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What We Should Be Teaching Our Children

BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR

Apr 30, 2006 at 11:26 am

When we talk about Islamic education and our children, the discussion usually revolves around strictly academic issues related to technical aspects of curriculum development, testing standards and methodologies, balancing between secular and religious education, and similar concerns. Sometimes we miss the greater objective of an Islamic education. That objective, in…

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Clash of the Uncivilised

BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR

Feb 07, 2006 at 9:21 am

As the crisis that has emerged in the aftermath of the publication of the infamous cartoons that claim to depict the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God upon him, escalates, we would do well by stepping back and attempting to analyze the situation as dispassionately as possible. By doing…

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Brother throws himself on Stephon Clark’s casket: ‘We’re gonna forgive the mayor.’

BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR

Dec 31, 1969 at 4:00 pm

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