Castes: The Unspoken & Untouchable Roots of Our Racism
Re: the recent three posts here about racism I’ve observed. I have been trying to understand where our racist impulse comes from. After some reflection, […]
Protect Our Children
Ruqya Exorcism – My Epileptic Cousin Asi
Asif, my cousin, has been in my thoughts ever since I wrote about the poor kid who died in a botched Ruqya (exorcism) to cast […]
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 […]
Saving Ami From Hellfire… at the Local Bookstore
Ami’s (my mother in Urdu) behavior suddenly began to change a few weeks ago. She started pulling the blinds down in every room in the […]
Canada Revokes Charitable Status Because of Siraj Wahhaj?
As an immigrant to America, I adopted my new homeland’s chauvinism. I don’t care much about Canada, our overlooked freezing sister to the north. My […]
The Ruqyah Mentality: Why Torture a Child to Death?
The New Mexico headline story is not about terrorism. It’s a human tragedy caused by fear and superstition left unchecked inside our community. It’s has […]
Why Starve Children? Or, Time to Exorcise Our Demons
Siraj Wahhaj is suddenly making national headlines. The imam has for 20+ years been on the hardcore speaking circuit. He has appeared at ISNA conventions […]
Brainwashing in Buffalo: Parents Losing Their Sons inside Darul-Uloom
I have been distracted from publishing for the past few months because I have been helping a friend who is slowly losing her sons. My […]
How Zakir Naik – the Salafi-vangelist – Radicalized My Mother… And Once Radicalized Me
When I was a child in the mid-1980s, we used to eagerly await the arrival of new VHS videotapes featuring Ahmed Deedat. I vividly recall […]
How Jamila – And Her Children – Got Cut Off From Their Heritage
Jamila is the granddaughter of an American Muslim pioneer. Her father came to the US from the Levant, part of an earlier wave of immigration […]