y Natasha QuraishiIllumination Magazine, June 2003. Pg 3.www.illuminationmag.org The Latino American Dawah Organization (LADO) is anon-profit organization founded in 1997 that iscommitted to providing information about Islam,particularly to the Latino American community. Withthe increasing number of Latino Americans discoveringor rediscovering Islam, it is a much neededorganization. LADO’s motto is ‘AT YOUR SIDE!’ whichmeans ‘At your side!’ The LADO website, atwww.latinodawah.org, contains a wealth of informationfor prospective reverts and non-Muslims. The sitecontains LADO’s monthly newsletter, useful links onIslamic information and websites, and a library withIslamic resources for beginners in English, Spanish,and Portuguese. From the ‘Contact Us’ page, youcan find Latino Muslims from around the country. Helpacknowledge the diversity
Read MoreNIKE UNVEILS NEW LOGO From Swoosh to ShwooshA Parody. For more Muslim humor check out: azhar.com. Monday Sept 9, 2002 8:37 PM ET By Choam Von Nomsky CHICAGO (Reuters) – Multinational athletic footwear and apparel giant Nike, Inc. [NYSE: NKE] unveiled its new logo today, during a much anticipated press conference held in downtown Chicago at the company’s Michigan Avenue “Nike Town” location. The company announced that its new logo, a mere adaptation of the all-too-familiar “swoosh”, is known as a “shwoosh,” because it incorporates three diacritical marks in the shape of a triangle, just above the fading tail of the swoosh. The
Read MoreWhy to Reject Jesus’ Divinity, A Top Ten List According to the BibleBy Shahid Bin Waheed http://www.geocities.com/sbwus/Top_Ten_List_Rejecting_Jesus-Divinity.htm The Bible gives proof to the Oneness of God, “The Only True God.” 1. In Mark 12:29, Jesus said “Here, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.” [This confirms that Jesus called people to worship the One and Only God, not the trinity. 2. In John 20:17, Jesus said I ascend to my God and your God. [Jesus has a God according to him; we know that a God can’t have a God.] 3. In John 8:28, Jesus said, “I do nothing of myself.” [Can
Read MoreBy Jacob Bender Presented on July 5, 2003 at theISNA Islam in America Conferencesevent in Dallas, Texas As-salaamu ‘alaykum! In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. It is truly an honor for me, an American Jew, to stand before this great gathering of Muslims in America this afternoon and recite these sacred words of greetings and peace. I come before you not as a scholar, but as a humble student of the three great traditions that spring from our common father Abraham, peace be upon him, and of the bonds that tie Jew to Christian, Christian to Muslim, Muslim
Read MoreBy Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf The Message International, 2000 In the 10th century CE, Hroswitha Saxon princess and earliest known German poetess wrote of Cordoba, the caliphal capital of al-Andalus, that it was: “the ornament of the world.” In the Age of Hroswitha, Islam and civilization were synonymous. The Abode of Islam had a brilliant beacon in the east: Sunni Persia, and another, more spectacular, in the west: al-Andalus. Christian historians in the Middle Ages spoke of “the two Spains,” one Christian and the other Muslim. They meant by Spain, “Hispania”: the Iberian peninsula Spain and Portugal not the political entity called
Read MoreBy Juan Galvan During high school, my strong belief in Christianity was shaken when a friend told me that the Holy Trinity did not exist and that Jesus was not God. “He’s wrong,” I told myself. Jesus has to be God because God and humanity were disconnected when Adam and Eve committed original sin. Reasoning later, I thought that God has sent the only son whom he has forgiven because of the great love he has for us. God is the only one who forgives and that is why Jesus has to be God. I had the Bible references with me so I could defend
Read MoreBy Ghadah Ali Gutierrez Is it haram to ask for a better life than we ever thought possible? Is it uncool to actually talk about having your prayers answered? Call me superficial, but one of the things that I’ve noticed the most since my reversion is that circumstances in my life seem to be coming together in amazing harmony. In other words, Allah is answering my prayers, sometimes without me even asking! All of a sudden, everything is just falling into place. My husband’s green card was approved after two very long years and a LOT of paperwork. My bestfriend has found a potential husband. Most amazing,
Read MoreAssalaam alaiykum,Last December, Latina Muslim sisters began an online petition against an anti-Muslim Christina episode. Many Latino Muslims were deeply offended by the Christina episode. Learn more about the Christina episode in LADO’s January 2002 online LADO newsletter:http://www.latinodawah.org/newsletter/jan2k2newletter.html#6 The online petition currently shows 652 signatures. You are strongly encouraged to sign the petition. Below, you will find the original petition followed by some comments written by people who signed the petition. You can sign the online petition by visiting:http://www.petitiononline.com/Muslimah/petition.html. ~~~The Letter by Latina Muslimahs: To: Spanish MediaPETITION ON LINE Petition to protest the defamation by the Spanish Communication media against
Read MoreBy Edmund A. Arroyo Asalamu Alaykum brothers and sisters, Muslims must be cautious about how they deal with situations such as the DC sniper tragedy. First, I want to warn against attacks on the Nation of Islam by Muslims. It is acceptable to clarify our differences. However, we should caution against insults and mockery, even if it is in jest. I would like to believe that we are better than those who do the same to us. Secondly, I want to caution all of my convert brothers and sisters about blame. All too often, we buy into these conspiracy theories
Read MoreBy Haneme Idrizi “”Whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind.” – Qur’an 5:32. Within a century after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the Muslims not only expanded their empire beyond Arabia but also led the way in scientific innovations that would forever influence the practice of medicine. By the ninth century, Islamic medical practice had advanced from talisman and magicry to
