Since the devil is scheduled to be locked up this August (rest assured, evil will not cease) I thought I would research the place he is destined to live. I am a little fascinated by the geography of Hell, because apparently it's probably made of the same stuff as Heaven, according to my interpretations. But! …
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The radical notion that women are people.
Patriarchal Distortions: The Wives of the Prophet
No one, in neither books nor sermons, dares disagree that the Prophet's wives were great women, of great intelligence, great generosity, and great accomplishments. But as it is the nature of patriarchy to belittle those women it has failed to completely erase, rarely is there an occasion in which the memory of the wives is …
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Privilege in the Qur’an: Verse 4:34 and Verse 4:135
Verse 4:34 may be the most controversial verse in the Qur'an for Muslim feminists, and the deliberate mistranslation has already been tackled in this space. But what I want to do now is examine a different part of the verse, specifically the beginning, which has also been unsurprisingly interpreted in highly questionable ways in only …
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Boundaries.
A classmate I had just met and I went down to one of the university coffee shops during our break, and she ordered an iced chai latte with soy. I stood patiently at the back waiting for her, and let the both of us out as she emerged."You didn't get anything?" she asked while we …
OMG OMG She’s wearing red lipstick in the mosque!
OMG Who cares?!the fatal feminist © Nahida S. N.
activist conflict
Is it better to be polite and swallow down your fury--a truth--to appease to those making tone arguments, those who are wrongfully in power, those who oppress you with murder and rape and different forms of silent but deadly manifested violence, and to work within the system to change it, or is it better to …
Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: Zubaidah bint Ja’fr
She built a pilgrimage route to Mecca from Baghdad, constructed Mecca's water supply, and financed the construction of several different cities. She was notorious for her generosity, and for the water supply in particular, a series of pools and wells along the route to Mecca. She was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women …
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