In no particular order:Telling the imam he is wrongPraying on the men's side of the barrierWearing "alluring perfume"Refusing to eat mermaidsShowing off that I'm menstruatingMatching my bra straps with my lipgloss (overheard me saying this&actually came to lecture)Not wearing hi'jabNot putting hi'jab at the top of the listSinging/listening to music (you know they're just jealous …
Continue reading Things That Are Supposed to Make Me a Bad Muslim
Since the devil is scheduled to be locked up this August (rest assured, evil will not cease) I thought I would research the place he is destined to live. I am a little fascinated by the geography of Hell, because apparently it's probably made of the same stuff as Heaven, according to my interpretations. But! …
Thinking about myself, I realized long ago that I live more in the past and future than I ever live in the present. Recently, however, I recovered something I had forgotten with a start: that not only do I live in another time, but in an entirely invented time. This recollection was met with slight …
(noun)A principle inherent in religion; an interpretational device applied to religious texts and religious practice that emphasizes the religion's essential expression of compassion as it should be emphasized, in assuring that the religion remains true to itself in reinforcing universal aspects of humanity;an interpretational device that can be called upon to overthrow inhumane, violent, or …
No one, in neither books nor sermons, dares disagree that the Prophet's wives were great women, of great intelligence, great generosity, and great accomplishments. But as it is the nature of patriarchy to belittle those women it has failed to completely erase, rarely is there an occasion in which the memory of the wives is …
Continue reading Patriarchal Distortions: The Wives of the Prophet
Guess what just arrived? =) This month I had actually planned on a beautiful deep red, but I was walking through a hair salon and came across a shade of ...pink. I never imagined I would want to wear a shade of pink, but this is not any shade of pink. Strangely enough, it's a …
Verse 4:34 may be the most controversial verse in the Qur'an for Muslim feminists, and the deliberate mistranslation has already been tackled in this space. But what I want to do now is examine a different part of the verse, specifically the beginning, which has also been unsurprisingly interpreted in highly questionable ways in only …
Continue reading Privilege in the Qur’an: Verse 4:34 and Verse 4:135
the fatal feminist 