ISNA’s Sayyid Syeed Hurts Ordinary Muslim Americans
As ISNA’s annual convention boots up with Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro and Trevor Noah, the group must be euphoric for scoring this line up. What […]
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ISNA’s Four Decades of Extremist Leadership: Sayyid Syeed
Last year at this time I wrote about the annual ISNA convention in Houston. It was a dull pow-wow, with a lame social media presence […]
My MAGA Neighbor II: Water Sprinkers and Taqiyya
See first post in this series “This goddamn Taqiyya machine is driving me nuts. I’m going Jihadi!” Last month, I ran into Roy while battling […]
More Blacks in Leadership!… Just Not Now
Blacks are the largest group of American Muslims. Yet, they are almost absent of leadership positions in the biggest US Muslim groups. Blacks make up […]
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Obstacles to Muslim Interracial Marriage
Interracial marriage is still an issue in this country 50 years after the end of the racist so-called “Anti-miscegenation” laws. “My wife’s family tells her […]
Oh Bilal, Where Art Thou?
Attending a Tennessee Church as the Only Person of Color Twenty years ago I attended a friend’s wedding at an evangelical church in rural Tennessee. […]
My MAGA Neighbor: An Awkward Friendship
Today in America it is hard to have a conversation about American Muslims without the conversation shifting to Donald Trump and his policies. What about […]
Bengali & Pakistani Relations Ruined By the Muslim Alt-Righters
Z and I, are best friends. we are sisters from two mothers; we are also heirs to a tragic past. She is from Bangladesh and […]
Us Muslims: Sharing Unspoken Truths With A Pollster
US Muslims are supposed to pray five times a day… and yet that’s not the case. Of course many of us don’t like to admit […]
Salafi Hatred of Dogs Ruins Family Vacation.. If Not More
“I’d Pick A Dog Over My Mother-In-Law” A family’s vacation was ruined, depending on one’s perspective: either by Salafi hatred of dogs, or by Salafi […]