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“It challenges the idea that Muslims and Islam are foreign to the United States, and that they’re somehow newly arrived. Because the history of African American Muslims says instead they’ve always been a part of us.” Dr. Edward Curtis, a professor of religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Dr. Curtis recently gave a presentation on the contributions of black Muslims at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Read the story here: http://bit.ly/1QuhECW

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This is a presentation that was done by Haniah Ahmad at our previous MSA meeting. Thank you Haniah for the contribution! We all found it incredibly interesting and hope to learn more about the topic.

#science in the quran

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International Women’s Day posters, from the AOUON Archive at the Oakland Museum of California.

#umar ibn al-khattab

#kamala khan #marvel

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I don’t think we’ve talked about this enough

So last year Marvel comics released a new superhero named Ms Marvel (AKA Kamala Kahn)

She’s a young Muslim Pakistani-American girl from Jersey City who fights crime in a modified burkini, writes Avengers fan fiction when she’s not actually… you know, avenging herself, and grapples with her identity as a young second-generation brown kid.

This is Marvel, guys. A MASSIVE franchise! It’s not an indie webcomic or even something from an art-house type company! Which is great!

And where most cartoons have the single stereotyped brown laughingstock character, this one has a white one. Her name is Zoe and she’s so. white.

“Wow! Cultures are so interesting!” I literally think someone has said that to me before.

look! she’s even doing that THING that white feminists do!

there’s also some really great points about sexism, racial profiling, and being the child of immigrants.

Anyway I encourage you all to check it out!! Usually Marvel is kind of a shitty company (WHERE’S MY BLACK WIDOW MOVIE?) but this is SUCH a step in the right direction!

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Discover Your Identity - Nouman Ali Khan

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We demand answers for three young black Muslim men shot execution-style in Indiana. Muhannad Tairab, 17. Adam Mekki, 20. Mohamedtaha Omar, 23. Say their names. #OurThreeBoys

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3 young Sudanese men killed ‘execution-style’ in Indiana, but where is media coverage:

Police in the US state of Indiana say they are yet to identify a motive for the “execution-style” murders of three young Muslim-American men last week, in a case that has barely caused a ripple in mainstream media in the United States

The three men - 23-year-old Mohamedtaha Omar, 20-year-old Adam Mekki and 17-year-old Muhannad Tairab - were found dead in a house in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Wednesday,

The men, who police said hailed from Africa’s eastern Sahel region, had all been shot multiple times. Police said the murders were not believed to be gang-related.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com

“Eidi Mohamed, 20, a student, remembers all three of the Sudanese boys in middle school as “really into sports, specifically soccer.” “There are a few news channels here covering but it really isn’t getting attention like the Chapel Hill shooting” he went on to say. Asked whether or not the area has a history of overt racism towards Blacks or Muslims Mohamed recalled, “I’ve always heard about racist things going on in Fort Wayne, parts of Fort Wayne have a lot of African Americans and African Immigrants.” -http://muslimmatters.org/

Since the media won’t cover the story, we will. Sad to see that the few times the media covered this story, they tried to paint the victims as thugs, criminals, etc. This story is just as important as any other story repeatedly talked about in the news.

PLEASE REBLOG, SHARE THIS STORY ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA, ETC. LET THIS STORY BE HEARD. WE CAN’T BE QUIET!

HERE IS A LINK TO HELP:

https://www.launchgood.com/project/ourthreebrothers#

REBLOG AND SPREAD