Yousef Drummond

WE barely hear the word “aristocrat” on the television and print media these days; but does it exist among the American political establishment today?  Yes, believe it or not.   Classical history tells us that the word “aristocrat” ...

THE mere thought of rehabilitating terrorist sympathizers sends mortal chills along the spines of political conservatives, conservative talk-show hosts alike and moderate liberals.  They say that no clear-cut standard for distinguishing would-be terrorists from hard-core terrorists exists and, furthermore, why ...

HOW ironic it is that the very people to whom we choose to entrust with our cherished political liberties, because we thought they were exemplars of sound, unshakeable ethical conduct, now stand before us as naked immoralists (even though they’re ...

BARELY three weeks ago Al-Qaida’s second-in-command to Usama bin Laden issued an 11-minute, 23 second video describing president-elect Barack Obama as a “house negro”.  Anyone interested in watching and listening to Malcolm X’s interviews with the major networks of his ...

ALL American presidents endure crushing responsibilities; the most important among them is what foreign policy direction or “world-view” she or he intends to carry out and how to implement it “concretely” on the ground to achieve particular results that will ...

THE morning after Barack Obama’s dramatic transformation from United States Senator from Illinois to the 44th   President of the United State, I drove a short distance to a neighborhood cards-and-gifts store to buy a copy of the New York ...

BY the time each of us reads this article we will have known whether John Sidney McCain or Barack Hussein Obama will be inaugurated on January 20th, 2009 as the 44th president of the United States of America.  Given the ...

MILLIONS of voters across this country, from newly registered young voters to seasoned voters, will converge at designated polling places on November 4th throughout this nation to decide who is fit to be the next president of the United States ...

I REMEMBER a brief conversation between a graduate philosophy student and a philosophy professor on the subject of talk radio. As soon as the professor heard the question he swiftly replied that he doesn’t listen to it. I ...

THE world’s greatest thinkers since Aristotle and the Scholastics treated economics, like other intellectual disciplines such as physics or chemistry, as a discipline with a moral or ethical component. One theologian tells us that economics deals with “social provisioning with ...

I TOOK a trip to the barbershop one Sunday of last month for a hair-cut. Black barbers and patrons, all of whom identified with the hip-hop generation, were swallowed up in ideal talk about Barack Obama, the first black ...

I HAVE tried to call attention, via the last three articles, to the subject of education. The first article tries to show that Muslim philosophers of the 10th century, with the help of the Qur’an, synthesized a clear relationship ...

ASK any young mother about her maternal experiences while bathing their young in a tub and they will tell you it is somewhat less gratifying than suckling their newborn by the breast. Ask them about the bath-water and they ...

LAST Friday I attended Jum’uah prayer at a relatively small masjid in Elmont, New York. It has since become a habit of mine, since becoming a practicing Muslim, to visit as many masjids as possible. I learned of ...

THERE is no doubt that millions of our fellow human beings representing a cross-section of humanity ride the New York City subway trains every day – some estimates tell us 10 million daily. There are, first and fore-most, native ...

CONTRARY to the Roman Christian interpretation of the Divinity, the Qur’anic revelation categorically denied any association with the Divine. To Muslim philosophers it was not only a Divinely-Inspired Revelation for all mankind, but one that uncovered a marvelous precision ...

AN odious level of secular inquisition is underway in France. When Faiza Silmi, a 32-year-old Moroccan woman recently applied for French citizenship in 2004, a trial court denied her petition a year later, declaring ...

FROM time to time a few political elites abandon their comfort zones to find clarity on whatever issue captures their attention. Others of their ilk find out more about their country’s failed policies than they can handle. One ...

THE Rev. Jesse Jackson wants to cut Barak Obama’s “nuts” off. Mr. Jackson made thus crude comment to another host, himself black, a few days ago on the FOX News Channel while it switched to a ...

SOON after George W. Bush relinquishes the presidency and retreats to his Texas ranch to organize potential speaking engagements, in approximately eight months from now, a bevy of U.S. presidential historians will assess his legacy. My guess is that ...