Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص's Blog – March 2011 Archive (100)

The following incident took place when Muhammad Ali's daughters arrived at his home wearing clothes that were not

modest. Here is the story as told by one of his daughters:



When we finally arrived, the chauffeur escorted my younger sister, Laila, and me up to my father's suite. As usual, he was hiding behind the door waiting to scare us. We exchanged many hugs and kisses as we could possibly give in one day. My father took a good look at us. Then he sat me…

For the Muslim no matter where he or she is from, the center of their every prayer is Mecca.  Mecca is a

 city located in Saudi Arabia.  Five time everyday when the Muslim prayers, he or she faces in this direction, no matter where on the earth…

TRIPOLI - Libyan strongman Moamer Gathafi said Tuesday he was determined to crush the month-old uprising against

Fleeing to Benghazi

China, Russia are leading opposition to no-fly zone to ground Libyan leader’s warplanes, US is very cautious.

 him, while at the…

SAN DIEGO, CA, 3/15/11) –- On Wednesday, March 16, the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-

Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) will hold a news conference with a Muslim passenger removed without explanation from a Southwest Airlines flight on Sunday.



At the news conference, CAIR-San Diego will call for an investigation of the incident and an apology to the…

Images of the devastation occurring in Japan in the wake of the cataclysmic Honshu earthquake are both mind-

Sadly, many of our politicians get much political mileage from hate. And that’s where the radical – and not so radical – Right exploits the situation trying to show homegrown terror as an overwhelmingly Islamic phenomenon, notes Ben Tanosborn.

Civil…

A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small Louisiana town.  From the beginning,

 Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family.  The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.  



As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family.  In my young mind, he had a special niche.  My parents were complementary instructors: Mom taught me good from evil, and Dad…

For some years now, the Swiss philosopher and Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan has been saying he wants to reconcile Islamic tradition with Western democracy, conservative religious values with liberal political ones. But not everyone finds him credible. And being the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, doesn’t help. Skeptics say he is a radical in disguise — a Janus-faced rhetorician who presents a moderate’s face to Western audiences and a…