KS: WICHITA MUSLIMS HOST WORLD BAZAAR AS PART OF OUTREACH
Wichita’s Muslim community is using a bazaar and car show to reach out to people throughout the city. The event Saturday is part of a larger effort to provide outreach in traditional and nontraditional ways while carrying on the legacy built by the late activist Nabil Seyam. Hussam Madi, spokesman for the Islamic Society of […]
FL: PROUD GRADUATE OF MUSLIM SCHOOL
In recent times, madrassas, or schools, have been given a negative image and are stereotyped for preparing anti-Western Muslim minds. I am happy to know that another Muslim school is in the making, a school that is working to combat these stereotypes. The Muslim Academy of Greater Orlando is expected to open soon in its […]
PA: CITIES SEE RISE IN BLACK MUSLIMS IN WAKE OF SEPT. 11
Allahu Akbar, the Muslim call for prayer, rings out on a recent Friday and a group of black men and women gather to celebrate the Islamic day of rest. The wooden house in Pittsburgh’s rundown Homewood neighborhood looks like any other on the block. But the sign at the door, Masjid Mumin, and the rows […]
NY: THE REPUBLIC OF BEAUTY, MELDING WEST AND EAST
Told often enough that the West and Islam are natural enemies, we start to believe it, and assume it has always been so. But the Metropolitan Museum of Art argues otherwise in ”Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797,” a show that, with classic Met largesse, recreates the spectacle of two different cultures meeting in one […]
IL: ART OFFERS WINDOW INTO ISLAM
In the early 1970s, the game of table tennis led to a thawing in U.S.-Chinese relations. Curators of an Islamic art exhibit at Chicago’s Smart Museum hope art can work the same magic, opening doors to greater understanding between the U.S. and the Muslim world. “If you say Islam to most Americans, they say terrorist,” […]
AL: Rabbi, Imam Discuss Similarities, Friendship
AL: ‘BROTHERS FROM TWO MOTHERS’ BRIDGE GAP Muslims. Jews. What’s the next word you think of? Two religious leaders in Huntsville are among those working to make “friendship” the word associated with their faith groups’ relationship. “We know what we have to do. We have to cross the street,” said Rabbi Jeffrey Ballon Monday as […]
Islam and Environmentalism: Is a Greener Islam Possible?
IS A GREENER ISLAM POSSIBLE? “We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains; but they refused to undertake it, being afraid thereof: but man undertook it; He was indeed unjust and foolish.” (Quran 33:72) Green is the color which is most often associated with Islam and coincidently green […]
CO: Blind Man Seeking Citizenship Wins Suit
A blind Jordanian with an American green card has convinced a Denver federal judge that authorities have waited too long to approve or reject his bid for U.S. citizenship. Zuhair Mahd, a 33-year-old computer expert and industrious blogger, took his case to federal court last May, saying that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services took longer […]
CAIR: Muslim Rep Visits Mideast with Congressional Group
CAIR: ELLISON TRAVELING TO ISRAEL AS PART OF CONGRESSIONAL TRIP Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, arrived in Israel Friday as part of what his office called a “goodwill mission” to the Middle East. The nine-day congressional trip, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will include meetings with Israeli Prime Minister […]
CAIR: The Irrational Fallout of Rational Fear
CAIR: THE IRRATIONAL FALLOUT OF RATIONAL FEAR You may not have heard, but six American Muslim imams (prayer leaders) are suing US Airways, claiming they were improperly barred from re-boarding a flight after fellow passengers reported that they were engaging in suspicious activity – prayer. Among those supporting the imams is the Council on American-Islamic […]