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The Salafis are the new Sufis. Fifty years ago, the Salafi’s were the Westerner’s best friend. Sufis were seen as political threats due to their heavy involvement in anti-colonial resistance and thus Salafis were supported and Sufis were bashed. Many of our parents grew up overseas with these anti-Sufi sentiments. 50 years later, “Salafis” are [...]

Pat Tillman, a professional football star, gave up a lucrative multi-million dollar NFL contract & a life of luxury, to serve his country and join the U.S. Military. He was killed in 2004 in Afghanistan by what the US government reported was an attack from the Taliban, but later it was revealed that he actually [...]

New Research Shows How Religion Is Used to Justify Violence Source: ABC News (found on OneGoodMove.org) “I think many people use God as their justification for violent and aggressive actions,” Bushman said. “Take the current conflict in Iraq as an example. Bush claims that God is on his side. Osama bin Laden claims that God, [...]

Circus Man   By Ghazali (Saad Omar)   Written to the Melody of Keane’s “Somewhere Only We Know”: For Zafar’s solo album   (Piano intro-Piano stops before singing begins and light violin accompanies first stanza)   A Circus man, life on the road His heart holds stories that will never be told He carves his [...]

Source: Salman & Danya  The Amman Message is a crucial step towards tolerance and moderation in our community, which has been plagued by division and unrest. It was formulated after consultation with numerous Islamic figures, including major scholars like Mufti Taqi `Uthmani, Shaykh Nuh, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh `Abd al Hakim Murad, Shaykh Faraz, Shaykh [...]

South Asian Basketball Championship Game Sunday April 1, 2007 @ 6:00 PM The Garden School (33-16 79th St Queens, NY) The Basketballers The Hitmen Captain: Naveed Ahmed Captain: Ammad $heikh I would like to congratulate The Ballers for an amazing double overtime victory tonight. The ballers almost blew it, having an 11 point lead with [...]

Source: NYTimes Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic March 25, 2007 By STEVE LOHR Confident multitaskers of the world, could I have your attention? Think you can juggle phone calls, e-mail, instant messages and computer work to get more done in a time-starved world? Read on, preferably shutting out the cacophony [...]

Source: Azeem Khan Cutting edge cultural dialogue – Acclaimed British Muslim artist teams up with Arts Council England in groundbreaking US “Arts and Islam” tour Mohammed Ali’s unique fusion of graffiti art with Islamic calligraphy has taken an urban art form from street walls to galleries and spiritual art into new dimensions. His art has [...]

Im not much of a cricket fan, but millions of people around the world are really into the current Cricket World Cup. As most of you are probably aware, the Pakistani team (which are always among the favorites) suffered early humilating losses against the West Indies and Irish teams, eliminating them from the tournament. Now [...]

Source: Austin American Statesman (found on lallamona.wordpress.com) But this is what intrigues me about people like Kareem Salama. He’s forging a path, identifying with much of what we think defines American culture while unashamedly promoting his faith. There might never be a market for country songs based on classical Arabic poetry. But Salama’s American experience [...]

This is a topic I’ve been personally thinking about for a while. Its great to see our scholars delve into these ever-so-important and crucial issues. Source: The Translators [under the supervision of Imam Suhaib Webb] …in the West one madhab is not sufficient for practice and he [Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah] said this recently on [...]

Source: Outlandish Video Blog Salam peace paz fred aman Aaaight y´all here it is We know many of you have been waiting for this video to arrive so enjoy…… In short the story is about this young couple. We follow them during a day of work school etc. They are expecting their first child. They [...]

Source: St. Petersburg Times Sami Al-Arian has been on a hunger strike for 58 days to protest being held beyond his prison sentence. On a water-only diet, he has lost 53 pounds. The former University of South Florida professor can no longer walk, speaks in a whisper and trembles constantly because of low body temperature, [...]

1. Zaytuna Minara: Foundations of the Deen Saturday, Mar 31st 10:30AM – 6:30PM Teachers: IMAM ZAID SHAKIR & USTADH ABDULLAH ALI Location: Masjid at-Taqwa (1266 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY) 2. Fundraiser Event: “Help build a mosque in Rockland County” hosted by the Islamic Center of Rockland Saturday, March 31, 2007; 4:00pm to approximately 9:00 pm [...]

Superficial Religion By Ghazali (Saad Omar) The song was written to resemble the melody of the body and bridge of Elton John’s “Sacrifice.” The song will be accompanied by drums and piano. I can’t wait till one of the singers I’m approaching takes up this project because the melody and piano really makes this song, [...]