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Archive: Sulayman Nyang
Negotiating Diversity
President Obama's Inaugural Address raised the bar of inclusion in mainstream America. What President Eishenhower did for the Jewish community over 50 years ago when he told America it was a Judeo-Christian people, Obama has done for other religious minorities,...
By Sulayman Nyang | July 8, 2009; 11:43 AM ET | Comments (0)
Lincoln, Kennedy and Obama
The elections have come and gone and America is still here, standing tall with millions of people holding on to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and yearning hopefully and faithfully for a great and better America....
By Sulayman Nyang | November 7, 2008; 04:13 PM ET | Comments (0)
Our Debts and Debtors
Debt is the monster that ravages the city and could undermine not only our faith in how we produce but in what we invest.
By Sulayman Nyang | September 17, 2008; 11:16 AM ET | Comments (0)
Faith as Oxygen
Life is a precious gift that gives the human being the joy of learning to create a greater world beyond the confinement of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Faith is an important part in the life and activities of the human...
By Sulayman Nyang | June 10, 2008; 03:46 PM ET | Comments (0)
My Memories of the Day, the Man
In responding to the question about my memories on the day Dr. Martin Luther King was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, I have several things to say. It was a morose day, a day of anger, shame and fear about his...
By Sulayman Nyang | April 1, 2008; 04:39 PM ET | Comments (2)
Faith at Home in America
The U.S. Constitution has turned out to be the great peacemaker between the believers in this world and the believers in a metaphysical world beyond the grave.
By Sulayman Nyang | February 26, 2008; 01:23 AM ET | Comments (0)
As in Islam, Holy Days a Balancing Act
Those who are concerned about the rivalry between Santa Claus or Father Christmas, on the one hand, and Jesus on the other, must find a way of balancing the two theaters of human emotion and energy.
By Sulayman Nyang | December 21, 2007; 12:00 PM ET | Comments (11)
Thankful for Land of Opportunity
All those who traveled from elsewhere and landed in this country have come to appreciate the affluence and the natural beauty that awaits the visitor.
By Sulayman Nyang | November 26, 2007; 05:53 AM ET | Comments (19)
Faith in a Fruitful Conversation
Science and religion have singular and collective interest in their definitions and understandings of the world we live in.
By Sulayman Nyang | October 29, 2007; 06:33 AM ET | Comments (4)
No Religion is an Island
Love has to be the common thread that unites and links all of us together.
By Sulayman Nyang | October 19, 2007; 10:10 AM ET | Comments (43)
What Near Death Taught Me About Life
Although I believe in a Creator and a life beyond the grave, my own encounter with death reaffirmed this faith.
By Sulayman Nyang | October 16, 2007; 09:42 AM ET | Comments (26)
Politics of the Belly, Head and Soul
The first source of difficulty about the Middle East problem is the name itself. The geopolitical name for the people of this region was an American invention.
By Sulayman Nyang | September 17, 2007; 02:20 PM ET | Comments (11)
Faith and Doubt Fellow Travelers
Faith and doubt are twin brothers or sisters in the human condition. The Qur'an recognizes the capacity of the human being to believe or not to believe. Believing in the visible and the tangible is more widely acknowledged by most...
By Sulayman Nyang | September 2, 2007; 10:50 AM ET | Comments (15)
Equal Rights, but not Equally Fit
Pagan rights can be a subject of dispute only when the state and society are not in sync with respect to the standing of the Pagans as members of society and to the public acknowledgment of their status as fellow...
By Sulayman Nyang | July 5, 2007; 07:11 AM ET | Comments (35)
Will and Whims of the People
When we listen to the Democratic or Republican presidential candidates we should take many things into account when matters on religion are discussed. In the interest of time and space let me identify a few points to remember when one...
By Sulayman Nyang | June 7, 2007; 07:20 AM ET | Comments (3)
Happy to be of Service
I thank the Almighty God for sparing my life when many I knew felt to the blows of death at younger age.
By Sulayman Nyang | May 19, 2007; 08:58 AM ET | Comments (17)
For Muslims, a Distant Figure
Rev. Jerry Falwell, who was born on August 11, 1933, passed away on May 15 2007. He led services at Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He changed affiliations from the more traditional Baptist Bible Fellowship International...
By Sulayman Nyang | May 17, 2007; 02:11 PM ET | Comments (2)
Role Models for Religious Minorities
Mormons provide an example to any minority American religious group how to withstand suffering.
By Sulayman Nyang | May 2, 2007; 08:32 AM ET | Comments (35)
True Faith is not a Science Project
Anyone who suggests to modern-day Christian believers that DNA has positively identified the remains of Jesus would be engaged in what most if not all Christians would call the greatest subversion of all heresies in the name of science.
By Sulayman Nyang | April 4, 2007; 10:03 AM ET | Comments (11)
Catholic Struggle a Guide for African-Americans, American Muslims
The Catholic experience is a useful lesson for American Muslims who are grappling with a host of cultural adjustment issues.
By Sulayman Nyang | March 16, 2007; 09:41 AM ET | Comments (9)
Anti-Semitism is About Prejudice, Not Politics
Leaders and the led have a right to criticize any government if their policies are believed to be anti-human and destructive.
By Sulayman Nyang | February 23, 2007; 12:08 PM ET | Comments (7)
Prayer Is Part of American Identity
Since the beginning of this republic many an American has looked up to the heavens and sang praises to the Almighty. This pattern of expressing joy and gratitude will not disappear from this land.
By Sulayman Nyang | February 6, 2007; 03:30 PM ET | Comments (12)
Candidates Should Not Question Patriotism of Those Who Differ in Religious Belief
American Muslims would worry about a candidate whose are such that Muslims would suffer from his or her religious bigotry.
By Sulayman Nyang | January 29, 2007; 05:00 PM ET | Comments (491)
Unitl Recently, It Was Widely Assumed God is a 'He'
We have to wait patiently for the total revolution of modernity and postmodernity in the struggle between the genders in the field of religion.
By Sulayman Nyang | January 17, 2007; 05:41 PM ET | Comments (18)
Iraq War Was Just When It Began
The justness of the war lies in the global disaffection with the Hussein dictatorship and its arrogant defiance of UN rulings.
By Sulayman Nyang | January 11, 2007; 11:28 AM ET | Comments (36)
Neither Science Nor Technology Can Resolve Our Issues
This contradiction between the modern atheists and the modern believers in metaphysics and traditional religions will continue unresolved till the end of times. Neither science nor technology can resolve these issues for all of us.
By Sulayman Nyang | January 1, 2007; 02:24 PM ET | Comments (72)
Jesus Known to Muslims As Prophet
Jesus cannot be seen as a God by Muslims because divinity is confined to the Creator and no human being can enter that realm of divinity.
By Sulayman Nyang | December 26, 2006; 04:13 PM ET | Comments (62)
