God and Allah need to talk – A film for healing and reconciliation

This is an enterprise mission story that talks about the film “ God and Allah need to talk” written produced and directed by Ruth Sharone, a Jewish American film maker and an interfaith activist from Los Angeles. The film talks about God and Allah being the same divine power and the fact that Gods children need to talk to each other rather then God talking to himself. The story is set against the backdrop of an interfaith initiative taken by the Ambassador of Bangladesh His Excellency Shamsheer Chowdry together with film maker and interfaith activist Ruth Sharon, to launch and evening of multicultural dialogue and help people from different faith groups and religions to get together and find common grounds amongst themselves and their different beliefs. The event also marked post thanksgiving celebrations where representatives from all the major faith groups of the world got together to dialogue, communicate, screen the film and at the end of the event they all broke bread together to commemorate the struggles of all world religions to coexist in harmony. Imran Siddiqui

Huqa Entertainment and Raakin Iqbal

A Pakistani American entrepreneurship. Often parents don't want their children to do anything but study while they are in high school, but Raakin Iqbal's parents did something different. They not only encouraged their teenaged son to get involved in business ventures, but alsohelped him set up his own media/entertainment company, called Huqa Entertainment. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, Raakin is on his way to becoming one of the first young South Asian Media moguls in America. Imran Siddiqui

American and Pakistani-American perspectives from Georgetown University

You must vote! ____________ On the eve of the election night we sat down with some American and Pakistani-American Law Students to hear their thoughts on the elections as well as on the results. The students were from Rising Leaders, Georgetown University, Pakistani Students Association, Pakistani Law Students Association, and the Muslim Law Students Association. This enterprise piece is aimed at discovering how American youth looked at the campaigning and the outcome of these elections. Imran Siddiqui

Electronic voting - one vote can make a difference

No matter what happens people still go out and vote and that is what makes America. It is the will and the right to exercise the power of your vote that can wipe the systems clean... no matter what the odds are. Imran Siddiqui

Interfaith dialogue with students at American University p5

The last part of this series talks about the kind of legacies we will leave behind. Will the future generations be taking about us, the way we talk about our forefathers? Imran Siddiqui Global Crossover

Global Crossover

Interfaith dialogue with students at American University p4

Have we understood the facts about our own religion before we go and talk about Have we understood the facts about our own religion before we go and talk about others? Isn't there something that we are forgetting? Pooja, Clark, David and Stephanie from American University talk about the past, the present and the Future and met the facts face to face. To say hello to a better future. Imran Siddiqui Voice of America www.globalcrossover.com

America decides 2006

What is the importance of voting and how can one vote make a difference in a democratic society. for more watch Beyond the headlines on Geo. Imran Siddiqui

Eid with Undersecretary Karen Hughes part2

After a month of fasting in Ramdan how we spent our Eid with Undersecretary Karen Hughes. Imran Siddiqui

Eid with Undersecretary Karen Hughes part1

After a month of fasting in Ramdan how we spent our Eid with Undersecretary Karen Hughes. Imran Siddiqui

Kashmir... the way forward

A look at how we can proceed forward with the Kashmir issue and listen to the innocent voices of the Kashmiri people. A forum recently organized by the Kashmir study group and United States Institute for Peace. Imran Siddiqui

An interfaith dialogue with the students at American University Part3

An effort to try and find common grounds amongst the differant religions of the world. Imran Siddiqui Global Crossover Voice of America

An interfaith dialogue with the students at American University Part2

An interfaith dialogue with the students at American University Part 2 - Trying to find common grounds amongst our differnt religions. Imran Siddiqui

The state of Human Rights

Sadly but surely this is the state of Human Rights in my beloved Pakistan. But there are many out there who are making a difference... each day. imransiddiqui globalcrossover

Rebuilding Kashmir after the quakes

One year after the Earthquake that hit Pakistan and India in 2005, it still feels like as if the earthquake hit them yesterday. Nothing has happened since then and because of the red-tape and bureaucratic flaws and delays, we don't know if anything will happen in the near future. imransiddiqui.tv globalcrossover

An interfaith dialogue with students at American University

We sat down with a Hindu, A Christian, A Jew, a Muslim and a Unitarian, inside a beautiful Chapel which is also known as Kay Spiritual Life Center at American University. Contemplating that maybe talking to the new breed of this 22nd century might help us find common grounds among the different religions of our world. Imran Siddiqui Voice of America globalcrossover

To the people of Pakistan and India

A message of peace and harmony from Sreenath Sreenivasan of Columbia University to the people of Pakistan and India. imransiddiqui globalcrossover voice of america

Interfaith Dialogue - lets coexist

Rethink everything. A demonstration of Unity and Peace by the Interfaith Alliance of Washington DC. Imran Siddiqui Voice of America.

