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Islam In America
“How are you queer and Muslim at the same time?”
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Suzy Shuraym
As the 21st Century rolls along, American Muslims are dealing with ever more complicated questions regarding religious observance and personal behavior. Here’s what one Muslima has to say: “Yes, it’s possible to be queer and Muslim” “I don’t need to defend why I keep going back to my mosque, don’t need to name the spiritual…
Stealthy Muslim Immigration?
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Suzy Shuraym
According to Ann Corcoran’s new monograph titled “Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America” (published April 21, 2015, as part of the Center for Security Policy’s Civilization Jihad Reader Series, the “federal government is attempting stealthily to relocate Muslim immigrants into unsuspecting and often unsuitable rural communities”. Ms. Corcoran “documents that Muslim immigration as a…
Morocco’s Hassan II Mosque
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Suzy Shuraym
AFKTravel has a photo essay about the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. Said to be the seventh largest mosque in the world, it cost some $12 million and was completed in 1993. The photo shows the top of the 60-story minaret, where there’s a laser light shining the way toward Mecca. (Photo used with…
Islam is as American as a Rodeo
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Suzy Shuraym
As The New York Times noted on Sunday (8 February 2015): “there is an inconvenient footnote to the assertion that Islam is anti-American: Muslims arrived here before the founding of the United States — not just a few, but thousands.” Read more here.
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