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WHO has the swine flu fever?
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Aziz Poonawalla
Well, I am back from Oahu and find that in my absence, the world has returned to the brink of collapse, this time not from wayward financial systems or legions of mole men, but the devastating specter of the Swine Flu. What is swine flu? It appears to be a variant of influenza that originates…
Islam in Hawai’i
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Aziz Poonawalla
I am attending the ISMRM conference in Honolulu this week, which is why I’ve been understandably distracted these past few days 🙂 I was rather curious about the muslim presence here in paradise, and it turns out that Hawai’i has a very vibrant muslim community. In hindsight this should have been obvious, given that Hawai’i…
What is Shi’ism?
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is a guest post by Hussein Rashid In the contemporary period Shi’ah is the standard short form for Shi’ah Ali, the Partisans of Ali. The Shi’ah have a history that goes back as far as the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and form one of the two main schools of thought in Islam; the…
Obama’s credibility gap in the Muslim world begins at home
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Aziz Poonawalla
I don’t think there’s much reason yet for anyone to complain about Obama’s foreign policy to the Muslim world, especially given that we haven’t even hit the 100-day mark yet. I personally would have preferred to see the “major speech in a muslim capital” occur in that first 100, but the reality is that Obama’s…
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