Lady Gaga is in the limelight 24/7 even when she is not on stage. We found her sitting on the sidelines while attending a Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj Femme Fatale concert. [Rap-Up] Beyonce has made plans to come back to New York City. The concert series will go on for four “intimate” nights at […]
Conceptual sketches of the Islamic center planned two blocks from ground zero envision a futuristic-looking building wrapped in a honeycomb of abstract shapes, with a core containing far more space for secular pursuits than religious worship. The renderings, some of which were posted on the project’s website this week, are preliminary, but they project the […]
Rev. Terry Jones is the newest character to come out of this wave of Mosque and Muslim bashing. In the days leading up to the 9th anniversary of September 11, Rev. Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center has taking it upon himself to burn copies of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, in […]
Yesterday, I had the chance to sit with the developers of Park 51, the new Muslim commununity center that will be built in lower Manhattan. Sharif El-Gamal and his partner, Nour Mousa sat in my office for over an hour and told me their vision for the center, which they have been working on for […]
President Obama asserted and stamped his views on the building of a Muslim Community Center near ground zero. As the President said he has ‘No regrets’ over the comments he made about the right of Muslims to build an Islamic center near the former site of the World Trade Center in New York. The president inserted himself into […]
President Obama asserted and stamped his views on the building of a Muslim Community Center near ground zero. As the President said he has ‘No regrets’ over the comments he made about the right of Muslims to build an Islamic center near the former site of the World Trade Center in New York. The president inserted himself into […]
VIA HUFFPOST Jon Stewart returned from a long weekend last night to tackle the recent controversy over the building of a mosque at the World Trade Center site. Critics of the Islamic cultural center claim it would be built on hallowed ground, but it would actually be built several blocks away from Ground Zero on […]
Sacrifice is an element in sports that many athletes accept in order to better the team and better themselves. In the case of Minnesota Vikings safety, Husain Abdullah, his sacrifice is for his faith. Husain Abdullah has been a practicing Muslim since he was 7 years old and now that the holy month of Ramadan […]
VIA FOX CHICAGO The brutal death of honors student Derion Albert shocked the world and embarrassed this city . Albert died in the vicious high school brawl caught on tape. But what happened to the survivors of the infamous street fight? For at least one young man, the fight was a turning point in the […]
<p>In this blog I will compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the religion I grew up learning about and my present religious beliefs with traditional and current beliefs and practices of the Hindu and The Nation of Islam religions. A little bit about Hindu and The Nation of Islam; Hinduism is a intellectual […]
When we think of Minister Louis Farrakhan, we often think about the man who helped guide Muhammad Ali or the man who came up together in the Nation of Islam with Malcolm X. Do we ever think he’s the man who helped hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of black people to love themselves? Well, […]
On Friday, on Global Grind, I read an article about the President of Iran’s denial of the Holocaust. This isn’t the first time that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denied the Holocaust and I am sure it won’t be the last. However, more disheartening to me were the comments that some of the Global Grind readers left, […]
