Textbook: Dating is For Animals
It’s no secret that in our community dating is an issue. We don’t speak about dating with our children, except perhaps to bash it. But […]
Protecting Our Children
Accusing Fellow Muslims of Shirk for Visiting Shrines
Making a pilgrimage to the shrines of holy men (and women!) is something I, like many Muslims, enjoy. It’s something we remember from our childhoods […]
Who’s Behind Weekend Learning Textbooks?
Weekend Learning’s Garbled Gospel Gymnastics The authors of Weekend Learning actually share much of Yahya Emerick’s core worldview. Their approach is to try to package […]
Another Bad Textbook: Weekend Learning Series
Abu Dhir has been writing about Yahyia Emerick and his publisher Noor Art. But I’ve been thinking more about the Weekend Learning textbooks, written by […]
Teaching Kids that Homosexuality is Indecency
“Homosexuality is indecency: Islam does not provide us any rights to allow sexual attraction between people of the same sexes. such attraction is clearly viewed […]
Why I Am So Concerned about “It’s All About Islam” ?
My grandmother – I called her (تيتة) Teita – never finished elementary school. She grew up as the daughter of peasants in Egypt’s Delta. She […]
A Call for Help: Parents, What is in Our Kids Textbooks?
Kids and family issues and the latest crisis back home in Egypt (folks are afraid) have kept me away from the blog for a few […]
Are Our Textbooks Planting Hatred In Our Children?
The following quotes are not from an ISIS propaganda post. They are from a junior high textbook published and distributed here in America. A textbook […]
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 […]