I recently attended the MMYC 2008 Spring Conference in Michigan this past weekend. The conference is a annual retreat for high schoolers, and I served as...
On the Houston Chronicle’s Talking Tolerance blog I read this post, in which the author’s friend makes a comment along the lines of what I heard...
For once, MM is slightly behind on an interesting and relevant news story – you can blame me for that, though! :) The notorious Neil MacFarquhar...
Authority of Sunnah Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Â | Part 4 Umm Reem continues her series on the authority of Sunnah with Part...
The scenario is always chillingly the same with little variation. You – typically a Pakistani or Arab American (although generally any Muslim will do) – have...
Back in the mid 90s, when I was a newly single mom living a life that swung between elation at my freedom from an oppressive marriage...
For those who stubbornly insist that Islamophobia is nothing but a figment of the Muslim imagination (read this: Islamophobia Part-1: It Exists), ABC News has pretty...
Last Thursday (February 21), the Houston Chronicle, my hometown paper, published an editorial discussing the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent remarks about integrating sharia-based courts into the...
Cross-posted on DailyKos & StreetProphets Three men, Eric Ian Baker, 32, Michael Corey Golden, 23, and Jonathan Edward Stone, 19, had planned for a week to...
With all the talk about “Clash of Cultures” and “Muslims adjusting to the West,” and all the rest of that jazz, there’s something that has been...