Pamela Geller’s group, the New York-based American Freedom Defense Institute, has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. She is the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead.
This is about an amazing Muslim woman I hardly knew. She was born 63 years ago in Pakistan in the same neighborhood where Malala Yusufzai was born. Today, hundreds of people showed up for her funeral prayers on less than a day’s notice.
India's Muslims have played a historic role in shaping Indian society, particularly in the medieval period in the areas of architecture, calligraphy, miniature paintings, handicrafts, handloom, music, poetry, literature in mystic humanism, culinary arts and sartorial fashions.
Goals can inspire us to aim higher and move further ahead. Here are 7 that can help our kids move further ahead Islamically, as they excel academically this school year.
The Islamic sensibility of considering the human body of a very personal realm is connected to the concept of honor, dignity and privacy. Haya, Satr, Nikah, and Hijab are four important concepts that help explain Islamic modesty.
Being shy or bashful, modest in dress, speech, and behavior is considered something archaic, even prehistoric today. Yet, this is a key virtue of Islam. It’s what distinguishes a person of faith and God-consciousness.
In this Dallas Morning News article published in 2000, Susan Hogan Albach reviews Dawud Wharnsby-Ali's audio CD "Sunshine, Dust, and the Messenger", a collection of Islamic songs in English.