Mas'ood Cajee
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Mas'ood Cajee
Stockton, California USA
Mas'ood Cajee is a longtime contributor to altmuslim.com and is a founding board member of the Muslim Peace Fellowship and former vice-chair of the national council of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He is currently practicing dentistry in Stockton, California, and is working on several books related to human rights, history, and Islamic themes. | |
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A sartorial smear By Mas'ood Cajee, February 27, 2008 With a simple photo in traditional African garb, an uneasy instinct has emerged to frame Barack Obama in ways that speak to middle America’s deepest racial, religious, and cultural fears.  ( 10 comments) |
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The top ten good news stories of 2007 By Mas'ood Cajee, December 25, 2007 Though clouds gather, we must search for silver linings. They are always present and apparent to the optimist and the wisdom-seeker, as surely as springtime buds emerging from winter’s cold bareness. ( 2 comments) |
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Building moderate American networks By Mas'ood Cajee, May 1, 2007 With the release of the Rand Corporation's report that defines "Moderate Muslims", we now have an opportunity to define "Moderate Americans". ( 2 comments) |
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Madrassah matters By Mas'ood Cajee, January 20, 2007 As a Madrassah student, I not only learned Islamic rituals but also gained exposure to Islamic virtues like justice, liberality, modesty, and contentment. ( 13 comments) |
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The top ten good news stories of 2006 By Mas'ood Cajee, December 30, 2006 Putting aside for a moment the misery of war that afflicts the Muslim world, we have found some bright spots where good things happened in the Muslim world in 2006. ( 5 comments) |
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On Holocaust zeroes & heroes By Mas'ood Cajee, January 27, 2006 On this Holocaust Memorial Day 2006, Mas'ood Cajee reflects on the politics of memory and why Muslims should represent the best of Islamic tradition and spirit. ( 41 comments) |
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The top ten good news stories of 2005 By Mas'ood Cajee, December 31, 2005 Despite all that happened in 2005, we were inspired and infused with hope and strength we drew from transformative events and people - whose stories we call good news. ( 56 comments) |
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The ten movies Steven Spielberg has yet to make By Mas'ood Cajee, December 8, 2005 Imagine if we were in a parallel universe in which Hollywood gave Arabs, Muslims, and Jews a fair shake. Here are ten films (all based on true stories) that are just waiting for Spielberg's magic. ( 67 comments) |
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An American Muslim heritage day? By Mas'ood Cajee, November 23, 2005 Let's make this a day of thanksgiving and remembrance of our heritage as American Muslims, so we can better understand our role in America in these remarkable times. ( 94 comments) |
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The top ten good news stories of 2004 By Mas'ood Cajee, January 1, 2005 Like establishment bobblehead Fareed Zakaria, I too have been compiling an annual list of Good News stories from the Muslim World for the past few years. ( 4 comments) |
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This year, it’s a Ramadan Thanksgiving By Mas'ood Cajee, November 26, 2003 It's not easy waking up Muslim in America anymore, but this Ramadan Thanksgiving, there are many things for which American Muslims need to be grateful. ( 4 comments) |
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![]() | | | War in Iraq | |
The first casualty index By Mas'ood Cajee, April 23, 2003 Mas'ood Cajee lists a series of crucial truths that are unfortunately missing in action, absent without leave, or prisoners of war. ( No comments) |
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The top ten good news stories of 2002 By Mas'ood Cajee, December 30, 2002 Was there any good news for the Muslim community in 2002? Mas'ood Cajee recounts the news of the last year, and finds some points of light. ( No comments) |
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altmuslim this week - march 8, 2010 - This week, Geert Wilders gets some more attention in the name of free speech, Israel continues to give America the run-around with a snub of Joe Biden, and what do Adam Gadahn and Jihad Jane have in common? It's more than their twisted interpretation of Islam.
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Our look at new media and the Muslim world - On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the UC Berkeley Centers of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East along with Arab Cultural and Community Center, Naseeb.com, Center for Islamic Studies at GTU, and altmuslim.com will be sponsoring a forum on how Muslim youth use new media. Join us! (March 7, 2010)
A record-breaking charity - One Muslim-run charity has found a unique way to bring attention to causes that affect children from all backgrounds. The IF Charity's Big Read will attempt to break the world record for adults reading to children this Thursday in London. (March 1, 2010)
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altmuslim review 032 - Muslim writers everywhere! We speak about the new wave of Western Muslim literature and interview two authors with recently released books. Our own Irfan Yusuf talks about his memoir, Once Were Radicals and Reza Aslan tells us more about his second book, How to Win a Cosmic War (June 11, 2009)
altmuslim review 031 - Oh, Bama! What does the election of Barack Obama mean for American Muslims, who were both courted and shunned during a long campaign? We speak with American Muslim Democratic activists who were gathered in Washington for the historic inauguration. (March 5, 2009)
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Recent and upcoming talks and offsite articles by altmuslim contributors
Al-Awlaki, a new public enemy, Zahed Amanullah, The Guardian, Comment is Free, December 30, 2009.
