Islamophobia is nothing new. The earliest Muslim communities of the Prophetic age dealt with the fear of the new way of life brought by Islam and the people who practiced it – Muslims.
Let us make a serious effort to fight hate on campus.
With the recent terrorist attack on a Canadian Muslim family of five, leaving one survivor in London, Ontario, fear is the last thing that should control our next step.
It’s tempting to want to just relax the summer before college. But this is a time to not only buy items for dorm rooms and schedule fall classes. This summer is a time to build the spiritual reserves necessary to face this new chapter of life with strong faith.
Eighteen years have zipped by in a flash. Or at least that’s what it feels like when you look at the handsome young man, whom you recall walking hand in hand with a few years ago, or when you admire the young, beautiful lady in your life, whom you called your baby not that long ago.