“The Great 10th Annual Sisterhood Event”MAS & Latino Muslims of Chicago Islam is More Than a Religion Saturday, May 1st, 20103 PM to 7 PM9210 S. Oketo AveBridgeview, IL 60455 This is a women only event.Program will be in Spanish, dinner will be served Limited babysitting by RSVP only. Please contact: Rebecca, Diana, or Alma http://www.facebook.com/pages/Latino-Muslims-of-Chicago/118077384870808 The Latino Muslims of Chicago also attended a banquet hosted by the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (the Council). ciogc.org. “Latino Muslim Program in Spanish”2010 ICNA-MAS Convention 2010 Session 1: Saturday, May 29th, 6:00-8:00pm* “Salvando la Familia se Salva la Sociedad”Speaker: Br.
Read MoreFirst Quarter 2010! – IslamInSpanish.org June 16, 2010 Alhamdulilah, 2010 has become an exciting year with many new developments for IIS. By ALLAH’s Blessings thousands of people were educated on the truth about Islam by way of audiovisual means worldwide. We have heard and witnessed hundreds coming into the fold of Islam just through our efforts of sharing this information. Orange County WorkshopJanuary 15-17 IslamInSpanish kicked off 2010 with a workshop in Orange County, CA. The three day event started with a khutba by Isa Parada at the Islamic Center Orange County and Mujahid Fletcher at the Islamic Center of
Read MoreBy Hany Salah IslamOnlineMay. 27, 2009 http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C& cid=1242759218762&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout CAIRO In a vast country like Brazil, the internet is emerging as the most effective tool to spread the message of Islam, says a leading Muslim scholar in the South American nation. “The internet is one of the most successful contemporary da`wah tools,” Al-Sadiq Al-Othmani, head of the Islamic Affairs Department at the Center of Islamic Da`wah in Latin America, told IslamOnline.net over the phone. “That’s why I encourage scholars to spread the word to broader masses through the web, especially in such a vast country.” Othmani, a Moroccan who has lived
Read Morehttp://international.fiu.edu/index.php?name=news_item_islam_in_latin_america March 17, 2010 Florida International University (FIU) The Middle East Studies Program in FIU’s School of International and Public Affairs is organizing a one day conference on Islam in Latin America. The event will take place on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. in the MARC International Pavilion on FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Leading scholars from Latin America will join FIU scholars to discuss the presence of Islam and Muslims in Latin America, their impact on and integration into Latin American societies, and their historical and contemporary ties to the Middle East and the larger Muslim world.
Read MoreCómo Orientalista: Telemundo’s El Clon, Part I By Sister Diana Muslimah Media Watch April 21st, 2010 http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2010/04/como-orientalista-telemundos-el-clon-part-i/ Spanish soap operas (telenovelas) are just like any other serial dramas, with all the conventional characteristics: star -crossed lovers, dramatic music, a flair for the outrageous and a seemingly never-ending plot. This is exactly what can be expected from Telemundo’s telenovela, El Clon (The Clone). A remake of a Brazilian soap opera that aired in 2001 and 2002 titled O Clone, this Spanish-language telenovela is targeted at the U.S.’s Spanish speaking market. However, what is unexpected is the drama’s lengthy commentary on Islam
Read MoreBy Khaleel Ahmad Gramajo Before I begin let me greet you with peace and blessings from our Creator, the ONE and only ONE without comparison. Asalam Alaykum wa rahma tullahi wa barakatu! I was born in Guatemala. I have resided in California for almost 25 years. I have been singing since an early young age. I used to perform as Christian singer almost every week but I stopped singing after I embraced Islam in 1995. Later in 2003 as a Muslim I started to listen to some Anasheed (plural for Nasheed). This inspiration brought me back to singing, and I