Islamophonic: Review of the year, Riazat Butt, Zahed Amanullah and David Shariatmadari, Cif Belief (The Guardian), December 18, 2009.
Fort Hood has enough victims already, Wajahat Ali, Comment is Free (The Guardian), November 6, 2009
The pitfalls of filming Muhammad, Shahed Amanullah, The Guardian, Comment is Free, November 4, 2009.
Children of Dust (published by HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins), the first book by longtime altmuslim.com contributor Ali Eteraz, is released in the US, Canada, and the UK on October 13, 2009.
Shahed will be attending the m100 Sansoucci Colloquium in Potsdam, Germany, September 14-16, 2009. He will be moderating a panel discussion on the Danish cartoon crisis with Denis MacShane MP, Jasim Al-Azzawi (Al Jazeera English), and Flemming Rose (Jyllands Posten).
Associate Editor Wajahat Ali's play "The Domestic Crusaders" is having its premiere at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, NY, September 11, 2009. The play will continue through Sunday, October 11, 2009.
Shahed will be moderating or participating in three panel discussions at the Islamic Society of North America's annual convention, including Muslim Journalists: The View from the Inside, Supporting Social Entrepreneurs and Civic Leaders, and Blogistan: Muslim Americans on the Web in Washington, DC, July 3-6, 2009.
State-sponsored Sufism, Ali Eteraz, Foreign Policy, June 10, 2009.
Pushing the Envelope Without Breaking It, Shahed Amanullah, The Mosque in Morgantown, June 2, 2009.
Obama in Egypt: Let the unsaid be said, Zahed Amanullah, Patheos.com, May 28, 2009.
Zahed will be a panelist at Divan 2.0, a debate on the future of the Muslim internet sponsored by the Radical Middle Way at the London School of Economics in London, England, May 22, 2009.
Once Were Radicals (published by Allen and Unwin), the first book by Associate Editor Irfan Yusuf, is released in Australia, May 4, 2009.
Shahed and Wajahat will be speaking at the 3rd Annual Leadership Summit presented by the Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals in Princeton, NJ, May 2, 2009.
Shahed will be leading a workshop on Media Strategies & Techniques at the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow conference in New York, NY, April 24-25, 2009.
Bringing it all back home, Wajahat Ali, The Guardian, Comment is Free, April 9, 2009.
Zahed will be conducting a two day workshop on Blogging and New Media for Italian students at the United States Embassy, Rome, Italy, April 8-9, 2009.
Crusading for Modern Islamic Art, Shahed Amanullah, Beliefnet, March 26, 2009.
Wajahat will be speaking at the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow conference in Doha, Qatar (January 16-19, 2009)
Finding the middle ground, Hesham Hassaballa, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 8, 2009.
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Media appearances and analysis featuring altmuslim editors
Muslims say new security rules unfair, ineffective - ''Muslims are doing their duty. Muslim parents are being attentive. It's the TSA that's not being attentive. It's the TSA that's not doing its duty," said Shahed Amanullah, an editor at the Web site altmuslim.com. "There's nothing more that Muslims can do than turn in their own families." (January 7, 2010)
US Muslims & media… Lost love - "We have a big problem; it’s that other people are shaping the story about us," Shahed Amanullah, editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com, told IslamOnline.net. (December 16, 2009)
Moves to Seize Mosques Spark Outrage - "I'm extremely skeptical that the link between these mosques and this organization is so strong as to merit the seizing of a considerable amount of assets that do a lot of good for the Muslim community," says Shahed Amanullah, a prominent Muslim blogger based in Austin. "The government better be prepared to make a very good case, because this is unprecedented." (November 17, 2009)
Muslim Prayer Day Illustrates Dynamics of Free Speech in U.S. - "Some popular commentators and bloggers, such as Zahed Amanullah of the Web site altmuslim and Aziz Poonawalla of the blog City of Brass, were critical of its timing, coming so close to the end of Ramadan and Eid celebrations." (October 23, 2009)
O’s Fall Reading Guide - Children of Dust - "Ali Eteraz's memoir, Children of Dust, describes this ardent young Muslim's picaresque journey from a brutal Pakistani madrassa (oddly reminiscent of a British boys' school) to America's Bible Belt ("Allahbama," in his devout but increasingly modern eyes), where he braved the sexual fantasyland of AOL and zealously warded off temptation in miniskirts... his adventures are a heavenly read." (October 14, 2009)
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