October 2011 Blog Posts (60)

An Atlanta bridge will be dedicated on Saturday, Oct. 22, in honor of the late Charles “Chuck” Burris (Khalil Abdur Rashid), former mayor of the

 Khalil Abdur Rashid First African American Muslim Mayor of Stone Mountain Ga.

city of Stone Mountain. 

State Rep. Billy Mitchell, who represents Stone Mountain, will host the bridge dedication ceremony at 2 p.m., at the interchange of East Ponce De Leon Avenue and Memorial…

Dearborn -- Documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union confirm the FBI's concern about possible terror

George Hunter, The Detroit News,

cells in Michigan, and have reignited the debate over how to balance civil rights with security.

The ACLU on Thursday unveiled its "Mapping the FBI" initiative, which accuses the FBI of racial and ethnic profiling, a claim federal officials dispute.

Arabs locally and nationwide on…

By Sheikh Idris Samawi Ibn Y.M. Hamid

23 Dhul Qadah 1432 A.H.

The Qurʾān says:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا۟ كُونُوا۟ قَوَّامِينَ بِالۡقِسۡطِ شُهَدَاء لِلّهِ وَلَوۡ عَلَي أَنفُسِكُمۡ أَوِ الۡوَالِدَيۡنِ وَالأَقۡرَبِينَ إِن يَكُنۡ غَنِيًّا أَوۡ فَقَيرًا فَاللّهُ أَوۡلَي بِهِمَا فَلاَ تَتَّبِعُوا۟ الۡهَوَي أَن تَعۡدِلُوا۟ وَإِن…

The Voice Of The People We Must Speak Out

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The Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta (ISB) is proud to announce the recipients of  the 2011 ISB Awards.  

The awards ceremony will take place during our upcoming 2011 Building Bridges Awards Dinner celebrating our 10th year anniversary on October 29, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. 

For the past nine years, the ISB has honored…

Amid the drama of the Palestinian statehood bid, the United States Congress has voted to freeze up to $200 million in

80 more Somali children die of cholera

A Somali man is helping her five-year-old daughter sip medicine at a local hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (File photo)

Somalia's cholera outbreak has claimed the lives of at least 80 more Somali children as…

(CNN) -- Three Americans freed after being held in Iran lent their support Monday to the now-global Occupy movement,

 applauding its participants' idealism and activism while making a specific point to protest what they call the harsh treatment of state prisoners in California.

The pleas in California from Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd to their hometown Occupy Oakland crowd supporting scores of prisoners on hunger strikes signify…

Some people think that the US and Israel are really smart. We beg to differ. Let us explain. The bird dogs of

Abu Dharr

Washington and the kennel dogs of Tel Aviv, in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s demise, had enough information to be convinced that an Islamic “danger” was brewing. This they learned the hard way: they waited a full decade as they were arming their man in Baghdad to defeat the Islamic State in Iran. And when the results…

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Occupy Wall Street is gaining momentum, with occupation actions now happening in cities across the world.

But last night Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD notified Occupy Wall Street participants about plans to “clean the

 park”—the site of the Wall Street protests—tomorrow starting at 7am. “Cleaning” was used as a pretext to…

Click:  Islamic History Al Mu'tazilah School of Thought by Imam Muhammad Al Asi 04-01-2008

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I haven’t been getting enough sleep lately. Last night I was exhausted in body and mind, but tried to keep my eyes

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip hold photos of imprisoned family members during a solidarity protest with…