American Muslim & Jewish Leaders Visit Concentration Camps to Counteract Holocaust Denial IslamToday / Agencies 22 August 2010 A delegation of prominent US Muslim and Jewish leaders have recently completed a tour of Nazi concentration camps in Dachauin, Germany and Auschwitz, Poland. The eight Muslim participants – including TV personality Sheikh Yasir Qadhi and Laila Mohammed, daughter of the late Imam W.D. Muhammad – represented America’s diverse community including Arab, South Asian, African-American, Caucasian, Sunni and Shiite. Never before has such an interfaith effort been documented, some called these events historic, while participants simply called it “transformative.” The special delegation … Continue reading Muslims & Jews Counteract Holocaust Denial Together

Some Manifestations of Allah’s Kindness Sheikh Salman al-Oadah Allah is kind to us in ways that we cannot even imagine. His kindness is manifested to us from before we are born into our infancy and adulthood, in every aspect of our lives. It is from Allah’s kindness that He creates the fetus in its mother’s womb, and that the womb does not reject it even though it is a foreign body. Allah makes the womb ready to welcome it. Allah thus enfolds the fetus in three protective coverings, that of the placenta, that of the womb, and that of the … Continue reading Allah’s Kindness

Fasting for Someone Intending Travel Sheikh Salman al-Oadah It is established and agreed upon in Islamic law that a person who is on a journey in the month of Ramadan is exempted from fasting and has to make up the missed days later. This is because Allah says in the Qur’an: “But if anyone is ill or on a journey, then (let him fast the same) number of other days.” [Sûrah al-Baqarah: 185] However, what about a person who starts the day in Ramadan at home, but then starts on a journey during the day? Should that person fast for … Continue reading Fasting and Travelling

Pride and prejudice (altmuslim.com) Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf’s project to build bridges with America has inadvertently become a lightning rod for hatred. If he succeeds in building his center, it will be a triumph for America and its values. But American Muslims will have to pay a big price for it. By Muqtedar Khan, August 23, 2010 Brooklyn’s too close also Newark, Delaware The Park51 controversy has brought many dark elements to the fore. To my mind the foremost danger is the mainstreaming of a pernicious partnership between prejudice and politics. Come December, the politicians will abandon the issue and … Continue reading Its OK to Persecute Muslims in the US – US Government?

Does the American standard consist of freedom of religion, that fundamental right to which we thought ourselves entitled in this nation? Or has the new American standard become the method by which to deny American Muslims their rights? By Sara Haji, Now comes the hard part New York, New York About six months ago, I became an American citizen. They gave me a nifty handbook called “The Citizen’s Almanac: Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States,” replete with quotes: Franklin Roosevelt, James Madison, Woodrow Wilson, Supreme Court decisions, Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg (“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this … Continue reading American Freedom For All – Except Muslims ?

The campaign for school holidays for Muslim students in New York City may actually be detrimental to religious freedom by creating an all or nothing conflict – either recognize all holidays or none – that is most likely to result in the recognition of none. By Asma Uddin Pushing too far? Washington, DC This Ramadan, the holiest month for Muslims, two major debates around Muslims rights are taking place in New York City. One about the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”, the other over whether to include Muslim holidays, including the post-Ramadan celebration, Eid-ul-Fitr, in the public school calendar. Last September, … Continue reading The other Islam controversy in NYC

‘Ground Zero mosque’? The reality is less provocative Millions of Americans are furious about the ‘Ground Zero mosque’. But it doesn’t exist Charlie Brooker The Guardian, Monday 23 August 2010 Article history ‘Ground Zero mosque’ protesters under the media spotlight. Photograph: Michael Nagle/Getty ImagesThings seem awfully heated in America right now; so heated you could probably toast a marshmallow by jabbing it on a stick and holding it toward the Atlantic. Millions are hopping mad over the news that a bunch of triumphalist Muslim extremists are about to build a “victory mosque” slap bang in the middle of Ground Zero. … Continue reading American Idiots ?

You are here: Incredible photo of the ‘twin star’ that is the Earth and Moon taken from 114 million miles away By Daily Mail Reporter It is an image that should put us firmly in our place. Set against the inky blackness of space our Earth can be seen with the smaller Moon orbiting around it from a distance of around 114 million miles. Taken by Nasa’s Messenger deep space probe the incredible image illustrates how insignificant we really are. Earth can be seen at a distance of around 114million miles in an image taken by Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft A … Continue reading Earth and Moon – from 5.945702e-06 Pc

DNA tests reveal ‘Hitler was descended from the Jews and Africans he hated’ By Allan Hall Revealing: The DNA tests on relatives of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler show he was probably descended from Jewish people and North Africans Adolf Hitler is likely to have been descended from both Jews and Africans, according to DNA tests. Samples taken from relatives of the Nazi leader show that he is biologically linked to the ‘sub-human’ races he sought to exterminate. Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren used DNA to track down 39 of the Fuhrer’s relatives earlier this year. They included an … Continue reading HITLER – An African Jew?

The moment an angry crowd protesting against Ground Zero mosque turns on man in a skullcap… because they think he is a Muslim By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 7:02 PM on 23rd August 2010 Comments (150) Videos Add to My Stories This is the terrifying moment a man is verbally abused because a crowd demonstrating against plans to build a mosque near New York’s Ground Zero believe he is a Muslim. The powerfully built black man who is wearing a type of hat similar to that worn by Muslim men is called a ‘coward’ and verbally abused by … Continue reading Ask Not If You Hate America – Ask If America hates YOU!