In Afghanistan, a young girl greets a stranger traveling along her road. The stranger is filming the scenic route, peacefully enjoying his good fortune in the opportunity to admire the stark beauty of God’s earth. He greets the girl politely as he passes by, hiking up a mountain. “Uncle,” the child says, in what is …
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Buried Banaat and Bal بل : TFF Tafsir of Prophet Lut [a.s]
as understood by Mehedi. Note: As of November 2023, The WordPress article is updated, but the PDF is an old, incomplete draft. Introduction and Methodology Anahita Nisa Sultana, writer and exegete has readily accepted the invitation from the Quran itself, to study It. Her work uncovered that Lut (a.s). clarifies homosexuality was not the sin …
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Don’t bother boycott Hajj.
If you weren't boycotting Saudi for its exploitation of women or for its reign of terror over Yemen, don't bother skipping on Hajj to protest how expensive it is for your poor little pockets. By all means, go. Cry vacantly over your soul. Muslims who value money over blood need all the redemption they can …
Severing a population from its allies and support network is abuse.
There are Muslim men who say things like "only Muslims should be able to comment on sexual assault in the Muslim community" WHILE NOT BEING WOMEN. You're seriously not registering that you're asking people of an outside demographic to stop, while being part of an outside demographic? You don't get to choose our allies for …
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I recognize no “founding fathers.”
"[...]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 …
State of Israel Devises Ethnic Cleansing of Ethiopian Jews and Palestinians
Ayelet Shaked is a parliament member and lawmaker in Israel, the settler state built on Palestinian land, who remarked that all Palestinian mothers "have to die and their houses should be demolished so that they cannot bear any more terrorists," appearing unaware that her agenda and occupation of Palestinian land breeds the "terrorists" intent on …
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Men Need to Learn to Read Nonverbal Cues
This post is actually a primer to another post I’ll get around to writing sometime, in which I make the argument that that there are racial and sexual implications in men (physically or otherwise) attacking women’s hair. In this particular post there are two themes: the importance of reading nonverbal cues (which is incidental) and …