MCA Youth

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 [...]

With many of the world’s Muslims engaged in agriculture, and climate change looming over our heads, the potential for food production to impact climate change is a very real issue that affects us all. Agriculture can play a significant role in accelerating or mitigating climate change, depending on how we grow our crops and raise [...]

It sounds like something straight out of the satirical blog “Stuff White People Like.” Organic food. Farmers’ markets. “Berry picking.” But growing food on quality farmland, in an ecologically sustainable manner, may be a vital ingredient for alleviating world hunger, particularly for small farmers in developing countries. The farmland need not be vast; in fact, [...]

In the same 1998 book by Frances Moore Lappé et. al. that I wrote about yesterday – World Hunger: Twelve Myths – the authors break down another myth that is commonly held about hunger: that having large farms (i.e., lots of land) will solve the hunger problem. We need only to look at Roman history [...]

Nine influential American Muslim scholars have come together in a YouTube video to repudiate the militants’ message. The nine represent a diversity of theological schools within Islam, and several of them have large followings among American Muslim youths. (NY Times) The video features Imam Suhaib Webb, Imam Zaid Shakir, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, Imam Mohamed Magid, [...]

I am sure by now you have heard about the French Burqa ban. To my surprise, it was one of the top stories on most of U.S. media. So what happened? French parliament approved a nationwide ban on full-face veils in public places on July 13th, 2010. After the French senate approves it in September, [...]

What happens when a dozen diverse university students — representing the Muslim world, Europe, and the U.S. — gather in weekly two-hour video web conversations, discussing hot topics ranging from human rights and media bias to Iran’s nuclear program? In this pioneering new series, Link TV’s “Real Conversations” sheds light on a unique program run [...]