American Muslims and the Trauma of Anti Muslim Bigotry
By Kameelah Mu'Min Rashad In Aug 2011, Associated Press journalists Chris Hawley, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo began publishing a series of detailed reports exposing a decades long...
View ArticleIn the Forefront for Those in the Background #CloseGitmo
By Dr Maha Hilal #MuslimsRally2CloseGitmo There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. ~Arundhati Roy~ These words could not...
View ArticleMuslim Leadership Initiative: Finding the Way Forward
Table of Content The Love/Hate Narrative Who is having Hummus with the Hasbara A Request to Critics An Appeal to MLI cohorts and imam Abdullah Antepli Shalom Hartman has Power and Influence A Window...
View ArticleRadical Atheism and the Threat of Freethinking Terror
NB: The below is based on New Atheist Sam Harris' “concentric circle” analysis of the Muslim world and its alleged predisposition toward violence. You can see Harris' comments here or read the...
View ArticleTime to Organize for Our American Family Says Ohio Muslim Leader
Note: This piece was written for Columbus Dispatch, but they have refused to publish it, because “police have not yet found any evidence that the horrifying murders in North Carolina were the result of...
View ArticleStop. On Thugs and Rioters and Human Beings
I'm not sure I have the words for what I'm trying to say, but I'm going to give it a try. I don't speak with any authority or a more valid perspective than you or anyone else. I'm just speaking to you...
View ArticleBreakdown of the Recent Turmoil in Baltimore
By Mikaeel Ahmed Smith What we have witnessed this past week in the city of Baltimore has caused many Americans to re-analyze the current state and condition of the inner-city standard of life and how...
View ArticleThe Muslim Communities Are in a State of Emergency And In It Lies Our Biggest...
They say that humanity only really learns the most earnest of lessons in a state of crisis, a state of complete breakdown. Only after facing that breakdown, are we then capable of embracing the...
View ArticleDoggart- the Tennessee Terrorist
By Khalil Meeks Federal law enforcement agents caught a real terrorist. He was plotting to attack a small town in New York, burn its buildings and kill its residents. The terrorist was planning to...
View ArticleOslo Conference on Rohingya 2015 – Clips from International Leaders and...
Selected clips from messages of support for Rohingya rights and for the Oslo Conference to End Myanmar's Systematic Persecution of the Rohingyas. See George Soros (Open Society Foundation), Mairead...
View ArticleFriday Khutbah: In Response to Anti-Islam Rally in Phoenix
This Khutbah was given on the same day the Anti-Islam rally was supposed to take place in Phoenix, Arizona. Among other things, the Khutbah touched on the following: 1. The fact that everything in the...
View ArticleUyghurs in China: We Buried the Quran in Our Backyards
With the news of China forcing imams to dance in public and to make oaths to keep children away from religion in what is known as Xinjiang, where government officials warned that Muslims “During...
View ArticleOpEd: A Principled Critique of the Muslim Leadership Initiative
Editor's Note: We welcome countering opinions on this subject This is a public letter in criticism of the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), a program designed and funded by the Shalom Hartman...
View Article3 Points You Need to Know About Srebrenica
1. Worst massacre in Europe since WWII Srebrenica was the first ever UN safe area. Yet in July 1995 the worst atrocities in Europe since WWII occurred there. Over an 11-day period the Army of Republika...
View ArticleStand Up For Urban Justice with MuslimARC
By Margari Hill What does Madinah mean for Muslims in the United States? With major Muslim centers of population along the two coasts, in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit,...
View ArticleWorking Ourselves Out of a Job
Muslim Voices Matter My name is Ruth Nasrullah. I am a convert to Islam, a journalist, a blogger, a New Jersey native living in Houston, Texas. I have a masters degree in journalism and a master of...
View ArticleKhawarij Ideology, ISIS Savagery: Part One
As ISIS continues its murder and violence across the provinces it controls and seeks to control, and as it continues to plague the conscience of the great majority of Muslims around the world, what's...
View ArticleAylan’s Story
By Abdul Rahman Latif One day little Aylan went out to play. He got on his tippy toes for some ballet. His brother Galip said, “Hey let's pretend!” So Aylan was a vet saving a hen. Galip was an...
View ArticleThe School to Prison Pipeline and #IStandWithAhmed
By Margari Aziza Hill When 14-year-old Sudanese American Muslim Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, he thought he was going to impress his engineering...
View Article5 Ways Mosques Can Respond to Anti-Muslim Demonstrations
This Friday and Saturday October 9th and 10th, 2015 the ridiculously named Global Rally for Humanity will take place outside mosques across America. Sadly, the Global Rally for Humanity is not a...
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