What a trip the past two weeks have been? The last week of December as well as the first week of January is usually dead without...
John Donne, the seventeenth-century English poet and preacher, wrote in his Meditations: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of...
Cross-posted on Dailykos.com & Streetprophets.com In what will hopefully be a series of posts, I will be examining the trend of rising Islamophobia in America, employing...
This is interesting in that usually the anti-vote camp is often composed of folks, who base their opposition on Islamic interpretations emanating from Saudi. So, alhamdulilah,...
*E-mail your concerns and complaints to Columbia at this email: Curesponse@columbia.edu* (Hat-tip Sr. Zahra) Let me start off by saying that I am no fan of...
Update 9.25.07: List of signatories missed in the first issuance, added below. . In the Name of Allah, the Ever-Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy All Praise...
Here in Canada, the “voting with veils” controversy has resurfaced in the media and political spectrum. Way back in March, I linked to an article that...
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in the local masjid waiting for the jumuah khutbah, and an old uncle tapped me on the shoulder and...
Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaah, Rather than writing a long article, I had wanted to pose a question to our readers. One of the major obstacles that...
Note: This has been written in direct response to something that happened locally, but which I think is general enough to apply to everyone and everywhere...