Religion

Look Maw! Muslims are on the TV!

July 21, 2011

TLC announced today that they will be airing a reality show about Muslims living in Dearborn, Michigan. The show is meant to be about the lives of regular Americans who happen to be Muslim. I’m guessing everyone’s hoping that this reality show will create awareness of how normal Muslims really are. Here’s a description of [...]

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On turning 30 (almost) and dealing with the whole single thing

June 22, 2011

So I’m going to turn 30 in less than a couple of weeks. Yes, that’s right, I’ll be three decades old. I was dreading this at first but I’ve faced reality and have accepted it for the simple fact that some people haven’t been fortunate enough to have even made it this far. I should [...]

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Ramifications and All That

May 8, 2011

I was at a concert at Sunday when I found out from my sister, who had been checking twitter on her phone, that Osama Bin Laden was killed. It was definitely a ‘whoa’ moment and I really wished I had a TV right there to watch the news to keep up with all that was [...]

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Fearing the Unknown

March 3, 2011

On my commute to work this morning, I did what I usually do before I start reading my book – I check out updates on Facebook and Twitter. One coworker had posted a video that the Council for Arabic Islamic Relations (CAIR) compiled of people protesting Muslims at an event last month in Orange County. [...]

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Praying in Public – All the Cool Kids Are Doing It!

February 25, 2011

Salon.com published an article the other day titled My Awkward Moments in Muslim Prayer. The writer pretty much sums up the life in Muslims in the West in our quest to always complete our prayers, of which there are 5 at various times throughout the day, on time. There have definitely been times when I’ve [...]

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What if I Couldn’t Have Coffee? An Elseworlds Tale

January 25, 2011

I used to take Arabic classes in San Francisco but took a break after a couple of years and just started up Arabic again, this time a “Speaking Arabic” class at Ta’leef Collective in Fremont, a local Islamic institution. In class last night, the teacher was going over a few things and brought up the [...]

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An Accidental Tuesday, OR: A Very Hijabi Story

January 24, 2011

Fifteen years ago, I started wearing the hijab. Everyone I knew at school reacted because not only did I start wearing a scarf, I started wearing it on a Tuesday. A lot of Muslims girls think about the hijab for quite a while before they decide to don it for the rest of their lives. [...]

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Remember the Ground Zero Mosque? Uhh, No?

January 4, 2011

There was a lot of brouhaha a few months ago about the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”. People were totally outraged that the Muslims (those crazy kids) were going to build a house of worship on Ground Zero. But, y’know, not really. A lot of Muslims and journalists that actually had some sense tried to counteract [...]

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A Muslim in Batman Comics! What. Up.

December 29, 2010

I’m kinda sorta into comic books although not like how I used to be. The only title I read regularly now is DMZ, which is pretty different from my Superman comics now stored in the garage. However, I may just have to start picking up some Batman comics because there’s an actual honest-to-God, bona fide [...]

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Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays & Back Again

December 25, 2010

I remember back in one December in elementary school, I was having a lot of trouble with this one particular artsy-type project in class. I had to cut and glue something to some stuff (it’s hard to describe, ok?!) and for the life of me, I kept on messing up. Downside: I was going to [...]

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