My last name, Nasrullah, is actually my husband’s first name, the result of trying to fit a south Asian-style name into a western configuration. Of course,...
Cross-posted at DailyKos.com. Feel free to cross-comment ;) Update 1: “He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce...
The following article, appended below, (hat-tip to theTranslators) touches on many of the issues that Muslim women face while living in the West. Personally, I find...
A little bit of this, a little bit of that… enjoy! :) From sister Rukhsar, a beautiful poem: What Is Life? We sleep, eat, drink and...
Although my ‘intellectual activities’ have slowed down since last summer – when I had plenty of time to peruse sites like the Angry Arab, Al-Jazeera News,...
Previous: The Big Questions Part I – On Atheism, God & More… The Big Questions, Part II—The Purpose of Life by Dr. Laurence Brown (reproduced with...
Updates: (1) Hat-tip to Umm Zaid for pointing to this article in NY Times, and the news that Abdullah Gul has stepped aside under undemocratic pressure...
The source material for this article are some notes I took from an excellent lecture by Dr. Salāh al-Sāwī. Unfortunately, my notes were brief and so...
Ok, ok, I know everyone’s quite sick of discussions around this program. But I was cajoled into watching the 8th episode to witness for myself the...
The New York Times has put out the article that I referred to earlier Again, not on the strength of any theological arguments, but using the...