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Calling all Muslim boys in the first through fifth grades..... Cub Scouting is coming to the Muslim community! Do you enjoy being a part of a team, working for acknowledgment badges, and being outdoors? Muslim Cub Scouts provides all the exciting experiences of scouting in a spiritual
Happy to announce that three special guest bloggers will be posting their thoughts on LVMuslim.com regularly.
Dr. Aslam Abdullah, Director of Islamic Society of Nevada will be posting on Monday's.
Fateen Seifullah, Imam of Masjid as-Sabur will be posting on Tuesday's.
Mustafa Yunus Richards, Imam of Masjid Ibrahim will be posting on Wednesday's.
Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, NV, USA
Welcome to LVMuslim.com
LVMuslim.com is a Las Vegas Muslim community blog. Events and issues pertaining to the local community will be discussed on a daily basis. Special guest posts will share their ideas and thoughts routinely. No discussions regarding foreign or domestic policy and events will be discussed unless they are directly affecting the local community.
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Usman
LVMuslim.com
By: Dr. Aslam Abdullah
The ever worsening financial crisis has hit hard the Last Vegas
community, Muslims included. In December alone there were 14,000 home
foreclosures. A few more thousand jobs were lost, a few more hundred
families came out on the street and a few more families struggled
harder to put food on their table. Some families have already packed
up to leave the country as they find the situation extremely
difficult.
It will take a while before the Obama plan may bring in some concrete
results for an average person. Can people do something during this
interim period to help each other face the crunch effectively? More
importantly, can Muslims rise up to the occasion to help one another
at this hour of crisis?
Continue reading "A Muslim Initiative during the financial crisis" »
Friday prayers for the Spring 2009 semester will start at 12pm on campus.
See below for the schedule and locations:
Continue reading "Friday prayer schedule UNLV-MSA, Spring 2009 semester" »
The Las Vegas Muslim community stepped up once again and raised $400,000 over the weekend at a fund raiser for the expansion of the Omar Haikal Islamic Academy. The expansion is planned in three phases which will include improvements to the existing school, new athletic field, additional parking, mosque and a high school. The pace of the project will be dictated by the communities willingness and support.
Continue reading "Basics of Qur’anic Arabic, A Two-weekend Course for Beginners" »
