http://usinfo.state.gov/espanol/muslim La Oficina de Programas de Información InternacionalDepartamento de Estado de Estados Unidos El Islam es una de las religiones de más rápido crecimiento en Estados Unidos. Según un estudio reciente, hay 1.209 mezquitas en este país y muchas más de la mitad de ellas se establecieron en los últimos 20 años. Entre el 17 y el 30 por ciento de los musulmanes estadounidenses son conversos. La familia ocupa el lugar central tanto de la vida estadounidense tradicional como de la mayoría de los inmigrantes musulmanes que, generalmente, han llegado en fecha más reciente. El ingeniero Shahed Amanullah, quien vive
Read MoreBy Shaykh Muhammad Qutb http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=317 The Islamic community had been left in ruins. It had been weakened and divided into small nations. The seeds of internal conflict had been planed and nurtured. Every effort had been made to draw society far away from the essence of religion, keeping people in ignorance and luring them with worldly incentives. Attempts to reform within an Islamic framework are still being suppressed. Religious practicing Muslims have become outcasts in their own society. And yet it was the will of Allah, the Almighty, that this religion would survive – not only survive, but make a
Read MorePor Juan Galvan Mucha gente se sorprendería al ver el amor que los Musulmanes sienten por la Virgen María, la madre de Jesús. En el Corán, a ninguna otra mujer se le da más atención que a María. Ella recibe más atención que a todos los Profetas con la excepción de Adán. En los 114 capítúlos del Corán, María esta entre las ocho personas en tener un capítúlo a su nombre. El decimonoveno capítúlo del Corán se llama Mariam, en honor a la Virgen María. ‘Mariam’ significa María en Árabe. El tercer capítúlo del Corán se llama Amran, el cuál
Read MoreBy Juan Galvan Many people may be surprised that Muslims love Mary, the mother of Jesus. In the Quran, no woman is given more attention than Mary. Mary receives the most attention of any woman mentioned in the Quran even though all the Prophets with the exception of Adam had mothers. Of the Quran’s 114 chapters, she is among the eight people who have a chapter named after them. The nineteenth chapter of the Quran is named after her, Mariam. Mariam means Mary in Arabic. The third chapter in the Quran is named after her father, Imran. Chapters Mariam and
Read MoreAt the 2003 Emmy Awards, Jon Stewart of The Daily Showshowed the audience various news clips of anchors askingexperts about monkey pox and dirty bombs. He wanted to show the audience how ridiculous real news can be.He said that cable news stations should get some kind of awardfor their use of fear and speculation. The news clips were capped off withNBC News’ Chris Jansing seriously asking an expert,“What can you tell us about Hispanic Muslims?” Afterward, Stewart paused then asked,“What can you tell us about Hispanic Muslims?Are they nocturnal? Carnivores?” Who are Hispanic Muslims?Who are Muslims?What is Islam?
Read MoreSome Tips & Resources on Class Presentation about Eid From SoundVision http://www.soundvision.com/Info/misc/eidbreak.asp Some Thoughts on Eid-ul-Adha As the Islamic Calendar pages turn with each moon that passes, we are quickly approaching the end of the Islamic year. During the coming days many of our sisters and brothers will be graced with the opportunity of making Hajj to the Holy city of Makkah. Those of us not embarking upon the pilgrimage may be commencing preparations for our Eid ul-Adha celebrations. The Christmas season fell during our Holy month of Ramadan in December. Now with the approaching of spring, we see the
Read MoreBy Hisham Aidi http://www.merip.org/mer/mer229/229_aidi.html Middle East ReportFebruary 2004 (Hisham Aidi, a research fellow at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute, works on the university’s Muslim Communities in New York Project, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.) “Seamos moros!” wrote the Cuban poet and nationalist José Martíí in 1893, in support of the Berber uprising against Spanish rule in northern Morocco. “Let us be Moors…the revolt in the Rif…is not an isolated incident, but an outbreak of the change and realignment that have entered the world. Let us be Moors…we [Cubans] who will probably die by the hand of Spain.” [1] Writing at
Read MoreBy Yahya Lopez The resolution As the day of Eid ul Adha (Dhul Hijjah 1423/ February 2003) approached, I had been inching closer to making the intention to attempt to sacrifice an animal this year with my very own two hands. Even though I was solely striving towards the intention at that time, the overall implications, nonetheless, created a potent, gut-wrenching dilemma within me that weighed heavily upon my heart and mind. On the one hand, there was the powerful feeling of duty and compliance. Out of His infinite, unfathomable wisdom, Allah, Most High, had commanded, by way of His
Read MoreBy Haneme Idrizi, MD The present state of children’s health in the United States is not favorable. Although Americans spend almost one trillion dollars per year on health care, the US still appears to lag behind other nations in providing for our pediatric populations. The US ranks 24th among industrialized countries in the number of babies that die within the first year of life. The US had 23.1 million children who went without health insurance for all or part of 1995 and1996. The US currently has more obese children than ever before. As discerning as these statistics may be, the
Read MoreBy Rebecca Qaoud Assalam Waleikum brothers and sisters, I want to share a little about my own experiences about when I was still a new Muslim and also about how happy I am today. I was searching for a formal Latino Muslim community. As a convert, I desired to share my feelings, how happy I was for being a muslimah but I did not have the support from my own family. I was eager to learn from others how they were about to manage similar situations. Alhamdulillah, I had a wonderful husband who supported me in my transition to my
Read MoreBecause 8:45 am is too early for us to be up. Because we are always late, we would have missed all 4 flights. Because pretty people on the plane would distract us. Because we would talk loudly and bring attention to ourselves. Because with food and drinks on the plane, we would forget why we’re there. Because we talk with our hands, we would have put our weapons down. Because we would ALL want to fly the plane. Because we would argue and start a fight in the plane. Because we would have told everyone a week before doing it.
