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 […]
Interfaith Dating Taboo: Should We Prefer Hypocrisy?
It’s been a while since we last wrote: been gathering stories but had no time to write. But now we’re back to talk about one […]
Sayyid Syeed: Our Umma Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You
Where have you gone, Sayyid Syeed? the ISNA honcho was conspicuously absent from the program, and social media posts of the #ISNA55 conference. Is he […]
#ISNA55: ISNA قرفنا
This year I didn’t attend ISNA physically but I did spend part of my labor day weekend attending it virtually. Before the convention I made […]
Disinvited From #ISNA55: The Wajahat Ali Affair
ISNA55 starts today. One speaker who was supposed to be there but got canned is public intellectual Wajahat Ali. In case you missed it back […]
ISNA’S Convention Social Media Flop
Last week after dinner, I was at the kitchen counter with my computer checking out the upcoming ISNA convention online. my daughter dashed in to […]
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 […]