Tornado Ravages Alabama City; Storm Toll Grows

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/us/29storm.html?_r=1&hp

MECCA Center Fundraiser in NY - Keynote Speaker: Shaykh Yahya Rhodus - May 7th

http://seekersguidance.org/blog/2011/04/mecca-fundraiser-in-ny-guest-speaker-shaykh-yahya-rhodus-may-7th/

http://www.meccacenter.com/meccacenter/index.php

Shaykh Hamza's new blog post on the Du'a al-Nasiri is up

http://www.sandalaproductions.com/Blog/27-the-prayer-of-the-oppressed-dua-al-nasiri.aspx

via Uzma

Robert Fisk: If the rumours and conspiracies are true, then President Assad's regime is on the road to civil war

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-if-the-rumours-and-conspiracies-are-true-then-president-assads-regime-is-on-the-road-to-civil-war-2275155.html

House G.O.P. Members Face Voter Anger Over Budget

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/us/politics/27congress.html?hp

Chris Hedges: The Corporate State Wins Again

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_corporate_state_wins_again_20110425/

Read Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class which Hedges references (and I had to read for class)

“KORAN BY HEART,” DOC ABOUT MUSLIM CHILD PRODIGIES, CHARMS TRIBECA

http://scottfeinberg.com/koranbyheart

via Dawud

Conference on Islam in Europe & America at CUNY Grad

http://studyofreligion.gc.cuny.edu/islam-in-europe-america-day-1/

http://studyofreligion.gc.cuny.edu/islam-in-europe-america-day-2/

http://studyofreligion.gc.cuny.edu/islam-in-europe-america-conference-day-3/

Thanks Rayad

(Book) "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class"

Just read for one of my classes and would recommend:

Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

"Tribeca: "Koran by Heart" -- Islamic slapdown!"

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2011/04/25/koran_tribeca

via Wajahat Ali

Full coverage of the Guantánamo files on the Guardian UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/guantanamo-files

via Khalid - thanks!

The Return Of the Veil: Young American Muslim women have come to view the hijab as a symbol of liberation rather than repression.

Review of Leila Ahmed's new book "A Quiet Revolution."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704495004576264981259828942.html

via Wajahat