Muslim Americans Must Obey U.S. Laws: Nidal Hasan Disobeyed Islamic Doctrine

by Danios The Islamophobic blogosphere has gone buck-wild.  Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, and the rest of the goof troop are pretty ecstatic that Major Nidal Hasan, a Muslim American, killed thirteen U.S. soldiers at Fort Hood.  Nothing makes a neo-conservative happier than an attack on American soil; as the family of the victims mourn the [...]

Why Was Imam Luqman Abdullah Shot 18 Times?

Asalamu `alaykum, More Here from Imam Dawud Walid. Statement from the National Lawyers Guild: Here Some quotes: “A black man, a Muslim, and a community leader is shot 18 times in an FBI raid amidst allegations of entrapment and unethical conduct. The media frenzy drives the story for a few days and we are inundated [...]

Fort Hood Has Enough Victims

By Wajahat Ali Whatever was in the mind of alleged shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan, there is no reason to question the loyalty of Muslim Americans After an American soldier’s tragic outburst of violence at Fort Hood, Texas – the army’s largest US post, with some 40,000 troops – dominates the headlines, a fear-mongering hysteria [...]

Republicans Attempt to Criminalize the World’s Greatest Threat – Muslim Interns!!!!

The Public Health Care Option Is An Islamic Issue

Al-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz (Malcom X) once described the impact a hadith had on him when he first heard it (during his turn toward orthodoxy) because its implications were so profound. He states in his autobiography in his meeting with Dr. Shawarbi, “he dropped on me something whose logic would never get out of my head. [...]

Sr. Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir Spends Iftar with President Obama!

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The PEW Forum’s U.S. Religious Landscape Survey

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Social Responsibility – Islam & Healthcare Reform

By Meryem Kamil The healthcare debate raging around the country centers on partisanship and the limitations of the government. As Muslims, the question is not one of the public debt or pulling oneself up via bootstraps, but of social responsibility. Stories of the Prophet Muhammad (S) and sahabahs donating for charity and ensuring the well-being [...]

San Jose Young Professionals Distributed Food to the Poor Today

By Musa Maguire, Director of Community Relations, MA’RUF What is American Islam? There is a lot of talk and enthusiasm these days about “American Islam”. As Muslim communities take root in the United States and confront unprecedented social, political, and cultural realities, we are faced with difficult decisions about how to define our identity and practice [...]

Can We Celebrate Independence Day?

Answered by Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah | The Question: Is it allowable to celebrate a holiday that commemorates the independence of my country? The Answer: A holiday [that commemorates] the independence of a country is not a [religious] holiday. The holidays which are forbidden [for Muslims] to observe are those with religious overtones, such as [...]

Shaykh Allamah al Hajj Tawfiq al Azhari: Revisiting The Neglected Legacy of Indigenous Imams In America

Shaykh Allama Al-Hajj Ahmad Tawfiq, the founding Imam of the Mosque Islamic Brotherhood, Inc., was born in Newberry, South Carolina on September 20, 1936. He came to New York City at the age of eight and attended schools in New York City. He was athletically talented all of his life. As an adolescent, he played [...]

Was Michael Jackson a Muslim?

Asalamu alaykum, Not sure. But I know one thing, my neighbors are not. Perhaps I need to rethink my priorities?

Upon The Passing of Michael Jackson

By Imam Zaid Shakir Like the light of a meteor streaking across the crisp, cold, clear sky of a winter’s night, Michael Jackson, streaked across the sky defining this country’s cultural horizons. None of us coming of age in urban America will forget Michael’s debut onto the public stage with his brothers as part of [...]

Russell [Rush] Simmons On Obama’s Speech

By Russel Simmons I was brought to tears by the president’s simple, but truthful approach to building a bridge with the Muslim world. This is the real way to fight terrorism, through open and honest dialogue, where we promote love and destroy hate. We are now witnessing the front line of the battle. The battle for [...]

On Obama’s Speech by Sh. Ali Guma Grand Mufti of Egypt

By Dr. `Ali Gom`a | Translated by Sr. Marwa I listened to the well-prepared speech of the US President Barack Obama in Cairo University last Thursday.  In fact, it is a good start of the mutual relationships between the Muslim World and the United States.  In his speech, President Obama referred to civilization’s debt to [...]

Scholar’s Thoughts on Obama’s visit

Asalamu alaykum: The last few weeks have been nothing short of a hurricane for me. Ask anyone who knows me and the word that seems to follow me is “exams.” It is exam season and I have had very little time to catch my breath. However, over the last few weeks I was able to [...]

Merciful storekeeper changes robber’s mind, religion

By Kiran Khalid A potential victim became a compassionate counselor during a recent robbery attempt, changing the would-be criminal’s mind — and apparently his religion. Storekeeper Mohammad Sohail was closing up his Long Island convenience store just after midnight on May 21 when — as shown on the store’s surveillance video — a man came [...]

Obama’s Egypt Speech: What He Should Say to the Muslim World Middle East, Arab-Israeli Relations, Human Rights, Diplomacy, Islamic World Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World The Brookings Institution

On June 4, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver what is being billed as a “major speech to the Muslim world” in Cairo, Egypt. The speech comes at a particularly tense moment in the relationship between the United States and the world’s approximately 1.3 billion Muslims, as the latter wait to see how the [...]

The Fall Out Of Hijra: The Fallacy Of The Hijra Fatwa Strikes Back At Our People

By Kitty Caparella SAYFULLAAH Al-Amriykiy was reeling after he read a Daily News story last August about Nasir Daymar Gould, a 30-year-old West Philadelphia native, and five other U.S. citizens locked up for two months in a Yemeni prison. “I knew exactly what he was going through,” said Al-Amriykiy, 53, a world-renowned jujitsu grand master. [...]

15 Years Young: Beatings and Brutality in Seattle