By Amy Green | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
ORLANDO, FLA. – With her hijab and dark complexion, Catherine Garcia doesn’t look like an Orlando native or a Disney tourist. When people ask where she’s from, often they are surprised that it’s not the Middle East but Colombia. That’s because Ms. Garcia, a bookstore clerk [...]
Stuart Jeffries
Monday February 26, 2007
The Guardian
The American journalist HL Mencken once wrote: “We must accept the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” In Britain today, such wry tolerance is diminishing. Today, it’s the religious on [...]
By: NICOLE SACK - Staff Writer
TEMECULA —- When U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison was sworn in as the first Muslim member of Congress in January, the Minnesota Democrat took his oath of office on a copy of the Quran that had belonged to the author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United [...]
BY SHANNON PRATHER
Pioneer Press
School bus driver Seham Nabry says her boss confiscated her prayer mats and complained that her ritual hand and feet washing messed up the office bathroom. She also says he blared Christian music and taunted Muslim workers as they prayed.
Nabry said giving up her daily prayers — one of the five pillars [...]
by Azhar Masood and Agencies
Arab News
ISLAMABAD, 21 February 2007 — A suspected militant yesterday shot dead Punjab’s minister for social welfare while she was about to address a meeting in Gujranwala. Fayyaz Chattha, the district administrator of Gujranwala, told Arab News a serial killer shot the minister, Zille Huma Usman, wounding her seriously. She succumbed [...]
Below, I have included only a sample of the hate crime incidents for which video clips are available. It is important to note that these incidents have occured over the last two years, and across several states in the USA. My intent is not to suggest that these incidents are connected; I simply aim to demonstrate that [...]
From Islamonline.net
[With respect to] music and why it is permissible, here is the clarification for that in the light of fatwa issued by Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi:
The whole issue of singing is controversial, whether it is with musical accompaniment or not. Some issues succeeded to gain the Muslim scholars’ agreement, while others failed. All scholars have unanimous [...]
US Business Schools are generally recognized as being among the best in the world. Islam encourages excellence in everything that you do. Hence, if you wish to excel in the workplace as a businessperson, a leader or an entrepreneur, you may consider applying to some of these schools. If you are planning to apply to [...]
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit, has a new idea. It’s called social business enterprise, and the first step is a yogurt factory in Bangladesh. Fortune’s Sheridan Prasso reports.
By Sheridan Prasso, Fortune
January 29 2007: 1:54 PM EST
(Fortune Magazine) — Along a dirt road in Bangladesh’s green, fertile heartland, 140 miles northwest [...]
Source: money.cnn.com
January 31 2007: 9:52 AM EST
KARACHI (Reuters) — Predominantly Muslim Pakistan, where most people are banned from drinking alcohol, is set to get a domestically produced, 20-year-old single malt whisky, an official at the company making the drink said Wednesday.
The whisky is due to go on sale in July to non-Muslims, and its makers [...]
VIEWS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSLIM AND WESTERN CULTURES
Can find common ground
Violent conflict inevitable
France
69%
23%
Germany
49%
39%
Great Britain
77%
15%
India
35%
24%
Indonesia
40%
51%
Italy
78%
14%
Kenya
46%
35%
Lebanon
68%
26%
Nigeria
53%
37%
Turkey
49%
29%
US
64%
31%
By Roger Hardy
BBC Islamic affairs analyst
A new BBC poll taken by Globescan suggests there is a significant middle ground which rejects the view that Islam and the West are doomed to clash.
The survey of over 28,000 respondents [...]
Source: National Association of Colleges and Employers and Most Lucrative Degrees for 2007 Grads. Average salaries are per year in US$. Employment requires being a US citizen, or the possession of a green card already. On occasion, a company may sponsor citizens of foreign countries in areas of critical need and scarcity in the U.S.–this type of [...]
Congratulations to the Spanish Minister of Justice, Mr. Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, for taking a stand against gender discrimination in Saudi Arabia. During an official visit to Saudi Arabia last month, Mr. Aguilar was invited to speak at Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic University. When the Minister learned that female journalists traveling with him would [...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6351057.stm
An ageing pop star, a rear admiral in the Royal Navy and the head of Amnesty International have been included on a list of most influential Muslims. The Power 100 website compiled the top 100 list to show how Muslims have contributed positively to the UK.
Singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, was included [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Thursday began operating live Internet cameras at a construction project next to a hotly disputed Jerusalem holy site (the third holiest site in Islam–the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its compound), and agreed to a Turkish request to inspect the work, responding to intense criticism from the Muslim world.
