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Secretary Clinton to Host Iftar at Department of State on September 7

missouriabdelhafid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:29:32 +0000

Washington, DC

September 3, 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will host an Iftar to celebrate the Holy Month of Ramadan on Tuesday, September 7 at 7:00p.m., at the Department of State.

The Holy Month of Ramadan is a time devoted to worship, contemplation, charity, and fellowship, observed with a daily fast from dawn to sun down. At the end of each day, Muslims traditionally break the fast with a meal known as “Iftar.” Ramadan is the month Muslims believe the Qu’ran was revealed to the Prophet Mohamed; it is a month of reflection, generosity, and compassion for more than a billion Muslims worldwide.

Secretary Clinton and Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith will make remarks at approximately 8:00 p.m. These remarks will be open to credentialed members of the media. Media access times and further details will be forthcoming in the public schedule.

Press Contacts:

Department of State
Office of Press Relations
(202) 647-2492

Department of State
Office of the Special Representative to Muslim Communities
ChandlerKR@state.gov

Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals (CAMP)

missouriabdelhafid — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:48:17 +0000

As salamulaikum all:

Please join CAMP Philly for Iftar dinner next Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at the S&H Kebab House (South and Passyunk St.)

As a courtesy to those who were unable to attend the Iftar dinner at Scribe Video Center on 8/30/10, we have invited the coordinator of Scribe’s upcoming project entitled, “Muslim Voices of Philadelphia,” Ayesha Butt, who will provide a brief presentation on the project and also information on how to become i

nvolved.

After the Iftar dinner some of us will head over to the United Muslim Masjid @ 15th and Christian Street to perform the Tawareeh prayer.

All members are welcome to join us! We look forward to seeing you there, Inshallah.

Date: September 8, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Location: 611 East Passyunk Avenue
(South Street and Passyunk Avenue, between 4th and 5th and South)

IVC This First Thursday Sptember 2nd, 2010

missouriabdelhafid — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:41:58 +0000

Join us this Thursday, September 2nd at 5:30 p.m. at the Courtyard Marriott to welcome our special international guests on several programs, including the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s International Masters of Law (LL.M.) Graduate Program & Philadelphia’s Sister Cities Program. From Penn, we just learned about five Brazilian executives in Philadelphia learning English and looking forward to practicing it with you. And welcome a rep from the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition & learn about Smart Power.

At this week’s First Thursday we have a large group of interesting people from around the world waiting to meet you - in fact, more than 100 people from 47 countries and regions! For attendees observing Ramadan, the Courtyard Marriott will serve additional food at sundown, 7:31 p.m. Thank you Courtyard Marriott!

Alan Hatfield or call 215-683-0992 to RSVP.

www.ivc.org

Igli People to March from Missour to Midelt

missouriabdelhafid — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:03:48 +0000

منذ أول يوم في اعتصامها المفتوح الذي بدأ يوم 26/02/2010 توجهت الجماعة السلالية لاهل اكلي بنداء إلى صاحب الجلالة محمد السادس نصره الله، بعد أن استحكمت سلطة الفساد والإفساد على مستوى الإقليم وجعلته قاعدة لتدبير شؤونه وهو ما جعل كل نداءات الجماعة السلالية صيحة في واد من اجل استرجاع حقوقها المهضومة وإعادة الاعتبار إليها وإلى أراضيها المنهوبة، من منطلق قناعتها الراسخة بأنه هو الجهة النزيهة التي بإمكانها أن تجد الحل العادل والمنصف الذي يعيد الحقوق إلى أصحابها ويعاقب المذنبين. ولذلك ظلت اللافتة التي تحمل هذا النداء على رأس الشعارات المرفوعة أمام مقر عمالة إقليم بولمان إلى أن دنستها الأجهزة الأمنية في تدخلها الهمجي في حق ذوي الحقوق.

وفي إطار الأشكال النضالية التي تخوضها الجماعة السلالية والتي تؤكد عزم وإيمان الجماعة السلالية بالمضي بها إلى غايتها حتى تحقيق كامل حقوقها العادلة والمشروعة، وتماشيا مع ما أعلنته في عدد من المناسبات بأنها قادرة على ابتكار الأشكال التي تراها مناسبة لتحقيق أهدافها،

قررت الجماعة السلالية لأهل إكلي تنظيم مسيرة سلمية راجلة إلى

مدينة ميدلت لإيصال صوتها إلى ملك البلاد، من منطلق قناعتها بأن ما وصل

إلى الجهات العليا لحد الآن حول ملف الجماعة السلالية ومشروعية مطالبها، يشوبه الكثير من التضليل والأفكار المغلوطة المبيتة من طرف الجهات الإقليمية والمحلية والبلدية، والتي ظلت تكيف عمل اللجان المركزية المتوافدة على مقر الإقليم بما يخدم مصالح هذه الجهات المرتبطة بمصالح المافيا، والساعية إلى إبقاء الوضع على ما هو عليه، بل والالتفاف على الجهود الحثيثة والرغبة الأكيدة للجهات العليا لحل هذا الملف.

