Hello dearest,

Wowww your friend is partaking in similar activities? Please can you tell me more about his group and what exactly they do. Also, what does he think of the Obsession video? Did he agree with your analysis of it?


Hello to thee m'lady,

Well, its common thing for the pious university students nowadays to be involved in protecting what they stand for, protecting the label that defines who they are, whether its christians, muslims, or jews... at least that is what I have noticed here. I would have to say that at my uni, a small group of muslims, a dozen at most, even some from the infamous msa, have done amazing things like create free clinics, mentoring, science tutoring programs for jail in youth, and publishing the largest university-run islamic newspaper called "Al-talib" (whose editor recently got into Harvard Law School), and usually are the top students in many courses. However, there is the overwhelming majority of muslims that engage in a lot the of typical bullcrap that makes my fellow secular naturalistic folk and I cringe and grind our teeth. They are not more than simply whiners that play the victim card, that waste their time with their beards, caps, and hijabs as they forcefully preach and have festive social events full of garbage. As they try to "awaken" people, and force into their hands "enlightening" pamphlets that people only barely glance at and throw in the trash when they walk away (of course this is only my opinion and not necessarily fact). Nonetheless, I will admit that there are a few muslims doing some good for the community and the ummah at my uni.

My roomate is involved with the paper and msa, but spends more time on his engineering projects and is only vaguely active (I thought he was heavily active, but apparently now), and did some sort of internship with a large (in my opinion quite biased and useless) organization known as CAIR. He agreed with my opinion about the DVD.

-mj