The adhan is the Islamic call to prayer. For whatever reason, I've discovered a recording. So! If you care to listen: Allahu Akbar God is [the] Greatest. Allahu Akbar God is [the] Greatest. Allahu Akbar God is [the] Greatest. Allahu Akbar God is [the] Greatest. Ash-hadu an-la ilaha illa llah I bear witness that there …
Sparkly Pink Niqaab
I'm sorry but this is too awesome not to give its own post. via Afshan
Reclaiming Shari’ah: (Part III) the Significance
Equality, liberation, and justice are actively preserved, not merely obtained and expected to survive unchecked and abandoned; thus, a power struggle over the applications of Quranic interpretation will always prevail with relevance in the future as it has for the previous centuries. As the feminist message of the Qur’an is exposed, the justification for gender …
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Reclaiming Shari’ah: (Part II) the Opponents
Discrepancy between the ideal vision of an Islamic state as one that adheres fully to the employment of the shari’ah as perfect law embodying the integrity of Islam and the reality of the actual implementation amounting unimpressively to policing women’s bodies and exercising a pre-Islamic model of social gender relations is often attributed to Muslim …
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Reclaiming Shari’ah: (Part I) the Process
While nearly all Muslims believe with their own understanding the Islamic scholars who claim that justice and equity are intrinsically incorporated into Islamic principles and thus the shari’ah (the laws derived from those principles), most countries that claim to be guided by the shari'ah do not reflect these laws of justice and equity, especially not--despite …
Ideological Hypocrisy in Abortion Rights and Health Care: No One Who Believes Healthcare is Not a Right Can Be Anti-Choice.
I wrote a copious amount of this elsewhere but am recording it here. Increasingly arguments against a woman’s right to an abortion and other methods of birth control are growing intolerable in logical inconsistencies and blatant cognitive dissonance in the ideological matrix of those who champion them. Most obviously, those against government interference with private …
imam (a question)
During the first few months that I started writing here, a few have suggested that I should begin a mosque and lead as the imam there; these email inquiries returned after I posted evidence on women during the time of the Prophet leading both men and women in prayer. So I thought I should address …
the fatal feminist 