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| HUMANITARIAN DAY - Saturday, Oct 13th |
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| se7en |
| 10/09/01 at 09:27:45 |
| In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful ============================================================ The Muslim Students' Association @ SUNY Albany invites you to... [color=black] H U M A N I T A R I A N D A Y [i] Terror Is Our Common Enemy[/i] [/color] With Speakers: [*] Hatem Al-Bazian - UC Berkeley [*] Ibrahim Ramey - Fellowship of Reconciliation [*] Ken Hannaford Ricardi - Voices in the Wilderness [*] Faisal Ahmad - Window on Islam, MSA RPI WHEN: Saturday, October 13, 2001 @ 2pm WHERE: SUNY Albany Campus Center, Patroon Room [/center] For more information: [url]www.albany.edu/~msa[/url] Br. Ali Shozab Naqvi sn6130@csc.albany.edu 518-442-1576 Br. Yasir Hossain iluminus@nycap.rr.com 518-331-9699 Sr. Shazia Ahmad ahmad_shazia@yahoo.com 518-482-3456 |
| Re: HUMANITARIAN DAY - Saturday, Oct 13th |
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| DaSouljah |
| 10/17/01 at 21:02:03 |
| how did it go? |
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| se7en |
| 10/18/01 at 11:39:45 |
as salaamu alaykum, Alhamdulillah, it went pretty well. About seventy people came, according to the registration. The speakers rocked mashaAllah. The security.. was insane :) Ask someone who was there, they'll tell you about it :P wasalaamu alaykum. |
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| jannah |
| 10/23/01 at 10:06:14 |
| Tell me all about it~!!!! How did you guys pull it off???! |
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| se7en |
| 10/24/01 at 00:36:07 |
| wa alaykum as salaam wa rahmatAllah, It went really well, program wise. Alhamdulillah the speakers rocked :) The only thing is, not as many people as we expected showed up.. and for Br. Hatem's speech (which was the last of the day), half the people had already left :( The actual conference was awesome.. I just wish more people were there, considering how much effort and energy went into it. The security.. man.. when we requested security from the Students' Association, they said that they would want a "limited amount" of officers there, because they might be "intimidating". Ten minutes before the conference starts.. ten cops show up. They tell us.. there's a new policy: no bags allowed inside, if they're brought in, we have to search them. Every person has to be patted down, go through a metal detector, and there will be sniffing dogs as well. You should have *seen* the look on our faces, it was really insane. I asked the guy "is this done at other events as well?" and he said yes. And the conference was just about to start, the head of SA was nowhere to be found, so there was nothing we could do about it. The worst part is not the security at the conference, but the article that was in the Times Union the next day: "Listeners were greeted with stringent security measures -- including frisking and sweeps with a metal detector -- in effect for the first time at a student event, said State University Police Lt. David Prendergast. A dog sniffed the campus center ballroom for bombs before people were let in. University officials were concerned about the Muslim student event because the U.S. has named Muslim extremist groups as prime suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, Prendergast said. They have not decided yet whether to extend similar measures to other events, he said." ([url]http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=67639&category=C[/url]) :o We were *on* that reporter the second that wack article came out. She issued an apology, as did her editor. But.. we're still waiting for an apology to be published in the paper. That's about it :) wasalaamu alaykum. |
| Re: HUMANITARIAN DAY - Saturday, Oct 13th |
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| kiwi25 |
| 10/24/01 at 00:47:20 |
| salam, WHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT!!!!, se7en i didnt noe that, that is soooo pathetic, i remember that reporter too , she seemed all nice and stuff, yea i didnt like the fact that the only one women police afficer left mid day never showed up and i ended up being patted down by a male officer..... people man people..... wasalam nouha:) |
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| SomairaAltaf |
| 11/10/01 at 21:38:26 |
| LOL we had a similar event here... I noticed the same thing, major security at the event!!! but alhumd not to the extent that they went at ur event.. hmm...I suppose its something we'll see more and more now.. Somaira |
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