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MyCCNJ http://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/ Something about the site, tagline Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:51:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 Halal Food Festival brings delicious cuisine to South Brunswick Saturday https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/halal-food-festival-brings-delicious-cuisine-south-brunswick-saturday/ https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/halal-food-festival-brings-delicious-cuisine-south-brunswick-saturday/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:30:58 +0000 http://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/?p=1 Vendors from all over served up delicious cuisine at the Halal Food Festival Saturday in Rowland Park in South Brunswick.
Vendors such as Douglas Pizzeria and Grill, Ibby’s Falafel, Kasra Restaurant, Chinese Mirch and Kabab and Curry Express lined the park while attendees lined up for tasty ethnic food for the all-day event that started at [...]

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Vendors from all over served up delicious cuisine at the Halal Food Festival Saturday in Rowland Park in South Brunswick.

Vendors such as Douglas Pizzeria and Grill, Ibby’s Falafel, Kasra Restaurant, Chinese Mirch and Kabab and Curry Express lined the park while attendees lined up for tasty ethnic food for the all-day event that started at noon and ends at 7 p.m.

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Third Annual Halal Food Festival Draws Large Crowd https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/third-annual-halal-food-festival-draws-large-crowd/ https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/third-annual-halal-food-festival-draws-large-crowd/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:13:54 +0000 http://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/?p=244 More than 4,000 people attended Saturday’s third annual Halal Food Festival at Rowland Park in South Brunswick.
Organized by the Muslim Youth Community Center, the festival’s halal food – prepared according to Islamic guidelines and permissible for Muslims to eat – included cuisine from the Middle East, China, South Asia, Afghanistan and America. Non-food vendors at [...]

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More than 4,000 people attended Saturday’s third annual Halal Food Festival at Rowland Park in South Brunswick.

Organized by the Muslim Youth Community Center, the festival’s halal food – prepared according to Islamic guidelines and permissible for Muslims to eat – included cuisine from the Middle East, China, South Asia, Afghanistan and America. Non-food vendors at the event sold clothes, jewelry and books.

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A League of Their Own https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/league/ https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/league/#respond Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:01:28 +0000 http://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/?p=259 Fifteen seasons. 835 players. Three divisions. And 1,000 text messages. A basketball league commissioner once said, “I think the worst decision I’ve made is giving my phone number out to people.” That commissioner’s name is Edriss Froogh, and that league is Muslim Basketball.
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Fifteen seasons. 835 players. Three divisions. And 1,000 text messages. A basketball league commissioner once said, “I think the worst decision I’ve made is giving my phone number out to people.” That commissioner’s name is Edriss Froogh, and that league is Muslim Basketball.

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New Jersey’s Muslim Basketball league builds brotherhood https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/new-jerseys-muslim-basketball-league-builds-brotherhood/ https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/new-jerseys-muslim-basketball-league-builds-brotherhood/#respond Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:02:54 +0000 http://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/?p=261 While certainly not the first or the last venture of its kind, the Muslim Basketball league in northern New Jersey (muslimbasketball.org) just might be the best in the U.S. at what they do.
What began nine years ago as a loosely-organized series of pickup games in Flanders, N.J., has grown into a thriving rec league with [...]

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While certainly not the first or the last venture of its kind, the Muslim Basketball league in northern New Jersey (muslimbasketball.org) just might be the best in the U.S. at what they do.

What began nine years ago as a loosely-organized series of pickup games in Flanders, N.J., has grown into a thriving rec league with at least 36 teams at any given time across three divisions. Former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, former Ivy League Player of the Year Ibrahim Jaaber, and former Seton Hall standout Marcus Toney-El are a few of the notables who have made it down to Muslim Basketball’s regular gym in Parsippany, N.J.

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Muslim Basketball: Taking over the court https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/muslim-basketball-taking-court/ https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/muslim-basketball-taking-court/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/?p=255 The most popular jerseys on the basketball court in Parsippany, New Jersey on Saturday mornings do not read “New York,” “Brooklyn,” or “Bulls.” Instead, the black or white jerseys with big bold red letters display the logo of “Muslim Basketball.”
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The most popular jerseys on the basketball court in Parsippany, New Jersey on Saturday mornings do not read “New York,” “Brooklyn,” or “Bulls.” Instead, the black or white jerseys with big bold red letters display the logo of “Muslim Basketball.”

Worn by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the reversible jerseys are the uniforms for players in a league called Muslim Basketball. What began as ordinary outdoor pick-up games in 2005 has grown into a nonprofit organization with three divisions, 28 teams and roughly 220 players.

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US Muslims Find ‘Love and Camaraderie’ on Court https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/us-muslims-find-love-camaraderie-court/ https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/us-muslims-find-love-camaraderie-court/#respond Sat, 25 May 2013 19:59:32 +0000 http://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/?p=253 There are basketball players here – lots of them. For them, playing hoops is fun, but it’s also a way to build brotherhood; a way to grow closer with others who share their Muslim faith, and get to know some who don’t.
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There are basketball players here – lots of them. For them, playing hoops is fun, but it’s also a way to build brotherhood; a way to grow closer with others who share their Muslim faith, and get to know some who don’t.

They are high-school students, representatives of the Washington, D.C., region of the Muslim Inter-Scholastic Tournament, informally known as MIST. Many of them are planning to play in a basketball tournament, but they are also poets, actors, artists, filmmakers and web designers. They are waiting on Union Drive for buses that will take them to Toronto to compete in MIST’s national tournament.

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New Jersey Islamic students see basketball league taking shape https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/new-jersey-islamic-students-see-basketball-league-taking-shape/ https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/new-jersey-islamic-students-see-basketball-league-taking-shape/#respond Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:00:47 +0000 http://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/?p=257 Ibrahim Omar was up before sunrise on a recent Sunday, preparing for “wudu,” his first Islamic prayer of the day. He carefully washed his hands, mouth, nose, face, arms, head, ears and feet. Then he walked into his bedroom and faced to the direction of the “qiblah” in the holy city of Mecca.
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Ibrahim Omar was up before sunrise on a recent Sunday, preparing for “wudu,” his first Islamic prayer of the day. He carefully washed his hands, mouth, nose, face, arms, head, ears and feet. Then he walked into his bedroom and faced to the direction of the “qiblah” in the holy city of Mecca.

Not long after his prayers, Ibrahim got dressed — long basketball shorts, a white No. 9 uniform top and a pair of Nikes — and headed to his game in the Islamic high school basketball league, which is the first organized sports league for Muslim high schools in New Jersey. It’s also a league Ibrahim, 16, helped form.

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Why basketball is Muslims’ favorite sport https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/basketball-muslims-favorite-sport/ https://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/basketball-muslims-favorite-sport/#respond Fri, 18 May 2012 19:57:59 +0000 http://myccnj.mixxcreative.com/?p=251 Omar Abdelkader, a student at Northeastern University in Boston, is an observant Muslim but admits that, at least as a kid, he was occasionally seduced by the swish of a perfect jump-shot over the Islamic call to prayer.
“Sometimes we’d sneak out of prayers to play ball,” recalled Abdelkader, who grew-up attending the Worcester Islamic Center [...]

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Omar Abdelkader, a student at Northeastern University in Boston, is an observant Muslim but admits that, at least as a kid, he was occasionally seduced by the swish of a perfect jump-shot over the Islamic call to prayer.

“Sometimes we’d sneak out of prayers to play ball,” recalled Abdelkader, who grew-up attending the Worcester Islamic Center in central Massachusetts. Like a growing number of American mosques, the Worcester Islamic Center has a basketball court — and hence a built-in temptation for younger members.

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