About Aly Balagamwala
"Abu Ibrahym" Muhammad Aly Balagamwala (AKA DiscoMaulvi) is an entrepreneur/industrialist who was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan where he currently resides. Aly graduated from North Carolina State University with a BS in Textile Chemistry, and somewhere in those 4 years became a practicing Muslim (May Allah reward the wonderful community of Raleigh, NC for that). He is/has been associated with the fabrics, towels, animal feeds, minerals, and grains/pulses/edibles sectors.
Known in the Social Media / Blogging community of Pakistan as DiscoMaulvi, he occasionally writes on his personal blog
From The Pulpit ... Sermons of DiscoMaulvi and is easily accessible via
Twitter (@DiscoMaulvi) and his
Facebook Page.
Since he turned towards religion in 1998, Aly has been associated with various Social / Dawah projects. He was a Shurah member (1999-2000) & the President (2000) of the NCSU Muslim Students Association (MSA). He was also a Shurah member (2005-2009) and the Ameer (2007) of
Active Saturdays.
He is currently serving as a consultant for
LiveDeen and as a Trustee of Little Deeds.
In 2011 he joined the staff of
MuslimMatters.org, where he is currently the team lead for MM's Comments Moderation team and is also part of the News and Social Networking teams. MM is a collaboration b/w Bloggers and Islamic scholars, to bring to attention issues being faced by Muslims in the West and around the world.
He also blogs on
Express Tribune Blogs.
As an Amateur Technical Analyst of Karachi Stock Exchange, he is known on the KSE Yahoo Groups as Aly B of
DCTA (Dhakka Chaap Technical Analysis).
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