I really really love Sarah's new blog, and this is a post that resonates with me and feels so comforting and relieving. Excerpt, Would I ever tell a person who has been through a certain trauma at the hands of another that they need to forgive that person? No, I would never do that. Forgiveness …
Month: September 2012
Libya what are you doing!
First of all the Coptic Egyptian who made the film (it wasn’t even an American) has the right to make it and everyone needs to chill out. Second, I find it fascinating and outrageous that not only is the film being positioned as a cause of the riots by the group who were responsible for …
Pamela Hall Should be Arrested for Assault (And Why She Wasn’t)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0jSSLleGiY The woman in this video is Mona Eltahawy. She is vandalizing an ad. The woman who runs up to the poster with a camera and assaults her is Pamela Hall. [I placed the ad Eltahawy was vandalizing here but have removed it because frankly I don't feel like looking at it. I'm sure you …
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Things I Would Never Do to Children
When I was 4 years old I was being babysat by a lady who I am sure was a very well meaning adult. Sometime in the afternoon, however, I decided I wanted ice cream, and thus began one of the most infuriating exchanges of my 4 years of life. “There is ice cream in my …
The Conception of Prophet Jesus, Son of Mary
Upon a Christian feminist expressing to me her discomfort with the idea of the Virgin Mary delivering a child without having consented to conceive or carry him, I decided to reread the corresponding verses in the Qur’an that describe the conception of Prophet Jesus, son of Mary, since there has already been an instance—the sacrifice …
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Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: Kahula bint Azwar
Kahula bint Azwar, who belongs in the warriors series, is nothing short of legendary. Most notably the ardent heroine charged to the rescue of her abducted brother, who was also a soldier and had been taken prisoner by the Byzantine Roman army during the Siege of Damascus in the Battle of Saniyat al Uqab, 634. …
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When ordinary Muslims say things in the media (and it sounds outrageous)
Most people, especially most religious people, are not aware that they are not living in a vacuum. They aren't aware that their words and actions are politically charged, or of the wider implications and interpretational consequences. They think they are just being religious. They think they are just being religious and living their lives even …
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the fatal feminist 