Category Archive: Zaid Shakir

Dec
31

Clash of the Uncivilized: Insights on the Cartoon Controversy

by Zaid Shakir 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 so, as …

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Dec
31

Islam: Religion or Ideology?

by Zaid Shakir Introduction “Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet they murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their streets, in all corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost all of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience. …

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Dec
31

Imam Warith Deen Muhammad: A Muslim for Our Times

Imam Warith Deen Muhammad: A Muslim for Our Times By Imam Zaid Shakir Imam Warith Deen Muhammad, who passed away September 9th, in Chicago, Illinois, was not the best known American Muslim of his generation. Unlike his friend Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz), he did not become a symbol of black rage with excerpts of …

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