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Mohamed Elibiary, Advisor to the Homeland Security Enterprise advises the Muslim community about Wired Magazine's, Spenser Ackerman’ s expose on FBI Counter-Terrorism training at Quantico. "As a liaison between the FBI and the Muslim community, I can attest that there is nothing new in Spenser’s reporting and could add volumes more to it of FBI wrongdoings; none the less, it has been disquieting and demoralizing for someone in my position to watch the ripple effects upon our community’s psyche." Read More »

Link to Full Coverage of Dr. Aafia's Ordeal by Andrew Purcell Houston, Texas. Ramadan 2011 or 1432. Whichever calendar you prefer does not change the fact that the new moon has been sighted, and Ramadan has begun. My healthy Muslim friends will be spending the daylight hours refraining from food and ... Read More »

After reading the signs and posters, one of my friends (who was either extremely witty or just a bit slow) asked Brian "so...what are you doing here?" His face turned red and we were soon treated to his legendary sense of indignation. "What am I doing here? What am I doing here?" he screamed at us. "No my friends, you need to ask yourself, what are YOU doing there?" Read More »

There are a great many similarities between the genocide perpetrated by the forces of Mussolini in his vain attempt to re-enact the Roman conquest of Libya and the actions of Qaddafi today. Read More »

Members of the mosque reported two men smashed in a window at Madrasae Islamia in the 6600 block of Bintliff Drive and then doused a room with gasoline before setting the fire. Read More »

"If you see something, say something." Our duty, I believe, is different—to see in a terrorism suspect a person deserving of rights and humane treatment; to speak out against torture when it happens in a New York jail, not just when it occurs overseas; to insist that the Bill of Rights applies to all defendants all of the time. To take responsibility for the ways each of us has become complicit in the civil-rights violations of our era. Read More »

A transcript of Shaykh Yasir Qadhi's khutbah on the Tennessee "Anti-Shari'ah" Legislation on March 11, 2011. Shaykh Yasir Qadhi speaks on the recent controversy regarding the proposed "anti-Shari'ah" legislation in Tennessee, the Peter King congressional hearings against Muslims and the rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric around the country. Read More »

Khutbah on civic engagement by Shaykh Yaser Birjas on May 11, 2011. Read More »

By Ryan J. Reilly Published in TPMMuckraker A group of anti-Sharia protestors who planned to counter-protest the planned pro-Sharia rally by the radical provocateur Anjem Choudary in front of the White House on Thursday found themselves without an opponent to debate. The counter rally planned by Frank Gaffney in response ... Read More »

The cries for freedom, equality and unity heard in America in 1960 are the same heard in Sudan today, the same heard in Palestine today, the same heard in Makkah in the time of the Prophet (S). Read More »