وهذه المسيرة ستكون الأولى ولن تكون الأخيرة، وستظل الجماعة السلالية تشد الرحال إلى كل مكان يحل به الملك، إلى أن تتمكن من أن توصل صوتها إليه، في إطار يروم وضع أعلى سلطة في البلاد في حقيقة الوضع بميسور والفساد الإداري الذي ينخر أجهزة الدولة به، والذي تسبب في إتلاف مساحات واسعة من أراضي الجماعة السلالية لأهل اكلي وأصبح مرتعا خصبا لكل أنواع الفساد الأخرى التي حولت ميسور إلى مشتل لتفريخ المسؤولين الفاسدين والعابثين بحقوق الأفراد والجماعات.

للمزيد : www.iglawy.maktoobblog.com

عن اللجنة المنتدبة

Obama Says He is Not Concerned About Rumors he is Muslim

missouriabdelhafid — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:31:47 +0000

53 mins ago

NEW ORLEANS – President Barack Obama said Sunday he isn’t worried about a recent poll showing that nearly one-fifth of Americans believe he is a Muslim. “The facts are the facts,” said Obama, who is a Christian. In an interview broadcast on “NBC Nightly News,” the president blamed the confusion over his religious beliefs on “a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly.”

A poll released earlier this month by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center showed that 18 percent of people believe Obama is Muslim. That was up from 11 percent who said so in March 2009. Just 34 percent said Obama is Christian, down from 48 percent who said so last year.

“I’m not gonna be worrying too much about whatever rumors are floating on out there,” Obama said Sunday. “If I spend all my time chasing after that, then I wouldn’t get much done.”

Asked about persistent accusations that he wasn’t born in the United States, the president responded, “I can’t spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.”

NBC anchorman Brian Williams also asked Obama about conservative commentator Glenn Beck’s rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday. While he didn’t watch the event, Obama said, “I think that Mr. Beck and the rest of those folks were exercising their rights under our Constitution exactly as they should.”

The president acknowledged the ralliers’ concerns about the economy and terrorism and observed, “Given the fact that, you know, in none of these situations are you gonna fix things overnight, it’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country.”

Obama added: “I have no doubt that we are gonna rebound and rebound strong. But when you’re in the middle of it, and if you don’t have a job right now, it’s a tough, tough situation.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100830/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_religion

The Image of the Moroccan Woman in the Arabian Peninsula: Bitches and Witches!

missouriabdelhafid — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:45:13 +0000

This TV program you are about to see comes in the aftermath of a video produced by al-Watan television channel in the Quweit, describing Moroccan women as bitches and witches who use withcraft to marry Quweitis who visit Morocco. Such grave humiliation must provoke Moroccan women to improve their image and question prostitution networks that smuggle poor and unsuspecting Moroccan women to the Arabian Peninsula only to find themselves being abused and done business with.

Watch:

It is

http://hespress.com/?browser=view&EgyxpID=23139

Community Service and Volunteerism

missouriabdelhafid — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:14:01 +0000

While starting Moroccan community associations across the United states over the last few years, community leaders were faced with one major obstacle: ignorance of the utility of community service and rejection of volunteerism.

It has happened times and again upon initiation of the seed to create a community association that individuals come at you with this: what is your organization going to do for us? what have you done for us? what will be my benefit from this?

So faced with ignorance, many have had to adopt a new approach: “build it and they will come”. That is, you build your organization with a few like-minded individuals and you use whatever resources you have available to you to start your project. Start it from home and gather around your idea a few willing individuals who knows that one of the foundations for the success of Americans is their firm belief in the great importance of community service and especially volunteerism. It means understanding that volunteering time and effort certainly pays off. It means having the doors of your organization wide open to the community to come with practical ideas to do something for the community in particular and the country in general. It means entrenching in our individuals the desire to offer someting without saying: I need to see immediate results in my own life.

Our community is very able of being organized. However, that only will materialize if we inculcate in them the spirit of volnteerism and to explain to them that your offering time and effort to your community is not a waste of time. It is not really a free service for others. It is not catering for others and promotimg their interests at the expense of your own self. Instead, you will, if you are an ambitious person, no doubt one day need a letter of recommendation for your job application, for your application for admission to college, a testimoney of your good character or community service if you happen to have problems with the law. These are just a few advantages of being part of your community, of being available to help it, of sacrificing time and effort for it.

How great communities are when individuals are aware of the importance of volunteerism, when members come to you and say: what can we do to help? I am putting myself at your disposition, at the service of our community, at the service of our city, at the service of the country and the world! For blessed they will be when they win the respect of the country no matter if not from the community. They will be appreciated by the citizens, by ordinary fellow citizens, by local, city, state, and federal public servants, but most importantly within their own society and their own community.

