Tariq Nelson

Found this story from last year

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The New York Times had an article on popular Egyptian speaker Amr Khaled.

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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.

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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

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Al-Jazeera has bought the right to show a British children

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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 [...]

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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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Should Muslim Student groups such as the Muslim Students’ Association actively recruit non-Muslims to join? Other ethnic and religious groups at Harvard are recruiting non-members of their particular group and finding that this is working out well. Would this be good for da

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DC MIST (Muslim Inter-scholastic Tournament) had their annual tournament for high school aged youth last weekend here in the DC area. Masha Allah this is a wonderful well rounded program that I encourage everyone to support, Insha Allah. The DC MIST team will be traveling to Houston this summer for the MIST National tournament.

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