Can a person held in a prison cell among neighbors who do not speak his language be as lonely as someone who is held incommunicado in an isolation cell?
Can a person held in a prison cell among neighbors who do not speak his language be as lonely as someone who is held incommunicado in an isolation cell?
Knowing one another means beyond simple acquaintanceship -- you need to know people deeply. People go through some real tough things and even if it doesn't seem like it's that serious to us, pain is very subjective.
Ramadan is a moment of honest reflection and confrontation with oneself -- an exercise in spiritual and physical dissection intended to purify and cleanse the whole.
The tragedy is that Muslim men have been denied the wise council of Muslim women, when according to Allah that's something we need.
Ramadan challenges us to care and even feel implicated in the gross inequities that unfortunately characterize life in many of our major cities and society at large.
A mosque is worth only as much as the people inside it. It's the communities that give the mosque meaning and weight. How we serve our Creator and our fellow neighbors is ultimately reflected in the spirit of each and every mosque.
In the Quran, the prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, is referred to in Arabic as fata, a young, noble man who knows how to handle his responsibilities. His sense of integrity and commitment are remarkable.
Michele Bachmann has recently faced questions regarding her comment that she is "submissive" to her husband because of her religious beliefs. She has vacillated in her explanation.
While post-9/11 resulted in necessary Western government responses to counter international and domestic terrorism, this tragic event has been widely exploited by far-right neocons, hardline Christian Zionist Right and xenophobic forces.
How does one go about finding someone to get married to in the American Muslim community? When dating in most senses of the word is not religiously permissible, it's hard to find someone that makes sense for you.
Crushing a largely peaceful protest with brutal force by the Syrian regime during Ramadan illustrates a larger point; the hypocrisy of variegated Muslim dictators.
The project seeks to help dispel the fear and ever rising levels of Islamophobia in America by changing the cultural narrative from Muslims as the other, to Muslims as our fellow Americans.
Rep. Agema's anti-Sharia bill would be legally meaningless if passed. The Constitution is already the supreme law of the land; another legislative statement affirming the Constitution's supremacy would not change or add anything.
I can't get the first two weeks of this Ramadan, or any of the first 28 years of my life back. But I can decide how to spend the minutes that I will be blessed to see beyond this very moment.
May you be blessed as I have been by these fine essays by Nayab, Nicolas, and Saadia -- just a few of America's next generation of inter-faith inspired religious leaders.
Putting aside the immorality, the suffering, and sheer inhumanity of these wars, they have been a gigantic fraud on American and British taxpayers.
There is a lively debate taking place in the UK media between left and right wing commentators as to the causes of the English riots in which hundreds of shops and businesses have been looted.
Moments of solitude are important depending on how we use them. It's very different seeking solitude in order to remove yourself from frustration versus seeking solitude to grow and develop as you reflect upon and contemplate the world around you and how you fit into it.
Attempts to introduce sharia family law into Western societies run against the tide of reforms spearheaded by female activists in the Muslim world.
As they engaged in the act of building up a space destroyed by people who are seen as Muslim, who claimed to be Muslim, would they see me and remember the perpetrators? Or would I be viewed as just another visitor, another human being?
Most of us are guilty of being negatively judgmental at some point in our lives. When we see people acting in a way that we don't understand, it becomes easier for us to lash out than to put in the effort to understand.