By Maral Ali Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay have come to symbolize the face of the “War on Terror” and the many abuses that took place in that era, yet even with the end of the Bush Administration, a silent legacy remains in the form of secret illegal prisons in the United States designed to…
By Affan Shaikh In a change of counterterrorism policy and Bush-era ideology, a Federal Court ruled against government ability to freeze the assets of charities according to terror financing laws without a warrant based on probable cause. The ruling, issued by Federal Judge James G. Carr of Ohio faulted the Treasury Department in its actions and…
By Nader Nasr Hundreds of Muslims have emailed Germany’s soccer club, Schalke 04, over its anthem, which makes references to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The anthem, which also caused small, temporary protests by Muslims in 1997, states in the third verse “Muhammad was a prophet who understood nothing about football [soccer]. But of all the…
By Zeyad Zaky Three female police officers in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom took dressed in Muslim attire as part of the “In Your Shoes” program, telegraph.co.uk reports. They went shopping in this attire in order to experience what it is like for a Muslim woman to be out in public. The officers and some Muslim…
By Zenith Rahman A young Muslim man from Southern California was named of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the United States Junior Chamber on September 26th. Atif Moon, a UCLA alumnus, co-founded the Center for Global Understanding (CFGU) when he felt the need to create a public organization which integrated and voiced Muslim American’s…
By Omar Ahmad In August of 2009, a woman wearing a burkini was prevented from entering a public swimming pool in France because French pool policy does not allow “swimming while clothed”. Although this rule was intended to promote hygiene and inhibit bacteria growth, many Muslims see this ban on burkinis as a form of…
By Narges Moaddel faculty.maxwell.syr.edu Many of us have heard the word Hajj and know that it is the fifth pillar of Islam. Ask people what kind of experience it is and you”ll hear a wide variety of responses such as spiritual, beautiful, difficult, crowded, etc. What does Hajj mean? Hajj literally means “to set…
by Osma Dossani flickr.com The Facts: The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has built the Museum of Tolerance here in LA, has been issued the permit to build a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. There is some tension behind this because many believe that it is on a Muslim cemetery. This issue ought to be judged…
by Nader Nasr Narrated by Ibn “Umar: The Prophet (Peace and Blessings be upon him) said, “Amongst the trees, there is a tree, the leaves of which do not fall and is like a Muslim. Tell me the name of that tree.” Everybody started thinking about the trees of the desert areas. And I thought…