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by Rafik Beekun
I was shocked recently to learn that internet surfers from Algiers had tried to access the site of a major child pornographic ring uncovered in Europe. Knowing of the huge costs of pornography to the USA and to U.S. businesses specifically, I decided to track down some statistics with respect to this ‘industry’ [...]
by Rafik Beekun
So you think your office is secure because you have an expensive lock or a deadbolt? Think again. The following video shows an emerging criminal trend known as “lock bumping”. The clip describes lock bumping for residences, but it applies equally well to your office, supply or storage room or anywhere else secured [...]
Turning Work’s Lemons Into Lemonade
By Sam Grobart
It’s a fact of life - and of work: Bad things happen. Deals are blown, ambitions are squelched, things go to hell in a handbasket. But a bad situation doesn’t have to be all that bad - if you know how to make it work for you.
First thing [...]
Taking a nap in the afternoon was the practice recommended by the companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him). It appears that the Prophet agreed with this, because scholars of Hadith have been in support of an afternoon nap.
In fact, taking an afternoon nap carries a religious dimension. As Adil Salahi has indicated, [...]
by Rafik Beekun
Robert Spencer is a self-proclaimed expert on Islam. Khaleel Mohammed, Louay M. Safi and Carl Ernst assert that Spencer has no academic training in Islamic studies at all–his M.A. degree was in the field of early Christianity–, that he does not have any understanding of Islam, and that he is very selective in [...]
Source: Arab News
JEDDAH, 1 February 2007 — [...] Saudi Arabia Labor Minister Ghazi Al-Gosaibi has taken two important decisions in order to safeguard the rights of about seven million expatriates working in the Kingdom. According to the first decision, any company or institution that delays payment of salaries of its employees for two consecutive months [...]
Treatment of Animals in the Islamic Workplace
by Rafik Beekun, Islamic Business Ethics
Muslim businessmen who make use of animals must be extremely careful in how they treat them. Professional butchers, for example, must show kindness in slaughtering animals:
Two are the things which I remember Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) having said, “Verily Allah has enjoined [...]
Source: Gallup Management Journal
August 10, 2006
An expert on Islam tackles the role of women, Iran’s quest for nukes, the stability of Iraq — and much moreA GMJ Q&A with John L. Esposito, Ph.D., a world-renowned scholar on Islam, political Islam, and the impact of Islamic movements in Africa and Asia
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Friday, 2 February, 2007, 01:10 PM Doha Time
DUBAI: Dubai’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Dr Ahmad Abdul Aziz al- Haddad issued a fatwa yesterday prohibiting the use of verses from the Holy Qur’an as mobile phone ring tones.
Al-Haddad said that using the Qur’an on mobile phones was “a violation to its glory and sacredness.” The verses should [...]
Source: Associated Press
MACON, Ga. - Macon Mayor Jack Ellis has converted to Islam and is now working to legally change his name to Hakim Mansour Ellis.
Ellis, who was raised Christian, said Thursday that he became a Sunni Muslim during a December ceremony in the west African nation of Senegal.
Ellis said he has been studying the [...]
Dubai eGovernment has signed an agreement with Dubai Municipality to offer eLearning courses to municipality staff through the eLearn channel in order to enhance and accelerate daily transactions between Dubai Municipality and local residents.
As per the agreement, Dubai eGovernment will provide eLearning and electronic training curriculum to the municipality staff via personal computers or hand-held [...]
by Rafik Beekun
Just reading the reviews below makes one understand very clearly the purpose of those who “wrote” this book:
“The True Furqan has the potential to be the most practical and powerful tool to share the message of the True Gospel of Jesus Christ with the Muslim world.”–Amazon.com review
According to the Baptist Press: “No literary [...]
by Sean Murphy
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — A police officer in the small eastern Oklahoma town of Webbers Falls was fired and another was demoted after a Muslim woman claimed they harassed her about her religion during a traffic stop in November, a town official confirmed Thursday.
The town’s council members agreed to fire officer James Wagoner [...]
Note from Rafik Beekun: I am always moved by the sight of our sisters in Hijab. They are the ever courageous and visible standard bearers of Islam. In this video test taking place in the seaside town of Southampton, U.K., a non-Muslim woman dresses up in hijab to test the reactions of non-Muslims to her [...]
by ABUKAR ARMANA
A recent public opinion survey conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reveals that Muslims are still perceived negatively in the U.S. [...]
An open-ended question, “When you hear the word ‘Muslim,’ what is the first thought that comes to your mind?” indicates that Muslims still carry the 9/11 burden. Only 6% of [...]
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