Read MoreAmong the Muslims listed in the book “The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World” were Muslims from the following countries: El Salvador, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Spain, and Portugal. CENTRAL AMERICA EL SALVADORQattan, Dr AhmadQattan is a Muslim convert from Palestinian origins. He is the co-founder of the Arab Islamic Center in Salvador. Qattan has been an educator and da’wa activist for the past 17 years, and has published more than 100,000 copies of a book introducing Islam, which has been read by an estimated 250,000 people. Al Salvadori, MustafaMustafa Al Salvadori
Read MoreBy Juan Galvan My definition of leadership is someone who has the ability through ceaseless commitment to inspire others to be their best. Although the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the greatest leader of all time, I want to share with you the life of a lesser-known hero. Shaikh Yahia Suquillo has truly been an inspiration for many Latino Muslims including myself. Above all else, it has been the life of the Prophet Muhammad that has been his source of inspiration. Like all great Muslim leaders, he is a great leader for his ability to follow the lead of the Prophet
Read More877-WHY-ISLAM Spanish Billboard in Union City, NJ The Islamic Circle of North America has launched a nation-wide campaign to place WhyIslam billboards in major cities across the country in its ongoing efforts to educate others about Islam. As part of this campaign, the New Jersey chapter of ICNA has put up a Spanish billboard in Union City, New Jersey. In addition to the toll free 877-WHYISLAM hotline, the billboard also provides the address of the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center (NHIEC) masjid. The goal of the campaign is to provide unbiased information about Islam and to dispel commonly perceived misconceptions.
Read MoreIslamic Horizons March/April 2010 Heart of the Community Discussing her conversion, Khadijah Rivera, a Puerto Rican ex- Roman Catholic, wrote: “Reverting to Islam would be complicated by my childhood training that Jesus Christ was my savior and salvation. To pray to anyone but him would be blasphemy. I therefore studied several religions when I left my church and its rigid teachings. But they were all Christian and not much different from the original one. Of course they all believed that the papal aristocracy was nonsense and I praised them for that. But they could not justify Jesus Christ in a
Read MoreIslamic HorizonsMarch/April 2010 Widely Sharing Love of Islam Hajji Ibrahim Benjamin Perez Mahomah passed away peacefully in his sleep on 8 Dec. 2009 after a fight with brain and stomach cancer. He was laid to rest in Livermore, CA. One of the first, if not the first, Hispanic converts to what he thought was Islam in the San Francisco/Bay Area back in the 1950s, he told Deborah Kong of the Associated Press in June 2002 about his conversion. A Puerto Rican, he was nevertheless drawn to the Nation of Islam meeting in 1957 out of curiosity. The only Latino at
Read MoreThe Message InternationalNovember-December 2005, pg 17 Maslamah al-Majriti wrote a number of works on mathematics and astronomy, studied and elaborated the Arabic translation of Ptolemy’s Almagest, and enlarged and corrected the astronomical tables of the famous al-Khwarizmi. He also compiled conversion tables in which the dates of the Persian calendar were related to Hijrah dates, so that for the first time the events of Persia’s past could be dated with precision. Al-Zarqali, known to the West as Arzachel, combined theoretical knowledge with technical skill. He built a water clock capable of determining the hours of the day and night and indicating
Read MoreBy Jazmyn Bradford UNM TodayFebruary 24, 2010 http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/004821.html The Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, Latin American and Iberian Institute, Foreign Languages and Literatures, American Studies, and the Department of Student Affairs will co-host the 16th annual UNM Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society, “Moros, Moriscos, Marranos y Mestizos: Alterity, Hybridity Identity in Diaspora.” The conference will be held on Feb. 25 through Feb. 27. On Thursday, the event will be held in the Student Union Building, Acoma, Isleta and Sandía rooms. On Friday, it will move to at the National Hispanic Resource
