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About

Muslimmatters.org began in 2007 as a collaboration between various Bloggers and Shuyukh in order to bring attention to issues faced by Muslims, especially in the West. We have focused on issues of Religion, Society, Ethics, Sex Education, Politics, Civil Rights, Family, as well as the random issues that pop up from now and then, all with some ranting and humor mixed in. We challenge ourselves and our readers to engage in discourses that touch our lives as citizens of the West, while maintaining our individual Islamic identities: Ultimately to cooperate, but not to compromise.

Vision Statement

MuslimMatters strives to become the leading Muslim multimedia platform for the articulation and implementation of orthodoxy amidst the unprecedented complexity and unique challenges of contemporary life.

Mission Statement

MuslimMatters is tax-exempt nonprofit organization 501(c)(3)* that provides educational material, social commentary, and religious inspiration related to Islam and Muslims through its group blogging platform, www.MuslimMatters.org.

Primarily addressing Muslims residing in the West; MuslimMatters also serves as a reliable source for non-Muslims seeking information about the faith of Islam and global community of Muslims. We strive to:

Embody truthfulness and moderation through a commitment to scholarship, creativity, critical thinking, education, and cultural diversity.
Clarify misrepresentations and mischaracterizations of Islam and their ultimate manifestation in extremism and bigotry.
Balance productive participation and independent critique within the Muslim community and broader society.

*You may deduct donations from your federally-taxable income; our tax ID# is: 26-3248086.

Organizational Structure

Founders Shura	Staff	Specialists	Senior Associates	Associates
Yasir Qadhi Amad S. Ibn Abee Omar Ahmad AlFarsi Musa Maguire Ruth Nasrullah Zainab (Anonymouse)**retired	Siraaj Dr. Mehzabeen (iMuslim) Iesa Galloway Haytham Soliman Amatullah Hena Zuberi Sameera Thakore Kanika Aggarwal Aly Balagamwala	Yaser Birjas Waleed Basyouni Tawfique Chowdhury Abu Aaliyah Surkheel Mohamed Elibiary Nouman Ali Khan Dr. Ali Shehata Yahya Ibrahim Umm Reem Anas Hlayhel AbdulNasir Jangda Haleh Banani Sarah Sultan Umm Zakiyyah	Tariq Ahmed Amir (MR) Sadaf Farooqui	AbdulMalik Ryan Mariam E. Ismail K. Dr. Ameera Khan Bushra Hebah Ahmed Zeba Khan Hena Zuberi Safia Farole Meena Malik Kanika Aggarwal Wael Ghonim Dr O

Key Religious Advisers

Yasir Qadhi
Yaser Birjas

Editorial

Editor in Chief: Hena Zuberi

Managing Editor: Kanika Aggarwal
Staff Editors: Farnaz M, Safia F, Kashif A
Copy Editors:
MuslimKidsMatter Editor: Dr Ameera Khan
Guest Submissions: UAR
News & Views: Waleed Ahmed

Islamic Content:
Amatullah
Sadaf Farooqi
Yahya Ibrahim
Abu Aaliyah Surkheel
Yaser Birjas
Mariam E.
Ismail K.
Anas Hlayhel
AbdulNasir Jangda
Abdullah Hasan

Political & Current Affairs:
Mohamed Elibiary
Amad S.
Iesa Galloway

Society & Lifestyle:
Umm Reem
Umm Zakiyyah

Psychology:
Haleh Banani
Sarah Sultan

Technology

Technology Manager: Amir (MR)
Technical Projects: TBA

Business & Strategy

Director of Business Development & Strategy: Amad S.
Business Manager: Ahmad AlFarsi
Human Resources: Amatullah
Administrative Assistant: Umm AbdurRaheem
Public Relations Manager: Iesa Galloway
Marketing & Advertising: Haytham Soliman
Comments Team Lead: Aly Balagamwala
Graphics Design: Dr. Mehzabeen Ibrahim

Legal Advisers:
Abdul-Malik Ryan
T. Ahmed

About MuslimMatters

We challenge ourselves and our readers to engage in discourses that touch our lives as citizens of the West, while maintaining our individual Islamic identities: Ultimately to cooperate, but not to compromise.

http://truelife200vi.wordpress.com/ True Life

Asalamualaikum wa Rahmatullah

Subhan’Allah, I love Blogs with a group of authors. Maybe you can take a look at my Blog and feature posts you like on here. Just a suggestion.

Keep doing your thing.

Was Salam

http://www.brotherisa.wordpress.com Isa

Yes, the definately have different vibes, compared to single author blogs.

http://www.muslimmatters.org muslimmatters

True Life: JazakAllahkhair for stopping by. We’ll keep an eye on your blog and ‘steal’ (with your permission) some of the material :)
http://proggiemuslima.wordpress.com proggiemuslima

As salaamu alaikum — I’m very impressed with your blog, both with the overall attitude and the quality of the writing. I’m looking forward to more great posts!
http://www.muslimmatters.org AnonyMouse

Wa ‘alaikumus-salaam wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatu,
Jazaakillaahi khairan, sister! Keep popping by, insha’Allah, and we hope to keep impressing you! :P

-Mouse
http://dawaholic.blogspot.com dawaholic

As Salaamu’Alaykum,

Very nice introduction of the staff, Just curious what is a “green Villager Mercury van” ?

