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 …
Continue reading On the Deaths We Choose to Mourn… And the Ones We Choose to Forget
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 …
Continue reading Alright, fine, let’s talk about Selena Gomez’s ankle.
When I was an undergrad about a year and a half ago, I had a professor whose class was such a frustrating experience that even the memory of it is discomforting. Aside from the horrifying discussion she entertained in the classroom about whether a student in a novel we were reading had actually been raped …
Continue reading The Racism of Being Told to Keep Your Audience in Mind
"[...]we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their highnesses; we shall take you, and your wives, and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as …
I used to teach at an Islamic school, situated within a masjid, when I was around 17. There was a lot that didn't sit well with me; the mosque had a barrier--I also taught students who were about 8 years old, and I believed it to be ludicrous that I was expected to cover my …
Zeina Shaaban is a graphic designer with interests in English and creative writing. Her approach to Islam is graced with wisdom, serenity, knowledge, and understanding. Those of you who have read this website for quite some time might be familiar with her; you've met Zeina before, and, as she has been a friend very close …
Continue reading Guest Post: Polarized Realities: Living a Theo-secular Purgatory in the Workplace
I'm pleased to introduce the author behind Orbala, Pashto for firefly, who, despite being a PhD student of Islamic Studies with emphasis in gender, sexuality, and Islamic law, is still overlooked as qualified to discuss Islamic jurisprudence, undoubtedly due to many of the factors explored in this post. Deeply inquisitive and refreshingly demanding, Orbala has undertaken the task of …
the fatal feminist 