Yo y mi Gente! https://www.facebook.com/events/358916550836352/ [When]Saturday, May 26, 2012 [Time]7:00pm until 8:30pm in EDT [Description]Feat. Brother Mujahid Fletcher & Imam Abdullah Daniel HernandezUnderstanding our unique position as a Latino American embracing Islam. Defining who were are to our love ones. Redefining our new identity within the Muslim community and overall society. Entender nuestra posición única como Latinos Americanos quien abrazar el Islam. Definir quiénes somos a nuestros seres queridos. Redefinición de nuestra nueva identidad dentro de la comunidad Musulmana y la sociedad en general. www.icnaconvention.orgDate: Saturday, May 26th, 2012Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm ~ This is a part of the 2012
Read MoreFrom Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History http://www.fofweb.com/History/MainPrintPage.asp?iPin=EMAH0163&DataType=AmericanHistory Founded in September 1997 by a handful of U.S. Latina/o Muslims in New York City, LADO, the Latino American Dawah Organization, has become one of the most important and influential organizations among Latina/o Muslims in the United States. Juan Alvarado, Samantha Sánchez, and Saraji Umm Zaid, its founders, formed the organization to promote Islam among Latina/os in the United States and to create a network of support among them. From LADO’s inception, the Internet has played an important role in the organization’s attempt to create a sense of Latina/o-Muslim community. A month after forming
Read MoreFrom IslamToday April 1, 2012 http://en.islamtoday.net/artshow-230-4429.htm A delegation of Muslim and Jewish leaders representing five Latin American countries and two Caribbean islands ended two days of high level meetings in Washington, DC vowing to strengthen ties between their two communities. The Mission of Latin American Muslim and Jewish Leaders to Washington, DC was hosted by The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). 14Fourteen Muslim and Jewish leaders from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay, Barbados and St. Croix were introduced to the pioneering work spearheaded by FFEU to strengthen Muslim-Jewish relations in North America
Read MoreFrom Amnesty International 23 April 2012 http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/muslims-discriminated-against-demonstrating-their-faith-2012-04-23 European governments must do more to challenge the negative stereotypes and prejudices against Muslims fuelling discrimination especially in education and employment, a new report by Amnesty International reveals today. “Muslim women are being denied jobs and girls prevented from attending regular classes just because they wear traditional forms of dress, such as the headscarf. Men can be dismissed for wearing beards associated with Islam,” said Marco Perolini, Amnesty International’s expert on discrimination. “Rather than countering these prejudices, political parties and public officials are all too often pandering to them in their quest for
Read MoreBy Mohammed Haider March 21, 2012 The Daily Cougar Community offers culturally diverse taco stand This beef fajita taco, topped off with a spicy Indian-Parkistani sauce was inspired by the diverse streets of Houston. A person cannot drive anywhere in Houston without noticing a taco truck, but there is one taco truck that is slightly different. Hamza Halal Taco is where South Asia meets Latin America, fusing two sides of the world. The term “halal” is the Arabic word for lawful, the dietary law that identifies which meats are permitted for Muslims. The truck usually sits at 3514 Hillcroft in
Read MoreBy Wendy Diaz April 4, 2012 (English below) As salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu Queridos Hermanos y Hermanas, ¡Hablamos Islam Niños está en el proceso de publicar nuevos libros, insha’Allah! Alhamdulillah, hemos tenido éxito con los primeros 3 y estamos anciosos de terminar los próximos, insha’Allah, pero necesitamos su ayuda. Si nos ayudan a recaudar fondos, podremos procesar e imprimir los nuevos libros más rapidamente, insha’Allah.Pueden donar por medio de nuestra página: www.hablamosislamninos.com (opríma el boton para “chipin” en el derecho de la pantalla) y también enviarle este mensaje a sus contactos. Para las personas que contribuyan $50 o
Read MoreBy Sadeel Allam June 26, 2013 http://www.icna.org/an-islamic-expedition-to-mexico/ Can you picture 115,296,797 persons? Now, out of that amount, 3,700, according to a 2010 census by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography are Muslim, with a one third concentrated in Mexico City. Over the past 10 years in the conflicted area of Chiapas, reside approximately 300 native people, some which are from the ancient Mayan civilization that don’t speak Spanish, but have reverted to Islam. This is where the heart of the journey begins for Nahela Morales, a Mexican American Muslim who has taken it upon herself to carry through a
Read MoreBy Wendy Diaz Muslim Link June 14, 2012 http://www.muslimlinkpaper.com/index.php/community-news/community-news/3067-whyislam-goes-south-of-the-border.html When Nahela Morales, an Administrative Assistant and National Coordinator for Spanish Dawah at WhyIslam, decided to plan her family vacation a year ago, she never thought she would be taking her work with her. Now, she is spearheading a joint effort between WhyIslam and seven other organizations, most of them Spanish-dawah oriented, to deliver necessary Islamic material to the growing Muslim community in Mexico. Morales, who was born in Mexico City, grew up in California and moved to New York in 2000, five years later she accepted Islam and now lives
Read MoreBy Samantha Sanchez Oct 2002 All PowerfulLovingLuminatingAll-KnowingHumbling The creation developed in layersLayers of earthLayers in the wombEnvelopingEncompassing And Allah knows that which ye concealAllahu AkbarHe is greatand we are humbled.
Read MoreThe Prophet said, “The example of the person abiding by Allah’s orders and limits (or the one who abides by the limits and regulations prescribed by Allah) in comparison to the one who do wrong and violate Allah’s limits and orders is like the example of people drawing lots for seats in a boat. Some of them got seats in the upper part while the others in the lower part ; those in the, lower part have to pass by those in the upper one to get water, and that troubled the latter. One of them (i.e. the people in
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