“Come on…get up…get up….HURRRYYY!” my dad was yelling at all of us, probably because we had all slept in again. I still wasn’t back on track with my schedule, getting over the jetlag from our summer travels, and really wasn’t looking forward to lugging my tired body over to school that day.
Two Imams headed to a conference on Islamophobia in Charlotte, North Carolina were taken off of their flight just as the airplane was taxiing away from the gate. The Imams were asked to return to the boarding gate because the Delta Airlines pilot refused to fly with them on board. The Imams had been screened…
It is a late afternoon and a crowd mostly made up of Tea Party members are standing outside a community center protesting against a meeting that Muslims from their community are having, shouting all sorts of degrading remarks about Islam, Muslims and the beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw). What was surprising about this event was that…
Contributor Jenny Lynn covers the protests at the Villa Park City Council where Deborah Pauley spoke at. Deborah Pauley is also recently known as one of the speakers at the Yorba Linda protest outside the ICNA fundraiser this February. There, she mentioned she has a son in the Marines and said “I know quite a few Marines who would be happy to help these terrorists to a, uh, early meeting in paradise.”
What is da’wah? The word da’wah is an Arabic word that literally means “invite (to something)”. Even though this word or derivatives of this word can be used broadly, in Islam it is commonly used when Muslims extend a direct invitation to non-Muslims to accept and believe in the message of Islam by declaring that…
Imam Rauf, the founder of the Cordoba Initiative and Park51 center speaks on compassion and what unites all of humanity.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/12/rauf.islam.compassion/index.html?hpt=C2
This week, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie challenged Islamophobia by weighing in on the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ controversy. Watch Keith Olbermann: There is no ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann clarifies the misconceptions surrounding the community center. Send a note of thanks to…