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Parents serve as role models, care-takers, and essentially our light in life. Without them we would not be here and we would not learn to walk, talk, and pray. Although sometimes we all get very angry at our parents for petty matters, we should always acknowledge their guidance and teachings. Our parents take care of [...]

Good Morning America just concluded a three part series titled “Faith and Fear – Islam in America.” Because of the recent protests against the proposed ground zero mosque and the controversy surrounding the Florida Pastor’s desire to burn the Quran, GMA decided to test the pulse of the nation by exploring Islam in America. Though [...]

As long as we’re still in the month of Ramadan, it is high time to address another lawful activity from which we are prohibited – drinking (water, that is). Or rather, the politics around water and the world’s shrinking freshwater supply. Many regions throughout the planet are experiencing drought – the southwestern United States, Australia, [...]

“Food sovereignty” is the notion that the people, rather than market forces, have the right to define their food and agricultural systems (by redistributing land to smallholder farmers, encouraging self-sufficient farming, and so on). It goes beyond “food security,” which is merely about ensuring that everyone has enough to eat. Food sovereignty looks at the [...]

MCA Youth Wishes You a very Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Peaceful Eid. May Allah accept all your wishes and bless you on the day of Eid. Ameen! Eid Mubarak Flickr Image credit: mhshoaib1234

There is a hadith about how as we near the Day of Judgment, there will be fifty women for every one man. It may be figurative (for example, eligible single women will outnumber eligible bachelors). Or, in the case of post-WWII Russia, it may be more literal – as in, there are literally more women [...]

If Ramadan is the supposed to be the month of fasting and sympathizing with the world’s hungry, then there is one country whose people take the cake (so to speak) for going through unimaginable starvation and suffering during the 1990s. The culture and spirit of North Korea, after the Korean War of the early 1950s, has [...]

For thirty years, Cuba was incorporated into the economy of the Soviet Union. Eastern Europe would export wheat and other foodstuffs to Cuba, as well as inputs for industrialized agriculture (such as tractors, pesticides, and fossil fuels); Cuba, in turn, would export sugarcane from her industrialized state-owned farms to Russia and East Germany. The collapse [...]