Islam

Lesson From The Taqwacores – Being Accepting and All That Good Stuff

March 21, 2011

I caught the movie The Taqwacores this past Friday as part of the SF Asian Film Festival at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. The film, interestingly enough, is about a group of Muslim punks. I’m not into punk at all. I’m more of a post-rock Explosions in the Sky type of girl, and yet, [...]

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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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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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Thoughts on the “Ground Zero Mosque”

August 13, 2010

I’m going to be honest with you all – I thought the controversy for the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” would have died down by now. So I can’t help but be surprised that the backlash against this proposed facility is still persisting, despite the fact that the project has some very important allies, including Mayor [...]

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Ramadan Resolutions – 2010 Edition!

August 10, 2010

For Muslims, the month of Ramadan starts tomorrow or Thursday, depending on whether one follows the moon sighting*, so I thought I’d share my resolutions for Ramadan this year. Every year, I try to work on one thing in particular that will help me focus during Ramadan and on all the extra spiritual activity I [...]

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Five Books for American (Amreekan) Muslims

January 4, 2010

Over on Al Mihrab, Irfan Rydhan, who I have volunteered with before on a couple of organizations, posted 5 Good Books for American Muslims (and everyone else). Apologies for yet another list but his post inspired me to come up with my own ‘five books’ and so I’ve done that below. Just like Irfan’s list, [...]

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Book Review: Children of Dust

January 1, 2010

Children of Dust is about the evolution of the author from Abir, Amir, and then finally, into reformist blogger Ali Eteraz. In his first book, this former blogger takes the reader through his childhood from a village in Pakistan to his life in the United States. His father had promised Allah (swt) a servant in [...]

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Lack of Logic

December 29, 2009

Yesterday, there was a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan in which a someone blew himself up at a Shia mosque on the day of Ashura. This is just one of many suicide bombings that have occurred in Pakistan as of late. I can’t understand this. Not only the killing, attempted or otherwise, of innocent people, [...]

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Taking Advantage of Ramadan

September 6, 2009

I remember back when I first started fasting in the month of Ramadan. I was in the 4th grade and fasted for maybe 2 or 3 days in the whole month. I started fasting full time when I was in the 5th grade. Well, full time minus one day. There was a class party one [...]

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To Review or Not

April 2, 2009

On occasion, I review movies, books, or TV shows for Media and Islam or Illumemedia, usually things that are related to Islam. On this site, I may occasionally review a random, non-religious book or movie for fun (like the DC animated films). I realized a while ago that I was generally positive when it came [...]

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