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Sick Thugs Rob Bank in Islamic Ensembles

Sick Thugs Rob Bank in Islamic Ensembles(10)

May 9, 2008

This story is not new anymore. I have been hearing about it on NPR for the whole week. Tariq talked about it here. Fortunately, NPR hasn’t made it a point to tell us about the “Muslim connection” in the story. I don’t doubt that other news stations are making the point. Two of the thugs, […]

Sick Thugs Rob Bank in Islamic Ensembles
Obedience to Parents: The Test of Our Generation?

Obedience to Parents: The Test of Our Generation?

Most immigrant parents came here to go to school, to work, or open businesses. While some studied engineering, others studied business, some opened up gas stations, and yet others came for the ultimate prize of Medical School. In all of these cases though, they left home at a young age and went overseas. After studying, establishing themselves as professionals, buying a car, and buying a house like good Muslim children, they went back home, got married, and brought their wife over here. Then they lived happily ever after. … Then a funny thing happened.

Lest Ye Be Judged: Musings on the Raid on FLDS Compound in Texas

Lest Ye Be Judged: Musings on the Raid on FLDS Compound in Texas

I’ve realized something unsettling as I’ve read about the fate of the West Texas FLDS families.
You’ll note I didn’t use the word “sect.” It’s a judgmental word, one that minimizes the legitimacy of a religion. Who’s to say what a sect is versus a branch versus a practice?
When I first read the story I shared […]

The Marriage Project: A Project Nation

The Marriage Project: A Project Nation

In my career as an instructor of “Fiqh of Love” and “Love Notes” with AlMaghrib Institute, the activity and survey sessions conducted in the class environment included many personal questions submitted by students (both men and women), regarding marriage and marital life. Through this, and the overwhelming marriage counseling sessions and advices given in the course of the past four to five years, I was able to collect enough data and statistics to open a window on the status of social life in the Muslim community in America and provide an insight into the crisis of marriage we face here. The findings com from multiple locations all around the country including places such as Houston, New Jersey, New York, Chicago, The Bay Area and elsewhere - and the results were startling. The marriage crisis is a big crisis indeed, and while many of our respected older generation are unaware of it, or at least act like that, the youth were left helpless and sometimes hopeless.


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