17 reasons to wear a headscarf
Posted in Islam, cultural, gender on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My latest post is up at Religion Dispatches.
Archive for March, 2008
Mourning Malcolm X again
Posted in USA, race on March 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Just like a submissive woman
Posted in Islam, gender, political on March 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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 [...]
The price of freedom
Posted in USA, political, race on March 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Strawberry Shortcake and Charlie & Lola
Posted in children, cultural, gender on March 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »
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 [...]
Restore the Judiciary
Posted in Pakistan on March 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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.”
Mandatory reflection
Posted in Pakistan, spiritual on March 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Brown immigrant school-kid in White school
Posted in academic, children on March 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
Praying in fear
Posted in Islam, USA, religion on March 3, 2008 | 14 Comments »
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.)
