edited by: Sally Jo Sorensen,
Minnesota Editor
By Engage Minnesota
We need to purify our hearts before we solve the world’s problems. [...] By Martha Bigelow, Meeting Minnesota’s Muslims
Multicultural education seeks to include a range of perspectives often suppressed by the majority culture as well as include students from diverse backgrounds in the process of learning. What is sometimes lost in efforts to create inclusive educational experiences is serious thought to how [...]
By Tanweer Janjua, Engage Minnesota
As a long time admirer of Barack Obama’s leadership, I was moved by his speech on Tuesday night. There is no doubt that Barack has shown his leadership again and demonstrated that he deserved to be in the highest office of the land. This is truly an historic [...]
By Fedwa Wazwaz, Engage Minnesota
The elections this year turned ugly as presidential candidate Barack Obama was continuously portrayed as a Muslim, with a hidden negative inference that being Muslim means that Obama supports terrorism, and that being Muslim means bad and ugly.
While such attacks came [...]
By Elias Karmi, Engage Minnesota
The word ‘Shariah’ is a bit prickly even among many of the better educated in the West. I and many Muslims, however, grew up viewing Shariah as an exit from current-day injustices. Now, instead of having to read me blabbering away about it, fortunately [...]
“Are they in essence accepting that the past eight years has been a
total failure?”
By Zafar Siddiqui, Engage Minnesota
Perhaps never in the history of the presidential elections has the word “change” been bandied about as it is being done during the current elections. The palpable thirst for change is [...]
By Elias Karmi, Engage Minnesota
It was just a few weeks ago that U.S. treasury secretary Henry Paulson declared raw capitalism’s death. And if I might add: Thank God someone realizes the futility of our current financial system. Two problems here: 1) it may be too late, and [...]
Wednesday, Oct. 8th, 6:30 p.m.: Cathy Sultan speaks about her new book Tragedy in South Lebanon at Amazon/True Colors Bookstore, 4755 Chicago Ave. South, Minneapolis
The war in Iraq has taken our attention away from other troubled areas of the Middle East. Cathy Sultan draws us back to Lebanon and Israel in Tragedy in South [...]
By Ramla Bile, Engage Minnesota
This month, Muslims across the world are observing Ramadan. In addition to its copious spiritual and personal benefits, the month provides an excellent opportunity to acknowledge the notion of freedom from hunger, and the extent to which the right to food [...]
Kashif Saroya, board member of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) was on Fox9 this early Saturday morning discussing Ramadan. To view the Fox9 program click here.
Later tonight is their 2nd Annual Ramadan Dinner. The program this year is titled, “American Muslims: Partners [...]
“…we never wanted wars of retaliation that would cause the deaths of innocent civilians in other nations.”
By September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Peaceful Tomorrows Statement on the 7th Anniversary of 9/11.
Letter via Email
The experience of yet another anniversary of 9/11 provides an occasion to reflect upon [...]
