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AtifsList is an ethnic centric mailing list that emerged out of a need similar to how CraigsList was started by Craig Newmark. The difference between the two is that AtifsList is specifically focused on providing information about events and the latest going ons in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in the small, yet vibrant Muslim and South Asian communities of the region.

The list founder Atif M Qureshi, a Pakistani-American fire protection engineer in the Bay Area founded the list out of a need of the hour where he being an extremely active social bee was dissatisfied with the Ad-Hoc scheduling of events in his community. He found it quite frustrating many a times where you had scheduling conflicts between multiple events in the region. Not to mention little background information to go by, thus in of March of 2006 we saw the emergence of AtifsList.

Mr. Qureshi decided to take it upon himself to try and bring order to a chaotic system in his community. In his listing he includes future events in the bay Area with details addressing the what, where, why and how, and reviews and ratings of past events. His ratings are based on a sampling of a segment of his reader base who normally attend the events he has listed.

One may see this as a repeat of the CraigsList story, however CraigsList is a universal list which fills the void in multiple areas, where as AtifsList is focused solely on a certain segment of the San Francisco Bay Area community. With a particular mission to transform the bay Area Muslim community into a progressive forward looking one, and bridging the gap between his community and mainstream America. This is the power of the web, enabling ordinary citizens like Mr Atif Qureshi with the tools to bring his community, which has been under scrutiny since the horrific attack of September 11, 2001 into the mainstream American limelight and portraying a positive truthful image.

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