By YOUSEF DRUMMOND I TOOK the opportunity this past Memorial Day to make a trip to Time Square in Manhattan for a leisurely stroll and perhaps spot any building landmarks that I may have overlooked in the past. During that time my mind regressed to a time when I was eight years old, staring upright [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND WHILE most whites seem not to be conscious of their skin-color as a privilege that has continued to sustain a veneer of scientific discourse relating to racial equality and thereby ensuring political legitimacy of majority rule in the United States, for blacks, their situation is exactly the reverse; that is, the moral [...]
EL-HAJJ MAURI’ SAALAKHAN "If you feel no shame, than do as you wish." - Prophet Mohammed (s) SPEAKING for myself, I have lost a whole lot of respect for CAIR-National over the past few years; the following [CAIR released] reports graphically illustrate why. Once again CAIR has shamelessly signed on to the nefarious agenda spearheaded by [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND THERE is widespread opinion these days, among non-Muslims in particular, that Islam may not be a legitimate faith alongside Judaism and Christianity. If so, should Islam, a universal faith sanctioned by Allah (SWT) through His final prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) undergo a reformation to accommodate current political and social realities? Muslims are convinced, [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND AMERICA’s mainstream media is once again focusing our attention on the democratic presidential primaries and, in characteristic fashion, is painting a thirst-for-power relationship between Hillary Rodham-Clinton and Barak Obama, with the result that ordinary Americans will fail to gauge clearly the candidates’ political records. Particularly, the mainstream media, for the past two [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND IT would not be unfair to say that the Muslim Ummah today is undergoing a social transition throughout Europe – one that seeks to participate effectively as citizen and as Muslims. As citizens within European nation-states, Muslims co-exist peacefully within a pluralistic society whose secular values - those not Divinely inspired by [...]
