Entries Tagged as 'Islam'
…was surprised and pleased to find a strong presence of African-American Islam when he visited 100 mosques around America: Journey into America.
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Stephanie J. Jones, in today’s Washington Post (There are no outsiders among us), eloquently voices my argument that at the groundbreaking, dedication and grand opening of the Cordoba Initiative’s Islamic community center in Manhattan, the 9/11 victims’ survivors should be standing out front — and in front of them, survivors of the innocent Muslim victims. Let’s send that picture […]
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This column also was reprinted in our national newspaper the Muslim Journal. Note the date: Islam, by defintion, rejects terrorism By C.B. Hanif The Palm Beach Post October 15, 2006 As one who grew up rooting for Tarzan and Cheetah to whip up on my Afro-wigged cousins portraying Hollywood’s idea of Africans, I can understand how […]
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Last Sunday I committed to provide documentation of Muslim condemnation of 9/11 and terrorism during our always engaging News Talk session at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches. We won’t hear such denunciation documented on Faux News — quite the contrary. But one need only Google these things. In fact, in a search […]
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With my longtime friend Rabbi Barry Silver and new friend Pastor Mark Boykin positing our various perspectives, WPBF-TV’s reporter had an unenviable job but managed to distill our comments to eight representative grafs. One small nit (sorry, it’s the news ombudsman in me): I said “healing and reconciliation,” which understandably could have been misheard given […]
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The baiting headlines — some now morphing to “Ground Zero Mosque” in quotes — have obscured the Cordoba project’s transformative objective from its inception: Maybe the ultimate memorial to the murder victims of September 11th would be to categorically reject the forces of political and religious divisiveness who want this fear of neighbors to fester and […]
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“I am ashamed to say that it took me a week to focus on the facts and it wasn’t until I heard an architect from NY describe where the building was, that it was in the middle of a row on (sic) buildings on a city block, and how it was designed inside that I […]
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Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the world reflect upon the wisdom and guidance that comes with faith, and the responsibility that human beings have to one another, and to God…And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made […]
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Courtesy of Imam Khalifah Ramadan: As Salaamu ‘Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatu The Khutbah Given By The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) On The Last Friday Of Sha’ban On The Reception Of The Month of Ramadan O People!
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The manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all — I Corinthians 12:7. First: We continue to pray for relief and the complete recovery of our dear Imam Dr. Nasir Ahmad, of Miami’s Masjid Al-Ansar, from pneumonia complications. Second, Miss Tee Jackson continues to deserve kudos for bringing people together […]
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