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    We are on a journey to transform ourselves and our surrounding communities to righteous God-fearing people who collectively strive for the highest moral standard and constantly seek forgiveness from our Lord to earn His pleasure. We seek His compassion and mercy in this life and in the Hereafter. We rejuvenate our soul through internal struggle and spiritual exercise in worship of our Creator Allah (SWT). The strength of our belief in Allah (SWT) gives us the courage to establish good and forbid evil, thus promoting a system of justice for all mankind. Our slogan is “Repentance, Revitalization of Faith, Renewal of Covenant.”


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    IONA’s objective is to help the Muslims of North America understand and fulfill their divinely ordained obligations, in order to please Allah (SWT) and thereby achieve success and salvation in the Hereafter.

    On the basis of the best scholarly understandings of the Qur’an and the Sunnah IONA has recognized that our divinely ordained obligations are as follows: (1) the cultivation of a strong and authentic faith; (2) the loving and sincere obedience to the will of Allah (SWT); (3) calling all of humankind towards Islam in the most beautiful and convincing way; and, (4) engaging in the struggle to establish social, political, and economic justice.

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    Mirza Ahmad - Warren
    Mohammad Abdul-basit Barlaskar - Warren
    Syed Zafarullah - Sterling Heights 
    Ashraf Jaigirdar- Warren
    Syed M. Monnan - Warren
    Farhan Baber -  Warren
    Navid Ashraf - Warren



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Caliphate is the New Jihad - Omer M. Mozaffar
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Caliphate is the New Jihad
Omer M. Mozaffar
03-06-08
The reader is surely familiar with the phrase "Islam means peace", a response to the linkages of Islam with vio-lence. Similarly, perhaps the most common statement from Muslims since September 11, 2001 is "jihad does not mean holy war, but struggle." Now Muslim apologists in the United States have found a new term to correct. Speaking of al-Qa'ida and "violent Sunni extremists" in September of 2006, President Bush stated, "They hope to establish a violent political utopia across the Middle East, which they call a "Caliphate" – where all would be ruled according to their hateful ideology." Some months later, in a May 2007 press conference, the President said of al-Qa'ida, "Their strategy is to drive us out of the Middle East. They have made it abundantly clear what they want. They want to establish a caliphate. They want to spread their ideology. They want safe haven from which to launch attacks." While the accuracy or inaccuracy, methods, and ambitions of the President's claims are the subject of a separate discussion for a different forum, his use of the term "caliphate", which obliged im-mediate response from many a Muslim speaker and activist, deserves comment.  Read More...