Athletes and activism: When does ignorance become intolerable?
At the masjid on a recent Friday, they talked about priorities. The context of this khutba was that while plenty of Muslims manage to make time for leisure, not enough […]
At the masjid on a recent Friday, they talked about priorities. The context of this khutba was that while plenty of Muslims manage to make time for leisure, not enough […]
More than a year and a half ago, when Donald Sterling was the most vilified man in American media and Donald Trump was relatively low on that list, I suggested […]
First, we must acknowledge the hypocrisy: That is, how college and pro football players can make a play that sends thousands of fans in the stadium — along with millions […]
Somehow, some way, a scene that has played out over a thousand Friday nights in thousands of cities and towns across the United States recently became a source of national […]
My father and I were two of the hundreds of thousands of people — two of perhaps one million, according to some estimates — who gathered in front of the […]
While there is a lot of truth to the modern adage that “sports is the great equalizer” when it comes to social and cross-cultural understanding, our playing fields have also […]
Charitable giving has always been a basic tenet of Islam; the third of the five pillars of the religion. The Most Gracious and Merciful Allah [swt] says in the Quran, […]
If you think Muslims in the United States and Europe have it difficult, living in countries that are more socially unfriendly to the Islamic community than officially oppressive, imagine the […]
On Friday, June 19, Alex Rodriguez became the newest member of one of Major League Baseball’s most exclusive clubs when he recorded the 3,000th hit of his career — just […]
If you think Dwyane Wade, LaMarcus Aldridge and the rest of the big names in the NBA’s free-agency class of 2015 will be the subjects of too many rumors and […]