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Islam In America
Islam is as American as a Rodeo
By
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.
Photo Friday: Morocco, Indiana
By
Suzy Shuraym
This Morocco isn’t a kingdom in the Mahgreb but a small town in rural northwest Indiana — specifically, it’s in Beaver Township of Newton County. It was founded in 1851. The population was 1,129 at the 2010 census, which shows the town comprising a total area of 1.13 square miles. According to local lore, it…
Prince Among Slaves
By
Suzy Shuraym
You do know the story of the Muslim African prince who was sold into slavery, right? No? Then read it here: Which African Prince Was Sold Into Slavery? It’s part of the history of Islam in America.
What Is an Islamist State?
By
Suzy Shuraym
“There is really no such thing as a specifically Islamic or “Pakistani” blueprint for running a modern state. None. Nada. Nothing. There is no there there. Yet school textbooks, official propaganda and everyday political speech in Pakistan endlessly refer to some imaginary “Islamic model” of administration and statecraft. Since no such model exists, we are…
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