Students of Cordoba House's Muslim Leadership Training Program—including prominent imams and graduate students from leading American universities—took part in an intensive media training seminar, which covered how to most effectively communicate an organizational message across various channels, such as social media, traditional media, and during interviews on television and radio. The goal of this training was to prepare these up-an-coming leaders to become effective spokespeople on ...
Cordoba House Sunday School Potluck Iftar
On Sunday, June 11, Cordoba House hosted a potluck Iftar for its Sunday School community of students and parents. The event featured presentations on Ramadan around the world, a melodious salawat with parents and children, a beautiful group dhiker, and delicious food provided by community families. We extend our warmest thanks to the volunteers that helped me the event a great success! Learn more about our education program for children here. ...
Op-Ed by Imam Feisal: The American Fear of Sharia Law
In this op-ed in the New York Daily News, Imam Feisal argues that the fear of Sharia law in the United States is baseless, both because the First Amendment protects against the establishment of religious laws and because, like Christians, Jews, and other faiths groups, Muslims already are able to engage with religious laws in limited aways, for instance through marriage ceremonies that are both religious and civil. Imam Feisal points to Israel as an example of a nation whose civil laws integrate ...
Imam Feisal: Reflecting on Alienation during Ramadan
We enter Ramadan reflecting on the tragic loss of life in Manchester. We pray for the souls of the victims, for the recovery of survivors, and for strength of heart for all the families affected. There is small comfort in efforts to understand the terrorist mind, but perhaps some hope for the future lies there. The evils we understand we can perhaps avert. In a recent op-ed piece for the New York Times, columnist David Brooks used an illuminating word: alienation. Under the title for his ...
A Ramadan Prayer from Cordoba House
