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
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
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
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
By Seidu Malik Easy and comfortable living is what everyone wishes for in life but there comes a time the basic means of survival becomes a struggle. Thousands, if not million of people across the globe through no fault of their own, succumb to pain, suffering, and the tragic loss of love ones. Instances of natural disasters like flooding, outbreak of diseases like Ebola and many other sufferings in life makes people wonder if God truly exist or why does God... Read more
By Saima Sheikh “Take and dump pigs’ blood and [plant] pigs’ heads on a post,” he said sagely, “and they won’t buy the land.” “It’s gonna kill Farmersville,” one man warned darkly. “They’re at war with us,” thundered another, reports Dallas Morning News and “another lady explained, is how “they” will use their own dead to poison the water supply: “Their bodies are generally above the water,” she explained, as if lecturing kids in science class. “We get rain, it’s going... Read more
In his July 17 Facebook post, Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, spewed unhinged hatred and bigotry against American Muslims. Writing his response to the Chattanooga shooting, Graham used language that can only succeed in radicalizing Americans: We are under attack by Muslims at home and abroad. We should stop all immigration of Muslims to the U.S. until this threat with Islam has been settled. Every Muslim that comes into this country has the potential to... Read more
By Haris Raja The recent Chattanooga shootings sparked the same debate that gets started every time the alleged perpetrator happens to be a Muslim. Islamophobes pounce on it like a drooling dog jumps on a bone. While the rest of the nation is deeply pained by such a horrible tragedy and is offering condolences to the afflicted families, Islamophobes are busy accusing Islam of violence and bloodshed. The notion that Muslim youth are being radicalized because of the violent teachings of Islam... Read more
By Haris Raja My friend’s daughter spent her 7th birthday in a unique way. Unlike other kids her age who want to decorate their house with balloons, order a giant birthday cake, invite all their friends and expect a lot of presents, she decided to do it differently. There was no party planned at her house that day. Instead she took 7 brand new toys (because she turned 7) and gave them to the patient’s at the Children’s hospital. She... Read more
By Seidu Malik The existence of God in the modern day world has become a hotly contested debate. While it is true that no one can offer any objective evidence of ever seeing God, it is also not the first time that people have demanded to see God or have doubt in the existence of God. In fact, both the Bible and the Quran tell us that despite the numerous Signs shown by God to the Israelites during the time of Moses, they still demanded to... Read more
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