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Archive for March, 2008

My latest post is up at Religion Dispatches.

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Mourning Malcolm X again

Here was a man.
Here was a true man, a truthful man, a powerful man, a man of historic strength. And this man was gunned down in cold blood.
This was a death that deserves to be mourned again and again. It is doubtful to me that America has ever been granted a soul as great as [...]

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My latest blog post “Just Like a Submissive Woman” is up at Religion Dispatches.
As a Muslim feminist who does not wear a head-cover but who fights for women’s right to do so with total honor, I am in that uncomfortable space between Muslims and non-Muslims. Many non-Muslims would not accept my feminist credentials and many [...]

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The price of freedom

Lynndie England “apologizes” for the scandal in Abu Ghraib, but lashes out at the media:
Look, she half-snarls like an angry teenager in trouble, I’m kind of sorry I took those pictures. Those pictures with me holding a naked Iraqi by a leash and posing with a pile of naked Iraqis, where I’m pointing at a [...]

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I picked up a DVD of Strawberry Shortcake (Strawberry Shortcake meets spring) in a moment of desperation at a Columbia, MD baby thrift store a few months ago. I regretted spending that $8, so I’d like to warn you not to. Strawberry Shortcake is not my ideal role model for Raihana. Her primary characteristic is [...]

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Restore the Judiciary

This is Black Flag week. As CM says, “The point is simple enough: Pakistan needs a return to Law now that the elections have happened and the people have spoken.”

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Mandatory reflection

This is an old post from autumn of 2006 that I thought deserved a re-run.

A couple of nights ago, I went out a night stroll.
I went out, leaving Svend doing his homework in front of “The Towering Inferno,” and Raihana playing on the carpet. I must be selfish and seek my inner space, I thought.
Then [...]

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My niece immigrated to join her mother in Australia while in middle school. Every time I speak to her on the phone, she tells me how easy her curricular material is. She is at the top of her class in math and science. It’s so easy it verges on boring. “Because,” she says, “it’s all [...]

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Praying in fear

My latest post is up at the Religion Dispatches blog, about the complexities of praying namaz in public: “Praying in Fear.”
Also check out this lovely video “Forbidden Love” (h-t Safiyya.)

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