A Federal judge finds Muslim Imam not guilty M. Akhtar,Ph.D, President of MCA, Author of Muslim Family in a Dilemma As reported by Olmeda and Nolin in Sun Sentinel dated January 18, 2013, in a case filed against a Muslim Imam, a Miami Federal Court Judge declared Broward Muslim of Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen in Margate not guilty.The case was thrown out for lack of evidence. The 26 year old imam. Izhar Khan, his brother and his father were on trial in federal court in Miami, each was charged for working together to send $ 50,000 to Pakistani Taliban terrorists. Khan, his brother Irfan,and their father, Hafiz, all U.S. citizens, were arrested in May 2011, accused of sending nearly $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban starting in the sp...

U.S. dominates list of world’s’500 Most Influential Muslims’ By By Omar Sacirbey| Religion News Service, Nov 28, 2012 11:26 PM EST There are more Muslims from America than any other country on this year’s “The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims,” compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, a respected think tank in Jordan, including two in the top 50. Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson, a California-born convert who founded Zaytuna College, an Islamic college in Berkeley, Calif., and is a leading Islamic authority in America, ranked No. 42, two places ahead of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, an Islamic studies professor at George Washington Personal Post America’s roughly 2.6 million Muslims are a tiny fraction of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but t...

Muslims were successful in establishing over 3000 Islamic centers and institutions to help them in preserving their religious identity. But their impact on public life in America has been meager considering their high number, which is estimated to be over six million. The Muslims image especially after 9/11 has been increasingly negative. At present it is at an all-time low. Muslims are perceived as dangerous because of their association with terrorism. Muslims deny any involvement but it has hardly fallen on any credulous ears. Muslims feel dismayed to be placed in a situation where they face the reality of their reduced rights and lack of effective measures to change it. To aid in this monumental task at hand, the Muslim Council of America Foundation was establ...

African American Muslims Key to Bridge Building in U.S. AMINAH BEVERLY McCLOUD, Ph.D Director of the islamic World Studies, Depaul University, Chicago: Board Member of MCA Editorial Note: like the article by Professor Sherman Jackson that appeared in the September issue, the present article is welcomed by MCA as a valiant attempt to bring into our awareness a tension that exists from the overlooked significance of Afro-American identity. It poses a challenge for those of us who are attempting to formulate Islamic American identity that has to be color blind to the color as the reason for degrading one as inferior. Islam denounces it in the clearest terms not only the color but also other dimensions such as being Arab as superior as opposed to being Indonesian or being man as opposed...

Tennessee Islamic Center: Amidst Strife, a Mosque Rises By CAMERON MCWHIRTER We are very pleased to publicize the news of the opening of Islamic Center of Murfreesboro as reported below.The organizers of this Center had contacted us too as they did other organizations to highlight the unfairness of the local community who were obstructing their religious project.We rememebr the freelings of despondency on their face , but now as i was in tennesse, Muslims there are happy and very appreciative if American law. The court administered the law and overpowered the local resistance . This is the beauty of American system that rises above the narrowminded ness of the local community and that is what we like and feel proud to be American (Editorial Staff) MURFREESBORO, Tenn.—A newlybuilt mo...

America's true heroes: society's transformers Dina Malki An intellectualist but also an activist for civic and Muslim Women’s issues There is no doubt America is searching for heroes. However, looking for fictional superheroes with supernatural powers won’t solve the challenges that our society faces in reality. Real Americans who, on a daily basis, help promote social justice and human dignity, through peace, understanding, and selflessness ought to be recognized. Take for example the men and women who participated on May 11 in a cross-cultural training panel discussion at the Women’s Center in Fort Worth. Meet Diane Mayfield; she is a life coach, group facilitator, and professional speaker who worked on a special project initiated by United Way of Tarrant County, a non-profit...

Reconciling Islamic concerns with American thinking A Canadian designs Sports Hijab for Soccer Players MONTREAL - The international soccer governing body will consider a prototype of a sports hijab designed by an Iranian-Canadian. The International Federation of Association Football, commonly known by its acronym FIFA, banned the hijab in 2007. Rule 4 of FIFA's Laws of the Game states that a player's equipment "must not have any political religious or personal statements." However, FIFA announced last month that it will allow women to wear specially designed sport hijabs. A final decision on the new headwear is expected in summer. Elham Seyed Javad, 28, owner of Montreal-based IQO Design, told QMI Agency that she didn't think twice about submitting her proposal to FIFA after it reve...

M.Akhtar, Ph.D JACKSONVILLE: The Jacksonville Jaguars have long been in need of a boost and the struggling National Football League team may have finally found it from an unexpected source, Pakistan-born Shahid Khan. Khan bought control of the Jaguars late last year for a reported $760 million from Wayne Weaver, who led the organization into the NFL in 1995, and has quickly set about making his presence felt, both at the club and the north Florida community. Unsurprisingly for a man who started out “with a one way ticket and a few hundred bucks” but is now a multi-millionaire auto-parts businessman and member of the elite 32-man club of NFL owners, Khan isn’t lacking in confidence or ideas. “You w...

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Letting out shrill cries, several young women in a Montreal taekwondo class kicked their way through the exercises, not a hair out of place as they were demurely covered by an Islamic sports hijab. Their religion prohibits these female athletes from showing off the...

The Michael Moore- the controversial filmmaker, made critical comments of the apparent decision to kill Osama bin Laden. The decision to kill Osama is endorsed virtually by all Muslims of America, and by all others. They accepted whatever Osama fared as the legitimate result of what he did in the killings of the innocent people. Yet the following excerpt from Moore’s commentary that is given below comes to them as a total surprise where he is faulting Americans ar large. It is highlighted under "Be American, be proud" .This is to recognize the highest level of spirituality  that it displays which is  associated typically with high religions : Christianity, Islam ( hard to believe  because of its distorted form in which  West is presently encountering so called Islam), Judaism and ot...