Parental Lessons in Guidance, not Compulsion, in Religion
By Safiyyah Ally The Canadian trial of three individuals accused of murdering their family members has come to an end. Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed were found guilty of...
View ArticleIce Princess Zahra Lari – An Example for Women of Faith
By Ashley McGuire She’s been called the “Ice Princess in the Hijab.” And, I think she rocks. Zahra Lari is a 17-year-old Olympic figure-skating hopeful from the United Arab Emirates. And you can’t miss...
View ArticleMuslim Women Make History at London Olympics
By Nadia S. Mohammad Though it has just begun, the London Olympics already holds a series of historic firsts, especially for Muslims and women around the world. To begin with, the organizers aim to...
View ArticleNot Losing My Hijab
By Sarah Farrukh By the grace of God, I met the end of 2012 in a state of blissful contentment. However, this didn’t come without struggle. I was reminded of a particular difficulty I experienced when...
View ArticleSomewhere on the Internet, Muslim Women are being Shamed
By Rabia Chaudry On behalf of Muslims of the internet, I would like to extend a sincere apology to the young women in the “Somewhere in America” video that has been exploding heads online for the past...
View ArticleThe Danger of Being the First Token Hijabi to …
By Laila Alawa The undercurrents of this issue have been rumbling throughout the community this past year, and it’s time someone got up and spoke up about it. Granted, don’t read this if you’re looking...
View ArticleAll Signs Point to Hate Crime in Chapel Hill Murders (and Beyond)
By Sahar Aziz Not just anyone has the capacity for cold-blooded murder. The perpetrator would have to be either a malicious criminal or severely mentally ill. In the tragic murder of three Muslim...
View ArticleWhy Wheaton’s Decision Is Out of Step with Jesus’ Love – An Evangelical...
By Susan Campbell Too often, the public face of evangelical Christianity is that of a shouting preacher sweating into the microphone so much that he’s (it’s always a he) shorting out the lights in his...
View ArticlePutting an End to the Hoe-Jabi Shaming
By Nabah Rizvi A couple of months ago, I shared an article on my Facebook page about ‘Hijabi Hipsters’; a new generation of hijabis who fuse fashion with faith by wearing stylish hijab-friendly...
View ArticleWhy is Muslim Fashion and Modest Dressing the Story That Never Ends?
By Michael Wolfe Standing ovations at TED Talks are not that common. The last one I recall was a magician with a sword who, literally, showed his audience how to swallow fear. Imagine then the...
View ArticlePushing Secularism over Democratic Values – France’s PM Supports Hijab Ban in...
By Saideh Jamshidi Some Westerners, especially in France, view Muslim women who wear a hijab or head scarf, as backward-looking, oppressed by religion and unsophisticated. Such views have intensified...
View ArticleMy Hijab Doesn’t Define Me
By Hadeer Hijabi. The word stumbles about my tongue in an ungainly fashion instead of rolling off gracefully. When it escapes my mouth, it falls flat. I realize then that I hate it. This word confines...
View ArticleFrance’s Burkini Ban Declared Illegal. Now What?
Embed from Getty Images By Rim-Sarah Alouane If you’ve been following the ongoing burkini debacle in France, you may have concluded that since hijabs and niqabs are already banned in certain...
View ArticleNoor Tagouri Responds – But is Playboy the Medium for Muslim Women’s...
By Zehra Rizavi Muslim-American journalist Noor Tagouri posted a response piece today to the backlash she has faced for choosing to appear in the latest issue of Playboy magazine — this sentence might...
View ArticleNoor Tagouri and Playboy – Empowerment, Assimilation or Colonialism?
By Hajara Shareef The Muslim community’s response to Noor Tagouri’s appearance in Playboy has been generally been one of condemnation or support. Despite the opposition of their differing opinions, the...
View ArticleModest Muslim Fashion Show Caters to Mixed-Gender Audience
By Saideh Jamshidi Lee Mozena, director of Zena Consulting, organized a mixed-gender modest couture fashion show to celebrate diversity, multiculturalism and different standards of modest fashion in...
View ArticleTrump, Interment Camps and Muslim Bans – an FAQ
By Maureen Pettibone Ryan Donald J. Trump has made several statements during his campaign that have given rise to concerns about civil rights in America, particularly for minority groups such as Muslim...
View ArticleImagined Q&A on Hemlines and Hijabs
here is the difference: Israeli women (and men) protested outside the Knesset, loud and clear. It may not turn the ship, but they raised their voices. Saudi women have chosen to go along, some by...
View ArticleWho Benefits by “Hijabis” Featured in the Mainstream Fashion Industry?
The campaigns and media attention normalize the hijab in the mainstream’s gaze, but it also validates decades of patriarchal and Western voices telling women what they should look like and how they...
View ArticleHow do Honor Killings and Women’s Rights Factor into the #MuslimBan 2.0?
On March 6th, Trump replaced the original ban with a new one that not only excludes immigrants from six Muslim majority countries but also requires the government to collect data surrounding the...
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