When I was small, my schoolyard friends would gasp in shock at the idea of going without food or water for as long as a drop of sunlight hit the pavement. ("All day?" they'd marvel with the same tone that they'd ask, "You run THAT fast?") Pleased with the astonished reaction, I would boast that …
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When I was four years old, a five-year-old boy chased me around the masjid because I refused to take off my shoes. For those of you who don't know, everyone is expected to remove their shoes prior to entering the prayer area. I did not remove my shoes because I was waiting for my mother …
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I will never defend, accept, or fail to denounce a depiction of the Prophet by a Westerner, regardless of their excuse, progressive or offensive. Depicting the Prophet is an injustice, and it is an injustice because the West has a habit of ignoring the copyright-by-virtue-of-existing laws, those which it conveniently affords itself, when regarding the …
no true scotsman 1.1 this cannot be a true Muslim true Muslims are terrorists at a fundamental(ist) level friendly feminist fire: you cannot be a true religious woman; religion is anti-feminist and what you practice is not bandwagon 2.1 a man of color accuses a woman of racism for rejecting his advances because white men …
Continue reading a lesson in logical fallacies, to my critical thinking instructors
In spirit of the last post, and along the same lines, sometimes when I am asked whether if all can be achieved without referring to religion or if I see any usefulness or need of it, I recount the story of myself reading the following hadith: Anas Ibn Malik narrates: "Whilst we were in the …
I wasn't, until rather recently, one to suggest / wonder if religion is the only way to decipher between what is moral and what is immoral. Though upon receiving inquiries as to whether I believed someone could be a moral person without religion my answer had consistently been yes, admittedly what I truly felt was …
Admittedly, even as a Western woman, I still grapple with the role of nudity in the feminist movement--the only real incorporation of it that I understood entirely had been the Slutwalks, and that is because the message wasn't, "I am free to be sexy!" but, "You can't rape me if I am, and you can't …
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the fatal feminist 