Student" or "MSAN" into the search box for articles on our events and campaigns. Here's a quick sample...
From Islam Awareness Series 2008:
Fadl addresses Islamic reform
Esposito seeks to redefine Jihad
Jackson addresses Islamic law
From previous years' events:
The Childishness of Civilizations
"...With the discrediting of racism within public discourse, picking on Islam has become the new cover for respectable discrimination in increasingly intolerant Europe. Ignore the halo of blasphemy and look at the cartoons for what they are — ugly racial stereotypes that should alarm everyone The context cannot be forgotten either — the Jyllands-Posten supports far-right candidates who idealize a “Denmark for the Danes” and belittle Muslim immigrants whom they largely distrust and dislike. Unlike the United States, which has had much experience in dealing with a multiplicity of ethnicities, Europe is a newcomer and it shows..."
Muslim groups lobby for community center
"Several student groups authored a proposal last fall for the construction of a Muslim Community Center. More recently, the groups have been lobbying for approval of their request for space and funding for a full-time center and director..."The center would serve anyone in the community who has a personal, political, economic or social interest in the Muslim world,” said sophomore Sanah Parvez, treasurer of the Islamic Society of Stanford. “After Sept. 11, I think that everyone who identifies with some aspect of the Muslim world, religiously or not, unwittingly became a representative of it. For this reason, there is a strong need for a safe space on campus for Muslim students where they can learn and grow and communicate with people who are undergoing similar experiences and do this without fear.”
Human rights abuses high, speaker says
“I tremble for my nation, but trembling is not enough, I have to speak and be active. Someone has to point out the contradictions,” said Imam Mahdi Bray during his talk last night in Pigott Hall as part of Islam Awareness Month..."
Karam addresses Int'l cooperation with Hamas
Azza Karam of the United Nations Development Program passionately argued for American and European cooperation with the newly-elected Hamas government and discussed the gender egalitarianism of the Islamist movement in her speech at Stanford last Friday.
“We don’t have the luxury of turning our back on the Palestinian elections,” she said.
Islam Awareness Month showcases culture
Interested in
the Muslim world? Unsure of what Islam is all about? Get
ready for Islam Awareness Month, which kicks off this
Sunday with a session appropriately titled Islam 101.
Islam Awareness Month (IAM), sponsored by the Muslim
Student Awareness Network (MSAN) and the Islamic Society
will last until Feb. 26. Events including speakers, dinners
and documentary screenings, will “expose the Stanford
community to the fundamentals of Islam and how it is
practiced as a way of life,” according to MSAN Vice
President Mohammad Subeh, a senior.
Islam Awareness Month Kicks Off
Islam Awareness
Month kicked off last night with an evening of music, food
and information titled “Islam 101: Sounds of
Islam.”
The event, presented by the Islamic Society of Stanford
University (ISSU) and the Muslim Student Awareness Network
(MSAN), was attended by approximately 75 people and held in
Bechtel International Center.
To begin the evening, MSAN President Omar Shakir, a junior,
noted the growth of Stanford’s Muslim community over
the past several decades. Currently, there are
approximately 12 student groups — including the
Muslim Students Awareness Network and Pakistanis at
Stanford (PAS), among others — who are affiliated
with Stanford’s Muslim community.
SOCC supports union cause, The Stanford Daily
As students, it
can be easy to forget that we are not the only ones who
constitute the Stanford campus. Other members of our
Stanford community play a vital role in the functioning of
the University but do not necessarily participate in its
triumphs as an academic institution. These people cook,
serve and clean up after us, keep our routines stress-free
and undertake a variety of difficult tasks that are as
essential to University function as our own participation.
This is why SOCC, the Students of Color Coalition, believes
that the union workers’ struggle for better pay and
benefits is as much our problem as it is that of the
workers.
Students Fast for Earthquake Victims
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Both Sides of the Sudan crisis will be
heard
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‘Islamophobia' spreading in the
world
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Epstein lecture: a vision for
peace
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Events highlight Islamic
diversity
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Sudan ambassador denies claims of genocide in
the Darfur region
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MEChA, other groups fear special-fees
repeat
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Mideast conflict sparks rallies
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Class sizes jump following attacks