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Hijab Wars
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Aziz Poonawalla
It’s fundamentally problematic for a man to weigh in on hijab. That hasn’t stopped me from wading into the topic before (see: The Burka and the Bikini), but the only conversation of substance that can happen on the topic is between Muslim women, particularly those who wear it and those who don’t. Any discussion about…
Misquoted verses in the Qur’an (and the Bible)
By
Aziz Poonawalla
This is a popular graphic that makes the ruonds on Facebook from time to time, so I thought I’d publish it here for reference. These five verses are among the most common ones that Islamophobes use to justify arguments that Muslims are evil robots running some operating system “Quran 1400”. The specific verses here are:…
Trump, the cartoon enemy
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Aziz Poonawalla
It needs to be said – that Trump is a symptom, not a disease. There has been a GOP War on Muslims for years, and despite heroic efforts by Republican Muslim Americans to sway opinion, the bottom line is that Muslim hatred is a prerequisite for the GOP nomination. Just as incendiary rhetoric by radical…
KEFAYA
By
Aziz Poonawalla
In just the past few weeks – the Laquan McDonald video in Chicago. The Jamar Clark shooting in Minneapolis. The attack on Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs. The Paris attacks. and now, the San Bernadino massacre. One thing that the #BlackLivesMatter movement teaches us is that the police are rarely held accountable. The firing of…
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