Is it already? I meant to write something. (I actually meant to write quite a lot.) But--well, it didn't happen. So here are a number of updates. About halfway through the semester, a woman in one of my English classes had expressed dissatisfaction that she wasn’t able to read a lot of the “classics” she …
Category: social justice
On Drawing the Prophet Muhammad
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 …
Raising Hands
The last time I was at the masjid was about six months ago. I was teaching Islamic studies on Sundays, as I had been doing for quite a few years, until just this year, when my mother insisted that, since I would be graduating university in the spring, I ought to focus entirely on my …
On Whether We Require Religion to be Moral
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 …
Malala Yousafzai
I'm not back yet. I just want to say that I half-heartedly intended to write some sort of post and I never did. Because I have just become angrier and angrier. And quite frankly, I don't want to write a post about Malala. I don't want to write about a 14-year-old girl shot by the …
Loving v. Virginia
This is 1967. In November 2008, bigotry was back on the ballot. We do not vote on rights. Support love. Invalidate Proposition H8.
Libya what are you doing!
First of all the Coptic Egyptian who made the film (it wasn’t even an American) has the right to make it and everyone needs to chill out. Second, I find it fascinating and outrageous that not only is the film being positioned as a cause of the riots by the group who were responsible for …
the fatal feminist 