Guest Commentator
BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Kevin James is a former firefighter and supervising fire marshal with the New York City Fire Department who responded from home to ground zero on 9/11. He was one of several Muslim Americans profiled in the PBS Documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet. After retiring from the FDNY in 2002 he was accepted into the Revson Fellows at Columbia University and later graduated from Columbia Law School as a Stone Scholar. He interned with the Center for Constitutional Rights as an Ella Baker Fellow in 2005 where he assisted in fighting racial discrimination in the FDNY on behalf of the Vulcan Society as well as finding legal counsel for Guantanamo detainees. Contact Mr. James and BC. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
What makes Islam so attractive to individuals who equate honoring God and His Prophet with carnage? How do we enact a legacy for Prophet Muhammad that affirms life rather than celebrates death?
Note: PBUH is an honorific used for Prophet Muhammad as well as other prophets cited in the Quran that means peace be upon him, and that…
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Guest Commentary
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How long can we ignore the raw hatred of civilian populations living in constant fear of mini-9/11s from drone strikes that kill innocent civilians and poison their land with depleted uranium?
I searched for a vantage point with which to resolve my crisis in faith. This led me to revisit the Quran’s conflicted phenomenal and political nuances…
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On June 18 the U.S. Senate passed Resolution 26, which apologized “for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans” but precluded reparations. Rather than pass a disclaimer disguised as an apology for slavery, the U.S. Senate should instead end Congress’ disparate treatment of Native American Freedmen: Jim Crow and the ‘one-drop’ rule are still alive…
On June 18 the U.S. Senate passed Resolution 26, which apologized “for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans” but precluded reparations. Rather than pass a…
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