QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/09 January) -- What happened in Maguindanao was just one of the glaring manifestations of a worsening contradiction in our community where 57 people were killed mercilessly by political family, a supposed un-ideological entity.

DILIMAN, Quezon City (MindaNews/6 Jan) -- Yesterday, our friends from the University of Hull and the University of Keele of the United Kingdom invited me to deliver the welcome remarks for the international conference today. I don’t know if what I’d written last night is a welcome remarks or a lecture. At any rate, what follows are my impressions of this conference.

DILIMAN, Quezon City (MindaNews/23 Dec) -- Apart from what we had already discussed in media interviews and elsewhere, the easier way with which we are able to make sense our social contradiction is to identify the context of our plight as Muslims in the Philippines, including the proliferation of political dynasties and why they have become so entrenched and strong in their respective areas in southern Philippines.

(A Friday khutbah delivered at the Mushallah of the Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City on December 19, 2009. It is transcribed from a recorded MP3 audio version.)

Muqaddimah…

We just enter a new year – amun jadeed – in the Muslim world today. You must have noticed the rather simple, down-to-earth appreciation of Muslims on amun jadeed.  No fireworks, no commercial advertisements from big companies. In fact, if some of our friends did not circulate greetings about amun jadeed, we would probably not know it.