I told him I had to visit a mosque for an assignment and he thanked me for being interested in finding out about their religion, especially at these times as there is a lot of unrest in the Middle East and a bad taste in peoples mind when people talk about Arabs and Islam. We shook hands and he went to talk to other
I missed all my family members, especially my parents, brothers, and sisters. I can’t say when exactly I first became aware of that feeling, that I was never going back home again, but surely I must have felt it during those first years in Houston. I had only a few friends and we sat on the edge of whatever culture we now were supposed to be a part of. We sometimes met at the all-Arabic Cafe, which had a similar at most here as Iraq. This cafe sat on a Houston corner, with a culture and history different from the one I had been born into, but which was familiar to me nonetheless.
On the other hand, I think that our government has the right to do everything in it’s power to ensure our safety, including spying on those in countries who have threatened our own. If the NSA could have taken a closer look or had more information about Hazmi and Midhar’s plan to travel to the United States, their trip would have never been successful. The NSA needs to focus their attention more to the other countries instead of basically wasting all of their time with U.S. citizens, and maybe slips like letting terrorist into our homeland wouldn’t happen. They are getting their systems blown up with information that is useless to them from Americans. If they didn’t have to spend the time to sort through all of America’s “evidence,” then they would probably be able to seek out and confirm the terroristic threats and evidence coming from outside of the
What if it were one of you family members suffering like this due to the neglect of the gas company. I will keep on fighting for our community to be safe and healthy. I would hope that you all will do the same. I think we need to write them a letter explaining the findings and ask them to a community meeting for this would be the best approach to start with. Now if the gas company does not respond, we need to take this further and possibly taking it to the newspapers.
Great Britain is also currently being presented with the same question as the problem has arisen as the extent of knowledge law enforcement has as to the activity of Muslim extremist in the country. The problem is in order to prevent such attacks all the pieces of the information must be collected and the most efficient way to do so is through aggressive intelligence gathering. However this presents the problems of infringing upon civil liberties. The first step to striking a balance between intelligence collections and protecting civil liberties is intelligence priorities. Prior to the 9/11 attacks the focus of the FBI and intelligence collection was in the prosecution of terrorists rather than the prevention of attacks.
It was a very important part of The Prophets life that purified his family by Allah as is stated in the Quran. Hazleton put these stories in a way that you could picture in your head easily. When telling the Hadith of the Pen and Paper, it’s almost as if you were there beside the Prophet Muhammad’s
I hung out with a lot of questionable characters back home before joining the army. This isn’t because I was shy to make new friends, this was due to the fact that there were so few people in my town that the demographics that I would think of befriending were few and far between. Having joined the army, it’s managed to simultaneously improve my life in countless ways, and put me in social situations where I could make friends that shared those same values. Buddies who have my back no matter what the circumstances, and buddies that I’d take a bullet for. As I said before, military was few and far between in my hometown.
My culture is very respectful, and very humble. In the United States when you turn eighteen you’re an adult, you move out, you start your own life. If I do that, my family is going to look at me crazy. This is going to sound very weird to you but very normal to me, in my Colombian community you don’t
Their neighborhood is a very quiet place, without any history of drug abuse or any kind of police involved cases. This family is in close contact with their neighbors as they attend many of the block parties organized frequently during summer. In addition to that, this family tries to talk to their neighbors at least once a week and share concerns about each other. M.S’s family has good access to the vehicles, but E.S is unable to drive for long hours
His magical Marina del Rey was real and functional, ready to hold his house, boat building and renting entrepreneurial business, that would later become a career for him. We both have lived and were raised under two very different times in history and two very different sub-cultures. His constant German and Argentinian traditional side of the family that raised me followed similar patterns of family bonds like church and social/communal activities, but I guess not as involved and active as his when he was my age. I was raised in a single parent environment, a totally different economic status. But also, because I was an only child I did not have to deal with sharing or multi-budgeting.