By carolnisarOn Thursday night of last week, as a group of Somali migrants were aboard a boat off Yemen’s west coast headed towards Sudan, 42 people were brutally gunned down by an Apache helicopter, reports indicated. According to The Guardian, a coastguard said that all people on the small ship were carrying official UNHCR refugee documents….
By carolnisarChristmas for reverts to Islam can be awkward if you’re the only Muslim person in your immediate family. Last year, I gave birth to my child a week before Christmas and was staying at my parents’ home. During that time I had no desire to talk to anyone since I was so focused on my son….
By carolnisarIt was around lunchtime when Ammi (Mom) got a phone call. She then turned on the TV and we sat down to watch images of crying and screaming parents. The Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar had been attacked by a group of militants and scores of innocent children were brutally murdered. It was Dec. 16,…
By carolnisarYears ago, when I first told a family member I was interested in a guy from Pakistan, they told me how they heard Muslim women are treated like dogs. Little did they know I was seriously considering embracing Islam as my own faith. That was such a long time ago that I seriously almost forgot…
By carolnisarIn 2014, I moved to Pakistan to marry my significant other whom I met in the United Kingdom. We got married in the company of his family and neighbors in Peshawar, where my husband is from. He and I continued to live in Peshawar with his family until last year, when he finally received his visa…
By carolnisarAccording to ABC News, Donald Trump‘s Muslim ban statement has all but vanished from his campaign website. Trump has not made any public statements saying he will lift his proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S., but this certainly may be an indication that his team is already starting to center his right-leaning posture. The…
By carolnisarThe sexual assault allegations against Trump have piled so high, it’s hard to keep track of them all. One particularly upsetting lawsuit lobs multiple accusations of pedophilia against the GOP presidential candidate. The case has largely been dismissed by mainstream media as a crackpot scheme, but considering his rampant misogyny it’s hard to ignore. A…
By carolnisarHere are eight things, represented by — of course — memes, on what not to say to Muslim converts. 1. “But Janet Jackson doesn’t always wear hijab.” 2. “Does your baby fast too?” 3. “Do the Benazir Bhutto with your scarf. Benazir.” ? Really? 4. “Do you pray five times a day?” 5. “Is that henna…
By carolnisarOn Friday, President Barack Obama signed the first Sexual Assault Survivors Bill into a law. Just over a year ago @nguyen_amanda walked into my office, shared her story & we began writing a bill. Now it’s law: https://t.co/vlIzdBT3xs — Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (@SenatorShaheen) October 7, 2016 The groundbreaking law, which began as a bill written…
By carolnisarThe National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), a long-awaited branch of the Smithsonian Institution, finally opened to the public over the past weekend in Washington, D.C. The museum’s presence marks the government’s institutionalization of the history of the black diaspora living in the United States, and was inaugurated by our country’s first black…
By carolnisarOn Friday, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force announced their arrest of a 50-year-old Caucasian man for plotting to blow up a man’s home. The suspect claimed that he didn’t want to kill his victim, but instead send him a warning. He was picked up by law enforcement late on Friday at the post office…
By carolnisarConservative British columnist Kelvin Mackenzie has received tremendous backlash from the Muslim community and its allies for penning a column which derides Channel 4 for poor editorial choice. Mackenzie wrote in The Sun that the news channel should not have allowed a hijabi woman to report the Bastille Day attack in Nice back in July….
By carolnisarWith this year’s Hajj coming to a close, pilgrims are returning home. If you look hard enough, the stories of such pilgrims have flooded the Internet. But the narrative I’ve enjoyed following the most was the collection of letters that author Sabeeha Rehman blogged to her son, who was performing his first Hajj. Throughout the…
By carolnisarKind of. On Monday, United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein drew some pretty straight, parallel lines connecting the practicing ideologies of populist politicians such as Donald Trump and Dutch Geert Wilders to that of none other than their supposed greatest enemy, the Islamic State. In particular, Zeid pulled out the common thread between them…
By carolnisarThe petty fashion police in Nice, France were out in full force on Tuesday, slapping Muslim women wearing Muslim-esque clothes with fines and even forcing one woman to remove her garments in public to show more skin. Four Nice policemen forced a Muslim woman in Nice wearing something akin to a burkini to remove it,…
