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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…

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“If there is any oppression at all… it is in acting savior to women who are already free.”

By Sara

Every so often, Western feminists are struck with the need to “liberate” Muslim women from our religion and hijab. FEMEN is a Ukrainian feminist group that recently launched an “International Topless Jihad Day,” a series of demonstrations throughout Europe, in protest of Islam’s “oppression” of women. First, why is there a prevalent belief that women…