CAIR Can’t Have it Both Ways
How was your summer vacation? I was back in Egypt and spent more time offline than expected. Being offline is great, by the way. I […]
Articles by Abudhir
Yassir Qadhi in a Porsche
Readers, you are not deceived. That is indeed none other than Al Maghrib icon Yasssir Qadhi behind the wheel of a Porsche Boxster sportscar with […]
Our Un-Elected Kennedys: The Omeish Dynasty Gets the Al Jazeera Treatment
The Omeish clan – formerly of Tripoli, now Virginia – are Muslim-American political royalty, somehow straddling the worlds of traditional Libyan Ikhwani elite and ultra-progressive […]
Afghanistan, Eternal Heartbreak
Watching TV reports from Afghanistan feels like getting punched in the gut. Images of the Taliban taking over the entire country as women went into […]
US Islamists Facing Political Setbacks under Biden Administration
The May-June issue of ISNA’s newsletter Islamic Horizons carried an intriguing letter to the editor from Emgage CEO Wael Alzayat warning that “misinformation from within […]
Eid Celebration Tarnished as Sexual Abuse Scandals Go Transatlantic
The British Muslim charity Human Appeal thought it was a good idea to sponsor a tour with Fatih Seferagic, a rising star Bosnian-American Quran reciter, […]
Life and Death Dilemmas
Nasser, an old university friend of mine, lives on the outskirts of Gaza City. One of the things we bonded over back in the day […]
How Hassan Shibly Tried to Game Islamic Law
I wrote earlier about Hassan Shibly’s old interview with an institute at U Cal Berkely, which when read today helps explain his outrageous serial bigamy […]
Inside Hassan Shibly’s Secret Marriages
My daughter likes to make fun of what she calls my “hot takes” – when her old man sounds off on whatever topic in the […]
CAIR’s Ramadan Reckoning
إن الله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين“Allah does not guide abusers to righteousness” Ramadan began with a bombshell: NPR ran a deep investigation by journalist Leila […]