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Interfaith gestures: Moral placebos or progress?
On November 14, 2014, Muslims prayed at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. South Africa’s US Ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, gave a sermon and declared that, “never again must there be intolerance...
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Will Islam be judged if Aasia Bibi is executed?
Aasia Bibi, mother of five, sits in prison hoping one last appeal will save her from death row. If she is executed, as with the lynching of Shahzad and Shama Masih and the assassination of Salman...
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#Ferguson: Was it only about being black?
The world has rallied around Ferguson after a grand jury refused to indict an officer for killing Michael Brown. Add the deaths of Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, revisit past cases of police brutality...
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Chapel Hill: Should Muslims in America worry?
Almost 13 and a half years ago, 9/11 set in motion US involvement in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and escalated tension between fundamentalists and the world. Despite this, the United States, with...
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May peace win
Al Arabiya: “An Iranian educational and exhibition centre has launched an international cartoon competition around the theme of Holocaust denial, in a response to the publication of caricatures of the...
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Should Eid be counted as a public holiday in New York City?
On March 4, 2015, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City public schools would close to recognise Eidul Azha and Eidul Fitr. He said, “Hundreds of thousands of Muslim families...
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What Netanyahu’s victory means for Palestinians
The latest chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict saw Benjamin Netanyahu winning a key March 17th election. The victory provided drama and controversy. Trailing in the polls a few days before the...
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Does Charlie Hebdo really deserve the Freedom of Expression Courage Award?
On August 2nd, 2006, the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s front page depicted a sobbing Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The caption read, “Mahomet débordé par les intégristes.” (Muhammad (PBUH)...
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Why did no one stand up for Tahera Ahmad and the bigotry she faced?
If you have been following the ‘Tahera Ahmad and the Diet Coke’ saga, you know that a United Airlines flight attendant refused to serve a Muslim Chaplain, Ms Ahmad, on the grounds that the can could be...
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Why do Muslims play victims of free-speech but make excuses for apostasy and...
The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), as reported by The Express Tribune on September 1, 2015, initiated a nationwide campaign to ‘create awareness about the religion (Islam)’ by displaying...
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Why the US should welcome Syrian refugees without prejudice
A meme circulating the internet these days goes, “Before you condemn Syrian refugees, make sure you never said ‘All Lives Matter’.” The irony is clear. The fate of Syrian refugees fleeing the Islamic...
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355 mass shootings in 340 days: We cannot ban guns, but we can control and...
In the spring of 2001, while in Copenhagen, I went to Gun Nation, an exhibit by British photojournalist Zed Nelson. Nelson’s opus, with book of same title, intertwined Americans’ love of weapons with...
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Why isn’t the #OregonStandoff being called terrorism? Because it’s not
Last year, when I wrote about the Chapel Hill murders of three Muslims for The Express Tribune Blogs, I revisited the definition of terrorism because the term is oft misused. Use of corrupted words...
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Baby Asha’s struggle signifies the divide between the rich and poor
The CNN headline: Australian hospital refuses to discharge asylum seeker baby. The details: “Nepalese baby, while at a detention centre in Nauru, an island in the South Pacific 2,000 miles away from...
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War is beautiful: Does photography glamourise war?
Forty years ago, Susan Sontag, in an essay for the New York Review of Books, wrote, “To photograph people is to violate them… Just as a camera is a sublimation of a gun, to photograph someone is a...
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What would a Trump presidency mean?
It’s official. Donald Trump, as of July 19, 2016, is the Republication nominee for President of the United States. How could this combo of successful businessman, womaniser, and charismatic reality...
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How do Americans and non-Muslims view Eidul Azha?
This year, a controversy surrounded the arrival of Eidul Azha, the second most important holiday in Islam, involving the holiday’s date, as the Express Tribune reported: American Muslims on edge as...
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Should the Wheaton College Professor have been suspended for wearing a hijab?
Whether in Islamic theocracies or places with visible minority Muslim populations, from China to the United Kingdom, the hijab twists conservatives and liberals in their support or opposition to dress...
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Did the biased media coverage of the US elections ensure Trump’s victory?
On April 6, 1994, a missile shot down an airplane carrying Hutu leaders Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprian Ntayamira in Rwanda, unleashing the ethnic majority Hutus against the minority Tutsis on a...
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If a Trump and a Muslim American can put aside their differences, why can’t we?
Recently, the Huffington Post covered an incident where a Muslim American comedian, Mohammed Amer, sat next to Eric Trump on a flight. A fellow passenger warned, “I wouldn’t even sit next to him if I...
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