The recent Executive Order by President Trump banning non-immigrants and immigrants from seven Muslim majority nations has ensued predictable chaos and uncertainty within the Muslim community and the rest of the world. This situation is rightfully upsetting and frightening, more so because of the lack of clarity regarding how the Order plays out legally. Therefore,…
On Friday, January 13th, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the names of various organizations to which it had awarded a sum total of $10 million in grants for their participation in DHS’s Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program. Featuring a combination of law enforcement agencies and NGOs, the list also includes organizations such as…
This was our first year attending MSA West and while every one had a different reason for attending whether it was to gain a “spiritual high” or to “find the one”, our purpose was to learn how to have a better connection with our creator and learn anything that MSA West had to offer. We…
“How goes your Hajj prep?” It was a week before my family and I left for our journey to the Holy Land. Although Hajj was not until the ninth of Dhul Hijjah, we had to get there a week in advance to perform umrah, visit Masjid Al-Nabi, and prep ourselves physically and spiritually. Hajj is…
