The long-awaited second act of President George Bush's worldwide `war against terrorism opened last week with the official announcement that 650 US troops would conduct `military exercises in the southern Philippines against the Muslim rebel movement, Abu Sayyaf.
Nothing is more important to the future of humanity than the freedom to make new ideas. I would argue that the act of writing poetry is important for the creation of those new ideas. - DOROTHEA LASKY
It's official - America's over six million Muslims should vote for George W. Bush as the country's next president on November 7. This endorsement was made October 23 by the American Muslim Political Coordinating Council Political Action Committee (AMPCC-PAC).
This is a moment in history when US Muslims must band together. I speak from my heart when I urge them to vote as a bloc in the presidential race in support of Governor George Bush.
The city of Jerusalem in Islam is very sacred to Muslims. It is one of the three most sacred cities in Islam. Jerusalem is called al-Quds al-Sharif (the Noble Sacred Place). In order to understand the sacredness of this city in Islam, one has to understand the faith structure of Islam.
The media and politicians have sat up and started to take notice of Muslims ins the political arena but we've still got a long way to go. Why? It seems that for every two steps forward, we move one step back.