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  johnpi 8:15 am on January 15, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: american islam, American Muslims (71), charity (19), Muslims in America (36)

  Third Muslim free clinic to serve American poor opens in Columbus, Ohio.

  The Noor Community Clinic is restricted to those without insurance or government help such as Medicaid or Medicare.

  Haque said the primary aim of the clinic is to serve those who need care, Muslim or not. But the doctors also want to give the community a positive view of Islam, to counter the reports of Muslim extremists and violence that pepper the news.

  “Right now, the image of Muslims in general is kind of on the low side,” Haque said.

  “We love our country, we love our nation and we love our community. We want to do our best in helping out, especially in these economically challenging times.”

  The clinic grew out of a meeting of Muslim physicians at Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Hilliard in 2008. The doctors decided to open free clinics for the uninsured under the name “Muslim Clinic of Ohio.”

  Already, the group has opened clinics in Cincinnati and Dayton.

   

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  abunoor 6:09 pm on December 23, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: american islam, American Muslims (71), Avatar (10), Chicago (2), Omer Mozaffar (3), Roger Ebert

  My friend and blogger Omer Mozaffar is given a forum by Roger Ebert to discuss Islam and Movies in his life (among many other topics mainly revolving around growing up as a Muslim in these times) and to give his thoughts on Avatar.

  Omer was also the winner of this year’s Brass Crescent award for Best Writer.

   
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  johnpi 1:06 pm on November 10, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: America (36), american islam, American Muslims (71), assimilation (10), integration (15), islam in america (15), muslim american (20), muslim american extremism (25), muslim-americans (22), Muslims in America (36), Statistics (35)

  Pew research: 63 percent of US Muslims see no conflict in being devout and living in Modern society. Pew estimates the actual population of Muslims living in the United States at 2.35 million.

  The first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans finds them to be largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world.

  Research findings:

  • Overall, Muslim Americans have a generally positive view of the larger society. Most say their communities are excellent or good places to live.

  • A large majority of Muslim Americans believe that hard work pays off in this society. Fully 71% agree that most people who want to get ahead in the United States can make it if they are willing to work hard.

  • The survey shows that although many Muslims are relative newcomers to the U.S., they are highly assimilated into American society. On balance, they believe that Muslims coming to the U.S. should try and adopt American customs, rather than trying to remain distinct from the larger society. And by nearly two-to-one (63%-32%) Muslim Americans do not see a conflict between being a devout Muslim and living in a modern society.

  • Muslim Americans reject Islamic extremism by larger margins than do Muslim minorities in Western European countries. However, there is somewhat more acceptance of Islamic extremism in some segments of the U.S. Muslim public than others. Fewer native-born African American Muslims than others completely condemn al Qaeda. In addition, younger Muslims in the U.S. are much more likely than older Muslim Americans to say that suicide bombing in the defense of Islam can be at least sometimes justified. Nonetheless, absolute levels of support for Islamic extremism among Muslim Americans are quite low, especially when compared with Muslims around the world.

   
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  yahya 3:41 am on September 7, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: american islam, American Muslims (71), cuisine, Iftar (3), new york (3), Ramadan (59)

  Thabet, you are relentless aren’t you: don’t 17-hour fasts slow your brain? Anyhow for those like myself who in the slow lane here’s some lighter fare mid-Ramadan. A charming blog – 30 New York mosques in 30 days by two amiable chaps called Aman and Bassam - with more emphasis on the food (lamp biriyani wrap to go) than the fasting from two hungry young guys. Nice overview of a real variegated set of communities in NYC – with lots of photos.

  Warning – best viewed near to iftar if you don’t want rumbletums.

   
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  johnpi 5:31 am on June 18, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: american islam, Black Islam (4), Darul Islam (3)

  AR Muhammad uses his blog to locate the grave of “Big Bilal” Abdullah Rahman, one of four Muslims slain in a Brooklyn masjid shootout in the bad old days of 1974.

   
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  johnpi 9:22 pm on June 1, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: american islam, Black Islam (4), Darul Islam (3), H. Rap Brown (2), Jamaat al-Fuqra (5), Jamaat ul-Fuqra (5), Jamil Alamin, Riverhead Sniper, sufi (9), sufism (24)

  AR Muhammad has talked to the daughter of “Big Bilal” Abdullah Rahman, one of four Muslims killed in the 1974 shootout at the Ya Sin Masjid in Brooklyn, NY.

  Sr. Sayyidah grew up in the Darul Islam movement, which dissolved in 1983 with half the membership following Imam Jamil Alamin (H. Rap Brown) and half going to Jamaat ul-Fuqra. She lost two of her brothers to violent death, one went crazy and did an attempted killing spree, the other was gunned down by police.

  The life and death of Sr. Sayyidah’s father had been kept from her until well into adulthood, and to this day she does not know where her father is buried. If anyone knows where “Big Bilal” Abdullah Rahman is buried, go to AR Muhammad’s blog and let him know so he can pass it on to the sister.

  Umar Lee doesn’t think much of AR Muhammad and called him all kinds of names, (ally of Muslim haters, neo-con, Limbaugh wanna-be, etc.) Umar is the last person who should be calling anyone a “Limbaugh wanna-be.” Maybe the fact that Umar’s wife grew up in the Fuqra and Muhammad doesn’t have anything nice to say about it has something to do with it. Call it Umar’s “secret Sufi sympathies,” since Umar is the last akhi in the world who would make sectarian fitnah.

   
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  willow 1:22 am on January 21, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: american islam

  I’ve been thinking a lot about American Islam, especially in the wake of Umar’s recent posts and Yursil’s responses. I mostly agree with Yursil.

   
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  razib, murtad fitri 7:07 pm on August 28, 2008 | 5 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: american islam, sexual abuse (7)

  Home Principal of Islamic school in Buffalo ousted over sex allegations – He may have taken student as second wife. looks like standard student sex abuse, but, there’s a “freak show” cultural element:
  Interviews with several Muslims reveal a mixed view on additional marriages under Islamic law. Some said it is not allowed under United States law and therefore is forbidden; others said it can be permissible under Islamic law anyway. Even so, there are several steps required for an Islamic marriage to be recognized, and the description of Khan and Memon’s marriage violates those tenets.

  Sajidah Khan, observing strict rules of separation between the sexes, was relegated to listening from the next room.

  Because interaction between the sexes is forbidden under Islam until marriage, girls and boys are not allowed to be in the same classroom or have outside contact.

  Until that day, Khan said, she could count the social contacts she had had with males on one hand.

  “In our culture, we don’t even let girls sit with their male cousins, and this guy is a teacher. Why is this man, who has said we are not even allowed to chat with a boy, doing this?” she said.

  When girls are taught by male teachers, they must listen in another room.

  [sentences extracted out a much longer piece]