Today is the Day of Arafat, a day of repentance preceding Eid al-Adha. Eid al-Adha is a solemn festival to commemorate God’s intervention on the sacrifice of Isma’il (Ishmael) by his father Ibrahim (Abraham) resulting in the sacrifice of a goat instead of a son. The festival starts after Muslims on the hajj pilgrimage descend …
Continue reading Eid al-Adha: Commemorating a Dismantling of Patriarchy
I really love this campaign against the stereotyping and appropriation of non-White cultures for Halloween costumes. And then this one! Okay, the first time I saw that I cringed. My instinct was that the intention of the message was to disparage, in a "cute" way (oh look! her culture is magic!), especially since it appears …
I want to talk about a verse that has appeared on this site without previous examination because it is so clear in its meaning, and extract from it a deeper understanding of the Quranic approach to sex and gender and these supposed strict “gender roles” that patriarchs insist are dictated in the Qur’an. Reverence Your …
(Image: Women stand beneath a sign that reads "Come In and Learn Why Women Ought to Vote"; meanwhile, a man films them with a camera labeled "Girls Gone Wild.") If you haven't heard of Steven Greenstreet, you're not missing anything. He's the typical mansplaining sexist masquerading as a progressive; specifically, he's the idiot who thought …
Is the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk a cannibal, or is he of an entirely different species than humans? (Also, I never understood why we're supposed to sympathize with Jack--he's a total ass. I get it, he's poor--but after you had the golden eggs, why would you come back for the harp?! He didn't …
Go read this article by Khadeeja. (Reproduced below.) Last night I attended a talk by somebody who had done his doctorate on Sayyidinah Fatima. It was a lecture which brought alive the historical sources. You know when you listen to somebody speak and an hour passes in a blur? Took me back to being in …
Continue reading AntiDogmaSpray: Fatima, oh, Beloved Fatima.
Tragically, as many Muslim women both wordlessly comply and actively contribute to systems of oppression established by men i.e. choosing to stand behind barriers and believing that staying in an abusive relationship is a duty, the feminist is faced with what appears to be a conflict: because patriarchy dictates that one woman must represent all …
the fatal feminist 