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A plea for Muslims to seek justice

(11/07/06 10:00am)

By Lauren Textor The Daily Pennsylvanian Muslim Americans should serve more actively as leaders for social justice in their communities, Islam Awareness Week speaker Intisar Rabb said last night. Rabb, a Princeton graduate student, said the events and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are an example of a time when the Muslim community could have helped more. According to Rabb, Katrina brought social injustice against poor blacks into the public eye. "Katrina has everything to do with race and poverty in America," she told the Logan Hall audience of about 30. "Katrina dredges up these problems from the mud of invisibility." Rabb said she is disheartened a year after Katrina as the ongoing humanitarian crisis no longer receives attention from politicians or the public. There was an attitude among citizens and politicians, Rabb said, that "once the aid is delivered, the job is done." "But the predicament persists," she said. "While we spend our precious resources abroad, we do so without taking care of our problems at home," she added. Muslim Americans especially, Rabb said, should urge the public to address problems at a local level. She cited Muslims' devotion to charity and justice as the reason that they must do more in cases such as Katrina. Americans have always had a tradition of civic action, and that Muslim-Americans should be leaders in continuing this tradition, Rabb said. "Muslim-Americans have not done an adequate job," she said, adding that Islam does not advocate helping only Muslim orphans or the Muslim poor but instead calls upon Muslims to practice generosity regardless of faith. All Americans must do more to promote positive values and to consciously "do democracy," Rabb said. Wharton junior Skye Gilbert said she had never thought of Katrina in the context of Muslim Americans before. "Both Americans in general and Muslim Americans have traditions of social justice that are conceptualized differently," Gilbert said, adding that, while she was "shocked by the delay in the response to Katrina," she was heartened by the response from students who went afterward to New Orleans with Habitat for Humanity.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2006/11/a_plea_for_muslims_to_seek_justice

Officials report student case of bacterial meningitis

(04/18/05 9:00am)

A Penn student was hospitalized yesterday with what is believed to be bacterial meningitis, University officials said tonight. The student, who is currently in stable condition, reported symptoms on Saturday. Students who were likely in close contact with the individual have already been notified and treated. Officials said others are not at significant risk of contracting the disease. They have not, however, released any additional information about the hospitalized student. Meningitis tends to affect college-aged students and was last reported on campus in 1996. It is an infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord and is fatal in about 15 percent of treated cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Symptoms of meningitis include fever, severe headache, sensitivity to bright light, stiff neck, nausea, vomiting, rash and lethargy. The bacteria cause an infection in the lining around the brain that can, when inflamed, reduce oxygen flow in the brain. Before arriving at Penn, all students are required to either receive a meningitis vaccination or sign a waiver stating they are aware of the risks of the infection. Even the treatment does not protect against all strains of the bacterium. Officials said antibiotic treatment is only recommended for students who have had close or intimate contact with the sick individual, as random or casual contact will not cause the disease to spread.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2005/04/officials_report_student_case_of_bacterial_meningitis

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