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Lessons from Our Past: CVE, Black American Muslims, and Social Justice

By Margari Hill On February 5th, Muslim twitter responded to the Right Wing backlash over Obama meeting with Muslims leaders with hilarious tweets #MuslimMeeting. Although many of the tweets were light...

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Intimacy for Muslim Couples

Intimacy Matters with Haleh Banani, Umm Reem Saba Syed and Hena Zuberi: Introduction For mature audience only: Click here for the video recording//: Click here to view the embedded video. Intimacy...

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More of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Intimacy for Muslim Couples

Intimacy Matters with Haleh Banani, Saba Syed and Hena Zuberi: Erroneous Eastern Cultural Beliefs about Female Sexuality For mature audiences only Watch Introduction here Click here to watch the video:...

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Islam as Burden in a World of Short Shorts |The Muslim Skeptic

Why are so many of our youth experiencing Islam as an unbearable hardship? Why are so many of our youth experiencing promiscuity, drinking, and drugs as liberation? The recent “Practicing Islam in...

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Living off the Land- Urban Farming

You see him selling outside your masjid after Jumu‘ah—artisan goat cheese, yogurt, goats milk and fresh, free range organic eggs. Matt Jose is an urban farmer; his phone doesn't ring— it bleats and...

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Intimacy: Erroneous Western Cultural...

For mature audience only: Intimacy Matters with Haleh Banani, Umm Reem Saba Syed and Hena Zuberi | Part 3: Video for Part 3: Click here to view the embedded video. Faulty cultural beliefs are not just...

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Positively Muslim: 17 Year Old Muslimah Represents Youth at 13th Crime...

Reem Shaikh is a 17-year-old Muslimah from Houston. She finished memorizing Qur'an when she was seven and then traveled to Egypt to learn Arabic. She was homeschooled until the age of 12, and then she...

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The Luckiest Muslims in America

In the dying days of the Mughal Empire, a little known Maulana helped launch Peace TV with more than 200 Million viewers across the world. I know Will, I'm just as shocked as you but stay with me here...

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Blurred Lines: Women, “Celebrity” Shaykhs, and Spiritual Abuse

By Ustadha Zaynab Ansari “You who believe, uphold justice and bear witness to God, even if it is against yourselves, your parents, or your close relatives. Whether the person is rich or poor, God can...

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Is Your Mosque Successful Or Is It Just Growing?

By Maher Budeir The American Muslim Community is making a shift and is generally moving towards professionalizing the operation of our institutions.  More and more, I am hearing the right questions...

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The Rationality of Islamic Sexual Ethics: Zina

“Every king has a sanctuary, and the sanctuary of Allah is what He has prohibited.” People sometimes jokingly ask, why is it that driving requires a license, but you can have children without a license...

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Sunrise Over the Euphrates: Sarah’s Story of Asian Twitter, ISIS, Guilt and...

People striving to find peace, who are religiously motivated but with little knowledge and often ridden by guilt are easy targets for political movements and militants who are using Islam for their...

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Walk Not Exultantly Upon the Earth: An Islamic Response to the Papal...

By Joseph E. B. Lumbard Originally published in Huffington Post on 6/18/15 Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si” (“Praised be You”), is a clarion call to all of humanity. It also...

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How to Make Ramadan Dawah Jars

By Zuhair Shaath Ramadan truly is something special. On top of the spiritual, physical, and emotional discipline we build, it comes with a built-in opportunity for da'wah. With opportunity however,...

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Debating Homosexuality

In light of the recent US Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, we have seen a number of Muslim scholars reiterate the position of Islamic law on same-sex acts. What we have not seen much of, however,...

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Open Letter to Muslims Regarding Islam, Homosexuality, and The American Way...

By imam Mikaeel Smith In the name of Allah the most Beneficent and the most Merciful. Since the United States Supreme Court decision to allow homosexual marriages in all 50 states in America, the...

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Stand Up For Urban Justice with MuslimARC

By Margari Hill What does Madinah mean for Muslims in the United States? With major Muslim centers of population along the two coasts, in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit,...

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Where is the Modern Fatima al-Fihri? The Need for Educational Endowments

By Waleed Ahmed As we strolled through the winding streets of Fez on a Saturday night during a recent trip, a friend pointed to a house tucked away in one of the alleys and remarked, “That's the house...

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Avoid Financial Elder Abuse Through Islamic Principles

By Ahmed Shaikh As the population continues to get older and the elderly live longer, elder abuse is a large and growing problem in the United States.   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

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Xenophobic Patriots: Will The True Patriots Please Stand Up?

By imam Mikaeel V. Smith The inquisitive nature of man has never allowed him to stop asking the question “why?” The first stage of child development is the “what” stage. Where children seek to know the...

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