Tariq Nelson

From the Guardian Unlimited:
The 19th century was the age of capitalism, the 20th the age of socialism. It seems that the 21st will be the age of charity
Other stories:
Jackie Chan to leave half his wealth to charity
Warren Buffett donated $37 billion to charity
Giving away wealth
Seattle at forefront of giving
Amir wrote the following:
Charity is just one [...]

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Many of you know that American Muslims (particularly those in certain dour movements) are some of the most isolated individuals one can ever meet. You will meet brothers that do not even know that the Super Bowl or NBA Finals is being played, much less which two teams are participating. They will declare ignorance of things like this [...]

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The brothers at Austrolabe have an essay that would draw more Muslim brains to the Muslim lands. Of couse that would require such things as fairness and equal opportunity…
Likewise, there seems to be many Muslims who aspire to migrate to a Muslim country but cannot because few of these countries offer the opportunity for citizenship, [...]

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Umar, Rashad, Hood, Umm Zaid and I have all recently written about the ”Muslim foods” issue and the way that many converts believe that they must adopt Arab foods in order to be a good Muslim.
However, according to this story, it seems that some extremists in Iraq have taken thinking a bit further.
In a bizarre example of Iraq’s creeping [...]

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From the Guardian:
A secret high-level Metropolitan police report has concluded that Muslim officers are more likely to become corrupt than white officers because of their cultural and family backgrounds
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The main conclusions of the study, commissioned by the Directorate of Professional Standards and written by an Asian detective chief inspector, stated: “Asian officers and in particular [...]

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Let’s talk about reality for a moment since the point of the last post seemed to have gotten lost in the discussion in the comments
Anyone that has written a will knows that it is a very sobering thing to do. You are writing something that you will not even be able to hear read and executed. [...]

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When the black consciousness movement (i.e, when everyone was wearing ‘X’ hats, t-shirts, and reading fairy tale Afro-centric books, etc) had regained some cultural strength in the early 90s, there was this thought amongst Afrocentrists that there is this huge, one minded monolith out to get black people known as “white America”.
All whites collectively [...]

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The Brothers down under at Austrolabe have some thoughts on the consanguineous marriage issue and the health concerns that are coming up amongst the Muslims in Australia. I previously wrote about it here.
They comment:
Indeed, we know that such marriages are permissable under the shariah because the Prophet (saw) himself married his cousin, Zainab bint Jahsh. We [...]

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Brother Umar has a post that I found to be funny (in a not so funny kind of way). The thought amongst many converts think that their cultural foods (even when bought in an Islamic ‘Halal’ meat store) should be abandoned. I can remember being berated by an African-American Muslim for my liking of sandwiches. [...]

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In the previous post, Brother Abu Abdir Rahman, made some good points on the above topic that I began responding to, but my comments were so long that I decided to put up here instead. Brother Abu Abdir Rahman’s original comments are here.
I also thought that “The R” made some excellent comments as well. (And [...]

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