Biggest Loser, just for show

ShareShirtless, cold and shivering, Mike walks up to a cold steel zoo animal weight scale.  He can feel the icy coldness of the scale against his bare feet, and the eyes of his teammates glaring at him.  He hears his weight called and sighs in relief. He lost weight, 22 pounds in one week!
Too good [...]

Gangs to parties, women converts speak up

ShareFive brave souls shared their stories at Crescent Youth’s Ask a Convert, an exclusive sisters’ event, at Masjid Hamza last Sunday.
On the third week of every month, the youth are given the floor to ask their questions, to a knowledgeable person or panel of individuals on a given topic. But this past Sunday’s event was a [...]

Unfair Advantage At MIST? What?

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Can this even be possible? Is it just an unfair ambush on hardworking students or is it really a legit issue? If private schools do have advantages, what kind of advantages and how have these perks been allowed?  To gain a better perceptive and to shed some light on this controversy, I decided to interview [...]

Can Obama walk the talk?

SharePresident Barack Obama stood before members of Congress and the Supreme Court and gave the State of the Union Address last Wednesday-in short, the list of what he wants accomplished during his second year of presidency.
This list included many admirable projects, such as revamping the railroad system (since much of the current system dates back [...]

Apple’s iPad stirs up buzz, but will it take off?

ShareNew technology gets me all giddy – real giddy. So giddy in fact, that I have been anticipating Apple’s Media Event for weeks. From the moment invitations were sent out to Apple’s exclusive event, bloggers and gadget gurus had been speculating an announcement for some sort of Apple Tablet that would simultaneously crush similar portable [...]

A Tragedy We CAN Prevent

ShareWe have all heard and read about the boy who was accused of hiring his fellow classmate to kill his mother, but who really was Danish Minhas?
The Houston Police Department have given their accounts of their experience with the teen, and while no professionals have declared him of a mental disorder, his writings on a [...]

Saudi’s King Aiming For Reform?

ShareDing, ding, ding – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is at it again! He’s granted another pardon for a woman abused under the legal system of his Kingdom. This time, journalist Rosanna al-Yami, who was given sixty lashes and a two year travel ban for being a part of a television series that discussed taboos [...]

The Monster in You

ShareA backbiting sister or a mom that always screams about all the things you do wrong, or the fiancée who lied to you, or the friend who took advantage of you.
We’ve probably all been in these type of situations at one point or another, and we see a side of ourselves we’d rather not even acknowledge [...]

It Takes Two

ShareSalutations. We are Heart and Breaker. One is full of heart; the other will break yours apart. Although we admit in most cases we only speak from our perspective, at the end of each column, we hope it’s effective. A formal introduction is probably a good start, so to lighten the column we’ll begin with heart.
Heart, [...]

The Tongue-Lashing Wrath

ShareThe word uncle is such a broad term. An uncle can be anywhere from 30 years old to 60 years old. He can be extremely knowledgeable about Islam or someone who knows only the basics. Uncles are human, just like everyone else; they come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Many of the youth [...]

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