Carnival of BrassFound this story from last year about a young woman in Kenya who DNA tests have shown to be of Chinese descent. She claims to be a descendant of Chinese sailors who came to Kenya. Something that is likely. The article states:
Nearly 600 years ago, 20 Chinese sailors swam ashore an island off Kenya’s east coast, having [...]
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The New York Times had an article on popular Egyptian speaker Amr Khaled.
The author of this article is continuously amazed at certain things because her basic premise for this article is a dichotomy that if you are Muslim, then you must fall into one of the following two groups:
a) A stoic wide-eyed fundamentalist who thinks Islam requires [...]
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Sister Umm Zaid, wrote a nice piece that is a little old, but good nonetheless, on “White Privilege” amongst the Muslims in America. Click Here to read it
One of the most disappointing things that I remember experiencing after becoming Muslim was the realization that there is severe racism amongst the Muslims.
It was particularly disappointing to [...]
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Many of us have heard it. “The brain is an organ. You have to feed it the right nutrients” African-Americans have a notoriously bad diet, which has led to many health problems including obesity, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes.One report said:
“28 percent of African Americans were reported to have a poor-quality diet, compared to 16 [...]
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There was an interesting article in the Economist that explores the question of race in medicine and slightly dips into the question of whether or not race is a biological reality or a social construct. People have been going back and forth on this ever since the advent of the new DNA tests. Before commenting [...]
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I was having a conversation with an my mother and I asked her how many intelligent, college educated African American women that I grew up with, and we both knew, were married and had children.
We both know several women like that, but only three that we could think of were married, with one child [...]
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A good friend of mine called me today and told me that “Abu Saif” Abdullah Sideeq passed away today. This brother was a long time da’ee in the Washington, DC area. Please make du’aa for him. He used to drive all the way to New Jersey every Monday for Islamic classes from DC.
I ask Allah to [...]
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Al-Jazeera has bought the right to show a British children’s show that basically promotes inter-tribal relationships. (Tribes are nothing more than extended families)
The pre-school series, which will be shown on the al-Jazeera’s children’s channel, is described by S4C as “a live action series following the exploits of an extended family of musical, multi-racial sheep”.
It follows [...]
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When’s the last time you have visited a masjid mostly attended by African American doctors and engineers?
According to a survey by CAIR, African Americans make up about 14% of the North American Muslim population. Accepting these numbers as true (I have no reason to disbelieve them) do African Americans represent a 14% proportion of the [...]
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As if more proof was needed, another article was posted at MSNBC about the worsening plight of African American men in America.
Making matters worse, a forthcoming book, which includes a study of nearly 1,500 private employers in New York City, found that black job applicants with no criminal records weren’t any more likely to get a [...]
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