Category: American Muslim identity

• Why Thugs Can’t Raise a Nation; The Importance of Good Parenting

  Make it your mission to be a parent or a step parent, in the true sense. Relish in it, meet it head on, accept it, value it, immerse yourself in it, work it, embrace it, grab it by the horns, greet it with enthusiasm, cherish it, be about it, face it, love it, handle it,…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  November 14, 2012

  American Muslim identity, Parenting, thug life

  African American Muslims, Black American Muslims, black on black crime in america, converts, drug abuse, drug abuse amongst african americans, drug use amongst black americans, Islam in America, Muslim Americans, Muslim converts, parenting, Partents, Raising children, the drud problem in america, thug culture, thug life, thugs

• Can Muslims Create an American Identity? By Imam Luqman Ahmad

  American Muslims have come from many diverse paths that led them to where we are today. The notion that a singular, made for the media consumption, Muslim identity can be crafted by a few American Muslim intellectuals (mostly of foreign descent), is absurd, problematic, and misleading. We are who we are; with our differences, our…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  July 11, 2012

  American Muslim identity, American Muslims, muslim america, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples, Muslims

  American Muslim Identity, American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Black American Muslims, converts, Islam, Islam in America, Muslim Americans, Muslim converts, Muslim History

• Dismantling the Culture of Muslim Sectarianism, by Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  The Prophet, peace be upon him, saw the self-destructive pattern inherent in sectarian proclivities and the potential damage that it posed to the Muslim peoples. This is why he opposed it from the very beginning.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  February 11, 2010

  American Muslim identity, American Muslims, extremism, Islam in America, Muslim extremism, Sectarianism, Uncategorized

  Muslim Sectarianism, Muslims, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• Seven out of every ten converts, leave Islam, by Imam Luqman Ahmad

  Most Muslim converts in America these days are a one shot deal. They convert to Islam but it doesn’t really spread to the next generation. The average convert today is simply subject to too many fluctuations, and quirky influences in his or her faith and ideology in the name of Islam to keep up.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  January 13, 2010

  American Muslim identity, converts to Islam, Criticism of Islam, Faith, Imam Luqman Ahmad

  African American Muslims, convert issues, converts, converts to Islam, Islam, Islam in America, Muslim, Muslim converts, Political Islam