The 2009 edition of The State of Our Unions makes clear that money matters for marriage. Income, employment, debt, assets, and the division of household labor all shape the quality …
Refuting Islamophobia
On the same day as anti-Islamic rhetoric intensified in the wake of a train blast by terrorists in Russia, the FBI was unraveling a scheme by another terrorist group, the …
Searching porn on internet
What should a mother do when she finds out her son has been searching for pornography on the internet? A by Imam Jawad Ahmed: First of all, the mother should …
Living Within Our Means
We live in an age of extremism. No, not just violent manifestations of extremism that the media tends to focus on almost exclusively. Extremism of every kind: from the way …
Hunger Next Door: What Needs to be Done?
Those high powered celebrity chefs! The single mother watches cooking shows while sitting on an old couch with a bag of salty chips and a crying baby. Meanwhile, the young …
Manage Your Time and Your Life
Whoever wishes to achieve something worthwhile in life needs to first change himself/herself. The change has to begin with self?improvement and self?discipline. A man who gets organized and disciplined in …
Getting Rid of the “Greed is Good” Culture
As the whole world is experiencing unprecedented pain and panic because of the ongoing global financial crisis and is wondering how to get out of this hell hole, the Vatican …
Crisis of Our Souls in the Materialistic Environment
We live in a society where success in its broadest sense is measured exclusively in terms of material growth and achievements. Almost to the tune of the pervasive “go west” …
Explaining Who We Really Are
The West’s Islamophobia never ends. As communism exiles itself into history; the West is tirelessly talking about “Islamic fundamentalism” as its new archenemy. In recent months, the Western news media …
In Mandela, Americans Celebrate Their Own Victory Over Racism
He came, he saw, he conquered. That’s how Nelson Mandela concluded his trip to the United States. To Americans, who love celebrities to the extent that they often create them, …