Long Beach locals and students share their perspectives and experiences regarding the Israel-Hamas war.
Tag: Islam
Israel’s critics find similarities to occupied land in apartheid South Africa
With the growth of Israeli settlements into Palestinian land, the hope of an establishment of a future Palestinian state drifts further and further away.
Fleeing for freedom from the Taliban in Afghanistan
Citizens in Afghanistan and Pakistan are living under the Islamization of a new government led by the Taliban and a CSULB student recalled her own family’s struggles to flee the country.
Muslim Students Association sees increase in student membership
Jasmine Harr, a student who recently converted to Islam, is one example of the growing number of students who are joining the Muslim Students Association across the nation.
U.S. retreat from Syria will carry disastrous implications
For many American citizens, the seven-year-long civil war raging in Syria seems like a distant reality floating in the background of domestic affairs. As for myself, I find it difficult to ignore the injustices committed against the people of Syria and America’s frustratingly stale attitude toward them. If it wasn’t[Read More…]
Eid comes back to the Beach
When Fatima Abdelhafeez was a young girl, she looked forward to the annual “Eid at the Beach” celebration that Cal State Long Beach hosts for Muslim people at school and in the Long Beach area. Now, as an alumna of CSULB, Abdelhafeez continued to give back to the Long Beach[Read More…]
President Obama’s faulty view of radical Islam
When President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, he decided once more to deny any relation between terrorism and radical Islam. “Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed[Read More…]