-Dawaholic
http://www.muslimmatters.org Amad

Mercury Villager is a van made by Ford. It’s just a humorous co-incidence that three of us have it or have had it… If I may go further, van-drivers have some stereotypes attached to them… which is quite alright as long as the van takes our respective family from Point A to Point B :) !

wasalam
Hassan

Salaam. Good blog
http://planetirf.blogspot.com Irfan Yusuf

AA.

Nice. Or as we say down under, grouse.

MS
Irfan
http://www.jihadofawoman.com UmmZahra

Assalaamu alaikom,
What a very nice group of people… and mashaAllah a Sister taking the lead. Beautiful.
Sumaiyah

Salaam Alaikum,

I was wondering if any of you know the self- proclaimed apostate by the name of Abdul-Quddus, author of website Khalas.wordpress.com? Strangely enough, he has your website listed on his page, just one of his many contradictory actions.

If at all possible, I urge you to check out his site and try your best to give him dawah……he is in dire need of it.

I’m not so naive to think that he’s the only one of his kind out there, as his site is full of others claiming to be apostates from Islam.
This saddens me beyond words. May Allah protect the Muslims from their deceit and keep our faith strong. Ameen.

Concerned fellow Muslimah. Sumaiyah
http://www.muslimmatters.org Amad

salam Sr. Sumaiyah, we have been in touch with Abdul Qudoos before. Pray for him … he seems to have more than a spark of faith left in him, and we pray that Allah will remove his doubts and bring him back to us. He has always been polite and decent, not like many other apostates who make it their life goal to ‘hate on Islam’.
http://thesunnah.wordpress.com abu ameerah

“…not like many other apostates who make it their life goal to ‘hate on Islam’.”

Uhh…read the guys latest post…

Trust me…the dude HATES Islam. He just tries to be polite so that people won’t accuse him of being malicious.
http://khalas.wordpress.com Abdul-Quddus

As-salaamu ‘alaykum Abu Ameerah. Actually, Sumaiyah and Amad are indeed well aware of the “latest post” you are referring to. Thank-you for your judgement. May we please not turn this page into a debate with ad hominem attacks. This page is about the website MuslimMatters. Thanks and take care. :O)
Hamza

Asalamu alikum

why is the TDC site down for a long time? when will it be held next? jazkAllahu khair
http://truelife200vi.wordpress.com True Life

Maybe you can feature one of my newer posts again on your excellent Blog. Just peek through. Jazak’Allah khairan.
Hassan

Salaam, Hazma, TDC would be held at its usual time. The site is going through major revamp. Insha’Allah it should be up soon.
http://none aidaroos4harmoni

MashaAllah….. admirable,witty,dedicated.

Was passing by, thoroLy enjoyed the light- hearted ?autobiographies…. two graphic phrases that stuck were : The icecream addiction ( how cooool ! ) & the twirling of offspring !
Recently i commented thus on the mongolian 7foot 9inch GIANT and his twiggy wife : ” I would love to see him twirl his wife in Bush’s vicinity so her clogs bash out his brains !” Graphic enough?

Well done all. JazakumAllah (much) khairan.
JMalik

Asalaam Alaikum,

Beautiful and blessed blog! You all have intellect, spirit, and humor. I love this site.

May you be blessed for the wonderful work!
http://www.muslimmatters.org muslimmatters

Jazakallahkhair JMalik… Appreciate your kind words.
http://none aidaroos4harmoni

asak all

Still long to go for site’s sprucing/reconstruction ?

Are we almost there…. for surprises?
See you all on screen soon inshaAllah.
http://haqcentral.wordpress.com Sis Shaykha

Asalaamu Alaaikum

When I first came upon this blog, i wasn’t quite sure who it “belonged” to. But I see that is a collaboration of many people-many knowledgeable people masha’Allah.

I think it’s nice that the Shayookh listed up top are writing articles, and posts for the blog. It’s nice to see that they are making efforts to be more connected with the Ummah, especially the youth. And props to Al Maghrib too-and IslamToday/Qa.

We’re blessed to have such knowledge people amongst us to benefit from, Alhamdulilah. And it’s so nice that they are literally just a “click” away. Whereas in the past, people would travel from country to country searching for a Shayookh to either learn from, or to ask questions.

…Anyway, I hope i’ve haven’t fallen into praising you too much.

But I’ve loved every single article i’ve read here so far. lol and nice short bios, got a touch of humor. You guys are…dare I say…”Cool Shayookh”. :p

Keep up the good work, insha’Allah, May Allah reward each and every one of you, ameeen!

