Health Care Reform: We’re Not Done Yet Dr. Walter Tsou , former health commissioner of Philadelphia, a board adviser to Physicians for a National Health Program (www.pnhp.org) Published on Friday, June 29, 2012 by Common Dreams Note: It is vital for Muslims to participate in the political System . There are many key issues that are going to be in the focus in the coming elections, we need to educate ourselves so that we vote intelligently. MCA is picking Healthcare as one chieh issue for Muslims education and clear thinking for many reasons .If we follow Islam, our heart bleeds for poor people who have no health care. Single Payor is the promising solution (wait for an article on it in the next issue) . May be some other solutions are better.We invite Americans generally and Mu...

John Esposito, Ph.D A distingished professor at Georgetown University, a worldwide authority and ambassador of peace and understading between Islam, Christianity and Judaism, and yet a coworker for the Muslims struggle for dognity, presently on the Board of MCA & Advisor for this website Judaism Christianity, and Islam, in contrast to Hinduism and Buddhism, are all monotheistic faiths that worship the God of Adam, Abraham, and Moses-creator, sustainer, and lord of the universe. They share a common belief in the oneness of God (monotheism), sacred history (history as the theater of God's activity and the encounter of God and humankind), prophets and divine revelation, angels, and Satan. All stress moral responsibility and accountability, Judgment Day, and eternal reward...

BOOK REVIEW: American Raj: Liberation or Domination? – Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World. 2008 By Mohammad Yunus* _____________________________________ Author: Eric S. Margolis. 432pp. Key Porter Books. $22.95 CDN In his1993 provocative essay “The Clash of Civilization,” Samuel P. Huntington argued the democratic and secular West and the fundamentalist Islamic world are destined to clash. A clash of two ways of life rooted in diametrically opposing ideologies. Mr. Huntington’s blunt and controversial analyses of tension and hostility between the Western and Muslim worlds generated extremely passionate and contentious discussions. Eric Margolis thought otherwise. Eric Margolis, an award-winning and internationally syndicated columnist, boldl...

AMIRA AYAD Free Lance writer, Egypt By the beginning of the 9th century, pharmacy was already a well established, independent profession with well regulated rules and laws. Around the 8th century, one man took it upon himself to dig deeper into this amazing world of chemistry. A long forgotten historic figure, Khaled Ibn Yazeed came from the house of the Umayyad Caliphate. It was very unusual for a man in his social and economical stature to adopt such an unrecognized profession. However, his decision was a turning point in the history of chemistry. Ibn Yazeed started his journey by translating Greek and Roman references in the field. He studied chemical reactions and started his pioneering experimentations in synthesizing drugs and remedies. Just as the Greeks and Romans had acquire...

Jalees Rehman, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Posted: January 1, 2011

I have often been asked why we scientists are so resistant to introducing ideas such as "creation science" in the biology classroom. My first reaction is to say that these ideas are not really scientific and therefore do not belong in a biology class, and I would be similarly opposed to teaching lacrosse rules or musical "song and dance" routines in a biology class. I have also realized that one of my key concerns is the harm that teaching creationist ideas in a biology classroom can do to the development of scientific thought in schoolchildren. I will first briefly illustrate some aspects of scientific work in biology, and then I will use a specific example from recent Muslim creatio...

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout, http://www.truth-out.org/mosques-muslims-and-america-darkness62409

Mosques, Muslims and America in Darkness

The author start out with faulting the former President Bush as the worst President and so on, but acknowledges his wisdom on one thing relative to Muslims. He said "We are not at war with Islam or Muslims", and thus kept lid on the hate of christians for Muslims Well, he’s gone now, and the dogs are off the leash. The proposed construction of the Cordoba House two blocks from the World Trade Center site has given the far-right the opportunity to unveil the one flag they really salute: hatred, divisiveness and fear. For wha...

Mohammad Akhtar,Ph.D, Professor of psychology

Muslims living in America are estimated to be in the range of 4-7 million depending upon who does the estimating and which measuring instrument one uses. PEW (2007) estimates Muslims to be in the lower direction. On the whole, Muslims resemble the general American population in their socioeconomic variables (earnings, education, employment) and other indicators, such as church attendance- 50% of Muslims attend mosque, and voter registration- 66% of Muslims are registered. However, on abortion and gay marriage issues, Muslims appear to be more conservative and resemble the Christian Right. About 1/5 of Muslims are America born blacks, while the rest are immigrants, who came to America mostly in 70's and 80's and have become naturalized...

Changing the Perception of Islam in the West: Rehabilitating the Essence of Religion
by Dr. Robert D. Crane

I. Challenge and Response

One of the major challenges in the world today is to rehabilitate the role of religion as a primary cure for conflict and oppression, rather than as its primary cause. One of the major obstacles to reviving appreciation for transcendent reality as the source of peace and freedom is the current academic fascination with deconstructing religion by denying that all religions have the same essence or that any religion even has an essence. In the case of Islam, the major obstacle to rehabilitation has been the ideological movement of modernization, one trend of which seeks to hijack Islam for political purposes under the frau...

Sulaymann Nayang, Ph.D, Professor, Howard University, Board Member of MCA Foundation

Since the events of 9/11 American Muslims have faced a number of challenges. Some of these challenges have heightened the American national consciousness of many Muslims, others have created a deep sense of fear among the leaders and the led of this community of native-born and immigrants. The diverse nature of the community has accounted for the divergent experiences and interpretations of their individual and communal experiences. Because the community members are drawn from over eighty countries around the world, no categorical statement can be made about the community, its membership, and its behavior in the country. Yet, there are opportunities provided by the challenges of 9/11 for Muslim...