Video of Rules Committee Meeting, April 19, 2010 Florida Times Union, April 20, 2010By Tia MitchellUniversity of North Florida President John Delaney said he decided to speak up in public for Parvez Ahmed not just because he is an employee but because he felt an upstanding man was being vilified. “He’s a person of peace,” Delaney said after speaking...

I was nominated by Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton to serve on the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission. The nomination needed to voted by the Rules Committee of City Council. In advance of this meeting, one of the Council members named Clay Yarborough sent me a bunch of irrelevant questions asking me about my views on “Under God” in the Pledge of...

In AltMuslim, March 29, 2010 Throughout the current economic and financial crisis one contrarian statistic has stood out. Financial assets offered by the Islamic Financial Services Industry (IFSI) and generally classified as “Shariah-compliant,” were less affected by the crisis. Economist Loretta Napoleoni during a lecture at the University of New Mexico...

Distributed by Common Ground News Service. Published in Daily News Egypt A role for Muslim Americans in preventing extremism?by Parvez Ahmed05 February 2010 Jacksonville, Florida – A recent report by researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) states that the number of Muslim Americans vulnerable to radicalisation is...

Forthcoming in The Message International.Also in AltMuslim.com and The American Muslim. Homegrown Radicals: Complacency is not an Optionby Parvez Ahmed* An army major at Fort Hood guns down fellow soldiers, five young men arrested after traveling to Pakistan to join radical elements, a coffee vendor charged in a New York terror plot and a terrorism suspect in North...