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Now refugees with home-based businesses have an

array of administrative services and a business location without

the expense of becoming tenants. Business Links was also

awarded a major grant from Hewlett-Packard. HP provided

$150,000 in technology and services so we can provide training

and technical assistance to refugee entrepreneurs. The mobile

training lab and other state-of-the-art equipment are also

available for use by other Institute departments.
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- The diversity in the resettlement program was even greater than
  
  in 2004. Afghan, various Russian ethnicities, Somali Bantu,
  
  Liberian, Congolese, and Eritrean groups continued to be resettled.
  
  Mesketian (or Ahiska) Turks, Uzbeks and Ethiopians joined us
  
  as well. A small number of Vietnamese also came late in the year.
  
  More than 4,900 received immigration supportive assistance.
  
  We provided information and referrals as well as application photos
  
  and help completing various applications. In all, more than 7,000
  
  applications were completed, including citizenship and family
  
  reunification petitions.
- We worked collaboratively with several agencies under formal
  
  contracts (African Mutual Assistance Association of Missouri,
  
  African Refuge and Immigrant Services, Bilingual International
  
  Assistant Services, Center for Survivors of Torture and War
  
  Trauma, and the Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Program).
  
  These efforts will expand in 2006 with a technology grant from
  
  SBC Communications.

25 Jan 08

The second thing to keep in mind is that notions of what is
cruel and unusual, of what is barbaric, of what is barbaric, of what is
draconian (which is the real basis upon which America rejects these
punishments) are a function of culture, not law. It is only through changes in
American culture that American attitudes towards such things are likely to
change.
Islamically sanctioned
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- This much said, it would be foolish to deny that the
  prospects for American acceptance of such institutions as stoning, or flogging
  or amputation are virtually nil, at least for the foreseeable future.
- It is precisely through this ability to penetrate and
  articulate the rules of Islamic law in ways that clearly define their benefit
  and utility to society at large that Muslims are likely to be able to influence
  the legal order in America. And it should be understood that once this is done,
  there are no Constitutional impediments to having these laws applied in the
  public domain. Muslims must be vocal and confident in articulating the public
  utility underlying the rules on things like riba, adultery, theft,
  drinking, contracts, pre-marital sex, child-custody and even polygyny.
- A more profitable approach for Muslims would be to look at
  the opportunities the Constitution affords them to promote their interests as
  Muslims and to take full advantage of those opportunities. According to the
  Constitution, the U.S. government cannot force a Muslim to renounce his or her
  faith; it cannot deny him or her the right to pray, or fast, or perform the
  pilgrimage; it cannot force him or her to eat pork, shave his beard or remove
  her hijab; it cannot deny Muslims the right to build mosques or to hold public
  office; it cannot deny them the right to criticize government officials and
  policies, including the person and the policies of the president. The U.S.
  government cannot even force a Muslim to pledge allegiance to the United State!
  Surely it must be worth the Muslims’ time and energy to ask if these (and many
  other) rights and opportunities should be squandered in the name of dogmatic
  minutae and uncritical readings of Islamic law and history, rather than turned
  to the benefit and welfare of Islam and the Muslims.
- f in the future America becomes a
  predominantly Muslim country (politically or numerically) then Muslims will be
  responsible for ensuring that its legal and political order are consistent with
  the dictates of Islam. In the meantime, this becomes a questionable demand at
  best. The kind of confusion that has been generated over this issue is, I
  think, another example of what happens when Muslims in the West blindly import
  views and ideologies from the modern Muslim world.
- MUSLIMS AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
- No school and no jurist has ever held (to my knowledge) that
  is permissible for Muslims to reside in a non-Muslim land and remain completely
  passive, doing nothing to promote the safety and welfare of the Muslims and the
  dignity of Islam! This amounts, in effect, to what some jurists have construed
  to be a type of consensus (ijma) to the effect that if Muslims do decide to take up
  residence in a non-Muslim land they must, as a community (ala wajh
  al-kifayah), do everything that would appear necessary to ensure the safety
  and welfare of the Muslims and, above all, the dignity of Islam.
- Child Protective
  Services’ discriminatory intervention into Muslim family life.
- our retreat from the more difficult task of penetrating,
  appropriating and redirecting American culture
- If Muslims are to
  establish a real existence here in America, one that will enable them not only
  to consume but to shape American reality, the Muslim cultural imagination will
  have to be liberated. Once this is done, Muslims will be able to move beyond
  the relatively safe arena of sports (Hakeem Olajuwan, and until recently,
  Mahmud ‘Abd al-Ra’uf, etc.) into those of literature, poetry music,
  fashion design, comedy, interior decorating, etc., just as has
  existed throughout Islamic history, and just as exists in virtually every
  Muslim country in the world!
- I begin with an insight borrowed from the Italian
  neo-Marxist, Antonio Gramsci (d.19-). Gramsci had witnessed the collapse of the
  American economic system during the Great Depression of 1929. He also observed
  that despite the economic ruin that came to many among the elite, there was
  virtually no change in the social cum political relations among America’s haves
  and have-nots. Whereas one would have expected the haves’ loss of wealth to
  reduce them - socially and politically - to the status of have-nots, in the end
  they lost virtually nothing of their status as premier citizens who both
  assumed and received the right to deferential treatment. On this observation,
  Gramsci developed his concept of “hegemony,” via which he concluded that it was
  not control over the means of material production that determined relations of
  power and authority in society but control over the means of material
  production that determined relations of power and authority in society but
  control over the means of producing and disseminating intellectual products,
  namely, ideas and images. It was the educational, cultural and religious
  institutions along with the media and entertainment industry, that held the
  keys to how people saw themselves and interacted with each other in society.
  And where there existed no challenge to the views and images created by these
  institutions, politics and economics would do little to change the status quo.
- But this is done with extreme caution and
  in the context of a conscious rejection of the proposition that their coming to
  America imposes upon them any obligation to assimilate. In fact, as one
  observer has recently noted, coming to America is now seen by many immigrants
  as the greatest ensurer of the right to remain themselves!
- From the outset, the enterprise of Muslim self-definition is
  complicated by the fact of the heterogeneous make-up of the Muslim community in
  America. American-born converts (the majority of whom are African-Americans)
  are a product of American history, as are their hopes, fears, fantasies and
  proper ambition. They are both repelled by the American experience, by virtue
  of their history as a marginalized minority, and attracted to it, by the virtue
  of their connection to a uniquely rich Afro-American historical and cultural
  tradition. Their search for a boa fide Muslim identity is still in its
  exploratory stage. To this point, however, the record of successive turns and
  turnabouts has proved one thing if nothing else: Whatever this
  Afro-American-Muslim identity turns out to be as a final product, if it is to
  be life-affirming as opposed to a paralyzing agent, it will have to embrace,
  however discriminately, rather than ignore the reality and history of
  African-Americans, just as effectively as it fortifies for them the boundaries
  between Islam and non-Islam.

