MMCC is awarded FBI Director’s 2021 Community Leadership Award
MMCC Has Been Awarded FBI Director’s 2021 Community Leadership Award
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Increased Tensions Between Afghanistan and Pakistan
By Mahvish Akhtar Tensions have been increasing between Pakistan and Afghanistan as the borders between the two countries stayed closed for weeks. After a brief closure, the borders are open for trade and light pedestrian traffic. Pakistan has been afraid of the fighting to spill over into its side of the border. The process of […]
Op Ed: Women, the Taliban and the World
by Dr. Aslam Abdullah Some 50 million sex workers known as prostitutes exist in our world today. Eighty percent of them are female and range in age between 13-25. Ninety percent of all prostitutes are dependent on a male pimp. Additionally, an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders […]
Sharia-Based Afghanistan: What Sharia?
by Dr. Aslam Abdullah People, in general, view the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan as a bad omen for women and minorities. President Biden expressed that concern in his address to the nation, echoing the sentiments of women’s groups worldwide, including Afghani women. However, so far, the Taliban have not given any policy statement […]
Afghanistan: Contours of a catastrophe.
by Abdul El-Sayed This post was originally published on The Incision On Sunday, our wayward 20-year war effort in Afghanistan suffered its final death blow. The Taliban rode the U.S.-manufactured Humvees captured from Afghan security forces into Kabul as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani escaped by helicopter. Within hours, Taliban fighters had taken the presidential palace. […]
Taliban Takeover Afghanistan
By Mahvish Akhtar Taliban have taken over the capital city of Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country. Many nations have already evacuated their diplomats, citizens, and some local Afghani staff. Taliban claim the war is over in Afghanistan. Al Jazeera reported, “the airport has been the real crisis point of the roll-in of […]
Op Ed: The Taliban, The New Teachers of Afghanistan
by Aslam Abdullah Afghanistan is now the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan. Forty-one years of occupation by the Russians, the Americans, the Indians, the Pakistanis, the NATO allies, and the puppets these foreign groups installed finally crumbled to a highly organized grassroots-based force. Who provided them arms and ammunition? Who gave them the vehicles and training […]
Taliban Take more Cities in Afghanistan
By Mahvish Akhtar On Sunday, a Gunmen shot Toofan Omar, the station manager of Paktia Ghaq radio and an officer for NAI, a humans rights group supporting independent media in Afghanistan, in a targeted killing in the Afghanistan capital.“Unidentified gunmen killed Omari. We are being targeted for working independently,” said Mujeeb Khelwatgar, the head of […]
Issue 9 Volume23 August 2021 Print
Issue 9 Volume23 August 2021 Print
Eric Sabree, Wayne County Michigan Treasurer Elected to Second Full Term in Office
By Basheer Alim “The Best of you is he who is most Benefit to others” – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Detroit Mi. – Eric Sabree initially served as Wayne County Treasurer for 5 years. His first year, in 2015, was to complete the term of his retiring predecessor. He was elected for his first full term […]
Muslim doctor invited to speak at meeting about delta variant harassed by racist protesters
by Rehan Qamar Anti-maskers took their ignorance to a new level during a St. Louis County Council meeting last week. The session, attended by hundreds of maskless protesters, ended with the council reversing a day-old countywide mask mandate. In the following days, many attendees reported that they had contracted COVID-19. As Missouri health officials conduct contact tracing for […]
Op-Ed: An Injustice to the Brightest Light, Noor Mukadam
By Fiza Bari This story was first published in Brown Girl Magazine. It has been more than a week since the death of Noor Mukadam and I am still restless. I try to close my eyes to sleep, but my mind immediately flickers to Noor’s last two days on earth. Initially I fight the images of […]
‘Instead of naming and shaming, I believe in engagement’: Khizr Khan nominated to USCIRF
by Aysha Qamar On Friday, President Joe Biden announced his plans to nominate Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father famous for criticizing Donald Trump, for a post with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “Khizr Khan, founder of the Constitution Literacy and National Unity Project, is an advocate for religious freedom as a core element […]
India has a hard time to accept Kashmir as an international dispute: Dr. Fai
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary General, Washington-based ‘World Kashmir Awareness Forum’ said that the assertion of Indian Ambassador to the U.N., T.S. Tirumurti, “I think it’s important to recognize that the issues relating to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir are internal affairs of India” was factually and legally wrong statement. The fallacy advocated […]
Understanding the CDC’s new masking guidelines
What the recommendations tell us about COVID science and policy in the era of delta. by Abdul El-Sayed This post was originally published on The Incision The sound you hear? It’s the collective groan of 163 million vaccinated Americans now being told to put their masks back on. For many of us, this moment feels […]
‘Can I ask you why you hate me?’: Muslim woman faces harassment in a grocery store for wearing hijab
by Aysha Qamar Social media is at it again. In the last few years, viral videos on social media have exposed racism and other incidents of violence. In a recent incident, a Muslim woman used the social media platform TikTok to share an experience in which a white woman harassed her in the line of a Santa […]
Recent Situation in Afghanistan
By Mahvish Akhtar Tension has constantly been escalating in the Afghanistan situation. The recent kidnapping and torture of the daughter of the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan did not help matters. Silsila Alikhil was taken while she was on her way home in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Friday and held for several hours. The Afghan […]
White House cracks down on social media misinformation
by Zaid Aleem According to White House communications director Kate Bedingfield, the White House is considering whether social media platforms should be held legally liable for spreading false material under Section 230, a statute that protects corporations’ freedom to control the content, according to CNN. The argument over Section 230 has gained fresh urgency in […]
Space travel heats up
by Zaid Aleem On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, flew into space. It was a short flight aboard a spaceship created by Mr. Bezos’ rocket business, Blue Origin, that rose 60 miles into the sky above West Texas, according to The New York Times. Even though the mission did not reach orbit, it was […]
‘You people bring your children everywhere’: Flight attendant harasses Muslim woman
by Aysha Qamar Despite how progressive things may seem, “flying while Muslim” remains the same: often an unpleasant experience. In a recent incident, a Muslim woman who disposed of a dirty diaper in a garbage bin on a Mesa Airlines flight said an attendant not only called her after the flight but harassed her and said she had […]
