Recently UC Berkeley’s PakSA (Pakistani Student Association) has become quite active and they have decided to have a movie night coming Wednesday, October 8th, to screen the best Pakistani movie ever made (in my opinion). Khuda Kay Liye is about the turmoil currently rampant in Pakistan where the seculars are up against the Talibanization [...]

I was way too busy to blog last week even though I wished I could. Eid was looming, midterms were approaching and my work was stressful. Working at WaMu last week and a week before that was not easy because of the whole thing with Chase buying WaMu. First it was the uncertainty then it [...]

I bought iPhone 3g last week, 8gb version. So far I love it! I am writting this blog post using iPhone. Wordpress has an excellent application that allows me to blog without launching the Safari web browser. I hate the battery life of iPhone, by the time I am done with this post, I will look [...]

A huge truck bomb exploded at the entrance to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan Saturday evening, right after the Iftaar, killing at least 60 people and wounding scores of others. The tally will climb up as more and more bodies are found, the Marriott Hotel now looks like a war zone with a huge [...]

Maybe Britain wasn’t ready, maybe it was and even if it wasn’t, they have willingly or unwillingly become part of the Muslim world. Let me say something here, it is not a publicity stunt when you become a part of the Muslim world, it just puts you down even more. Britain has officially adopted the [...]

I just downloaded Google’s Chrome web browser and think it’s pretty cool. It has a slick desgin and pages seem to load way faster than Internet Explorer. I tried logging into my Hotmail account which is my primary email account and saw this message: Hotmail wants me to upgrade my web browser and I don’t see a [...]

Like every year, SFSU MSA is organizing its Ramadan Fast-a-Thon next week. The whole concept behind Fast-a-Thon is to get non-Muslims to fast one day and then have them break their fast with Muslims and other non-Muslims. Fast-a-Thon helps create awareness about the issue of hunger, and also about the Islamic way of life [...]

I moved to Berkeley last year in July and since then there has been this tree-sitter issue going on in the city of Berkeley. This issue is mainly related to U.C. Berkeley campus but as the city of Berkeley is 90% about U.C. Berkeley and what happens there, it wasn’t unusual to hear or [...]

According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life “There are about 1.5 million voting-age Muslims in the U.S.” This number is not that significant but most these voters happen to be in the swing states like Michigan and Florida. Here in the Bay Area, Democrats will easily win so it doesn’t matter [...]

If you happen to be in the U.S then by now you have heard about the Government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This news was surprising to not that many people as the takeover was inevitable. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were the largest provider of U.S mortgage securities. Their business model involved [...]