Read More—New York— Introduccion al Islam en EspanolClass Dates: February 10th, 2010 – May 5th, 2010Timings: Wednesdays, 7:00pm – 8:30pmLocation: The IC http://www.icnyu.org/index.php?option=com_eventcal&task=event&eventid=477&date=1268874000 Class Description: El propósito de esta clase será proveer conocimientos básicos sobre la religión del Islam, empezando por los seis principios de la fe Islámica y los cinco pilares de la misma. De igual forma, buscaremos entablar una conversación productiva sobre asuntos que atañen a los musulmanes hispanoparlantes hoy en día. Cuáles son los retos y posibilidades que enfrentamos los musulmanes latinos en relación a nuestras familias, nuestras comunidades, y la comunidad musulmana norteamericana en especifico? Cómo podemos
Read MoreBy Shinoa Matos Bismillah irRahamnir Raheem The day of Sumaeyah’s Aqiqah had arrived, after having postponed it for two months. My husband Julio and I intended to do it on the 7th day after her birth in accordance with the Sunnah of the Prophet but because of my Cesarean, I was not up to making all the arrangements so soon. After we both fully recovered-me from my surgery and Sumaeyah from a respiratory infection-everything seemed to be well enough to call the imam and set up the ceremony. I met Imam Muhammad Shamsi Ali at the Islamic Cultural Center of
Read MoreBy MusliRican http://muslirican.blogspot.com/ Hejab on my headWith a machete dangling from my neckI’m not a terroristJust a bonafide Boricua with coquis on my mindI love the flares of salsa skirtsWith claves and congas singing to my heart’s contentWhile I prostrate on the sands of RinconAwaiting the whales to make their presenceBorinquen is my paradiseAllah is my creatorYes–I can inhabit both spacesAnd when bachata comes on the radioI move three steps liftThree steps liftAnd when the azhan is called“Allahu Akbar” and “Bismillah” run out of my mouthGive me some piraguas with a side of datesA little of sunlight with a dash
Read MoreBy Sayyed Mohammad http://www.irca.org.au/Islam/Poems/principles.htm In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful I Know, child, that God is only One,And has no Partner or Son;He has made us and everything,All beasts, all fowls, all birds that sing,The Sun, the Moon, the Starry Sky,The Land, the sea, the mountains high.He knows whatever we think or act,By Him is seen the real fact.And only He does what He wills,He makes, He keeps, He saves, He kills.Forever the same, no age, no youth,He is Perfection, He is Truth.Almight, All-Seeing, Wise,He had not form, or shape or size.But Self-Existing is our Lord,And is
Read More“But celebrate the praises of thy Lord, and be of those who prostrate themselves in adoration. And serve thy Lord until there come unto thee the Hour that is Certain.” – Quran 15:98-99. “It was by God’s grace that you (O Muhammad) did deal gently with your followers: for if you had been harsh and hard of heart, they would indeed have broken away from you. Pardon them, then, and pray that they be forgiven. And consult with them in all matters of public concern.” – Quran 3:159. The Prophet said, “The example of the person abiding by Allah’s order
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Latina/o y Musulmán: The Construction of Latina/o Identity among Latina/o Muslims in the United States By Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez Latinas/os are the fastest growing “minoritized” ethnic group in the United States and Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the U.S. It is therefore no surprise that the Latina/o Muslim population is one of the fastest growing communities in the U.S. As a minority within a minority, the ways in which Latina/o Muslims construct their identity is not only interesting in itself but also of interest for how they challenge traditional understandings of U.S. Latina/o identity. This book
Read MoreBy Saraji Umm Zaid The Message InternationalDecember-January 2005, pp 29. Samantha is a poet, writer, teacher, da’iyee, mother, and wife. She is one of the original co-founders of LADO: The Latino American Dawah Organization, and wrote her master’s thesis about Latinos and Islam. She was one of MuslimPoet.com’s “Poets in Residence” from 2003 to 2004. Juan is a writer, husband, soon-to-be daddy and da’iyee who lives in San Antonio, Texas. He has written extensively about the emerging Latino Muslim community. He enjoys encouraging cooperation among ethnically diverse Muslim communities. Saraji: What is the goal and purpose behind LADO?Juan: The purpose
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