eDigest: Lincoln’s Birthday: February 12

Epigraph:

An Arab has no preference over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab over an Arab; nor is a white one to be preferred to a dark one, nor a dark one to a white one.  The Prophet Muhammad  

Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

 

Lead post collected by , Chief Editor of the Muslim Times

 

Lincoln’s Birthday: February 12

Lincoln’s Birthday Abraham Lincoln Official name Birthday of President Abraham Lincoln Also called Lincoln’s Birthday Observed by Illinois and various U.S. states Type Local Significance Honors 16th President of the United States Date…

Movie Lincoln: Showing A Hero for Our Times

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD I happened to see a recent movie Lincoln, directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, last week. I thoroughly enjoyed it and just…

 

American Civil War

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American Civil War Clockwise from top left: Battle of Stones River; Confederateprisoners of war; Battle of Fort Hindman. Date April 12, 1861 – May 10, 1865 (by…

Secular Pakistan: Jinnah, Lincoln and Nehru

Express Tribune: Speakers and the audience at a seminar Jinnah ka Pakistan (Jinnah’s Pakistan) on Saturdayagreed that the Quaid had wanted to keep religion and state separate. The seminar…

Abraham Lincoln’s Atheist Period and His Journey to God

Huff Post: We have heard the soaring phrases often. They are fixed in the American book of verse. Now, they sound again in Steven Spielberg’s magnificent film, “Lincoln.” They come…

There are weird similarities between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy

Top Facts: Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Islam!?

Epigraph: “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.”…

eDigest: Mandela’s Memorial Celebrated on Human Rights Day

Epigraph: O ye people! be mindful of your duty to your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many men and…

 

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