[NFB-Muslims] NFB-Newsline, just curious

[Yasmin Reyazuddin]

Thank you for the information.
Salaams Brother Ibrahim

I will suggest that as a newsline user, you should contact NFB and request.
The NFB muslim group will support you in this regard.
Yasmin

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 3:36 PM ibrahim abedrabbo <abedrabboibrahim at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Salam Yasmin,
> Thanks for your reply. It is possible that those in charge of the NFB
> newsline do not know of English news sources from Muslim countries. There
> are over 57 Muslim countries, and each has at least one English paper.
> Although I do not have any specific news source from Muslim countries in
> mind,it should not be difficult to choose few ones. We first need to know
> the rules of NFB Newsline for adding publications to their list.
> Salamat,
> Ibrahim
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 8, 2022, at 7:56 AM, Yasmin Reyazuddin via NFB-Muslims <
> nfb-muslims at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> 
> Salams brother Ibrahim,
> It is true that newsline does not offer newspapers from muslim countries.
> We can investigate it and find out. The concern is that NFB may not know
> of sources.
> If you know of such sources and have contact with these news outlets let
> them know about the newsline service.
>
> I would like to invite you to come to our chapter meeting or come to our
> state convention in Maryland.
> You can get info about our chapter from www.nfbmd.org
> Yasmin Rockville MD
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 9:53 PM ibrahim abedrabbo via NFB-Muslims <
> nfb-muslims at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Salam dear listers,
>> I have been using the NFB Newsline app on my iPad and iPhone for several
>> years. I should say that it is one of the best services that any blind
>> organization can offer to its members and the community at large. The NFB
>> must be commended for this effort.
>> It caught my attention however, the absence of all news sources from the
>> Muslim countries, unless I missed something. So I read the entire list of
>> papers and magazines and also noticed the absence of all African news
>> sources from the list too. I found papers from All US fifty states and
>> almost all the English speaking countries; Canada, Britain, Australia, New
>> Zealand, and India. I also found one daily from Japan, one from Russia, and
>> two from Israel.
>> I do not know what to make of the absence of the African and Muslim
>> countries from the list! Were they dropped by mistake, lack of importance,
>> ignorance of the news sources available in English, or is it a deliberate
>> decision?
>> Since many of you are active within the NFB and have been for many years,
>> how do you explain this lack of the news sources from Africa and the Muslim
>> countries?
>> Look forward to listening to your opinions.
>> Salamat to all of you.
>> Ibrahim
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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