The Blessed Ones — Helping Families with Special Needs in our Communities

Sarah and her younger brother Muneer, who is one of her best friends.

By Salim Patel SMILE for Charity, a local non-profit located in Northern New Jersey, recently had the blessed opportunity to host a very special group.  As I looked around the room I felt a wide range of raw emotions emanating from the group. Emotions usually kept hidden, but on this occasion, that was not necessary. I saw [...]

Where are the Healthy Gender Relations in the Muslim Community?

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By Salam Al-Marayati We have failed in engendering healthy gender relations in our community. Face it. I travel throughout the United States, and I see troubling signs of Muslim women unable to get married, primarily because Muslim men have abdicated their social responsibilities. Muslim men can marry non-Muslims– so they oblige — and Muslim women are stuck.  [...]