Once, while in class at college, an Arab girl I was sitting next to said quite loudly to another, “Hey, give this paper to the 'abdah” referring to a black girl in the class. I wondered if she was even aware of what she was saying in English. Did she ... Read More »
“Black people in America can never be Muslim,” he said to me as I stood next to his desk. I stared at my teacher with an expression that must have conveyed very little of what I felt right then. I didn’t know what to say. I studied his eyes, slightly enlarged by the thick glasses he wore. The deep olive of his Arab complexion was nearly the same as my American brown. We even shared the same hair texture—though my hair was covered right then. Read More »
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following was released today by the Coalition of African American Muslims (CAAM): What: Press Conference When: Thursday, September 2, 2010 1:00 pm Where: National Press Club 529 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20045 Why: The controversy over the Park 51 Project (Islamic Center in ... Read More »
By imām Johari Abdul Malik (CNN) — My job as an imām and outreach director for the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, located minutes from the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, was created September 11, 2001, to convey a more accurate image of the American Muslim community and to create opportunities ... Read More »
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