What’s The Matter With Joe Biden? As Disgust Builds Over Calamity in Gaza the President Offers Only Toothless Criticism
Lately I’ve been wondering if Joe Biden is an Islamophobe. I don’t use the word…
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The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?
When it was published in 1988, The Satanic Verses wasn’t immediately controversial. But the charged…
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What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change
More times than I can remember, I’ve had to ascend the minbar and address a…
Read MoreIf Not for AIPAC: What Ilhan Omar Should Have Said
I hope Rep. Omar is able to move forward after this unfortunate, second charge of anti-Semitism; to do less social media and more of what she was elected to do: legislate.
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A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America
Ten questions for Haroon Moghul on How to Be a Muslim: An American Story
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No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”
Yesterday, after the ISIS attack on Teheran, this astonishing paragraph appeared in a CNN article:…
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Ask a Muslim: What of Neanderthals and Aliens?
Not too long ago I received the following text: I’m gonna…
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6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun
There are bright spots in the Muslim world, but a sense of ominousness is inescapable. It doesn’t just seem like the Arab Spring is over, but that the winter is here to stay.
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An Open Letter to American Muslims on Election Day
Dear American Muslims…
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What I Heard At The Mosque Reminded Me Of Donald Trump
What is the consequence of imams whose principal mode of engaging their community is shrieking at them?
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