#muslim americans

[learning-islam-together]

Many of today’s ummah manifest the Islamic faith through the prisms of hate and enmity. They commit atrocities in the name of Allah (ﷻ) and in the name of His beloved Messenger (ﷺ).

[mayartstudio365]

Happy Eid Mubarak everyone! After a long month of fasting I can finally eat! Thank you for being with me on this journey. I’ll be taking a short break but don’t worry, I still have so many ideas during my fasting month as well. Let’s keep creating together! Have a great day! 🎨👩‍🎨🖼⭐️🌙☪️🕌🕋📿🧕

[plethoraworldatlas]

Arab American and Muslim American anger over President Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war could be endangering his re-election in the majority of 2024 swing states.

Driving the news:

Michigan, Virginia, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania all have notable pockets of these populations. There aren't reliable statistics on how many are registered voters — but even tiny shifts of support in any of these super-tight states that Biden won in 2020 could make a difference.

Why it matters:

It's another case of Biden facing possible defections from heavily Democratic groups that in 2020 helped him take down former President Trump, Biden's likely opponent again next year.

Like with young voters, Biden faces the prospect of having to devote time to saving part of his base in addition to courting swing voters.

Zoom in:

An Axios review of 2020 results in these crucial states shows that if even a sliver of the Arab American and Muslim American vote were to stay home or defect to Republicans, Biden could be in a deep hole.

In Michigan, for example, Biden won in 2020 by 154,000 votes. Census estimates put the state's Arab American population around at least 278,000.

Biden won Arizona by 10,500 votes. The Arab American population in the Grand Canyon State is estimated to be 60,000.

Biden took Georgia by 11,800 votes. The Arab American population there is at least 57,000.

The intrigue:

The Arab American Institute believes those state population figures are low, noting that the U.S. Census doesn't have a category for Arab Americans on its forms.

The Census Bureau estimates there are about 2 million Arab Americans in the U.S.; the institute says the number is closer to 3.8 million.

The Muslim American population — which can include Arab Americans, Black Americans and Asian Americans — is about 3.45 million, according to the Pew Research Center. The Census doesn't collect data on religious affiliation in its demographic surveys or its once-a-decade counts.

Zoom out:

Since Israel responded to Hamas' deadly attack on Oct. 7 with bombings that have killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, Arab Americans have criticized Biden for his strong support of Israel. Many say he hasn't shown enough sensitivity to the deaths of innocent Palestinians.

Arab American leaders say Biden and other U.S. officials have long ignored the inhumane treatment of Palestinians who live under an Israeli-imposed blockade that limits travel, medical supplies and job opportunities.

For some, the recent attacks on Gaza have provoked traumatic family memories of 1948, when sectarian fighting forced 750,000 Palestinians to leave their homes in what later became Israel.

What they're saying:

"It has been numbing to us. I feel very depressed," Samia Assed, a Palestinian American peace activist in Albuquerque, tells Axios.

Assed said she worries some Arab Americans might not vote in 2024 and swing crucial congressional seats to Republicans — even if it helps Trump, who's very unpopular among Arab Americans because of his efforts to ban Muslims from migrating to the U.S.

[reasonsforhope]

“Mufti Mohammad Farhan juggles numerous responsibilities at the Islamic Center of Long Island in New York. On a Friday afternoon, he finishes leading prayers and departs for a funeral at the mosque. Since the pandemic, however, he has taken on a new role: identifying those in the Muslim community who need mental health support and referring them to clinical experts and therapists.

Across the United States, Muslim attitudes toward mental illness are changing, as is the role of the mosque. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Muslims have been more willing to engage in public conversations regarding mental health issues, including the taboo subject of suicide. Imams and religious leaders have responded to worsening mental health problems in a variety of ways, including by taking mental health training. Although limited, such training can be a first step toward imams becoming a crucial part of the solution to their community’s mental health needs.

“We are often the first responders to mental health crises, because there is a trust factor that was built over time, and because of the huge stigma within our community,” explains Mufti Farhan, a soft-spoken religious leader who grew up in New York...

Culturally Competent Care

Sarah Murad, a counselor at the Islamic Circle of North America’s humanitarian arm, has been providing culturally competent care to immigrant communities in Illinois, a state with the highest per-capita population of American Muslims in the U.S., many of whom are religious conservatives or recent immigrants. “By the time people come to seek our help, it is already too late because of the stigma [around mental health], so the first thing they ask for is a religious counselor,” Murad says. In such instances, she refers cases to Shaykh Omer Haqqani, who works at the Islamic Center of Wheaton and provides culturally relevant therapy and khutbahs, or sermons, about mental health across Illinois.

“Our faith tells us that it’s OK to be sad and express our emotions,” says Haqqani. He often cites the following story to those who seek his help: “When our prophet Muhammad (PBUH) lost his infant child—he was weeping, he was mourning, he was crying to the point where the companions came and asked him, ‘Even you, the prophet of God?’”...

For religious leaders, like Haqqani in Illinois and Farhan on Long Island, the shift toward seeking mental health care is happening at Islamic centers and mosques. Both men cite an expansion of the role Islamic centers play in the lives of community members. “For Muslims, one of the most important and effective venues to get information about mental health is at the mosque, and topics such as suicide and depression are now openly being addressed in khutbahs,” Haqqani shares...

