Archive for May, 2007

  • You Can Take <em>Shahadah</em>…

    You Can Take Shahadah

    …but you can’t leave your demographics. Gun violence is an issue facing all people who live in urban centers but the dangers facing Blackamericans is even greater. Is this a danger that faces all African-Americans? No, but if you are Black and living in a...

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  • So Why Did You Become Muslim?

    So Why Did You Become Muslim?

    One of the most common questions put to me is, “so what was it about Islam that made you convert?” It is interesting on how the demographics of this inquiry break down. Overwhelmingly, the vast majority of those who seem [and this is putting it...

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  • <em>Kafir</em> – A Word Reexamined

    Kafir – A Word Reexamined

    If there is one primary characteristic that Modernity spells out to me, it is in the way in which certain schools of thought or groups of people, who deemed antagonistic or undesirable, are cast, part and parcel, as barbaric and backwards. The underlined point in...

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  • The Hating Game

    The Hating Game

    If Islam failed to find a mooring to ground itself in this version of Modernity or Post-Modernity, the phenomenon of 9/11 certainly has done so for it. The offshoot from this grounding has been the creation of a new class of “intellectuals” and pundits, all...

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