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Parvez Ahmed is a former Fulbright Scholar and currently Professor of Finance at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. He is an active researcher whose articles have been published in leading national and international journals. In addition, he is a frequent commentator and speaker on Islam and the American Muslim experience.

"Do you love your Creator? Love your fellow-beings first." Prophet Muhammad

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King Jr.

"A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners." Prophet Muhammad

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" Mahatma Gandhi

"A believer is not one who eats his fill while his next door neighbor goes hungry." Prophet Muhammad