by Seidu Malik Many people have ushered in the brand new year with a New Year’s resolution to make things right in their life. One of the most common of these resolutions is to stay healthy. Although everyone’s destiny with respect to their final breath on earth is beyond ones control, there are a few precautions we can put on our basket list of New Year’s resolutions to stay healthy. One of these is the desire not to be a... Read more
by Iftekhar Ahmad This is a challenging time for all Muslims in America as the despicable actions of a few put Islam in a terrible light. This situation is not made any easier when there is blatant hate being spread by educated members of society. Recently Joe Walsh, a former US Congressman of Illinois, put a video on his Facebook page where he says, “I think Islam has a real freaking problem, alright?” He later says, “There is a cancer... Read more
by Rasheed Reno One of the most prominent stories of 2015 has been the circus of the Donald Trump campaign. It seems Donald Trump will say just about anything to be the center of attention and has been more than willing to cross any line when it comes to violating the American ideal of religious freedom. We have seen an escalating pattern of anti-Muslim rhetoric from Trump and one has to wonder where he will finally stop. Last month he... Read more
by Seidu Malik The year 2015 can be remembered as the year Daesh (ISIS) dominated the news media in the Western world, from beginning to the end. It began with the merciless attack on the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo that drew worldwide condemnation, enslaving of Yazidi women, burning of a Jordanian pilot and ending with a spectacular attack in France and inspiring mass murder in San Bernardino. How could a religion with a holy book, the Quran, which prides itself as being perfect and as a guidance for... Read more
By Mansura Minhas Richard Dawkins recently called upon Muslim women to shun their Hijabs as a show of solidarity with the victims of Paris attacks. Dawkins is an anti-theist, wholly ignorant to Islam. Thus, his case against the Hijab fits perfectly well in his anti-Islam narrative. However, when Muslim women — who take pride in their ‘feminist’ credentials — cite half-baked and fabricated definitions of ‘Hijab’ and join the club to make a case against a guidance clearly rooted in... Read more
By Ayesha Noor Merely days before Christmas, Professor Layrcia Hawkins received disciplinary action for her very Christ-like actions that others deemed Islamic. She is disciplined for her appearance as a Muslim woman and her statement regarding God. Professor Hawkins is an associate professor at Wheaton College, an Evangelical Christian Institute that claims to follow “biblical doctrine,” and reaffirms “salient features of the historic Christian Creeds,” and identifies itself with the Scriptures. Yet, the very Christian admin suspended Dr. Hawkins, a... Read more
By Saima Sheikh I read with disappointment the Washington Post article by Asra Nomani and Hala Arafa. I couldn’t believe that these so called Muslim activists were discouraging non-Muslim women from showing their support for Muslim women. To me their article sounded more like an angry rant. Their rhetoric was no different than those Imams and other clerics in Saudi Arabia or Iran that they cited in their article. At this day and age where there is so much anger and... Read more
By Ayesha Noor I went shopping on a hot June afternoon. I wore a cool beige outer garment over my Jeans and top and complimented it with a blue cotton headscarf. As I left one store a sales woman offered me her product. I respectfully refused, but her next question forced me to stop and listen. “Why would you wear so many things and cover your head,on such a hot day?” I replied, “because I revere Mary mother of Jesus,... Read more
by Ijaz Ahmed It has been twenty years since I last visited Pakistan, the country of my ancestry. I can still recall fond memories of riding on a rickshaw, walking down alleyways of Gujranwala, or grabbing some grub from a street vendor. But most of what I know of Pakistan, I have heard from my parents’ stories about their childhood and upbringing. There are numerous beautiful qualities about Pakistan that I would very much enjoy the opportunity to experience. The reason I have not been... Read more
By Saima Sheikh I watched with horror the coverage of the San Bernardino massacre. I couldn’t believe it. I used to live in greater Los Angeles area! That was my first home when my family and I migrated to America in 1984 from Pakistan. I went to elementary school and middle school there. I attended the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino which is the largest Mosque in San Bernardino County. We still have family and friends who live in that... Read more
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