Published in The American MuslimAlso on Huffington PostAlso on AltMuslim Let “God” be “God”! by Parvez Ahmed, Ph.D. and Lucinda Mosher, Th.D. Last November the Malaysian government refused to release 10,000 Bibles it had seized because they contained the word Allah to refer to God. The Herald, a publication of the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia, challenged...

Interview by IslamOnline.net. Dec 2, 2009 Unfolding Dubai’s Debt CrisisBy Amr Taha, Staff Writer-IslamOnline.net On November 25, 2009, the Dubai Government asked Dubai World, a government-backed conglomerate, to agree to delay its repayments until May 2010. With the number is so much unconfirmed, Dubai reportedly owes the world more than $60billion of external...

An abridged version appears in Islamic Horizons, Nov/Dec 2009 Issue. There is virtually no major organized opposition to legalized gambling, except from Focus on the Family and similar evangelical Christian groups. Given Islam’s prohibition of gambling, Muslims should work with other concerned organizations to educate people about the ills of gambling and advocate...

An abridged version appears in Islamic Horizons, Nov/Dec 2009 Issue. What lies behind the beaming lottery winners and oversized checks is misery, says Ellen Goodstein (Bankrate.com). Television commercials and media stories depict winning the lottery as an American dream. But having piles of cash does not necessarily bring happiness, as pointed out by Ellen...

Published in Huffington Post. November 13, 2009 The news that one of US Army’s very own has shot to death 13 fellow soldiers and wounded 30 others is just as shocking and puzzling as the many random shootings that preceded this. Do we know why the killers at Columbine gunned down their fellow classmates? Do we understand why a shooter at Virginia Tech...