All Blog Posts (4,425)

TEHRAN - US plans to launch a "virtual embassy" for Iran will fail, the speaker of Iran's parliament said Thursday,

Larijani says US is hoping for protest movement inside Iran, insists Arab spring is result of Islamic revolution in Iran.

according to the website of the state broadcaster IRIB.

"If the Americans believe they can do something in Iran with a virtual (embassy), they are…

Deeply entrenched attitudes towards colour, and the increasing promotion of skin-lightening products, are

 placing a ‘horrible burden’ on dark-skinned women, Bim Adewunmi writes in London’s Guardian.

Next week, at the international black film festival in…

10/27/2011  The shooting case, of Brother Shukri Abdur Rahman, is still on the back burner with the Atlanta Police Department.  It is not clear as to why the Department is not responding, or respond at such a slow pace.  In speaking with the family today…

<br /><small><a href="http://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/photo/photo">Find more photos like this on <em>Oppressed Peoples Online Word</em></a></small><br…

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/26/11) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the U.S. Senate

CAIR Seeks Senate Hearing on 'Shocking' Report of NYPD Spying on Muslims

Department reportedly opened secret files on anyone who changed or adopted Muslim names

 Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on what the Washington-based civil rights and advocacy organization said is the…

Friends:

Late Tuesday night into early this morning, a massive police force cordoned off a large section of downtown Atlanta

 …

President Obama has already started campaign for the 2012 presidential election. But how much is Israel's power over

 America's politics and during the presidential elections? This is the question raised by Nisa Islam in this edition of American Dream.…

 The Project

Peace X Peace is proud to launch a new video series called Catalyst: Voices of Israeli and Palestinian Women.  The videos lift up hopeful voices of Palestinians and Israelis during this time of dynamic confrontation. Hope and despair have taken turns in the Middle East through the Oslo Accords of 1993, two intifadas, the building of the separation wall, a blockade, the killing of more than 1300 Gazans in January 2009, and a financial upturn in…

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

 …