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Imam Jamil Al Amin Abdullah

New York

Palestine Song

A FATWA CONCERNING PARTICIPATING IN KWANZA

Participation in certain aspects of Kwanzaa is haram (forbidden), namely using libations.

A Description of Libations

Libations is an ancient pagan ritual and thereby forbidden in Islam. It should be avoided at all costs. Participating in it only promotes paganism.

Libations is “a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of…

Muslim Sister…

North Carolina Teacher

This woman’s name is Turquoise LeJeune Parker and she’s a elementary school teacher in Durham, NC. Ms Parker just fundraised more than $100,000 and spent it all on food at Costco to make sure 5,100 students within the Durham public school system don’t go hungry over the holidays for the two weeks they are out of school.…

A cloak of darkness hangs over the opening of this film, directed by Chloe Fairweather, as a young woman takes the camera crew to the place where her ex-husband shot at her in a fit of rage. Such painful anecdotes recur throughout this stirring documentary which examines the correlation between gender-based violence in Turkey and the country’s political turbulences.

Following the…

The National Day of Mourning is an annual protest organized since 1970 by Native Americans of New England on

the fourth Thursday of November, the same day as…

Convicted Killers of Malcolm X Exonerated:

A Personal Perspective

By Imam Khalid Fattah Griggs

The recent exoneration of 83-year-old Muhammad Aziz, formerly known as Norman 3X Butler and Khalil Islam, then identified as Thomas 15X Johnson for the February 21,1965 assassination of human rights icon Malcolm X is a 55-years long delayed judicial affirmation of widely held…

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H Rap Brown

It seemed like a fool’s errand to send Jamil Al-Amin a letter, expecting a response. But there I was, in the summer of 2019, reading his reply, sent from the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, Ariz.

Peace be unto those who do Good, Rembert. May The Creator Reward you for your kind thoughts and words. Though this part of our journey is defined by danger, and the goal seems distant, no roads are without…

Howard W. French

The way we think about history is entirely wrong, says Howard W French at the start of this magnificent, powerful and absorbing book. The problem is not just that the people and cultures of Africa have…

Ashley Speaks

Dr. Kimberly Manning is a hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and an associate professor of medicine at Emory. Her interests include humanism in medicine and the use of reflective writing. She practices what she preaches by writing a blog about her experiences at Grady. —> …

. THE "SECULARIZING EFFECTS" THESIS: ISLAMIC LAW, NEW

CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND JUDICIAL REVIEW

What to do with religion in constitutions when it comes to questions of

judicial review? At the very least, the increasing role of religion in public

life is a reality not to be ignored. As Ran Hirschl has insightfully pointed

out, the idea…

Mental Wellbeing 

1 in 6 people per week face a common mental health problem, Depression is cited as one of the leading causes of disability worldwide and suicide rates continue to climb year by year, especially among young people.

Our daily lives aren’t conducive to good mental health. Work/life imbalance, social media, loneliness, technology, financial struggles and a heap of other modern norms place tremendous pressure on us mentally and…