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 .

Missouri Payday Loans Can Charge 980% Interest

In November Missouri voters are going to have the chance to put these crooks who exploit the poor in check. Here is an outline of the fight. For Muslims here is some short info on interest-riba

A Story of the Stages to Being Homeless

I always say that cab drivers are like high school students in that drivers form cliques and some groups don’t like other groups. Personally, I don’t really fit into any of the main groups (immigrants, angry white men who listen to Michael Savage and flirt with right-wing extremism, surly bald-headed black guys, old-timers, etc); but [...]

Mayhem in St. Louis

I guess it all started last Saturday night and then went crazy last night. I was driving South on Nebraska on the South Side when I had to pull over because there was a hot pursuit police chase. An hour or so later as I was winding it down and ready to go home I [...]

A Muslim Looking at Anheuser Busch and Its Impact on St. Louis

Tomorrow I am driving from the East Coast to St. Louis and as I have been following the news in St. Louis there are two huge stories. One story is the Midwestern flooding and people in St. Louis are worried about a reoccurrence of the Great Flood of 1993 which took so much in terms [...]

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 [...]