Author: Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
Drones buzz overhead, troops hunker underground in Ukraine’s hellish kill zone as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
Between the afternoon and evening prayers at the Al-Fajr Islamic Center, our community hall often fills with the soft hum of small battery chargers. Young men from the neighborhood
Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84 as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
When news reached our neighborhood of the death of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert at eighty-four, it did not spark noisy debate on the sidewalk outside our center. In a workin
Trump heads to Nebraska as supreme court hears first oral arguments of new term – US politics live as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
Between the morning Fajr prayer and the bustle of the delivery vans turning onto Grand Avenue, there is a quiet moment when the neighborhood reveals its vulnerabilities. In Cedar H
Mel B ‘heartbroken’ by Windrush scandal victims’ fight for justice as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
When news reaches our community center about the ongoing fight of the Windrush elders, it does not arrive as an abstract political debate from across the sea. In Cedar Heights, whe
Sainsbury’s and Morrisons ‘held talks this year’ on multibillion-pound merger as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
In our community kitchen at the Al-Fajr Islamic Center, our volunteers measure life in staples: fifty-pound bags of flour, cartons of eggs, and bulk crates of lentils. When neighbo
In both France and Spain, ruling parties must prove they can give young protesters hope as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
Every Friday after the congregational prayer at Al-Fajr, our basement hall fills with young people carrying the quiet exhaustion of an uphill climb. Many are working multiple shift
France braces for national day of school protests as boy loses hand as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
When news reached our study circle at Al-Fajr this morning that a fifteen-year-old student in northern France had lost his hand to crowd-control munitions outside his school gate,
Watch: How Spain’s housing crisis has resulted in an early general election as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
When news reached us of the Spanish parliament dissolving into an early general election because lawmakers could not agree on basic housing protections, the weariness felt all too
Bombs preventing rescue of kidnapped youths, Nigerian police say as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
When the evening adhan sounded across the avenues of Cedar Heights yesterday, the worshippers who filled our prayer hall came carrying the familiar burdens of shift work, overdue r
Nobel Prize awarded for revealing inner workings of the brain as reflected on by Imam Tariq Al-Mansoor
In our modest prayer hall at Al-Fajr, just above the noise of delivery trucks and the rattling commuter train on 4th Avenue, we often sit after the dawn prayer to recite the Quran.