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2015-12-06T19:34:29-05:00

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Does the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Speak for Islam? A Response to Dr. Stephen Kirby’s Implication

Last updated on: December 6, 2015 at 7:34 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Zahid Mian Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is a noted bigot whose mission is only to spread hatred of Muslims. He makes no bones about his hatred for Islam or Muslims. His stated goal is to prove that the violence committed by the likes of ISIS is inspired by the “true” Islam. The problem for him, and others like him, is that when groups like the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC) show, by their example, the beauty of Islam, he has... Read more

2015-12-02T21:27:20-05:00

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The Origins of Terrorism are Geopolitical, Not Religious

Last updated on: December 2, 2015 at 9:27 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

by Sheheryar Ahmad Why didn’t we hear the term “Muslim terrorist” or “Jihadist” before the 1980s? Islam has been around for more than 1400 years but “Islamic” terrorist organizations were not to be found prior to 1980. The first Islamist terrorist attack was the bombing of the Tyre Headquarters in 1982. Was Islam different prior to the 1980s or was there some sort of fundamental change among Muslims during the 1980s? Even though the Quran permits defensive war, it was... Read more

2017-11-06T21:50:40-05:00

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Four Simple Ways to Stop ISIS

Last updated on: November 6, 2017 at 9:50 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Seidu Malik Over the past few years, ISIS has emerged from the shadows of a failed Arab Spring in Syria and sectarian violence in Iraq to become a dominant player in global terrorism. The brutalities, that took the form of beheadings of foreign journalists and aid workers and enslavement of women and children often concentrated in the Middle East, have recently escalated onto a global scale. The coordinated attacks in Paris that left about 130 people dead, and the... Read more

2015-11-19T15:06:09-05:00

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Response to Anti-Muslim Stereotypes

Last updated on: November 19, 2015 at 3:06 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Saima Sheikh I read Monday, November 16 letter, “Woman Watched the Males eat” in Dallas Morning News with first laughter and then anger which lead to sadness. I laughed because of Adele Ford’s over generalization of the situation that the poor wife has no right to speak up and ask for food. I became angry and sad because of the stereotype which resonated from her letter. Why does she assume that the woman has no rights? What if this... Read more

2015-11-19T14:43:32-05:00

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Syrian Refugees are not terrorists, ISIS is

Last updated on: November 19, 2015 at 2:43 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Haris Raja There are millions of Syrian refugees who are longing for a glimmer of hope to breathe freely, to live a respectable life and to be able to give their children a better future than the dismal situation they find themselves in. A single act of insanity like the French attack may jeopardize the chances of millions of legitimate refugees who are searching for a better life. Initial reports from the French attack, which have now been dismissed,... Read more

2015-11-17T15:44:32-05:00

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Standing United Against Evil – Don’t Let ISIS Divide Our Humanity

Last updated on: November 17, 2015 at 3:44 pm By Dilshad Ali

By Qasim Rashid As I left my mosque in Philadelphia Friday afternoon my phone lit up with texts and tweets about attacks in Paris. Muslims have been conditioned on how to respond to these attacks. First, we feel pain for the loss of life. And most certainly my heart sank as I saw the horrific aftermath of the Paris attacks. Then, almost as quickly we hope the attackers aren’t Muslim. We know that if the attackers are Muslim, we’ll soon... Read more

2015-11-14T11:58:35-05:00

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ISIS is UnIslamic – That’s a Fact, Not Just Hollow Words

Last updated on: November 14, 2015 at 11:58 am By Dilshad Ali

By Qasim Rashid Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of the terrorism attacks in Paris. ISIS terrorists are farthest from what Muslims believe. We are sickened by these attacks and by attacks against innocents around the world. Anti-Islam personalities can demonstrate glaring hypocrisy. On one hand they scream “where are the moderate Muslims and why aren’t they condemning ISIS terrorism?” When Muslims the world over condemn ISIS in word and deed, the first ones to object are... Read more

2015-11-05T19:04:29-05:00

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Five Promises to my Newborn Daughter

Last updated on: November 5, 2015 at 7:04 pm By Dilshad Ali

Editor’s note: Congratulations and Mubarak to Qasim and his wife, Ayesha, who just had a baby girl! Dear daughter, Next month I’ll become a father for the first time to a girl. You will be my daughter. Your mother and I are blessed with two boys already, and we are thrilled to finally have the blessing of a girl in our home. But, my dear, as I look around the world I see a frightening reality. One in which women... Read more

2015-10-20T16:44:59-05:00

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Is Islam Compatible with Our Modern Way of Life?

Last updated on: October 20, 2015 at 4:44 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Seidu Malik Experience has shown that many natural phenomenon or processes are initially discovered with limited understanding or benefit to society. However, with pain staking effort and unbiased approach to the phenomenon, many of the unknown qualities that were initially observed as bad turn out to be good upon further examination. A case in point is the annotation of human genome sequence. Many of the genes with seemly-unknown functions decades ago were classified as “junk” but recent studies have proved... Read more

2015-10-07T14:58:06-05:00

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The 5 Ways American Muslims Can Respond to Anti-Muslim Protests

Last updated on: October 7, 2015 at 2:58 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

This October, anti-Islam extremists are planning roughly twenty anti-Muslim protests in front of mosques in America. Some of those protests will be armed with loaded and deadly weapons. Those supporting these armed protests claim they do so in the name of “free speech” to maintain justice and the Constitution. I’ve seen this excuse before. As an Ahmadi Muslim, my family, friends, and community have experienced this hate for decades in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia. The people protesting our mosques, homes, and... Read more

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