The Hakim Family: A foundational stone in Milwaukee’s Muslim community
Photos courtesy of the Hakim/Clark family Four generations of women related to Sr. Hadrat Hakim and Br. Jalil Abdul Hakim, perhaps Milwaukee’s first Muslim couple, celebrate a Mother’s Day event. Adults (front row, center left in blue) Lathita Ahmad,...
Muslims in America: A forgotten history
For more than 300 years, Muslims have influenced the story of the US – from the ‘founding fathers’ to blues music today. In the summer of 1863, newspapers in North Carolina announced the death of “a venerable African”, referred to, in a paternalistic...
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Blazingcatfur.com Successful entrepreneur urges Muslim community to broaden career options Last week we introduced Kenan Saleh, the young entrepreneur from Fond du Lac who, at 21, sold his advertising company Halo, with an estimated value of up to $8...
The many ways Muslim prisoners are denied religious rights in prison
Getty Images Rick, an African American, and Muslim prisoner, was in a correctional facility in a Midwestern state when he tried to obtain a Quran for worship. His request to the officer in charge was denied. But when he was told the price for it, he was...
7 Muslim-positive TV shows to stream right now
(RNS) — This year’s Golden Globe nominations, in which for the first time three Muslim actors got nods, were a reminder that in the last few years, the television industry has allowed Muslims to go beyond “representing” on the small screen to actually...
One of Wisconsin’s oldest Muslim communities expects to open the doors on a new mosque this year
Akhtar Sultan understood as well as anyone what a new, larger mosque would mean to the Fox Valley’s growing Muslim community. It would be a place of prayer, but also of fellowship -- large enough to host the entire community on the holiest days of the...
Harvard Law Review elects its first Muslim president
Harvard Law School The Harvard Law Review has elected Hassaan Shahawy, a Los Angeles born and bred Egyptian American, as the first Muslim president in its 134-year history. Jennifer Heath, the program administrator and information systems manager at the...
“My Head Is Covered Not My Brain” Belgium Hijab Ban
Arab America With rising Islamophobia in Europe, it has become more challenging for Muslims to live life like any other people. This is especially the case for Muslim women. Again, we hear about a new hijab ban in a different European country....
Entrepreneur Kenan Saleh’s keys to success
When Kenan Saleh started middle school in Fond du Lac, he told his parents wanted to be a successful CEO by the age of 21. His parents, both physicians, recommended he keep studying biology just in case that didn’t work out. “Alhamdulillah, he did it,” his...
Pak-origin ‘Cardiac Magician’ Hina Chaudhary featured among top US cardiologists
WOW 360 NEW YORK: Renowned Pakistan origin cardiologist known as a “Cardiac Magician,” Dr. Hina Chaudhary, who researches cardiac regeneration in which dead heart cells after a heart can be regenerated, has been named amongst the top science fellows by the...
