When Holly first kissed Jeff on a dance floor back in the 1990s, she was a college freshman from Staten Island and he was a frat brother from Long Island. They both had New York accents. He thought the petite brunette was Jewish. But Holly Rizzuto was and still is an Italian Catholic, named Holly […]
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Courtesy : Forward March 27, 2017 By Linda Buchwald Adam Taylor/Freeform Via Getty Images (JTA) — “Switched At Birth” Has Broken The Mold For A Show That Some Might Have Dismissed As A Teen Drama. The Series, Which Premiered On ABC Family (Now Freeform) In 2011, Is About How Two Families Handle The Discovery That
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By Professor Junaid Jahangir He created for you mates to find tranquillity in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy ~ 30:21 Last month, CBC reported the news of an interfaith couple, Shaaz, a Muslim woman, and Jarred, a Jewish man, who live in Airdrie, Alberta. While they found a Cantor, they
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By Shahla Khan Salter Recently, Junaid Jahangir wrote a blog arguing that Muslim women can marry outside the faith. Junaid quoted 10 modern-day authorities and mentioned that Universalist Muslims and a few other organizations who are seated outside the traditional Islamic establishment, serve the Muslim community by connecting interfaith couples, who consist of Muslim women
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The full article is in my book, The “American Muslim Agenda – Muslims building a cohesive America.” available on kindle and Amazon. Two more books are on the horizon – Pluralism in America and Standing up for others. By Dr. Mike Mohamed Ghouse The sole intent of this essay is to shape and preserve the
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Wedding officiants ― particularly those that do pre-marital counseling ― often get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into a couple’s future marriage. And what they see is not always pretty. Below, seven signs a marriage doesn’t have what it takes, according to officiants. 1. One partner is very judgmental of the other. “When I conduct my premarital counseling,
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Here is a powerful story about a custom I was not aware of, as I am yet to officiate a wedding where an Iranian man or woman is involved. Wedding is a joyous event and I appreciate Doug Roberts for sharing this beautiful cultural story from Iran. Mike Ghouse Wedding Officiant # # # A
No matter what faith, culture or planet you come from, you become a part of the overall indefinable American culture, America does it to everyone! I was in a wedding yesterday, a whole bunch of us on our table were talking about the traditional Muslim culture morphing into the American Culture. Bride’s uncles and aunties
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It is so good to see people put aside the perceived barriers and learn to accept each other. Mike Ghouse Carol Kuruvilla Religion Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Courtesy – Huffington Post noor al-mosawi Planning a wedding is notoriously stressful. But for the growing number of people who are falling in love with a partner of
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When people fall in love, the perceived barriers disappear and the couple sees nothing but a joyful life ahead of them. The problems they may face will not be due to their religion, but due to non-acceptance of the otherness of other. You are who you are and I am who I am, and together we have
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