Day: March 2, 2005
Jews in unexpected places
Jonathan has a post. Read it. Jewish minority population; Muslim majority country. Not all hugs-and-kisses, but not all blow-things-up either.
A bit late
A bit late for Black Heritage Month, but here’s an interesting article about race in the American Muslim community. Prophet Muhammad said in his last sermon: All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action.
Social Justice
This issue is about social justice. Every Muslim in the US should be stepping up and saying until the community is fed, until parents can spend time with their family instead of working 20 hours a day for necessities, until the sick are cared for, until hope is only an aspiration and not a refuge for the desperate, until … Until then we cannot be bought with cheap talk of family values. Until then our faith with remain pointless. Until then the promise of America will remain unrealized. It’s not like there’s no precedent for this sort of talk in…