Tag: Iron Fist

  • Mass Incarceration: A Moral Question For American Muslims

    This episode’s special guest is brother Ernst “Abdul Wakil” Fenelon Jr., PEP Coordinator at Prison Education Project (PEP). Religious Freedom Restoration Act. REFLECTIONS with Usama Canon | “Prison Outreach” from Ta’leef Collective on Vimeo. Abdul Wakil’s contact info. Continue reading

  • The Sherman Jackson Reader: Literalism Part 5

    We continue with The Sherman Jackson Reader, a class taught on Saturdays by Imam Marc Manley at Middle Ground after Fajr prayer. “I think that there’s this fine line between accepting that there are standards, but standards don’t come at the price of erasing human experience” — Imam Marc Manley Link to the article here. Continue reading

  • The Importance of Establishing Your Own Faith

    Skepticism: not sure that you can even know anything. Cynicism: not really matters. Nihilism: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless. Many of us have substituted personal faith, personal convictions, personal principles for abstracts: justice, equality, etc. But what happens if you are unable to attain… Continue reading