Shariah is nothing to be scared of

Last updated on: April 27, 2015 at 6:13 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Saima Sheikh Recently, Texas legislature heard two House bills, HB 562 and HB 670. HB 562 deals with family code and prohibits foreign laws relating to marriage, divorce & child custody issues from entering U.S. courts. HB 670 is “Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in this state” and will ensure that judges do not base their decisions on foreign laws. Why are our legislatures fearful of foreign laws taking over American courts? I don’t think that... Read more

The White Woman Who Stood Up for a Muslim Couple Was NOT Showing a ‘White Savior Complex’

Last updated on: April 18, 2015 at 1:38 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

I remember standing at the DMV with my wife, who wears hijab, as the state employee berated her without remorse for wearing a hijab. I remember standing at the TSA security line at LAX while incompetent security singled out my wife and infant son to check his diaper for explosives–forcing her to stand up straight holding him for over twenty minutes. I remember leaving the hospital last summer with my wife and our second son minding our own business, and... Read more

#BlackLivesMatter to Prophet Muhammad

Last updated on: April 8, 2015 at 6:46 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

April 9, 2015 marks 150 years that the Civil War ended. Apparently no one told Officer Michael T. Slager. Watch the video of Slager, a white South Carolina police officer, gun down Walter Scott, an unarmed black father of four, and you’ll realize something most every person of color in America knows: the Civil War may have ended 150 years ago, but a race war rages on in America. The question thus isn’t what, but why? Why is it that 150 years after... Read more

A Muslim’s Views on the Theology of Easter

Last updated on: April 2, 2015 at 4:07 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Rasheed Reno Easter is the day Christians worldwide celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus—an event they believe is their means to salvation. It is not well known, but in Islam we also believe in the truth of Jesus Christ as a pure and righteous Messenger of God sent to the Children of Israel. In fact, it is a requirement of Islam to accept Jesus and his Gospel. The Quran, which is the Holy Scripture of Islam says: “When... Read more

Modesty–A universal Value

Last updated on: March 28, 2015 at 8:18 am By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Saima Sheikh “This is America; you don’t have to wear that thing on your head anymore.” “You force your wife to cover herself” shouted a protester at CAIR Dallas event in January. “Once they get that established, we’re all going to be wearing hijabs,” Christine Weick said. “Women, come on, do you want this oppression coming upon you?”These are just few examples of recent incidences in America where Non-Muslims have expressed their phobia at Muslim women for wearing a... Read more

New Atheism: The Mother Lode of Bad Ideas

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 7:00 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

Connect with Qasim on Facebook and Twitter. Mere hours after condemning the murder of three Muslim students at Chapel Hill last month, notorious anti-theist Richard Dawkins happily returned to spreading falsehood and hatred of Islam, tweeting, “Alas, criminal individual killers exist. But there’s only 1 ideology now that preaches the legal killing of dissenters. And it isn’t atheism[.]” In insinuating Islam “preaches the legal killing of dissenters,” Dawkins effectively states that the “criminal individual killer” Hicks merely did what Islam also teaches. This... Read more

5 Reasons Why Nothing on Earth Can Stop the Khalifa of Islam

Last updated on: March 11, 2015 at 11:53 am By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By now it’s painfully obvious mainstream media loves a juicy terrorism story involving Muslims — but comparatively ignores the vast majority of the world’s Muslims who promote peace. The topic of caliphate perfectly illustrates this double standard. Since ISIS proclaimed their leader as a caliph about nine months ago, the media has given them round the clock coverage. Meanwhile, as I’ve already written about, media insists on ignoring an Islamic caliphate that has existed in peace for well over a century. Perhaps it was in... Read more

ISIS Really Wants Power—Not Islam

Last updated on: November 30, 2017 at 11:07 am By Muslims Writers Guild of America

Recently The Atlantic published a piece titled, “What ISIS Really Wants.” The lengthy piece makes numerous fallacious claims about ISIS and its relation to Islam and Islamic doctrine. Accordingly, and significantly, it misses the strategy necessary to counter and overcome ISIS terrorism. Perhaps most frustrating about the article is it offers no new insights, analysis, or solutions. It simply regurgitates baseless claims previously addressed and debunked numerous times by multiple scholars. It is impractical to respond to every fallacious claim... Read more

The Hypocrisy of Atheism

Last updated on: February 17, 2015 at 10:56 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Imam Rizwan Khan What is the hypocrisy of atheism? It is to deny the validity of belief, all the while holding one’s own set of beliefs. When atheists hold their own blind beliefs, they have no right to ask anyone else for scientific evidence for their beliefs? So what blind beliefs do atheists hold? Plenty, but let’s start with their belief in ‘good’. Atheists assume that it is possible to define morality without God, that the actions of humans... Read more

#MuslimLivesMatter

Last updated on: February 15, 2015 at 8:04 pm By Muslims Writers Guild of America

By Saima Sheikh I was horrified to read the news of the murders of three Muslims in Raleigh, North Carolina. As I learned the details of the brutal murders of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, this sounded more like a movie than real life. I couldn’t believe that three young people who had so much potential and a bright future ahead of them were killed ‘execution style,’ meaning that they... Read more