Entries Tagged as 'Interfaith'
… of The Mosque Cares 2010 Annual Muslim Convention & Ramadan Session. Also included, Imam Dr. Nasir Ahmad’s Saturday morning session, “Hajj, In search of the Original Man. A discussion of Imam W.D.Mohammed’s insight on the language of the sacred pilgrimage.”
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Brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, scholars and babies and more: The largest community of Muslims in the USA — the students of Imam W. Deen Mohammed — celebrate the blessings from the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Maker, Nourisher, Sustainer and Perfecter of all Creation…
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Tags: Ramadan Session·The Mosque Cares
Important for our country that our news organization get more basic information, such as this from Edward E. Curtis IV, on board: Through their mosques, U.S. Muslims are embracing the community involvement that is a hallmark of the American experience. In this light, mosques should be welcomed as premier sites of American assimilation, not feared […]
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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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Tags: Abrahamic·Cordoba·Cordoba Initiative·Crusades·culture warriors·Ericka Werner·Hendrik Hertzberg·Jon Stewart·Keith Olbermann·Michael Rowe·mosque·New Yorker·Park51·Spain·Stephanie J. Jones·Washington Post
Talk about the hate that hate produced: Muslims in general — including Muslim Americans — equated with the 9/11 murders? Meanwhile it still isn’t at Ground Zero. And it still isn’t a mosque. But while some folks who only fain interested in honest discussion — and others who don’t know better —continue to call it […]
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Tags: Cordoba House·Keith Olbermann·mosque
“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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Tags: Cordoba House·Debbie Almontaser·Ground Zero·Jon Stewart·Masjid al-Farah·Masjid Manhattan·Michael Bloomberg·swiftboating
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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Another wonderful job Saturday by my friend Tee Jackson, sharing universal principles from a Christian perspective with her dawn class at the Lake Worth Municipal Beach. Yep, “Where there is unity there is peace; where there is disunity there is discord.” She’s right about “Exercising Your Faith.” Some scenes:
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Tags: Bible on the Beach·Tee Jackson
On the sign-in table was the Focolare’s Living City magazine edition proclaiming “Building blocks for world peace.” In the room, that’s what was happening. I’m not sure which was more inspiring: the enlightening DVD and discussion, or the wonderful human spirit with which folks connected after. As we plan what’s next, while encouraging you and […]
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Tags: Harlem·Living City magazine·Malcolm Shabazz Mosque·United Methodist Church of the Palm Beaches