St. Louis Newspaper Article on Muslim Funeral Home

Much love to our dear Brother Adil Imdad for all he does for our community. Read more at this link .

Zuhdi Masri On Ending Food Deserts in North St. Louis 21st Ward

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-d5jmTaCQw&feature=relmfu

Umar Lee and Talal Abdullah on Muslims Working to End North St. Louis Food Desert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfkZnWLWX58&feature=relmfu

Ramadan Message to the Enemies of Islam

In 1992 when I took shahadah there were two mosques in St. Louis and only a couple of places to get halal meat ( one of them being a meat packing house). Today there are almost 20 mosques in the metro area and dozens of places to get halal meat. Sisters wearing hijab in certain areas of the city [...]

Meeting With the FBI at a St. Louis Masjid Over The Actions of Minnesota Somali Youths

Last night I attended a meeting of about 20 local Muslim leaders with two special agents from the local FBI field office at Masjid Bilal (the old Islamic Center on the campus of St. Louis University). I did not really want to attend the event but was encouraged to do so by a friend of [...]

Umar Lee Talk at MICDS High School Part 1 ( Turn Volume Up)

Part 2 and 3 to come later including the Q and A session which is the best part. The audio is poor so turn the volume up all the way. MICDS is an elite private school in suburban St. Louis.

Muslim Refugees in St. Louis Bring New Flavor

St. Louis is one of those last few American cities that is a black-white city. The city has a slight black-majority and the white population is something like 47%. Of the top 43 metropolitan areas in America St. Louis ranks 40th in terms of Hispanic population leaving St. Louis a racially polarized city along with [...]

St. Louis: Long on STD’s and Short on Halal Joints

Today I took my wife to the doctor’s office at St. Mary’s Hospital for an appointment. While I was waiting in the lobby a nurse went over all of the different issues she needed to keep in mind in order to protect her health during her pregnancy. My wife was given a sheet of paper [...]

South St. Louis County Locals Try to Block New Masjid and Some Lessons for Muslims

A group of Bosnian Muslims in St. Louis who spent a significant amount of money have recently been denied a rezoning permit for the mosque and school they seek to build in the south St. Louis suburb of Lemay.

Desi Nationalism, Hanafi Purists and the Ouster of an American-Muslim Pioneer

I want to tell you about a man that I have known since I was a teenager. His name is Sheikh Muhammad Nur Abdullah, or just Sheikh Nur as most people call him, and he is the former Imam or the Islamic Center in St. Louis and later the imam of the Dar al Islam [...]