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 […]
Fighting Islamophobia
A Rock & A Hard Place: Between CAIR and FrontPage Magazine
The Rightwing coverage of Hassan Shibly prompts a reflection on our status as Muslim Americans
Check Out Aysha Khan’s Creeping Sharia
I recently came across a website by religion reporter Aysha Khan called Creeping Sharia. Aysha offers a monthly roundup of news stories related to Muslim […]
Bahman and Shiva’s Trump Dilemma
The past two weeks have been quite a roller-coaster for Bahman and his wife, Shiva, our Iranian family acquaintances. The couple immigrated to America shortly […]
Saudi Textbooks Poison Kids, Delight Islamophobes
The new year holiday is finally giving me time to get up a few more posts on textbook materials shared by readers. Apologies to everyone […]
Merry Christmas to Amir Khan . . . and Mo Salah!
Our Muslim celebrities’ fight against Scrooges who keep exclaiming “haram”!
MAGA Neighbor: Mutual Guinea Pigs & A Clarion Call
My ongoing social experiment with my neighbor Roy keeps on getting more interesting with time. As I wrote previously, our friendship helps me understand how […]
Why is Imran Khan Trying to Rally US Support Via Jamaat-e-Islami?
The developments at ISNA 2019 on labor day shocked me . First, I had not realized ISNA declared its ideological allegiance to Jamaat-e-Islami back at […]
ISNA Convention 2019 Recap: Kashmir & Bernie
Labor Day weekend finally gave me a chance to scan and post some classic ISNA material from the organization’s founding. Enjoy Sayyid Syeed’s boys declaring […]
Calling for an Islamic State: ISNA Whopper under Sayyid Syeed
Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro and Trevor Noah are surely excited to be at ISNA’s annual convention this weekend. But what they don’t realize is that […]