Read MoreBy Mariam Santos Garcia In the Name of God, The Gracious, Merciful, This presentation is dedicated to our Muslim brothers from Spain from 1492 who gave their lives to protect Al Andalus while trying to maintain their faith in Islam. You are probably wondering why the title of my speech is called Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula and not in Spain, well simply because there was no Spain, nor was Spanish spoken at that time, the territory of the Iberian Peninsula was occupied by the Visigoths , a tribe of Western Goths that came from present-day Germany, while their government
Read MoreFallout from 9-11-2001from the prospective of a Latino Muslim. By Khadijah Rivera The World stood still and watched in horror.“Verily with every difficulty there is relief.” – Quran 94: 5-6. It was a regular workday across the USA, and most of us were at work. Then, the world stood still in horror as we discovered that the two World Trade buildings in New York City had been attacked by airplane crashes. The news came slowly as we exchanged bits and pieces of information. Our faces showed the grief of humanity falling apart. Pain was written in our faces and body talk. We dropped our work to
Read MoreBy Samantha Sanchez and Juan Galvan Islamic Horizons MagazineJuly / August 1423/2002 Pages 22-30. The image of Islam in America is changing due to more and more people reverting to it. While there have always been large numbers of both African-American and Caucasian-American populations reverting to Islam, the Muslim population is becoming increasingly diverse. In recent years, the number of Latinos who reverse has increased tremendously. Some figures reveal that 40,000 Latino Muslims live in the United States. Latino Muslims have been gaining media attention. Headlines such as “A New Minority Calls Itself: Hispanic Muslims” and “Hispanic Muslims of New York” are just a
Read Morehttp://www.americanmuslims.info Advertisement says national security depends on strength of families (WASHINGTON, DC, 3/14/03) – Family values in the American Muslim community will be the focus in the fifth installment of a national advertising campaign designed to foster greater understanding of Islam and to counter the rising tide of Islamophobic rhetoric in the United States. SEE: www.americanmuslims.info CAIR launched the year-long “Islam in America” campaign February 16 with an ad on the New York Times editorial page. The first four ads featured examples of ethnic diversity in the American Muslim community, a Muslim Girl Scout troop in California, a Muslim woman explaining why
Read Morehttp://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/fact2.htm Islam is one of the fastest-growing religions in the US By the year 2010, America’s Muslim population is expected to surpass the Jewish population, making Islam the country’s second-largest faith after Christianity.1 The American Muslim community is a mosaic of cultures, its members having come from all of the five major continents. In fact, a recent survey showed that most Muslims are immigrants – 77.6% versus 22.4% US born.2 This same survey indicated that the ethnic origins of the Muslim community are as follows: 26.2% Middle East (Arab)24.7% South Asia23.8% African American11.6% Other10.3% Middle East (Not Arab)6.4% East Asia While
Read MoreBy Yahya Suquillo IntroductionThe terrorist attack perpetrated at the World Trade Center in New York on the morning of September 11, 2001, cost the lives of thousands of innocent people. This barbaric terrorist act once again tarnished the peace and brotherhood of mankind. Terrorism in generalTerrorism is a crime against humanity. Its objective is to spread fear in society by killing people, and thus gain strength for its political ends. Even from the past, different ideologies have resorted to terrorism. The Jacobins, who carried out the French Revolution, first used the concept of terrorism during ‘The Period of Terror’, when thousands of people were
Read MoreBy Ah’med Birzali Rodriguez http://www.angelfire.com/darkside/franco/Morisco.html Assalaamu ‘alaikom, I shall attempt to explain the history of the Mudéjar, Morisco or in Arabic, Mudajjaan, Mawaarika! In the year of 711 AD, a herd of horses came brooding into Spain like a storm led by a Berber by the name of Tarik ibn Ziyad, governor of Tangier in Northern Morocco, who led an army of 12,000 Berbers and Arabs into Spain, out of the appeal of Akhila son of the late Witizia of the Northern Visigoths, who under the threat of Roderick, the heir of the Southern Visigoths, had been declared by the nobles
Read MoreBy Ghadah Ali Gutierrez As a relatively new Muslim and a revert at that, I constantly find myself falling short of my religious goals. Each and every day I rise with the intention to get all five salats in, to do some random act of kindness, to read a chapter of the Quran, and yet most days I fail. Life just somehow seems to get in the way and time is something I’m always too short of. Words cannot express the depth of meaning that the following haddith holds for me. Narrated Abu Huraira (RA): The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said, “Religion is
Read MoreBy D. Garcia I was in denial about my own identity although society, namely my peers, were a constant reminder of that reality. I walked through the long hallways looking for a friendly face, some sign of a kind life form. There was none. Crowds of people lined the hallways talking about things that most certainly were of no importance to me. Yet, I envied them, longed to be part of any of the cliques’ that wandered, chitchatting throughout the hall. I stopped at the end of the long row of gray lockers, in front of my own, glad that the day was over. The day
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