Prevention, Not Reaction

[Dr. Rania] Awaad noticed how religious leaders tend to ask for intervention only after a crisis has occurred, and together with her team at Stanford University, she launched a campaign to train 500 Muslim leaders on suicide response.

Amara Kamara, a 53-year-old first-generation immigrant from Liberia, attended Awaad’s training in his capacity as a mental health advocate and administrator at Masjid Al-Ansar in Minnesota. He saw it as a “new experience” that allows him to “see how we can use community resources to have an open discussion about a difficult topic and tell the victims that it is OK to talk about it.”” -via Yes! Magazine, 12/28/22

[hummussexual]

Excerpt:

“President Biden won with historic numbers in 2020. And I was proud to represent that, but the last two weeks have really shifted things,” Ramadan said. “I’ve also been getting calls from people saying, ‘I have blood on my hands because I got people out to support him during that campaign.'”

[canichangemyblogname]

Illinois has the most Muslim Americans per capita in the U.S.

According to a report by the Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition, the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Muslims are the youngest and most diverse faith community in the state.

You can read about it here:

[hybrid-model]

Netflix’s diabolic agenda

I will be discussing about Hollywood industry here in general but focusing especially on its Behemoth which is Netflix, a convenient provider of film entertainment whenever you wish at the click of a button.

We all hear ramblings of older people how TV is ruining brains of youth and brainwashing them, etc. which I partially agree upon because it’s not like everybody has the same mindset on both sides of youngsters and oldies.

A little preface I’d like to start off with: It’s that the Dajjal, the Antichrist will portray good as evil and Evil as good plus more desirable. Anyone would like to be called as “Awesome bad boy” instead of “Pious star of neighbourhood” Let’s explore more how much rot has been injected by this mainstream culture.

Glorifying criminals:

The story of a love couple turned serial killers aka Bonnie and Clyde has long been a towering shadow in Hollywood, portrayed as having a “Wild adventure before an abrupt end of their young lives”. People idolize them, are fans of these inhumane killers and Hollywood enriches this vast interest of people in evil. In the most recent addition to Netflix’s huge dark library is the series of a serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer who murdered more than a dozen people, racking up millions of views and taking the spot of 2nd most watched series. What is going on here?? The victims’ family members are now haunted by this extremely inhumane move by this Corporation. Netflix is making entertainment business out of dead murdered people, and people enjoy watching this!

Promoting Paedophilia:

Let’s not forget the Cuties controversy which blatantly exposes underaged children to hypersexual themes, also including a Muslim girl in that group.

The "Superhero" agenda:

Now I am a fan of superhero movies and series, not because I actually idolize much of any portrayed heroes but just the actions and visuals. Now exploring Netflix’s library of Marvel superhero series has been extremely nauseous for me because much of them are full of absolutely explicit things that have nothing to do with a good story. Binge drinking, casual sex, LGBT and other filth.

This shows what the agenda of this whole megacorporation is: Immorality.

Bad is good, good is bad:

On the other hand; good, pious, and religious characters are portrayed in a negative light, though indirectly. In pop culture, pastors are sex offenders (which some rightfully actually are). But mainstream entertainment exploits this angle by which viewers never think of anything good seeing them in real life. In the horror movie universe of The Conjuring, a demon is portrayed in the form of a nun. Imagine the limit! Good characters are nerdy, cringe or boring most of the time because everyone is accustomed and become used to just that: Pure evil

Proud of being on the bad side, being “gangsta”. Calling themselves most mundane things like “It’s good to be bad” .. “Bad Boyz rule!!” Let’s see how that works out when these people need divine help, or the look on their faces before dying and knowing they will be judged.

[plitnick]

Biden is following Netanyahu off a cliff

Immediately following the October 7 attacks, Joe Biden made the decision to let Israel, and specifically Benjamin Netanyahu lead the policy on Gaza. The result has been a disaster for the people of Gaza, while also undermining U.S. and regional security and interests and leaving over 100 Israeli hostages in grave peril in Gaza. On top of it all, Biden’s decisions–both the active ones and the ones…

[learning-islam-together]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem' الرَّحِيْمِ الرَّحْمٰنِ اللهِ بِسْمِ ("In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful") Alhumdulillah the richest of gifts is Imaan.

May the Nur of Allah ﷺ Illuminate our Heart, Mind and Soul and Strengthen our Imaan and guide us to Quran and Sunnah and make our path easy in this World and Jannah.

We wish all Mu’min the barakah of the day shine in our hearts forever, ameen 🕋

[mygidon73]

Merry Christmas! Hanukkah Is Canceled

Anyone still clinging to the belief that there is a difference between hating Jews and wanting Israel to disappear now needs to explain away another inconvenient truth. Scheduled Hanukkah celebrations across the United States, Canada, and elsewhere have been scrapped. The reason cited over and over is that hosting such holiday events would imply support for Israel in its war against the…

[mayartstudio365]

You can’t keep us silent! I am also an American born citizen too. This painting is inspired by some Social Justice artworks. Only twelve more days of fasting left wish me luck and Happy Ramadan! 🎨👩‍🎨🖼⭐️🌙🕌🕋🧕

[voicesofwomenww]

The conflict in the Middle East has been a fraught subject for decades, including in the U.S., and especially within American Jewish and Muslim communities. And for almost as long, interfaith groups have sought to bring those communities together to find common ground. That doesn’t make witnessing and talking about the current war any easier. Ali Rogin reports.