January 2023 Blog Posts (23)

Honoring the legacy of Black Muslim In America

• Our 3rd Annual “Honoring the Legacy of Black Muslims” virtual celebration is scheduled for Saturday, February 25, 2023. Please save the date, and plan to join us for what is sure to be an outstanding event! I will send a flyer and registration details soon, so that you all can share with your networks. 

Our 3rd Annual “Honoring the Legacy of Black…

Bilal Mahmud was born in Richmond, Va. and lived there for the first 6 years of his life.  At the age of 6 he moved to

rural North Carolina, to a small town on the Virginia line named Roanoke Rapids , N.C. He resided in North Carolina until 1969 at which time he enlisted into the United States Marine Corps.  While in the Marine Corps, one of his duty stations was South Vietnam, where he was introduced to and became…

(Qur’an 94:5-6) So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief. Verily with every difficulty there is relief. 

فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلۡعُسۡرِ يُسۡرًا (٥) إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلۡعُسۡرِ يُسۡرً۬ا

The story of Abdullah is an example of obtaining relief with difficulty.

In the 1980s I worked as a chaplain in the State Prison in Southern Michigan, known at that time as the largest prison in the free world. One day…

It is with great concern that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) views the firing of an art professor, Erika López

Prater, from Hamline University on the grounds of showing a fourteenth-century painting depicting the Prophet Muḥammad. We issue this statement of support for the professor and urge the university to reverse its decision and to take compensatory action to ameliorate the situation.

News sources report that the matter reached the university…

M.L. King Day 2023

Atlanta, Ga.Slideshow: :  …

Spike Lee 

On Thursday, (January 12, 2023)  the Academy Award-winning director, who graduated from Morehouse in 1979, and his agency, Gersh, announced the Spike Fellows Program that will support students from Morehouse, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University, as noted by The Hollywood…

This is a program that was recorded in 1992, some 31 years ago.  We have to ask ourselves how much have things

changed or how much are they the same as they were in 1619. How do we move forward if we never want to change the situation that help to keep many people marginalized.  Where do we go from here?  

As reported in The Daily Beast last week (and later in The New York Times), at Hamline University—a small, private

university in Saint Paul, Minnesota—a Muslim student objected…

Congratulations to the Honorable Judge Fatima El-Amin! The DeKalb County Superior Court judges have appointed Judge

Fatima A. El-Amin as the next chief judge of the DeKalb County Juvenile Court!



Judge El-Amin attended W.D. Mohammed High School in DeKalb County and completed her collegiate studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Judge El-Amin received her J.D. degree from Emory University…

News

WASHINGTON - The State Department said Thursday it has adopted Turkey’s preferred spelling for the name of the country, Turkiye, acceding to a request from the NATO ally after several months of hesitation.

The department has instructed that new official documents refer to Turkiye instead of Turkey, although the pronunciation will not change, officials said. But neither the State Department website nor the Foreign Affairs Manual, which guides US…

ظلم (لسان العرب)

Oppression is putting someone or something in other than where he/she belongs.  Oppression is not giving a person all that he/she is due. 

الظلم : وضع الشيء في غير موضعه .

انتقاص الحق.

They did not wrong him means they did not turn from him.

The source of oppression is injustice.

Whoever does more or less than required, is doing evil and…