Samina Qureshi and the dying arts of Pakistan

A talk with Samina Qureshi, the architect the designer, on the dying arts of Pakistan Iman Siddiqui Voice of America

MAN WITH A VISION -- ZIA CHISHTI

Watch this inspiring story about A MAN WITH A VISION -- ZIA CHISHTI The force behind two revolutionary companies TRG resources and InvisAlign. Imran Siddiqui Voice of America

Injila

Injila's song. With love from Mom and Dad. Samar Imran Mana and Friends

Eid amidst the Earthquake

Eid wasn't happy that year... and now after another year, are we safer from our own ignorance? Remembering the victims and praying for their families maybe someday Pakistan would wake up. Imran Siddiqui Voice of America

911 UnityWalk 05 & Religion in America

No matter what faith you follow or what you believe in, the fact is that we are all one humanity. Coming from the same place and going back to the same God. The revolutionaries of open societies demonstrate the value of diversity through the first 911 Unity Walk 2005 and experiencing Religion in America. Imran Siddiqui ' Voice of America.

The Pentagon ... and its sadder side

A casual walk through the corridors of the Pentagon. The biggest office space in the world, The Pentagon has always been a source of intrigue and mystery but many people don't know that there's a sadder side to it as well. Imran Siddiqui Voice of America

Explore the life of Prophet Muhammad ' peace be upon him

Explore the life of Prophet Muhammad ' peace be upon him, and learn the truth about his message. An insight in to this peaceful and informative campaign initiated by CAIR Council on American Islamic relations and Alex Kronemar of Unity productions foundation. Imran Siddiqui Voice of America

911 Unity Walk 2006

Let there be love... Nature works in strange ways. How a tremendous tragedy like 9/11 can set a movement in motion that talks about love, brotherhood, peace and solidarity for all humanity. Imran Siddiqui, Brent Burd and Kevork Tashdjin' Voice of America.

Bill of Rights

Human kind has always either taken or begged for his freedom… but with time perseverance and struggle, we have somehow managed to retain it, for some. But even after so many centuries of abuse and hate ridge and bloodshed so many of us are still not free. Many don’t even know that they too have rights in this world and that no one can take that away from them. Imran Siddiqui Voice of America

John Densmore of THE DOORS and Reza Derakshani studio discussion

When politicians fail then it is up to the people to take the next steps toward peace and solidarity instead of conflict and bloodshed. John Densmore of THE DOORS and Reza Derakshani from Iran team up to bring you "peaceful sounds" from across the world. Imran Siddiqui Voice of America.

Rise Pakistan

It is so sad to know that the tragedy that hit Pakistan in October 2005 is now a forgotten memory. But there are some people who are still struggling to help the victims of that devastating earthquake that shook Pakistan and India not so long ago. Where do we go next from here? Are we ready for another disaster, how much are we prepared? Imran Siddiqui Voice of America

The man behind SYRIANA

A candid conversation with Robert Baer - Former CIA officer and the talented brains behind the book "See No Evil" and the film "Syriana". Imran Siddiqui Voice of America.

Save the Children

Remembering the victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Pakistan and India on October 8 2005. One year after that tragedy have we forgotten the lessons learned and will the future generations remember us with a good name?

To commemorate the first anniversary of the October 8th 2005 earthquake, watch the story below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj-7iVw-y6Y

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ARE WE READY ?

God forbid… but what if an Earthquake hits Karachi or Lahore?

Are we ready to face another calamity of such a scale that hit Pakistan on October 8th 2005? According to the current scenario we are definitely not even close to being ready.

We were never ready before and neither are we now? Whatever the Government can do is another story but it’s about time that the Pakistani intelligentsia and the people of Pakistan start doing some thing about it.

We need to hook up with international seismological societies and find out ways on how to save our families and millions of others at risk. Does anybody care that Islamabad and the areas beyond lie on the fault line?

The Pakistan seismological society, that’s if there is one, and the likes should be in red alert mode and should be thinking about what precautions can we take to protect the innocent people and their livelihoods incase another calamity hits Pakistan.

We can’t afford to loose the children of our country once again because without them Pakistan does not have a future.

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learn to be

If something is not meant for you then that does not mean you can seize its right to exist… even God Almighty himself did not exercise that privilege.
I think King Abdullah was right, we should stop thinking about tolerance and start discussing acceptance and what lies beyond it.
Freedom of speech, and press, on display, and there’s so much that we can learn from it. God has created existence and it has been evolving since then and will keep doing so until nature wishes to.
What we can pick out of this is the fact that we can be more than tolerant, we can be accepting and be accepted and look around and find so much of beautiful diversity.
Take it like so many different and various parts of one body. The face not matching the legs, the hands not matching the head, yet, all play their own significant life saving roles.
Can you learn to be more acceptable?

Insulting eachother wont take us anywhere

I know you can’t believe it just like how I can’t along with millions of others. But the fact is that this has been going on since the Prophets time (peace be upon him).

The solution lies in helping the west and other non Muslims learn and know what true Islam is all about. WE FEAR WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW. The newspapers in Europe reprinted those cartoons to publicize themselves and they are succeeding in that.

It’s up to us and our intelligent decision making sense that we reply to this as professionally as possible. Muslims will never go out and do that to Jesus or to Moses or to Abraham because they believe in them. The difference is that no other religion believes in Mohammad (peace be upon him) even though he was mentioned clearly in Torah and in the Bible untill the new versions took over the human mindset. You cannot recreate or rewrite the words of God... people.

This is just how humans tend to destroy themselves by their own stupidities. We cant deny facts and the fact is that, that day is getting closer when foolish humans will extinct themselves just like how so many of them have lived and died, and then vanished... in the past.

I only hope that the young ones wake up to the sound of their God's calling and try to make sense out of all this.