I was glad to see this article on Muslim students preparing themselves to enter the fields of law and journalism. God knows, because of the last eight years of the Bush Administration, Muslims need to be concerned with the interpretation of the laws that criminal was able to push through Congress which in some ways threaten the very existence of freedom of religion and religious expression in our country. In the polarized atmosphere of a rabid chief executive officer, our country thought it was ok to entertain the notion that rights could be curtailed in the name of safety, and the first group to start with were people of the Islamic faith…or so the theory went. Fortunately young Muslims are seeing the need to prepare themselves for the eventuality such byzantine laws might bring.
“Our parents were focused on economic stability,” said Qureshi, a second-year law student at UNC-Chapel Hill.
“Our needs are not economic stability but social and political empowerment.”
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“We’re trying to make sure every American is entitled to civil rights guarantees in the Constitution,” said Abbas Ravjani, president of the National Muslim Law Students Association and a student at Yale Law School. The organization was formed six years ago and now has 300 students on its electronic mailing list.
I am also happy to see their interest in journalism.
Young Muslims are also studying journalism. Yasmin Amer said she was tired of seeing Muslims misrepresented in the media. On Tuesday, Amer, a third-year journalism and Arabic double major at UNC-CH, organized a panel discussion of an inflammatory DVD called “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West.“
I personally can’t think of a better venue with which to start.
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