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Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?


The answer is…God knows best.


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It is clear.  Very clear. Open your eyes.

May God bring peace and stability to all the innocent people.  May God deliver justice to the oppressors.  Ameen!


Props to all the Muslim mothers around the world for having lots of children!

Muslims more numerous than Catholics

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer
Sun Mar 30, 2:48 PM ET

VATICAN CITY - Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.

“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican’s yearbook.

He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.

“It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer,” the monsignor said.

Formenti said that the data refer to 2006. The figures on Muslims were put together by Muslim countries and then provided to the United Nations, he said, adding that the Vatican could only vouch for its own data.

When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, Formenti said.

Spokesmen for the Vatican and the United Nations did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment Sunday.

Source: Yahoo!


I have to give a lot of respect to Sh. Muhammad Alshareef for coming up with this idea. He turned his halaqah at the local Masjid into an online mini-series calling the releases “episodes” just like the typical TV show. Genious! More scholars should do this. Weekly episodes of various “online shows” discussing any and all aspects of Islam. This mini-series is called Perished Nations which is about the history of Islam and prior nations. I haven’t listened to it all, but from what I have listened to it is amazing, mashaAllah! For all those traditional-minded pro-tasawwuf brothers and sisters, have no fear, there is no difference of opinion when it comes to this history. At least I hope so!

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Perished Nations

with Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef

InshaAllah, you can watch it like how you watch Heroes, Lost, The Wire, [insert favorite TV show here] etc.


Second Muslim Elected To Congress!

Indiana voters on Tuesday elected a Muslim to Congress, only the second of that faith chosen in U.S. history.

Andre Carson, grandson of the late Democrat Rep. Julia Carson, was elected to serve the balance of her term in the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election.

She died in December 2007, after serving 11 years in the heavily Democratic district.

The younger Carson, 33, a member of the Indianapolis City Council who converted to Islam about a decade ago, will serve out the remainder of his grandmother’s term through calendar 2008. He beat Republican Jon Elrod and a third party candidate with 52 percent of the vote to 44 percent for Elrod.

The first and only other Muslim member of the U.S. Congress is Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, also a Democrat, who is in his first term.

Alhamdulillah!  This is very good news.  I posted about Andre Carson a while back talking about how he might be the second Muslim in Congress.  Well guess what!  He was elected!  Now we have two Muslims in Congress: Keith Ellison (at ISNA 2007) and Andre Carson.  InshaAllah many more to come!

Shout out to Adam for letting me know.

Source


Barack Obama: “Turn off the TV!”


If you know anyone in Texas or Ohio, make sure to tell them to vote for Obama on Tuesday March 4. Barack Obama continues to impress me with his words. Finally someone gets real with the current educational system and goes to the root of the problem: parenting. Parents need to turn off the TV! Start spending time with their children. This also goes to Muslim parents too. Muslim children are also facing the same issues as any other typical American child. They watch crappy television shows on Nickelodeon, Disney Channel or Cartoon Network. Seriously, have you ever watched shows like Hannah Montana. It’s ridiculous! Children shows have gone far as accepting dating and homosexuality. They’ve also completely removed religion from it all. In fact, from watching TV with some of my nephews and nieces, I’ve seen they have less cartoons and more real-life drama shows for children. It’s like soap operas but for children.

What happened to the amazing cartoons when I was growing up like Duck Tales, Captain Planet, Tiny Toons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the original X-Men, the original Batman, Batman beyond, Animaniacs, Tales Spin, Pinky and the Brain, Rugrats, Inspector Gadget and the rest of the 90s/80s cartoons.

These videos brought back some great memories growing up:
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Muslims using the N-word

From Imam Zaid’s “Should Muslims use the ‘N’ word?“:

Rather the one affectionately referred to as someone’s “nigga” is the “cool” kid selling the drugs, chasing the girls, sagging his pants, smoking the weed, gang-banging and showing no commitment to or understanding of the value of discipline, education, or history? The “nigga” is the young person we see behaving so utterly embarrassingly in pubic. As Beanie Sigel puts it, “I’ma ride with my niggas, die with my niggas, get high with my niggas…” He is saying that he is going into gang warfare with his friends, die with them in the battle if necessary, get high with them, etc. It would difficult if not impossible to find anyone saying, by way of example, “I’ma go to med school with my niggas, respect my lady with my niggas, rebuild my community with my niggas….“

I highly recommend you to read the full article by Imam Zaid Shakir regarding Muslims using the word ‘nigga’. I find myself using this slang term sometimes. May Allah (swt) forgive me. We should try to replace it with brother, bro, akhi, or akh. For example, instead of saying ‘what up nigga’, we could say ‘what up akh’ or ‘what up bro’.

Imam Zaid only spoke about using the ‘N-word’, but I think many Desi Muslim youth also need to stop using words like kallu or chapta to describe other minorities.  We should respect everyone and most of the time when the terms ‘kallu’ or ‘chapta’ is used, its to negatively comment without the other minority understanding.


Timbuktu

Here is a really good documentary by Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick on Timbuktu:


Excellent speech by Barack Obama:

“I’ve seen how politics can be used to make us afraid of each other and how we turn on each other. How fear can cloud our judgement. And Suddenly we start scapegoating gay people or immigrants or people who don’t look like us or Muslims, because our own lives aren’t going well.”

InshaAllah he becomes the next president!


This was the play of the game, play of the year and probably one of the best plays ever!

If the above video doesn’t work, try this one:
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