By Zainab KhanThe Women of Iran are our honorees for Muslim Women to Watch 2023, Muslim Girl’s annual list of the prolific Muslim women making our year. Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman was visiting Iran in September 2022. As she was exploring the streets of Tehran, the morality police approached her concerning the way Amini had draped…
By sarahmohrShould we call off the Cold War? Are we defending our interests by our understanding of the role China is playing and can play globally? Saudi Arabia and Iran’s China-brokered peace deal poses some interesting questions about our current stance towards China. The Biden administration’s reception of the deal indicates that the US is open to…
By Amirah AhmedRecently, 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…
By sarahmohrMahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died Friday, September 16 after being arrested by the notorious “morality police” in Tehran. According to reports, including from Amini’s family, Amini was severely beaten by the morality police with repeated blows to the head, both in the van and at the re-education center where she was taken. She…
By sarahmohrWhat is the current situation between Iran and the United States? Right now, Iran is engaged in a standoff with the U.S. about the Iran nuclear deal. And it’s rapidly heating up. The Biden/Harris administration has ties to the weapons industry Here’s a few scattered facts: The Trump administration imposed sanctions to intentionally make diplomacy…
By sarahmohrTo our respected Senators (and dear fellow citizens of the United States and the world): Peace and blessings. First of all, thank you for your devoted service to our country. It is impossible for someone like me to know the challenge of serving our country at the level of government you have achieved. I am…
By Lana M. WaheedAs the stakes are raised in the current locking of horns between the U.S. and Iran, a narrative that is often left off the presses is how American interference is the catalyst that brought us to this point. Recently, we saw multiple decades of American military interference in Iraq culminate in an embassy attack a few…
By AnonymousEver since Trump has taken the office, he’s been pulling every string possible to put Iran under as much pressure as he can to get what he wants. The sanctions and threats have been increasing nonstop, growing tighter and tighter around the people in Iran. What has the result been? The government of Iran has…
By A Concerned US CitizenDisclaimer: The views expressed here are strictly those of the writer. The US regime has claimed that Iran attacked a tanker, the Kokura Courageous, with a mine, even producing video of people they claim are Iranian removing a mine from the tanker. This is in contradiction to the reports from eyewitnesses. “We received reports that…
By Sarah Huxtable MohrMr. Trump, to quote Winston Churchill: “You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success.” Let me begin by saying: I am a loyal U.S. citizen, and deeply love my country. I have the utmost respect for the Founding Fathers, and think they really were radical for…
By Pegah SmileyI remember when I was about nine, we had just moved back to my parents’ home country of Iran, and I was starting to learn more and more about our culture and religion. For my first Ramadan, my parents said that I was allowed to fast, but it should be “kalle-gonjishki,” which basically means you’re…
By Sarah Huxtable Mohr“Oh, you who believe, stand up for justice.” We as Muslims have a call to be witnesses and advocates for justice as a central tenet of our faith. As such, in a country like the United States — which has withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council — we have to work for our…
By Pegah Smiley“With liberty and justice for all.” Have you heard of that expression? Yeah, it’s an authentically American thing. It’s also an American thing to say one thing, but act differently. On Sunday, an American-Iranian journalist named Marzieh Hashemi, 59, was arrested at St. Louis Lambert International Airport and taken to Washington D.C. by the F.B.I.,…
By MG StaffI am really confused with regard to the outpour of positive public memories of the late Senator John McCain after news of his death broke. He wasn’t someone who stood for American values, he actually opposed many American people (by pushing forward conservative agenda), especially Asian, Arab, and Middle Eastern Communities. I had to take a…
By Haniya ShareefRecently, a video was released in which an Iranian woman was violently attacked by female officers for failing to fully cover her head. Known as the “morality police,” the officers were shown pushing the woman to the ground and beating her as screams pierced the air. Additionally, the woman and the officers seemed to exchange harsh…
