Today commemorates a universal day of mourning by Muslims, social activists and lovers of peace. On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in New York. His death was a tremendous loss for many communities.

Here are some ideas on how you can honor Malcolm X on his death anniversary, during Black History Month and throughout the year.

On Twitter: make #MalcolmX as the trending topic. Encourage all your followers to share a quote of Malcolm or link to some of his resources and include the hashtag #MalcolmX. Here’s an example – http://twitter.com/sueetness/status/9420396588

With the written word: start a study circle and read the autobiography of Malcolm X.

On screen: organize a group viewing of various speeches of Malcolm X. Include a discussion session.

Share with us on how you plan to honor Malcolm in your community.

Source: Remembering Malcolm X

With 2010 as well as 1431 upon us, Muslims have twice the motivation needed to set goals, resolutions and most importantly, intentions. Here’s a guideline for making resolutions for the new year, new decade, new you: http://bit.ly/2010_1430

From Technorati:

After joining every social network in the universe, posting dozens of photos as well as adding thousands of friends and strangers, you realized that your online presence needs consolidation. You need a one-stop place to show the world who you are and what you do. Even though there are quite a few build-it-yourself homepage solutions, Flavors.me gives you beauty, simplicity, flexibility and most of all: “tweet appeal.”

Flavors.me has three features that makes your own page fun and cool. Besides pulling in your social feed, you can customize your main content. Here’s your chance to tell the world about your plans for world peace or how much you love posting comments on this article. Also, you can use your own image for your background. Best of all, it’s all so easy. With so much flexibility and ease-of-use, you can try different layouts, styles and colors.

Here’s my Flavor: http://flavors.me/mikael

Read the article for the interview and invite code: http://bit.ly/flavorsme

Here’s a screen shot of my article featured on Flavors.me feedback page:

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Today, my article about the upcoming GTD (Getting Things Done) web app, Nirvana, was featured on home page of Technorati.com. Here are 2 screen shots:

Here is the link to the original article: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/nirvana-achieves-a-higher-gtd-getting/

Read the rest of my Technorati articles here: http://technorati.com/people/mikaelpittam/

And my Examiner.com (San Jose Muslim column) articles: http://bit.ly/sjmslm

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By: Preacher Moss a.k.a “Undercover Muslim”

A while ago, a good friend, and fellow thinker, Sakiya Sandifer, asked me to compose and article on the recent and tragic shootings at Fort Hood military base. As I watched the news, the words “killer,” “Muslim,” “terrorist,” and “Islamic” seemed to roll across the screen as it made its way in the context of conversation being offered by the journalist. It appeared, in a continuing trend, that the media was looking to take the actions of alleged “Muslim” gunman’s act of terror, and immediately try to connect his actions to a fundamentalist, violent, radical, but extremely profitable and marketable form of Islam. I affectionately call this making doe on the “Muslim Problem.” For those who are new to this…

Welcome to the world of the Anti-Muslim Industrial Complex (AMI Complex) my friends…or maybe not.

If you want to know what the “Muslim Problem” is I would submit to you as Example A, an interview conducted by CNN morning host, John Roberts in the time following the shooting. Roberts interviewed someone who worked with alleged shooter, Nidal Hassan. What was puzzling about the interview was the interviewee, hadn’t seen, nor spoken to Hassan in nearly five years. Roberts, oblivious to the fact the interviewee really had not contact matter, made the situation worse by asking the interviewer if he had noticed the shooter exhibiting radical Islamic characteristics or behavior. The invited guest simply answered the question by informing Roberts that he had no contact with Hassan in five years, and wouldn’t know what he was up to. I’m glad this guy got it because Roberts was caught up in the AMI Complex. The problem here extends well beyond the Roberts’ desperation to make this a terror plot of radical Islamists, and attaching Islam as the culprit in this situation. It’s more important than that. This attitude illuminates the present strategy in place that makes it not only acceptable to do this, but sadly mainstream in its nature. It is indicative of the Anti-Muslim Industrial Complex, AMI Complex for short.

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