February | 2012 | Muslim Journal Online

PRESIDENT OBAMA’s CHICAGO HOMECOMING EXTENDS HIM WELCOMED ARMS

By Samuel Ayyub Bilal CHICAGO, Ill. – President Barack Obama came home to Chicago recently and “fired up” several hundred ready to get started in the 2012 President Obama Re-Election campaign. These workers were a...

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Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer – Could President Obama Have Said: Arrest This Woman!

By Bernie Foster, The Skanner News Whatever happened to civility? Politics can be ugly. But what happened on the tarmac in Mesa on last Wed., Jan. 25, was simply a disgrace. Within minutes of President Obama exiting Air Force O...

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“Set-top” boxes in the U.S. consume 27 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, equivalent to the annual output of six coal-fired power plants. Part of the reason is that they typically operate at nearly full power even during the two-thirds of the time when they are not in use. (Photo courtesy of iStockPhoto/Thinkstock)

EarthTalk®: An “OFF Cable Box” Burning Energy and Acidic Oceans E – The Environmental Magazine

Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that cable and other pay TV boxes that sit atop television sets consume massive amounts of energy, in part because they are always on, even when the TV is off? – Sam Winston, Metarie, La. We ...

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Health From Abdel J. Nuriddin, N.D., Ph.D

POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE IS A KEY TO GREAT HEALTH

By Abdel J. Nuriddin, N.D., Ph.D. We all love to see the new life come into existence, with its seemly-unlimited energy. The flexibility of the new life makes those who are stiff, because of innocent poor choices in consumption...

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Ethiopia, The Motherland by Ron Foster Sharif

Ethiopia … African Origin of Humanity

By Ron Foster Sharif In a land as old as man himself, this journey began. Landing first in Addis Ababa, which in the Amharic language means “Beautiful Flower,” I embarked on a 12-day journey into the African past. What a fi...

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2/5/12- Sports Photographer Ron Foster Sharif prepares to cover Super Bowl XLVI

MUSLIM PHOTOGRAPHER RON FOSTER SHARIF CAPTURES SUPER BOWL

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Imams Group Picture from 1-22-2012 Meeting

Northeast Region Imams Meet in Newark

NEWARK, N.J. – It must have been a great feeling for the Imams driving to the meeting of the Northeast Section of Imams associated with Imam W. Deen Mohammed on Sun., Jan. 22, 2012. The feeling must have been great, because u...

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THE REAL QUESTION: “ARE WE WILLING TO UNITE TO BUILD AN ECONOMIC EMPIRE?”

By Sulaiman Z. Salaam Sr. After the Civil War, many African Americans settled in Oklahoma because of employment opportunities from the oil fields. Around 1908, the community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was established. A...

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National Muslim Business Council Draws All Eyes onto Los Angeles in April

By Imam Yahya Shabazz, Oakland, Calif., Western Regional Representative American Coalition for Good Government (ACGG) LOS ANGELES, Calif. – On April 27 – 29, of this year, the National Muslim Business Council (NMBC) present...

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South African Schools to Drop Zulu and Xhosa Languages, Stirring Debate

By Fungai Maboreke, Special to the NNPA for Global Information Network (GIN) – South African Model C primary schools have been quietly removing Zulu and Xhosa languages from their curriculum, leaving English and Afrikaans, po...

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