Tariq Nelson

Obviously, I don’t know what set this guy off, but I know that I have personally heard some very fiery rhetoric in some masjids that could make someone that is mentally unstable do something very stupid.
The ends do NOT justify the means (i.e., “yeah, but look at what THEY are doing!”). Islam is NOT Machiavellian. The ends [...]

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This article was in the (UK) Sunday Times Review earlier this year:
After studying 25,000 children across both state and private schools Philip Adey, a professor of education at King’s College London confidently declares: “The intelligence of 11-year-olds has fallen by three years’ worth in the past two decades.”
It’s an extraordinary claim. But it’s one [...]

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I found this story to be interesting because the average IQ of Thai children in this story (87-8 is about the same as the average of African Americans (85) and they are taking steps to solve the problem. If only someone here in the US would take up the mantle here to correct this [...]

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From Reuters:
A study published in the journal Child Development found that two-year-olds whose mothers smoked regularly while they were pregnant were significantly more likely to exhibit an abnormal pattern of behavior over time compared to age-matched toddlers who were not exposed to cigarette smoke before birth.
While many toddlers exhibit mild behavioral problems during the “terrible [...]

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A friend of mine sent me this article about the importance of teaching children self-control and how it learning it (or not learning it) affects them in even into adulthood.
AROUND 1970, psychologist Walter Mischel launched a classic experiment. He left a succession of 4-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If they [...]

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Some friends of mine have suggested that I write a post with some solutions to some of the issues that I am discussing here. I have given my suggestions throughout many of the previous writings, but I will collect them all here, Insha Allah. 
As I have mentioned many times though, the first and foremost thing [...]

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Hood Bradford has some thoughts on predatory lending from “Islamic Finance” companies. He also touches on the subject here.
Should a Muslim pay more for trying to be pious? Must an “Islamic” deal be a bad deal that does not stand up to good economics?
Mahmoud Elgamal has been on this mantra for months on his blog [...]

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So many Muslims seem to still be blind to the growing hostility and/or indifference to Muslims and Islam in the Black American community. 
The Islamic Center of South Florida received the go-ahead Tuesday to begin construction on a new mosque, despite a fight from some residents in the neighborhood where it would be built who are [...]

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