Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 17 March 2009 Jacksonville, Florida – The noted Indian poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore said, “Music fills the infinite between two souls”. I experienced this while attending a recital by Choir Al Farah, a musical group that aims to highlight the reality and the possibility of Christians,...

Orginal Published in Islamic Horizons, Mar-Apr, 2009. The State of U.S. Economy On the verge of taking over the Presidency of the United States of America, Barack Obama described the U.S. economy as “very sick” with the situation “getting worse.” This worry is best reflected in the fact that U.S. unemployment rate now stands at 7.2 percent,...

Orginal Published in IslamOnline, March 4, 2009 On Tuesday Feb 17, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law $787 billion stimulus package, a measure he described as, “the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history.” Almost 38 percent of spending bill contains various tax-cuts to individuals and businesses with the remaining 62 percent...

http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/2945/ Recently I had a conversation with two officials from the US government. Among the many subjects of our conversation, one was about the circumstances that lead to my resignation from the helm of a major American Muslim organization. Despite my discomfort in having a conversation about things I had long forgotten about and moved...

Source: Common Ground News Service, 27 January 2009, www.commongroundnews.orgCopyright permission is granted for publication. Published in the Florida Times Union. Wed, Feb 4, 2009 In his first interview with Dubai-based Arabic TV network Al Arabiya, President Barack Obama connected with Muslim audiences, saying, “I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in...

This article appeared in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of Islamic Horizons, Page 26. In December 1996, then Chairman of Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan said, “But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions…?” Immediately after he said this, the stock market in Tokyo...