Black History Month 2022
The life stories of generations of people of African descent in the United States are testimonials to the capacity of human beings to overcome, with Allah’s help, adverse life circumstances that typically…
Author: Imam Khalid Griggs
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Convicted Killers of Malcolm X Exonerated
Read article: Convicted Killers of Malcolm X ExoneratedThe recent exoneration of 83-year-old Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam for the 1965 assassination of human rights icon Malcolm X is a 55 year long-delayed judicial affirmation of their innocence.…
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Let Us Call It What It Is
Read article: Let Us Call It What It IsFrom time immemorial, men have constructed dehumanizing systems of exploitation that stagger even the most vivid imagination. Each of these inhumane structures of society share some common characteristics including a self-serving distortion…
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Nakba 2021: The Cost of Indifference
Read article: Nakba 2021: The Cost of IndifferenceOn May 25, 2020 much of the world was riveted watching the slow agonizing death of George Floyd as he was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Darnella Frazier, a…
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Voter Suppression: A Tool of Supremacists
Read article: Voter Suppression: A Tool of SupremacistsSince the inception of the United States approximately 245 years ago, the exercise of the ballot has remained one of the most cherished rights and expressions of American citizenship. The 13 British…
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Black History Month in The Muslim American Consciousness
Read article: Black History Month in The Muslim American ConsciousnessWith few noteworthy exceptions, historical accounts of the achievements and struggles of North American people since the colonization of the land by Europeans has been written overwhelmingly from the vantage point of…
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Structural Racism
Read article: Structural RacismThe life stories of generations of people of African descent in the United States are testimonials to the capacity of human beings to overcome, with Allah’s help, adverse life circumstances that typically…
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The End of Innocence in Seven Hours
Read article: The End of Innocence in Seven HoursThe United Nations recognizes the existence of 195 countries in the world, including the non-voting entities of Palestine and the Vatican. Egypt, established as a single kingdom by King Menes in 3100…
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Political Evolution of Muslim Americans: An Historical Perspective
Read article: Political Evolution of Muslim Americans: An Historical PerspectiveSustained European contact with Muslims goes back at least to the late 7th and early 8th centuries when in 711 CE, Tarik ibn Ziyad, the Berber-appointed governor of Morocco, led a Muslim…
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Muslims’ Future in France
Read article: Muslims’ Future in FranceWhen President Emanuel Macron of France declared in the aftermath of the beheading of French high school teacher Samuel Paty by 18-year-old Abdoullah Anzorov that “Islam is in crisis everywhere,” he inadvertently…