And God created humankind, so that we may be guardians of the Earth. When Lilith was born, a quiescent soul in the full formation of a woman, she gazed only at the vast, flower-covered land across her dark eye. In the meadow she saw her destiny unfolded, and she lifted her gleaming halo of hair to …
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Critique and Complacency in Examining Gender as a Performance
A couple of years ago, photographs of men in stereotypical 'pin-up' poses circulated the Internet. The photographs, featuring men accessorized with 'masculine' items but contorted in 'feminine' poses, are by artist Rion Sabean, and I encountered them rather early on in the feminist blogosphere. The general consensus by feminist commentators was that they were exceptional--an …
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The Universal and Historical are not Contrary: Reconciling Interpretative Applications in Approaching the Qur’an
"And certainly we have propounded for humanity in this, the Qur'an, every kind of parable, so that perhaps they would recollect a recitation without any crookedness, so that perhaps they would be Godfearing." (Qur'an 39:27) Many Islamic theorists and exegetes are resistant to the idea that specific Qur’anic regulations refer to a historical period; this is …
Stop Talking about Drones
This is going to be a quick post, and it's prompted by various Muslims--and naturally, they've pretty much all been men trying to "put things in perspective"--detracting from the tragedy of the Nigerian girls who've been kidnapped, raped, and sold into slavery by competing with the attention the kidnapping is receiving, via lists of various …
Beauty Fades, and other Ridiculous Things Men Say
This is a power move. Expressed by even the best of men, the sentiment likely originated to remind human beings of their own mortality. Typical first encounters with it, after all, are when children are warned to curb a vanity yet to develop. If this is true, it has since evolved to remind only women—and …
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The Sixth Pillar
And what is the matter with you that you fight not in the cause of God and for the oppressed among men, women, and children who say, "Our Lord, take us out of this city of oppressive people and appoint for us from Yourself a protector and appoint for us from Yourself a helper"? Qur'an …
In response to anchor Ana Kasparian
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed ruled that a woman has the right to privacy in the delivery room; specifically, that she has the right to the privacy of her medical records, procedures, complications, and/or any other medical information that may be disclosed in a delivery room with the father of the child present. …
the fatal feminist 