How great it is when you volunteer for your community to help the weak and the vulnerable with whatever advice that can help them deal with the hardships and the difficulties that lie their way.

And O how great to it when you help a sick woman who falls into the fangs of a fraudulent spouse who promises salvation to poor new-comers who flee poverty, injustice, and lack of opportunity!

Volunteerism sets your heart free, controls the greed of the mind, and elevates you to positions of productive altruism. Volunteerism in America is the cornerstone to build and rise. It is that gift which promotes your creativity, stretches your imagination, increases your opportunity, connects you to circles of empowerment, advances your goals, and relieves you of many a spychological and material burden. It alleviates your circumstances when in times of legal stress. It protects your community against bigotry, discrimination, and injustice. It presents your community as a unified front for the peace and the security of your community and all communities around you. It proves your goodness of heart, your disposition for giving and helping, and your seriously seeking to be a good citizen.

How great then it is to be a volunteer for your community, to teach a GED, English, or Arabic class, to clean up a street, a garden or a park, to join a discussion group, to organize a cultural day, a soccer tournament, or an interfaith-dialog meeting. How great it is then that you will be recognized in city hall, in courts, in local and national community centers, and above all, in your society and in your community.

Blessed be you then that you are a volunteer or seeking to become one. I commend you if you are one and

wholeheartedly advice you to diligently seek to become one if you have not attained that level of prerequisite awareness as of yet. and remember: if you have reached that high level of prerequisite understanding and awareness of the importance of community service and volunteering without creating much fuss and ado about where you are in the structure of the organization, you are being practical and productive: a True Volunteer.

Go then and seek to be one. May light be shone on your path.

Abdelhafid Missouri

President of the House of Morocco.

عودة الصورة/ الدنائة تكشف عن وجهها من خلال تصرف رئيس المجلس البلدي بميسور

missouriabdelhafid — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:32:28 +0000

كتبهامحمد العرابي ، في 28 أغسطس 2010

بعد التشهير بواقع عبث المجلس البلدي باراضي الجماعة السلالية لاهل اكلي من خلال

رميه لاطنان من النفايات الصلبة على مساحات واسعة وبشكل عشوائي، ها هو رئيس

المجلس البلدي يقوم بالتقاط الاوعية البلاستيكية المنتنة وفي درجة حرارة تزيد عن 50

درجة مائوية ، بعد ان لفحته حرارة الزيارة الملكية لمدينة ميدلت والفساد الاداري الدي

فاحت رائحته من هناك والدي اظهر للعالم بعض ما عند المجالس البلدية من فساد وقلة

حياء وغباء.

المخجل اكثر ان رئيس المجلس البلدي اشرف شخصيا اليوم على طرد احد اعضاء الجماعة السلالية لاهل اكلي الذين يعملون في جمع نفايات المجلس البلدي لا لذنب ارتكبه سوى انه ينتمي لاهل اكلي. وهذا السلوك يفضح المدى الذي اوصلت نضالات الجماعة السلالية برئيس المجلس البلدي وكيف انه اصبح يضيق ذرعا باي كائن فيه شيء من اهل اكلي، كما تبرز الوجه القبيح الذي يحاول ان يجمله من خلال عبثه بالايات القرانية وحديث الوعض الذي يغطي خطابه الرسمي . اليوم هاهو يقطع رزق احد الافراد المغلوبين على امرهم والذين يكدون بعرق جبينهم لاستخلاص لقمة عيش نقية من نفايات المجلس البلدي ، مع العلم انه لم يرتكب جرما ولا قصر في عمله ولكن كونه من اهل اكلي فهذا يكفيه لان يكون في مرمى رئيس المجلس البلدي وحقده الدفين

Confessions of Former Algerian Agent Karim Moulay

missouriabdelhafid — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:58:27 +0000

http://hespress.com/?browser=view&EgyxpID=23075

Arab Americans

missouriabdelhafid — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:33:37 +0000

Arab immigrants began coming to the U.S. is sizable numbers during the 1880’s. It is estimated that nearly 3.5 million Americans trace their roots to an Arab country. Arab Americans are found in every state, but more than two thirds of them live in just ten states (California, Michigan, New York, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia). Metropolitan Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York are home to one-third of the population.

Arab Americans are as diverse as their countries of origin, with unique immigration experiences that have shaped their ethnic identity in the United States. While the majority of Arab Americans descend from the first wave of mostly Christian immigrants, Arab Muslims represent the fastest growing segment of the Arab American community.

Contrary to popular assumptions or stereotypes, the majority of Arab Americans are native-born, and nearly 82% are citizens. While the community traces its roots to every Arab country, the majority of Arab Americans have ancestral ties to Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iraq.