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The Problem Plastics are everywhere. Now plastic is used as bags to car parts. According to Greenfeet.net, Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Although there are many recycling plants all over the U.S, much of the plastic goes to landfills, where it is to remain for hundreds to thousands of years. According to [...]

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 [...]

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

The best way to show appreciation to anyone is to give that person a thank you gift. This Ramadan things have been little different for Muslims. Anti-Islam rhetoric has taken the shape of election time politics and it is now normal to not allow Muslims to have freedom to worship. In the midst of all [...]

With Arizona having passed the draconian Senate Bill 1070, sections of which were blocked by US District Judge Susan Bolton last July, it is high time to seriously think about why so many migrants are coming to the US from Mexico and Central America in the first place, which is something most US policymakers don’t [...]

I was so worried about this Ramadan. It would entail 14-hour fasts in the end of summer and I had stopped waking up for suhur years ago so I wasn’t sure how my body was going to react. Every Ramadan means something different to me and given the circumstances, this year’s would mean extra patience [...]

SubhanAllah. As of this writing, a quarter of all the land in Pakistan, from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa down to Sindh, has been flooded due to heavy monsoons. The death toll, at about 1,500, isn’t as high as that of other natural disasters, like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami – but the floods have affected some [...]

What has a room full of youth, plentiful beneficial information and ends in “yo dawg my ack?” You guessed it! A youth forum with Sheikh Suhaib Webb. Friday the 13th of August was the first Ramadan Youth Forum of the month. There was also an unexpected twist. Instead of having the forum in the Game [...]