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WHAT'S WRONG WITH A LITTLE CANDY?

Halloween: Through Muslim Eyes
Halloween is an annual Western celebration based on Celtic and European pagan doctrines and traditionally applied to the evening of October 31st. It is derived from rituals involving dead spirits and devil worship and symbolizes the beginning of the ancient Druid's New Year, who hold that the dead revisit their homes at that time. In essence, Halloween represents the devil worshipper's New Year. Muslim commemoration of such a day is therefore sinful and haram since it involves the most evil elements of polytheism and disbelief.

SPECIAL FOCUS ON FOSTER CARE

Types of Foster Care
Foster Care in Numbers
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has attempted over the last few decades to introduce monitoring and reporting systems for both adoption and foster care alike. Despite their best efforts, there are several difficulties with the collection of this type of data. First, the target population, the children, are always in transition. By the time the information is collected and analyzed, any number of children may have either been placed or left the foster care system altogether.

Foster Care and the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994: Service or Disservice?
The Howard M. Metzenbaum Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 is one of several congressional initiatives to address child welfare in the U.S. The original law provided that the placement of children in foster or adoptive homes could not be denied or delayed solely because of the race, color, or national origin of the child or of the prospective foster or adoptive parents.

Foster Care: How Important is a Muslim Foster Home for Muslim Children?
Children "learn what they live." This is the "nurture" side of the nature vs. nurture controversy that has been at the center of discussions regarding the "raising" of children for decades. The importance of having a "Muslim" foster home for Muslim children is definitely also on the "nurture" side of the discussion.

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