Thousands of Muslims work hard and come up with ventures to best suit the needs of the Muslim community today. Amongst them is one of the founders of the only American Islamic Radio; Kevin Shakil.
Kevin Shakil, 26 years of age, runs one of the emerging IT companies today. He lives in New York while his father was originally from Pakistan. It was clear that Shakil had an interesting start to his venture just as he was telling us how it all started.
Shakil got married to a Muslim revert who gave him the inspiration and motivation to start off with his own Radio for American Muslims. It was the 8th of August, 2018 when the start of his journey marked and began to gain popularity overtime. Shakil along with his other fellow founders, Luis Mendez and Jorge Guzman Jr run the America Islamic Radio. Shakil initially started the venture off by using Luis’ Hispanic radio station; also the owner of Elvillanoradio. Kevin has his own show called Shakil & Co, which conducts interviews with local businesses that need to spread word of mouth about their ventures. The show basically helps anyone who wants to their name out in the community as well as helps inform others about happenings in the local politics.
By the blessings of Allah (SWT), now they have over 10,000 viewers. America Islamic Radio is the only Muslim radio channel (in English) available in the States. This Muslim platform delves into various issues faced in the Muslim community and addresses how people are helping other Muslims. Moreover, information about Islam is shared with the Non-Muslim audience as well so that they can get a clear picture of our deen and now what is addressed in the anti-Muslim sentiment throughout various media channels. Their purpose is to provide awareness and act as a connecting platform amongst the whole American Muslim community.
Shakil also emphasized on the fact that the need of being politically active is of utmost importance in order to survive in the American society and it is one of the edges one can get to excel in the society as a whole.
Amongst the contributors of the radio shows are Imam Mikaeel Abdur Rahman, who conducts Quran tafseer with Mikaeel regularly. Rabab Mushtaq does the Quran recitation with translation every tuesday at 11 am. Their radio channel is available for streaming in the Mixlr app streaming service as well as their Facebook page (their most popular platform). To get further details, visit:
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Americasislamicradio/
Mixlr: http://mixlr.com
Instagram: americasislamicradio
Website: www.americasislamicradio.com