Wa’alaykum Asalaam

-Sis Shaykha
http://www.muslimmatters.org Amad

jazakillahkhair Sis Shaykha, after all those comments, we need some of this:

Ego-busting
http://haqcentral.wordpress.com Sis Shaykha

wa iyyak,

masha’Allah but that was a great read.

thank you

Wa’alaykum Asalaam
YoussefAlMasry

Alsalamualaikum,

MashAllah, what an amazing job you all have done in just a few months. There seems to be a lot of baraka at this URL :-)

Shifting gears…

Br. Musa, I’ve been seriously considering applying for a Fulbright to study in Egypt and was wondering if you wouldn’t mind answering a couple of questions about your experience.

Jazzak Allahu khayr!
http://www.muslimmatters.org Amad

wasalam.. jazakAllahkhair akhi Youssef.

Musa will email you inshallah (i.e. if you correctly entered your email for your comment :) )
http://www.themiddleawakening.net The Middle Awakening

May Allah reward you all for you good deeds

Ameen

The Middle Awakening Team
Brahim

Assallaamu Aleykum!
I was going through the Quran the other day, then i reached Surah An-Naml(27), Verse 61, there i read that the Earth is a fixed abode, can anyone who masters the Arabic Language tell me if this Verse is Correctly translated or i just misunderstood it….
I would really like someone to reply,on this blog, Or(i preffer) send me an email.
Yazakallah Khair!
Muhammad razwan

wa alikum salam brother brahim,

Well i red the verse of the Quran (27:61) i m not a knowledge able person but still i m able to understand this with the help(guidence) of Allah that the EArth is a made place at the state of rest it is not jolting every time and mountains are the reason for this with out which the earth may have alot of earthquakes and movment. Read it again like “OR, WHO HAS MADE THE EARTH , FIRM TO LIVE IN “
N.Y

Assalaamu Alaikum,

I’m not usually one for posting messages on sites – but these blogs are excellent!

I commend all the brothers and sisters who contribute towards the articles. Insha’Allah you’re reward will lie with Allah

Thank you for the time and effort that obviously goes into this site
ali

excellent website, very beneficial

i like the article about homosexual urges, for the fact that it helps people with real problems rather than shunning them away due to personal disgust.. jzakallah
http://mystrugglewithin.wordpress.com mystrugglewithin

Asalamalaikum, & Kudos to MM!

I’ve a quick request – please let me know if it’s already been covered. I was wondering if MM can write something about appropriate career paths for muslim women. Wallahi, this is going to be really helpful. It would enable the sisters to choose early in their lives the subjects they should pursue. It would help brothers to redirect the academic domains of their sisters, wives, etc. in the right directions.

For e.g., Software Engineering is a nightmare for a sister. Back home, ~50% of the developers were chain smokers, and ~70% used to do real productive work after 5 pm. Then, the consultancy path in the same domain is all about talking to random guys all day long. And my personal experience – many of the sisters gave up on computer science after graduation in favor of marriage, mba, technical writing, or some other poorly paid subdomains in software engineering.

I recall brother Siraaj to be the most suited person for this :>
-asalamalaikum
http://sagaciousmuslim.blogspot.com/ Sagacious_Muslim

Salaam Alaikum

Awesome website :-) And I had no clue Shaikh Yasir Qadhi was one of the founders!

SubhanAllah, just a little while ago everyone was using Blogger and all of a sudden WordPress is the new blogging tool!
http://sagaciousmuslim.blogspot.com/ Sagacious_Muslim

…. and MashAllah so many other renowned names on the list as well.
shamima essop

salaams

Firstly can I have zohra sarwani email address. I feel compelled to contact her on her mindless piece of information. (Just she not know every mother in the universe it doing that already. So next step please.

Please please brothers and sisters when we put such stupid articles on a web like this the jew realise how dense we actually are.

It is time we took the cue from them. Articulate, be thorough and make sense – don’t just put non-sense on the web to fill space. If you do need articles get hold of the appropriate people.
Vishnu Mohindra

l need some help and advise if you can help me please get intouch VISHNU.MOHINDRA@NTLWORLD.COM
muhammad Ali

The brothers of the montain of leogane need help to buy food in the Ramadan they are under very hard time since four days they can’t cover a iftar contackted the amerr of the islamic foundation of Haiti is name is brother abubackr the email of the islamic foundation is dawah_ul_islam@hotmail.com you can allso get it at Islamicfinder web page
http://kwather.ahmed30@yahoo.com olaa mokhtar

asalamo alaykom do you have convention in december like the one you did it last year i wish you make it more than one day because one day is not enouph we come from arlington tx ws assalam
Hajja

To the administrators of mm,

What is the criteria, if any, about getting these articles published? It seems like some of these articles have not been proofread for content, accuracy nor professionalism. Are there any guidelines before one submits an article? If your motto is supposed to be “intellectual discourse” or the like of it, then please present or publish articles which are islamically and intellectually stimulating
Its_nus

AssalmoAlikum,
i want to submit my blog..how possible?

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