Misapprehending Muslims and the Media’s Misinformation Hasan Azad Doctoral candidate, Department of Religion, Columbia University My friend Sim is a strapping young man in his 20s. He is fitter than I could ever dream of becoming. Sim has run in the New York marathon for two years in a row, and hopes to run in [...]
Building of Muslim-Jewish ties brings hope for Mideast by Marc Schneier and Shamsi Ali www.jta.org NEW YORK (JTA) — The recent conflict in Gaza and Israel casts a vivid spotlight on the need to strengthen relations between Jews and Muslims in countries around the world. It is crucial if we are to avoid importing the [...]
Gaza and the Need for Muslim Activism in America by Ethan Casey Huffington Post Galveston, Texas – I’d rather be telling you about my driving trip around America and promoting my next book, Home Free: A Real American Road Trip, but I feel compelled to say something about the appalling, and tiresomely predictable, subject of [...]
With Allah’s name the extremely and especially merciful, Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release Spike Lee’s masterpiece Malcolm X. Malcolm X is the most popular film about a Muslim in America. Umar Lee one of America’s most outspoken Muslims was gracious enough to allow us to crosspost his excellent article. ======================================================================================= From: http://umarlee.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/malcolm-and-me-what-malcolm-x-means-to-me-and-the-hip-hop-generation/ [...]
From our beloved teacher Yaser Birjas: In response to the voilence erupted in Libya and Egypt and to the disorderly protest of the people there in the name of defending the honor of the Prophet s.a.a.w: وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ قَوْلًا مِّمَّن دَعَا إِلَى اللَّهِ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا وَقَالَ إِنَّنِي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ “And who is better in speech [...]
10 Myths About Muslims in the West by Doug Saunders, Huffington Post In my new book The Myth of the Muslim Tide, I chronicle the widespread misunderstanding of Muslim immigration to the West. As with Jews and Catholics before, I discuss that Muslims are being seen as an impossible-to-integrate, fast-reproducing invasion force who follow a [...]
By Feisal Abdul Rauf The Washington Post April 1, 2011 1. American Muslims are foreigners. Islam was in America even before there was a United States. But Muslims didn’t peaceably emigrate — slave-traders brought them here. Historians estimate that up to 30 percent of enslaved blacks were Muslims. West African prince Abdul Rahman, freed by [...]
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN August 10, 2012 New York Times During the 2008 presidential campaign, rumors proliferated that Barack Obama was a Muslim who had been indoctrinated into militant Islam during childhood studies in a madrassa. The fact that the Democratic candidate had been a prominent and visible member of a Protestant church in Chicago [...]
Society’s wellbeing was paramount to Muhammad who taught that all humans were entitled to the same rights and privileges. “People are as equal as the teeth of a comb,” he said, and he practised what he preached. Muhammad was a social activist of his time. He shook the underpinnings of the unjust society he lived [...]
By Alan Duke, CNN August 2nd, 2011 (CNN) – Muslim Americans are more optimistic about their future than members of any other religious group in the United States, according to a Gallup report released Tuesday. “They have generally optimistic and positive views about government, its agencies and the future of America, but they report a [...]
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