Syed Salah Ahmed
Syed Salah Ahmed
Recent Stories
Ahmed: Wipe your plates clean
One day recently, a friend complained in the dining hall that the salad was not good. “Then why are you eating it? Just leave it,” I responded. “No, I don’t want to waste food,” he told me. His simple answer struck me.
Ahmed: Call out oppression
When I read about historical wars, mass murders and genocides, I wonder how people contemporary to those events felt about them. I have noticed that while we, human beings, take pride in our humaneness, we rarely act humanely. We are rarely conscious of the pain of others. We rarely feel bad about all the wrong that is going on in the world.
Ahmed: ‘Hussein’ should be a point of pride for Obama
Americans these days can be divided into three categories: those who think Obama is a Muslim (and thus a likely terrorist) because his middle name is Hussein; those who think it is an inconvenience for Mr. Obama to have a Muslim sounding middle name; and those who are above this bias because, after all, what’s in a name? I do not fit into any of these categories, at least in part because I am an international student and not American. I think it is wonderful for Mr. Barack Hussein Obama to have the middle name he does. And I find it disgusting that there are some people who ridicule Mr. Obama just because of it.