Ever since the Boston marathon bombings, my mind has been swarming with thoughts and emotions. I have been glued to the internet, digesting article after article, and comment after comment. I am sure I am not alone. The American Muslim emotional roller-coaster response to terrorism isn't fresh reading. It starts ... Read More »
Following months of an incendiary campaign against Muslims in Sri Lanka, a Muslim-owned fashion store was attacked late last month by mobs of hate-mongers led by men in the saffron garb of Buddhist monks. A video released more recently exposes a similar stomach-churning reality in the relentless persecution of the Rohingyan Muslims ... Read More »
The 'unmosqued' discussion has spawned a host of conversations, coffee shop conversations, desi dinner party fodder, tweetable soundbites, virally shared facebook updates, and even a couple of blog articles right here on MuslimMatters. To say that this topic interests me is an understatement (I even started a website dedicated to trying to ... Read More »
Every few decades a story is written that resonates with people across cultures and across histories to create a bridge of understanding spanning centuries of basic human instinct. This story essentially captures the needs, hopes, dreams, and desires that lie deep within our feral souls in spite of a people's ... Read More »
At a time when U.S. embassies are being attacked and when people are getting killed over an offensive, adolescent and puerile film targeting Islam - beyond pathetic in its tawdriness – we must begin to own up to the reality of evangelical Islamophobia. Read More »
It is the extreme sensational cases that make it to the front pages of newspaper. We were all horrified by the story of Nazish Noorani, a young mother killed by her abusive husband. What we don’t hear are the voices of the abused behind the closed doors of many homes across social, economic, ethnic, racial and gender lines. They exist in our community just as they exist in the non-Muslim communities. Domestic violence is, again, a human problem much like sexual harassment. Read More »
Once she started reading the Twilight, all of a sudden her baby crushes changed from, "I think he is cute" to "I wonder how his lips would feel!" Read More »
Now, seven Eids later, we find that for each “friend” we lost, we were blessed with a multiple. Our isolation has been transformed into the support of thousands. We witnessed the miracle of resurrection as someone we believed dead was returned to life – not once but twice for us. That same Aafia who was once a pariah is now a unifying element for a whole nation. Read More »
Since that first invitation to a hijab party, I've seen these types of get togethers increase in their popularity. Every year now I've been invited to small gatherings of sisters celebrating a milestone in their sister-in-Islam's life: wearing hijab. I've grown more and more accustom to the idea of these parties, so I've stopped raising my eyebrows at each invitation. But last summer, my parents received an invitation to one of these parties, and that was when my eyebrows went back up again. Read More »
Is it Allāh, Allāh, or Allāh? Was he Muḥammad, Muhammed, or Muḥammad, (SAW)? Do we follow the religion of Islam, Islaam, or Islām? Where ever you go throughout the English speaking world, you will find variations of Arabic words romanized differently. As a result, different styles and even opinions have ... Read More »
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