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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Imam Importation: No English Needed!
An imported Imam ruined my friend and my evening, his arrival left me worried about our community’s children. It was an odd hour for my […]
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 […]
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 […]