Please help if you can. If you are not a convert, then please pass on to those you think may be interested:
My name is Sa’ad
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A group of parents here in Northern Virginia working to keep their children interested in academics and achievement. How about this in the Islamic Centers?
Twelve-year-old Alex Carter is an A student who loves science and reads a book a week. So it surprised his father when he announced last year that he didn’t want to [...]
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This week is National Engineers Week. Part of the purpose of it is to introduce children to Engineering and careers in the field.
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- Only One Side of the Story. One of the things needed in the Muslim world is CULTURAL reform to stop such practices as Female Genital Mutilation, “Honor” Killings, and the conditions that lead to terrorism. Too many people associate what is quite frankly - and I know some will be offended - BAD CULTURE. [...]
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After looking at some of the comments here, I felt compelled to post a few signs of a cult that I have found in various places. Keep in mind that a cult does not have to be the type that lives in a compound. It is a state of mind. I took a few of [...]
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In the story below, they don’t think that many Muslims in India prefer to be ignorant, but it is because they cannot afford it. In other words, if they could afford it, they would do it.
However, in far too many cases here, I have found that
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A documentary on people with amazing memory abilities. The main person featured speaks nine languages and can do the
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A long article on praising children. Does praising children for being smart create underachievement?
For a few decades, it
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A good idea from Dr Mahmoud El-Gamel:
The second aspect of good investment is that we need to diversify our portfolio of moral investments. For example, if we ignore our children, what good are all the mosques we are building: little more than hollow buildings that are idle 99% of the time today, and likely to [...]
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Another article on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and the striking similarities.
IN my observations, among the serious misunderstandings involving religion is the use of the term “Malay” as synonymous with Islam and “Chinese” with infidel. There are Malays who describe a new Muslim convert as masuk Melayu (becoming Malay) or sometimes say that he is [...]
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…amongst Muslims. Complete Stranger Marriage hasn’t been all it’s cracked up to be. Even after being “knowing” someone for two years they still find that they have married a complete stranger often because they have had a bunch of pretentious conversations that fit the mold.
When Ambreen and Amr married in 2003, they were young and [...]
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Another story about Latinos and Islam. I noted this trend here and here
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I always find things like this to be fascinating:
They enjoy a good philosophical debate, parse sentences for fun and conquered quadratic equations when most children were reading Ladybird books.
But Britain’s brightest, most intimidating youngsters are also as mischievous as the Nintendo-obsessed friends they have left behind.
Child Genius, a Channel 4 documentary about gifted children, revealed [...]
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This press release from the ADA reads:
A new report released today in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association reveals that African Americans in all age groups have lower average intakes of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus and consume fewer servings of dairy foods than non African Americans. African Americans in all age groups do not [...]
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