Read MoreBy Juan Alvarado As per Laurie Kellman of the Associated Press [“Muslims fear sniper backlash,” 10-24-02], John Allen Muhammad belongs to that idiosyncratic religious group of African-Americans known as the ‘Nation of Islam’ or the NOI for short. He provided his services to Louis Farakhan’s Million Man March as security back in the mid-nineties. This means that despite his name, John Allen Muhammad is neither Sunnite, Shia, Wahhabi or Salafi. Because of his affiliation with the NOI, Mr. Muhammad holds onto some pretty peculiar beliefs which may explain the phrase ‘I am god’ on the tarot card left on the
Read MoreBy Michelle Al-Nasr http://islamicweb.com/begin/newMuslims/convert_letter.htm I am writing this for all my Muslim brothers and sisters who have converted (or re-verted) to Islam, and have had the courage, against all odds, to stand firm on their beliefs – no matter how great the cost. I want to convey the sorrow I share with many of my fellow brothers and sisters in Islam, that have had to distance themselves from their families, because of their acceptance of the religion of Islam. I want to first tell you, “I love you”, you are my family, I have not forgotten you. It breaks my
Read Moreby Yahya ‘Abu Ayah’ Lopez During my years as a Muslim I have noticed that there has been an evolutionary process in so far as the terminology of words we have used to define the growth of our communities and also in the descriptive expressions we have selected to denote our actual acceptance of the Islamic way of life. One example of such specialized terms are the names we have used to distinguish ourselves as American Muslims. I remember that when I was introduced to Islam, the Muslim community I first came in contact with called itself “Bilalians.” The beautiful
Read MoreBy Yahya López Several years ago while attending an iftar dinner (fast breaking during the month of Ramadan) at the house of an acquaintance of a family member of mine, an incident occurred which was frankly quite profound in its very nature and, for me at least, showed a positive and inspiring glimpse of the future of Islam in America. The following is an account of that event. The brother who had invited us to this iftar and almost all of the guests were immigrants from India or from Indian ancestry. My invitation there was a direct result of that
Read MoreBy Juan Galvan In September 1999, a group of five Los Angeles Latino Muslims decided to form a study group to learn more about Islam in Spanish. They began meeting on Sundays at the Islamic Center of Southern California. The small group realized that many local Latinos were visiting the Islamic Center by either curiosity or to find information about Islam in Spanish. These visits by non-Muslim Latinos were occurring so frequently that they decided to structure an introduction to Islam program in the Spanish language. Local reporters began to take notice of this growing Latino Muslim group. Because reporters
Read MoreBy Ibad Ur Rahman Something happened recently that I want to share with you. What happened was funny, and what happened was also a fun experience. I want to share this fun experience with you, my brothers and sisters, because I think you might gain from it and you might be amused. I was eating pasta in the college Union and minding my own business. Some people might say I was looking like my “bad version.” lol. My cap was turned backward, and I was wearing an old leather jacket. I had a slightly tense expression, a lot of work
Read MoreBy Francisco Rodriguez The hidden truth that was concealed for centuries, by the Christian Spaniards! It was told by a Chieftain from the Mohawk and Iroquois Federation, that the first non Native-Americans they had encountered off the Eastern Shores of Northern America, were not the so-called Vikings or in general, the Infamous Europeans; but instead lo in behold, the Moors of Al Andalus! Long before the first European ever made contact with the Native-Americans, some nearly one hundred years before Colombus, ever sailed off the shores of Galicia. In fact the first means of commerce and trade, was not between
Read MoreBy Michelle Leroux December 2001 I saw the “Cristina Show” called ‘Beneath the Veil.’ It was gut wrenching to say the least. I am not the type to really get mad anymore at these types of shows because it happens all the day all the time its like you become desensitized to it. If I would get mad at all the things I hear and see I think I would have an ulcer by now. Anyway, my grandmother had called me up the day of the show and told me to tune in to Christina’s show at 10 pm. She
Read Morehttp://www.verdeislam.com/vi%5F03/VI%5F307.htm A principios de este siglo, don Julián Ribera, que por entonces investigaba los orígenes de la literatura castellana, dio a conocer un sorprendente hallazgo que venía a contradecir la teoría admitida según la cual el origen de dicha literatura había que buscarlo en la poesía trovadoresca galaico-provenzal. Ribera había encontrado uno de esos eslabones perdidos sin los que la historia de la lengua y de la cultura española habrían mantenido una seria e importante laguna. Por el testimonio de dos escritores árabes del siglo XII supo que un poeta de Cabra, Muqaddem Ibn Muafa, llamado “el ciego”, que vivió
Read MoreBy Sidra Khan http://www.thetruereligion.org/womanmission.htm The Guardian (London)Thursday 8th May 1997Sidra Khan reports on Aisha Bhutta’s bid to convert the world to Islam Aisha Bhutta, nee Debbie Rogers, is serene. She sits on the sofa in big front room of her tenement flat in Cowcaddens, Glasgow. The walls are hung with quotations from the Koran, a special clock to remind the family of prayer times and posters of the Holy City of Mecca. Aisha’s piercing blue eyes sparkle with evangelical zeal, she smiles with a radiance only true believers possess. Her face is that of a strong Scots lass – no
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