Wajahat Ali’s All-American Khutbah (Sermon)
Wajahat Ali (playwright, humorist, lawyer, altmuslim contributing editor, and activist, who co-authored the Center for American Progress’s report “Fear, Inc.” on the Islamophobia network) gave his...
View ArticleShaima Al-Awadi – Beyond Hoodies and Hijabs
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View ArticleCombatting Islamophobia and Preserving Religious Freedom in Tennessee
By Remziya Suleyman Last year when anti-shariah legislation was introduced in Tennessee, I never imagined it would awaken our community as it did. But now the community alliance that was forged in that...
View ArticleAn Attack on a House of Worship is an Attack on All Houses of Worship
By Jilllian Holzbauer Islamophobia has become a prominent buzzword in the realm of political rhetoric. Some see it as the pinnacle of a climate of discrimination in America; others view it as a smear...
View ArticleRaising A Confident Muslim-American Child in the Age of Islamophobia
By Sabina Khan-Ibarra Raising a child is a difficult feat. Raising a brown child in America is even trickier. Raising a brown, Muslim child in America seems almost impossible. If someone asked me to...
View ArticleThe Story (You Never Knew) of Wajahat Ali
By Stephen Cobbe As a former Catholic school student, Wajahat Ali has some familiarity with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. But for a long time, there was another less-forgiving trinity in his life:...
View ArticleRediscovering Islam in a Post-Divorce Landscape
By Deonna Kelli My marriage had taken me all over the Muslim world – to Mecca, Cairo, Kabul and countless countries in between. I would even venture to say that over the course of my 12 year union, I...
View ArticleIslamophobia is Only One Chapter in the Muslim-Western Story
By Muqtedar Khan ISTANBUL – It concerns me that Islamophobia, an irrational fear of Islam and animosity toward Muslims, is becoming a dominant paradigm through which all Western-Muslim relations are...
View ArticleThe Power of Perception and the Stigma of Mental Illness in Our Muslim Community
By Laila Alawa I usually say it with a smile and a laugh. “I’m depressed, you know.” It’s my response to conversations on mental health in our community that often spiral into the “we don’t have those...
View ArticleAs a Muslim American Mom – Fighting for My Country, My Children
Embed from Getty Images By Sofia Ali-Khan 1982, I began fasting half-days during Ramadan for the first time, my hands painted with henna in celebration. I was in Mrs. Campbell’s third grade class; the...
View ArticleBetween Disengagement and Changing Paradigms – A New Path for America’s Mosques
How does one resolve these two parallel realities – that while there are fewer people going to mosques than before, houses of worship can and often do help congregants integrate more into American...
View ArticleSenate Holds Hearings on Hate Crimes, But No Muslims Were Invited to Speak
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) applauds the Senate Judiciary Committee for holding a hearing on “Responses to the Increase in Religious Hate Crimes” at a time when the topic could not be more...
View ArticleIn Times of Crisis, How Can Communities Heal?
Today, countless Muslim parents across the country may be telling their daughters not to wear the hijab, advising whether they should attend mosque services or not and cautioning them to be hyper...
View ArticleFinal Push for Many American-Muslim Candidates Running for Office
With hotly-contested elections coming up next week in Michigan and Minnesota and elsewhere in the U.S., there has been an upswing of about 90 American Muslim candidates running for statewide or...
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