Recently, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini was brutally murdered by Iran’s “morality police” for “improper hijab.” She died at the hospital three days after her arrest, on September 16, 2022, due to her injuries. Her family reports she was severely beaten by the morality police with repeated blows to the head, both during…
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How to Be an Ally to the #BlackLivesMatter Movement: Advice From Imam Qareeb Bashir
Imam Qareeb Bashir is The Imam of the Islamic Center of Ewing, and the president of the Islamic Council of Greater Trenton. How can the youth get involved in helping to support the movement? Imam Bashir said,“Contact not only Black Lives Matter chapters but also other civil rights groups, including NAACP, etc.” What is something…
This #MuslimWomensDay, We Sounded off on Autonomy
As we put our fourth annual Muslim Women’s Day behind us, we take a look back at the plethora of content that came out of this day, centered on the narratives of Muslim women in their own voices. Our newsfeeds were blessed with the most important conversations centered around the lives and daily realities of…
12 #MuslimWomensDay Posts From Our Partners and Allies That Gave Us the Feels
Thank you to everyone who made this year’s Muslim Women’s Day — our fourth annual one — a huge success! We had a great time flooding the internet with our own authentic narratives centered around autonomy, particularly because we got to express ourselves without filtering them through the lenses of others. But it wasn’t just…