Originally a guest post on Orbala. My favorite masjid is so severely sex-segregated that there isn’t merely a barrier for the women; there’s an entirely separate tiny afterthought of a room. But it’s my favorite because it is in the hills, where the stars are the brightest, next to sheds with horses in them (my …
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Misogyny in the Muslim Community as Islamophobia
The fabulous Orbala presented yesterday at a conference in UC Berkeley on the question of whether misogyny in the Muslim community towards Muslim women is a form of Islamophobia. Before she'd posed the question on Facebook to explore this construction, Orbala and I had a discussion about its implications. She asked, "How [meaning how is …
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On the Deaths We Choose to Mourn… And the Ones We Choose to Forget
On February 10th, 2015, Yusor Abu Salha, 21, was shot execution-style alongside her husband of six weeks, Deah Barakat, 23, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, by a man who resembles a potato. The potato-terrorist’s name is Craig Stephen Hicks, a 46-year-old while male who, according to the malestream media, shot the three innocent students …
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Snake in the Grass
It seems the women’s-only mosque in LA has brought out quite a bit of male panic—and brought out the white knights alike. Most of you have undoubtedly seen what Yasir Qadhi, Abu Eesa’s BFF, has had to say about it: When our sisters are deprived from the right to come to the mosques, or given …
Alright, fine, let’s talk about Selena Gomez’s ankle.
I honest to God was not going to write a post about this, but since I have begrudgingly begun, I'm going to make this as brief as possible. I don't expect celebrities, like Katy Perry, or Madonna, or Lady Gaga--or, as much as I actually do like her--Angelina Jolie, to understand what they're doing when …
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“Take care of your souls.” —Qur’an 5:105
I hope this post finds everyone well, happy, and looking forward to a new beginning, despite the reality that a new journey around the sun involves no indication that our old problems won't continue. (They most certainly will.) With the acknowledgement that I am a little late, I'd like to begin the new year with a …
Guest Post: Culture, nationalism, and the myth of a monolithic Islam
Does our last guest writer even need an introduction? Metis, wife, mother, academic, and a writer on topics related to religion and feminism, is the badass behind MusFem, where feminism is spoken fluently--and the gridlocks of conventional wisdom is challenged. Under different names, Metis has always been a subversive voice of uncompromising reason and astounding …
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the fatal feminist 