Tag: christianity
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Iran, Israel, the Second Coming of Jesus (AS), and Judeo‑Christian Zionism
By Imam Luqman Ahmad The phrase “Judeo‑Christian” entered English usage in the nineteenth century and became a distinct political and cultural idiom in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. Early adopters—liberal Protestant and Catholic intellectuals—sought to emphasize common moral and historical ground between Judaism and Christianity as a bulwark against rising fascism and domestic antisemitism. During…
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Trump, Megalomania, and His Emerging Presidential God Complex
Recent events have certainly pushed the intersection of his presidency and religious rhetoric into uncharted territory. While “challenging God” is a significant theological claim, his recent actions toward religious figures and his use of self-divinizing imagery have and should spark a serious global debate about where Trumps gloated confidence ends and something more extreme begins. Here is the current context…
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The Last Salafi Holdouts: How a Fading Movement Desperately Tries to Keep Its Grip on Black American Salafis, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد For more than three decades, Saudi religious institutions played a central role in shaping the Salafi movement in the United States. Their books, tapes, translations, and fatwas flowed into Black American communities at a time when many new Muslims were searching…
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The Three Faces of Modern Salafism and Their Impact on Black American Muslim Life, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد Modern Salafism did not enter Black American Muslim life as a single, unified ideology. It arrived as a current, as a wave if you will. A global religious stream shaped by oil wealth, geopolitics, missionary institutions, and the intellectual anxieties of the modern Muslim…
Imam Luqman Ahmad Mosque Without Borders 