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Islamic-world.net

Al-Hilal Publishing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Supplied note:
"We think that the links, information and resources offered by our
site [est. Jun 2000 - ed.] could (Insyaallah) be of some assistance to
Islamic education."

Site contents: Our Plan; Our Papers [online publications - ed.];
Parenting; Dakwah; Aphorisms; Muslim Youth; Islamic Multimedia; Ask
Scholar; Links Index (Alphabetical Sites List, Arabic Language Sites,
Da'wah Sites, General Islamic Sites, Hadith, Sharia & Sunnah
Sites, Hajj Sites, Islamic Calligraphy, Art & Graphics Sites,
Islamic Character Sites, Islamic Educational Institution Sites,
Islamic History Sites, Islamic Literature Sites, Islamic Media Sites,
Islamic Organization Sites, Islamic Parenting & Children Sites,
Islamic Resources Sites, Islamic Scholar Sites, Islamic Science &
Medicine Sites, Islamic Software & Computer Sites, Islamic
Student Sites, Jihad Sites, Masjid Sites, Middle East and Arab Sites,
Muslim Sister's Sites, Prophet Muhammad, Qur'an Sites, Ramadan Sites,
Sahaba Sites, Salat Sites, Sufi Sites, Zakat Sites); Islamic Search
Engines.

[A remarkable and spendidly managed site - ed.]

URL http://islamic-world.net/

Link suggested by: Mohd Adha (adha@islamic-world.net)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
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Since you are reading
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telephone and paper research skills. As the latest statistics
indicate, online searching will take you only so far. Sixty-five
percent of public records remain offline. Of the 35 percent online,
many contain no personally identifying information. (Public Records
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This article explains important differences between public records,
public information and private information. It introduces select
public records databases and search techniques. It would take a book
to cover all worthwhile sources. It's a
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After some recent discussion on whether a local critical mass group should set up an account on the social networking site MySpace, some interesting things came to light. The amount of activist and campaign groups using the social networking site is growing. These groups include not only critical mass groups in London, Oxford and Manchester and anarchists from Norwich, Gwent, Ipswich but also bigger initiatives like Earth First (1) | (2), Plane Stupid, the Anarchist Federation (1) | (2) and the Cowley Club in Brighton. Even within the independent media world Democray Now, the Indypendent (1) | (2), and Indymedia (1) | (2) collectives from San Diego, Los Angelos (1) | (2) and Indybay have joined the MySpace craze. All but to name a few really. But is MySpace really the online community I would want to be part of? Looking into its structure and the real reasons behind its existance, I doubt I would.

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