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January 2012 Blog Posts (33)

How Secure Is Your Social Security.....

Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income

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before taxes. If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.



If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98.



If you took out only…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 30, 2012 at 4:36pm — No Comments

A Real American Hero Uncle John B. Turner Tuskeegee Airman

John B. Turner was a Tuskegee Airman in World War II before dedicating himself to service, ultimately as dean of

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WWII veteran also served UNC for many years

Turner led School of Social Work

Life :  1922-2009

Courtesy of his Daughter Marian Hopkins

UNC’s School of Social Work.

When John B. Turner drove his family to…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 30, 2012 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Half democracy fails to gratify Kuwaitis’ appetite for reforms

Candidates contesting a general election in Kuwait this week are calling for sweeping reforms including a new

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Political groups are raising ceiling of reform demands

Candidates contesting general election demand establishment of multi-party system, elected government, constitutional monarch

By Omar Hasan - KUWAIT CITY

constitution that would turn the oil-rich…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 29, 2012 at 12:35pm — No Comments

Life Is Ever So Evolving

Life is ever so evolving. We plant seeds they grow. Some live for a Zenobia Waters

very long time, some die, and some never gain root. Sometimes it's because the foundation was weak to begin with.…
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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 29, 2012 at 12:17pm — No Comments

British Museum hosts world’s biggest exhibition on Hajj

LONDON- The British Museum in London opens its doors on Thursday to the first major exhibition in the world on Hajj,

Islamic history shines in London

Hajj exhibition explores history, journeys, experiences of pilgrims who travel from around world to reach holy city of Mecca.

the Islamic pilgrimage to the heart of Islam.

Using priceless artefacts, video…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 29, 2012 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Docs Reveal 1500 NYPD Officers Viewed Anti-Muslim Film

(NEW YORK, N.Y., 1/24/12) -- The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY)

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Muslim civil rights group asks department for plan to counter misinformation

today called on the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to offer a concrete plan to help counter the misinformation about Islam and Muslims provided to almost 1500 officers through the…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 24, 2012 at 4:30pm — No Comments

CAIR Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on GPS Monitoring

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/23/12) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's leading Muslim

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Court says warrantless monitoring violates Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure

civil liberties organization, today applauded a unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Courtstating that warrantless GPS monitoring of suspects violates…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 23, 2012 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Muslim Talk Radio Imam Nadim Suliaman Ali And Ustadh Mansour Ansari

Dear friends, brothers and sisters,
Salaams to all.  For your information, each Sunday from 1-230pm, my co-host Imam Nadim Sulaiman Ali of our West
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End Community and I are on the air discussing topical and very interesting subjects related to the national, regional and global Ummah.  You can call in and listen, you can also participate in the show by following the…
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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 23, 2012 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Reflections on the Ummah/Nation-State Divide

This essay is based on a lecture given by Imam Zaid at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit Conference, December 2011

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By Imam Zaid on 17 January 2012

Hopefully, it will provide some food for thought as we begin the arduous process of rethinking many of the fundamental ideas and institutions that developed during an age that is rapidly drawing to a close. As that age expires,…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 23, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

Zakat FAQs

 

                                     About The Zakat U.S.A. Fund



1.0 What is Zakat (Obligatory charity for Muslims)?



* Zakat is an important pillar among the five pillars of Islam.



* It is an…

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Added by ZAKAT U.S.A. on January 20, 2012 at 1:14am — No Comments

On Apartheid, One State and Arab Spring: Interview with Richard Falk

(Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and V

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Interviewed by Yousef M. Aljamal

Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored and edited numerous publications spanning a period of five decades, most recently editing the volume, International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Justice - Routledge, 2008. He is…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 18, 2012 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Today could be the day we save the free Internet

The US Congress was poised to pass a law allowing officials to censor access to any website around the world. But after
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we delivered our 1.25 million strong petition to the White House, it came out against the bill and with public pressure at a boiling point even some bill…
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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 18, 2012 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Red Tails...

North Dekalb Mall Saturday January 21, 2012  times 4:30, 7:15 10:00 I can do 7:15pm or 10pm.

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2050 Lawrenceville Hwy. Decatur, GA

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 17, 2012 at 12:00pm — No Comments

How Black Are You...Are You Black Enough

Defining blackness in a post-civil rights era is more complex than it was decades before, according to Touré, author of

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Toure':  There's No One Way To Be Black…



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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 17, 2012 at 6:00am — No Comments

Lives for sale: Human traffickers stalk Eritreans in Sudan desert

Moving at night through the cold, flat desert, armed people smugglers are exploiting, abducting and sometimes killing

Shagarab camp receives about 2,000 asylum-seekers monthly

UNHCR chief Guterres says some refugees who end up in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula are ‘killed for traffic of organs’.

By Ian Timberlake - SHAGARAB REFUGEE CAMP (Sudan)

Eritreans fleeing their…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 17, 2012 at 5:30am — No Comments

New head of Saudi religious police: Volunteers will no longer be allowed

RIYADH - The new head of the Saudi religious police said volunteers will no longer be allowed to serve in the force, in

Cautious reform

Sheikh Abdullatif says volunteers will no longer be allowed to serve, in apparent effort to reduce violations.

an apparent effort to reduce violations, media reports said on Monday.

"From now on there will be no more…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 17, 2012 at 5:30am — No Comments

Al-Hajj Imam Talib Abdur Rashid...Marines behavior is 'reprehensible

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 13, 2012 at 5:30am — No Comments

Extremely Loud’ Awakens 9/11 Thoughts

I knew all those years of sitting in darkened theaters on sunny afternoons, awash in movies new and old, stale popcorn

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Though a decade into history, the events of 9/11 still have a powerful tug on the emotions of Americans, especially New Yorkers whose lives were profoundly changed, as Michael Winship observed after a preview of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”

and gallons of diet…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 12, 2012 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Ex-congressman gets year over links to defunct Islamic charity

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - A former U.S. congressman from Michigan was sentenced to a year in prison on…

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A Courageous Stand...

On OCT. 16, 1968, minutes after the Olympic 200-meter dash in Mexico City, gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze

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In '68, Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists for racial justice

medalist John Carlos stood in stocking feet on the victory platform, bowed their heads during the U.S. national anthem and shot black-gloved fists to the…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 12, 2012 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

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Allah سبحانه و تعالى said : “This day, I have completed your religion for you”

Allah completed the religion through him and the proof is His saying, He, the Most High: «This day, I have completed your religion for you, perfected My blessings upon you, and am pleased…Continue

Started by karriem el-amin shabazz in Sample Title Sep 8, 2022.

The argument about Resurrection and life after death!

Allah says: “Nay! I swear by this city. This city wherein you have been rendered violable, and I swear by the parent and his offspring” (90Al-Balad:1-3) To begin a conversation, in Arabic with Nay,…Continue

Started by karriem el-amin shabazz in Sample Title Jul 29, 2022.

The question: When will the threat of Resurrection be carried out?

After Tauhid the other question about which a dispute was raging between the Prophet (pbuh) and the disbelievers was the question of the Hereafter. Here, before giving the arguments, the Hereafter…Continue

Started by karriem el-amin shabazz in Sample Title Jun 18, 2022.

This is the Truth: The Garden of Eternity, or the Blazing Fire!!!

Allah says: “Tell them, (O Prophet): “Did you consider (what would be your end) if this Qur'an were indeed from Allah and yet you rejected it? And this, even though a witness from the Children of…Continue

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