Tag Archives: Pakistan
What Muslims Can Offer The World

What Muslims Can Offer The World

“What Muslims Can Offer The World” is the topic of Saturday’s upcoming Annual Youth Iftaar. Imam Suhaib Webb will be speaking on this important topic and we would like you to attend and benefit. There is another very good reason to attend the Youth Iftar. We will be raising money for Pakistan Flood relief and [...]

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30 Days… Still Hurting

30 Days… Still Hurting

30 days ago today the mayhem in Pakistan began. It has devastated the entire country interiorly and exteriorly. 1/5 of the country is under water. 1600 people have died and an estimated 20 million have been displaced. I know you know the facts but it is still crucial to repeat because the magnitude of the [...]

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Food and Tropical Disease

Food and Tropical Disease

With flood waters providing a perfect breeding ground for waterborne disease in Pakistan (including typhoid, gastroenteritis, dengue, and malaria) I thought it was only appropriate to write a Ramadan article on the link between agriculture and water-based disease vectors – namely, the mosquitoes that transmit malaria. These days, malaria afflicts developing countries. Even with climate [...]

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The Pakistan Floods

The Pakistan Floods

SubhanAllah. As of this writing, a quarter of all the land in Pakistan, from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa down to Sindh, has been flooded due to heavy monsoons. The death toll, at about 1,500, isn’t as high as that of other natural disasters, like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami – but the floods have affected some [...]

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