Escuche el programa “Elementos de Fe’ Cada domingo 10:10 – 10:30 AMRadio KCHN 1050 AM, Houston Con Alejandro Hamed O escuche la transmisión en vivo en www.kchnRadio.com. (Click en “Listen’) Cada domingo nos reunimos a hablar sobre el Islam y de temas que afectan a la comunidad latina y, en particular, a la comunidad latina musulmana de Houston y otros lugares. Hoy en día, los medios de comunicación constantement presentan un imagen distorcionada de lo que realmente es el Islam, concentrándose el los actos y declaraciones de una pequeña minoría que no representa al Islam o a la vasta mayoría
Read MoreBy Al-Amin Andalusi http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1221720273234&pagename =Zone-English-News/NWELayout IslamOnline.netSeptember 25, 2008 MADRID Thousands of Spaniards, especially intellectuals, academics and anti-globalization activists, are finding comfort and solace in Islam. “Embracing Islam is on the rise despite ferocious Western media campaigns,” Abdul-Nour Brado, the head of the Islamic Society of Catalonia, told IslamOnline.net. Estimates suggest that between 3,000 to 4,000 Catalonians accepted Islam recently. “The numbers could be much higher than that,” Barado believes. Local media reports have noted that intellectuals, academics and anti-globalization activists make up the bulk of the new Muslim reverts in Spain. Catalonians first embraced Islam in the 1960s and their
Read More18 ways new Muslims and immigrants can make this Eid special By Abdul Malik Mujahid http://www.soundvision.com/info/eid/ For those who have Muslim families celebrating Eid with them, it’s easy to enjoy this blessed day. For others though, Eid can be a lonely affair. For instance, if you’re a new Muslim, while other Muslims happily hug their parents, spouses or kids and wish them “Eid Mubarak”, you may be left standing in the prayer hall, alone. Also, if you’re a recent immigrant or student here with family back home, Eid day can be depressing, since you’ll be missing your family and feeling
Read MoreBy Nurah Khaled (Lucy) Assalam alaikum, I am in vacation back home in Mexico. I came to spend some time with my family. I’m writing because I want to share something really nice with you. When I moved to the USA about eight years ago, there were about only five Muslim families here in my town of Puebla. Every year that I came back I found that many others were here but have never thought that there were other Muslims. I met a wonderful family about six years ago. The husband is from Pakistan; and she is from Mexico. The
Read MoreBy MuslimBridges.org http://www.muslimbridges.org/content/blogcategory/8/13/ Why so many young Muslims are falling in love with Latinos, getting married, forming wonderful families, and integrating together with such harmony and positive contributions to each other? Why many Hispanics become Muslims, and why many who are not Muslims, give their children Islamic names (like Omar, Fatima, Salma, Ismael, …), loving the Islamic culture and art, and integrating it in their homes (arches, patio gardens at the center of the homes, tile roofs, even cooking traditional Muslim meals like Paaia? Many women (especially in Mexico) are empowered by the Islamic Rights and keep their last name
Read MoreBy Rachel Laudan http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200403/the.mexican.kitchen.s.islamic.connection.htm Saudi Aramco WorldMay/June 2004 When Mexico’s leading writer, Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz, arrived in New Delhi in 1962 to take up his post as ambassador to India, he quickly ran across a culinary puzzle. Although Mexico and India were on opposite sides of the globe, the brown, spicy, aromatic curries that he was offered in India sparked memories of Mexico’s national dish, mole (pronounced MO-lay). Is mole, he wondered, “an ingenious Mexican version of curry, or is curry a Hindu adaptation of a Mexican sauce?” How could this seeming coincidence of “gastronomic geography” be explained?
Read MorePor AbdelAziz http://www.elislamweb.net/section.php?name=articles&id=90 Sept. 16, 2005 En Nombre de Alah, El Misericordioso, El Compasivo Salam Alaikum a Todos/as!! Me llamo Ramadán”Algunos ya me conocen, les veo sonriendo, Os acordáis de mí?También entiendo por qué estáis emocionados” Es una relación de muchos añosY yo tampoco me he olvidado de vosotros, os conozco a todosSí Sí, esas noches de paz, misericordia, tranquilidad y esas oraciones”Compartimos el salat, el duáa, el corán, y muchas lágrimas” Este año, como todos, vengo con muchas sorpresasRegalos, cartas, señales, susurros, milagros y pruebasSoy el mensajero del misericordioso para sus siervosMe ha hablado de cada uno de vosotros
Read MoreBy Marta Galedary I visited two Muslims communities in Austria: Vienna and Vorarlberg, in April 2008. A small group of four American Muslims including myself met with a variety of Muslims and non-Muslim leaders, professors and activists. The main objective of the visit was to dialogue with the Austrian Muslim community and exchange information about the way of living as Muslims in the USA. The group was shocked to find out the poor conditions of the Muslim Turkish community living in Vorarlberg. Statistics Muslims in Austria There are approximately 340,000 Muslims in Austria, with 7.8 % living in Vienna. The
Read More“Do the unbelievers not realize that the heavens and the earth used to be one solid mass that we exploded into existence? And from water we made all living things. Would they believe?” – Qur’an 21:30. “And keep up prayer in the two parts of the day and in the first hours of the night; surely good deeds take away evil deeds this is a reminder to the mindful.” – Quran 11:114. The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said, “Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the worst of false tales; and do not look for faults in others, and do not spy,
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