I make excuses for people who have wronged or aggrieved me, even when I don’t want to. I can make more excuses for someone in my mind than they can ever make for themselves. If they persist to commit a similar infraction repeatedly, I will truly come up with some elaborate justification pertaining to their …
Protecting our RELIGIOUS RIGHT to an Abortion
...from the "religious" Right. As you all must have heard by now, Michigan state representative Lisa Brown was censored and barred from speaking during a debate on an abortion bill because she had the audacity to utter the word “vagina”—at which point all the Republican men in the room gasped and clutched their pearls in …
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Quranic Verses and Misconceptions: Divorce and Male Privilege
A common practice before the introduction of Islam—and continuing afterward illegally despite severe restrictions by the Qur’an on the gratuities of men in pre-Islamic divorce—was for a man to perpetually divorce his wife, each time pretending to take her back and divorcing her again to coerce her either to surrender her dower for autonomy or …
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The male orgasm is like a tremor, halting eventually if not quickly, and in a single inhalation delivers into ecstasy then restfulness, exhausted. But the female orgasm, initiated with an aching, is the beginning of a chasm of conflicted turns, that when it passes, her desires have only just been awakened. And instead of engendering …
I kind of want…
to tattoo the words through Whom you demand your mutual rights (4:1) a quarter way down my right shoulder, but I wouldn’t know how to reconcile getting a tattoo, which is considered haraam (mutilation), with the irony of it being a Quranic verse. I’ll probably just engrave it on a necklace.
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Pride is my greatest sin, and hypocrisy is the sin I fear the most. It is a trap within itself, because I often criticize people for the very act of being hypocritical, so by doing that it is a sin within the frame of a sin. And I'm incredibly selfish: I want to be loved. …
The Mosque and (In)Accessibility
Recently a friend of mine sent me a 25-minute video in the mail titled “We Will Not Be Hidden” about disabled Muslims and the (lack of) accessibility in mosques. Most of those who spoke in the video made points I had heard; then one woman mentioned that she would love to actively contribute to her …
the fatal feminist 