'Generally speaking,' al-Ghazālī writes in the Iḥyā',

"the subjects are corrupt because their rulers are corrupt; and rulers are corrupt because the scholars are corrupt. Were it not for corrupt judges and corrupt scholars, corruption among rulers would be rare for fear of their disapproval'

This quotation is taken from Al-Ghazālī on the Lawful and the Unlawful [Book XIV of Iḥyā' 'ulūm al-Dīn]. Translated by Yusuf T. Delorenzo. (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2014, p. 231).

-Cited in David Decosimo, "An Umma of Accountability: Al-Ghazālī against Domination," Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 98, Number 3, 2015, Penn State University Press, 260-288, p277). [also posted on author's page here]

Global Donors Forum

https://globaldonorsforum.org/

At ISNA: US Muslims Learn How to Work Against Racism, Bigotry

http://aboutislam.net/muslim-issues/america/isna-us-muslims-learn-work-racism-bigotry/

Imam Omar Suleiman in NJ: Malcolm X After Makkah: September 21

https://www.almaghrib.org/newjersey

Raising Our Kids Near Their Grandparents is the Greatest Gift We Could Ever Give Them

https://herviewfromhome.com/raising-our-kids-near-their-grandparents-is-the-greatest-gift-we-could-ever-give-them/

Hunter College Student Safia Mahjebin Wins Prestigious Truman Scholarship

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/communications/pressroom/news/hunter-college-student-safia-mahjebin-wins-prestigious-truman-scholarship-1

Harvard lawsuit is about affirmative action, not Asian Americans

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/07/17/let-not-kid-ourselves-harvard-lawsuit-about-affirmative-action-not-asian-americans/mZ0tQiuNnKAt7VnOsWSAvL/story.html?event=event25

"Many people put on air of humility to hide the pride of the ego;

this is not humility but hypocrisy. It is also against intelligence and knowledge of the truth not to admit one's superiority in a particular matter pertaining to the truth while remaining humble. If a person knows that the square root of nine is three and someone comes along and insists that it is two, it is not spiritual humility not to insist upon the truth that it is three because one fears being seen as proud.

Much of theological truth has been destroyed in the modern world through the practice of sacrificing the truth at the altar of a sentimental and opaque humility. For example, many Christian theologians have refused to criticize what is theologically an error because of false humility often combined with a sense of compassion that remains impervious to the truth, with the result that it is no longer fashionable today to speak of theological heresy or for that matter truth as such. In all authentic spirituality, however, the demand of the truth is the highest demand upon us. 

-Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), pp. 126-7. 

James Cone: "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" (dynamite speech mA!)

https://youtu.be/htj59Cup7Jg

China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness (Aug 28 2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/china-pathologizing-uighur-muslims-mental-illness/568525/