ISIS is UnIslamic – That’s a Fact, Not Just Hollow Words

Last updated on: November 14, 2015 at 11:58 am By Dilshad Ali

By Qasim Rashid Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of the terrorism attacks in Paris. ISIS terrorists are farthest from what Muslims believe. We are sickened by these attacks and by attacks against innocents around the world. Anti-Islam personalities can demonstrate glaring hypocrisy. On one hand they scream “where are the moderate Muslims and why aren’t they condemning ISIS terrorism?” When Muslims the world over condemn ISIS in word and deed, the first ones to object are... Read more

Five Promises to my Newborn Daughter

Last updated on: November 5, 2015 at 7:04 pm By Dilshad Ali

Editor’s note: Congratulations and Mubarak to Qasim and his wife, Ayesha, who just had a baby girl! Dear daughter, Next month I’ll become a father for the first time to a girl. You will be my daughter. Your mother and I are blessed with two boys already, and we are thrilled to finally have the blessing of a girl in our home. But, my dear, as I look around the world I see a frightening reality. One in which women... Read more

Is Islam Compatible with Our Modern Way of Life?

Last updated on: October 20, 2015 at 4:44 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Seidu Malik Experience has shown that many natural phenomenon or processes are initially discovered with limited understanding or benefit to society. However, with pain staking effort and unbiased approach to the phenomenon, many of the unknown qualities that were initially observed as bad turn out to be good upon further examination. A case in point is the annotation of human genome sequence. Many of the genes with seemly-unknown functions decades ago were classified as “junk” but recent studies have proved... Read more

The 5 Ways American Muslims Can Respond to Anti-Muslim Protests

Last updated on: October 7, 2015 at 2:58 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

This October, anti-Islam extremists are planning roughly twenty anti-Muslim protests in front of mosques in America. Some of those protests will be armed with loaded and deadly weapons. Those supporting these armed protests claim they do so in the name of “free speech” to maintain justice and the Constitution. I’ve seen this excuse before. As an Ahmadi Muslim, my family, friends, and community have experienced this hate for decades in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia. The people protesting our mosques, homes, and... Read more

Ben Carson slanders Islam: Here’s exactly why his claims about Muslims are dead wrong

Last updated on: October 7, 2015 at 4:09 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

In his recent anti-Muslim crusade, Ben Carson promoted a disturbing form of religious segregation, claiming that a Muslim should only be president if he or she “renounces the tenets of Islam. Sadly, just as racial segregationists long garnered votes by promoting fear of black Americans, religious segregationists such as Carson today garner votes by promoting fear of Muslim Americans. In fact, Carson’s anti-Muslim intolerance has advanced his polling numbers and dramatically increased his campaign fundraising. In the process, Dr. Carson has helped promote and sustain frighteningly... Read more

Let’s Extend Our Generosity and Hospitality to Syrian Refugees

Last updated on: October 5, 2015 at 12:07 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Seidu Malik Never before in the history of mankind has the world witnessed such a mass migration of refugees. They come seeking shelter and safe haven from the barbaric onslaught of ISIS and President Assad’s regime. As the world watches in horror the untold sufferings of thousands of refugees in the Middle East and Europe (Hungary and Greece) on TV, one cannot help but empathize with them in their quest for a second chance in life. The war in... Read more

The Ahmed Mohamed Case

Last updated on: September 19, 2015 at 10:25 am By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Saima Sheikh A 14 year old ninth grader was pulled from his class by police officers and school principal and interrogated for about 1 ½ hours. His crime: He brought a homemade digital clock to school to show his engineering teacher. He is a Muslim and his name is Ahmed Mohamed. This happened this past Monday at MacArthur High School in Irving, TX (suburb of Dallas). According to Ahmed’s initial interview with Dallas Morning News, the events during his interrogation... Read more

The Myth of Muslim Unity

Last updated on: September 7, 2015 at 10:11 am By Muslims Writers Guild of America

It happened 41 years ago today, September 7, 1974: Muslim unity. And then it disappeared. And despite the sectarian violence, fatwas of infidelity, and state sanctioned terrorism, the myth of Muslim unity pervades the Muslim “Ummah.” I call it a myth because in every spectrum where it truly matters, Muslim unity seems to disappear. For example, it disappears when we ask why Muslim leaders aren’t uniting to alleviate the suffering of Palestine? It disappears when various Arab states in the... Read more

The Discovery of Earth 2.O: A Vindication for God

Last updated on: August 17, 2015 at 3:16 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Seidu Malik The recent discovery of the planet dubbed Kepler-452b or Earth 2.0 by NASA within the habitable region of the Milky Way galaxy has created a lot of excitement and, of course, being touted as headache for religion. According to Dr. Jeff Schweitzer recent article, if God is All-Knowing then somewhere in the book of nature there should be unambiguous proof or hint about His knowledge relating to Earth 2.0 and many more future discoveries. He raises very important arguments or... Read more

Racism and hate in society: are they due to ignorance or what?

Last updated on: July 30, 2015 at 10:21 am By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Seidu Malik The late Lucky Dube, a famous reggae musician from South Africa once said, “when I see a black man, I see the image of God. When a see a white man, I see the image of God. And that’s the way it should be. We belong together.” Unfortunately however, this is not the reality in many situations such as with the cold-blooded killing of black Christian worshippers in Charleston South Carolina, xenophobic attacks by indigenous South African’s on foreigners, the raging... Read more