National Justice Awareness Campaign

claudette colvin awardWednesday, December 2, 2015, Bronx, New York, The New York Peace Coalition, through its Peace December movement, affirmed and recognized the Honorable Claudette Colvin yesterday at The Bronx Library Center. Hon. Colvin is the first…

Diverse by default

To all my Muslim brothers and sisters (and those pretending to Muslims) who are attacking others in pursuit of purifying Islam or preventing unislamic behaviors, I invite you to the book of wisdom, sound reasoning and merciful example of…

OPEN LETTER

ZaytunaSalaam alaykum.On behalf of everyone at Zaytuna College, I want to express our deepest sympathies to all the people of France, many of whom are Muslims, in the wake of these horrific criminal acts inflicted upon the people of Paris,…

‘We Refuse to Be Enemies’

‘We Refuse to Be Enemies’Dear Friends and Participants in the Season of Twinning.The horrendous terrorist attacks that massacred hundreds of innocent human beings in Paris and Beirut in the past 48 hours, came right in the middle of our Annual Season of…

NEW WORLD. NEW WAYS.

The indiscriminate savage attacks on innocents in Paris yesterday finally confirmed our changed world that requires us to implement the only new way forward, Peaceful Coexistence. Gone are the days of the effectiveness…

NYC Junior Ambassadors

Dear Friend, I am writing you with regard to NYC Junior Ambassadors—a  new initiative focused on empowering 7th graders in all five boroughs of New York City to become actively engaged with the United Nations and its mission of…