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[sideentrance]

Praying Taraweeh this Ramadan? Please share photos of your experiences of the women's spaces with Side Entrance. This serene place is the women's section of Tunis's historic, 1,200 year old Zaytuna Mosque 😍

[ghassanmk]

Marina at Zaytuna bay, Beirut, Lebanon by Frans Sellies Via Flickr: Buy this photo on Getty Images : soon! Submitted: 12/02/2022

[afrohijab]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToUkapAO3ck)

Dr. Fatimah Jackson: Searching for a Meaningful African American Muslim Discourse

this lecture is amazing mashaAllah

[libaasco]

"Clothing and character come as a package – I can’t have one without the other. If one uses foul language, but wears Prada what’s the point?" - Reema K Lateef

Her tile print maxi dress available at Target here for $20! 

See the rest of her issue here

[libaasco]

Happy Friday indeed! Our latest issue featuring Reema is here! She gives her advice on modesty, talks about being a student at @zaytunacollege, and more! See it here 

[emaanster]

12 Principles of Islamic Liberation Theology by Dr. Hatem Bazian

1) Commitment to universal and indivisible justice

Silence become complicity.

Do not truncate issues by labeling them as “here”and “there.”

Our lifestyle is sustained by the oppression of people “there.”

2) Equality of all human beings

We are living in a racist structure, both locally and globally.

Resources are divided by racial structure.

Locally:

Disparity among the African American community.

Every 28 hours an African AMerican is shot by a police officer.

The nature of the structure has normalized this.

What if it was a white man?

Globally:

Do brown and black people get mourned over? Public displays and moments of silence?

3) All life is sacred

When a human being has died, one of your relatives have died.

We have all come from Adam.

4) All humans are endowed with divine dignity

Structures of governance have stolen that from us and reduced us to cubicle inhabitance.

We are all commodities in this post-industrialized society.

5) Freedom

The primordial human state.

No human being is born in bondage.

6) Oppression must be removed

You are responsible to combat oppression within your own scope.

Removing harm has the precedent over benefitting you.

Remove self-oppression.

Ego, need to have a “name.”

We worship ourselves, our thoughts and opinions.

7) Deal with Economic fairness based on contentment of all involved parties

The 1% issue.

Their wealth increased over 9% in the last year while the quality of life for other is declining.

Challenge neoliberal ideas.

Islamic banking = simply giving interest/riba a new name.

Format of a contract:

Bismillah,

Adam Smith

Darwin

The End

Jesus, and Muhammad peace be upon them are not sidekicks to big business.

Corporations run everything.

Realize what others are facing around the world as a result of big business.

Lives are being lost.

You step on people just to upgrade to the cubicle next to the window, then the one next to the bathroom, and finally your own office with a secretary.

Debt encourages cowardliness.

Defines and restricts by it.

8) Militarism in not divine, nor prophetic.

Defending oneself vs. running the economy.

If you want peace, stop selling weapons.

Guns are used for access to oil, markets, and natural resources.

Profits: not the ones that come from the heavens, but the ones deposited in the bank.

9) Principal

Prison industrial complex:

Food service, medical contracts, facilities, security personnel.

NOT a rehab or correctional facility.

America is #1 in amount of population imprisoned, and California is the #1 state.

Public housing industrial complex:

Real estate companies guaranteed checks by government.

Entertainment/sport industrial complex

Torture at Guantanamo Bay

There are 24 approved techniques.

UC Berkeley Professor redefined torture as anything prior to organ failure.

Breaching Geneva Convention treaties.

Same man teaching constitutional law.

10) Oppose all forms of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, ultranationalism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism

Muslim make up 0.013% of population in Poland yet there citizens and politicians are running anti-Islamization campaigns.

NAFTA disrupted the peace in Latin America, maybe that’s why Latinos coming here.

11) Custodian of the environment/world

The longer the supply chain is the more impact you are creating on the environment.

Eat local, buy local.

Be conscious of what you eat.

12) Religious dialogue should be focused on the text with context

Enables effective change.

Closing remarks:

You were placed on this earth to do magnanimous things. Take it seriously. Do not be the passing dust.

"Social Justice Through the Lens of The Islamic Creed"

CPP 02/12/2015

artistic-engineer

[pamsfeir]

Beirut downtown