If your Islamic organization does not have a long-term plan, it is important to develop a planning committee which can take input from the community and present a plan for feedback and adoption. While they are working on a long-term one, it will be good to adopt a one-year plan through your board. Here are some ideas.
There is an urgent need for thoughtful influential Muslim leaders, like you, to raise a collective voice against this self-destructive violence that threatens to create a seemingly unbridgeable fault line in the Muslim world.
Ninety-nine percent of Muslim children in the United States attend public schools, and the debate about which is better to raise the next generation of believers, Muslim or public school, continues with every new generation. Here are some pros and cons of both.
Whatever Islamic obligation you want accommodated at your child's school, it must be done in a methodical, clear, and proper manner. Shabbir Mansuri, founder of the Council on Islamic Education in California, offers tips.
While Eid should be a time of joy and happiness, it is also a time for prayer. Muslims should remember to share the pain and helping the needy on Eid day and of their suffering brothers and sisters everywhere on this blessed day.
If you want to get a glimpse of the future of Islam in America, take a good look at the state of the Muslim family here today. Here is a discussion of the challenges family faces in America and some tools from an islmic perspective.
The genocide of Bosnia, with three million displaced, about 300,000 murdered and over 50,000 raped, was taken up as their own cause by Muslims in the United States.