This is Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s story in visual form. The artist Christopher Towne is a young anti-war activist. He blogs here. Towne has given Muslimmatters.org exclusive permission...
On International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2013, anti-war, civil liberties, and Muslim activists, along with college students and families joined hands in demanding the repatriation of political prisoner...
An OpEd by Amina Begum, a British Bangladeshi. There are multiple perspectives on this topic and these are the writer’s views, MuslimMatters does not necessarily endorse...
An OpEd by Mezba Mahtab, a Bangladeshi-Canadian blogger based in Toronto. There are multiple perspectives on this topic and these are the writer’s views, MuslimMatters does...
Residents of Chicago, San Francisco and Washington DC, may have noticed of late that the streets are rife with the call to jihad. No, not a...
The death toll from riots that have enraged the streets of Dhaka for over a month has risen to 61. Fresh set of protests were sparked...
What’s going on in Syria is horror beyond description. In these dire times, we turn to the Qurʾān for answers. Here are some reflections from our...
The island nation of Sri Lanka celebrated its 65th Independence Day on the 4th of February amidst conflicting emotions. Although no stranger to tourism brochures as...
cross-posted from NYTimes By: Sohaila Abdulali THIRTY-TWO years ago, when I was 17 and living in Bombay, I was gang raped and nearly killed. Three years later,...
“And had Allah seen in them any good, He would certainly have made them hear [the message of Islam]. But even if He made them hear,...
