Islamophobia

After the last explosions in Baghdad on the 8th of December where two cars exploded in Baghdad and killed more than 127 person with about 330 wounded, I did not find any energy to write or comment. I just posted the story on my Facebook, a prayer that God, Allah, or any mighty force up [...]

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One of the twentieth century worst fears that haunts people from big cities to small towns, walking down the streets or taking a bus, traveling by airplanes or by ships, doing their work or resting in a hotel, visiting a new country or volunteering to help the poor in another country is the fear of [...]

As an honor graduate, I’ve always been proud of myself, and so were my family and my friends. After all, I’ve worked hard to earn my degree and I spent days and months gaining experience through extracurricular activities; whether by volunteering, doing internships or representing my country abroad. [...]

I never knew hardcore music could be soothing, but this is the effect Al Thawra has on me. Their album Who Benefits from War has many layers: samples of Middle Eastern music, recorded voices and sounds, on top of it, heavy guitars playing mantra like tunes, and an apocalyptic voice screaming dark incantations. The Al [...]

If Taqwacore is about eliminating labels, why would I call The Sagg Syndicate an unlikely taqwacore? When I first met Ra, the man behind the band The Sagg Taqwacore Syndicate, it was online, and I made some assumptions about his identity, all of which were proven wrong (Note to self: assumptions about identity are pointless).
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Thanks to the magic of Twitter, I found an amazing band, The Kominas.
The Kominas (Urdu for bastards or scum bags) are a band from Boston; its members Americans of Indian and Pakistani origin. What started as a band of people of Muslim background has grown more diverse over time, but the emphasis on themes dealing [...]

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Geert Wilders is a name that has left people talking from all parts of the world. For a while the outspoken Party Leader has raised his strong views of Islam and the “jeopardising” European freedom caused by the rise of Islam. Banning the “fascist” Islamic Holy Book, the Qur’an, is enough to say how opposed [...]

On the 26th of February,  a 10-year-old girl was sprayed with a chemical irritant while attending evening prayers with her family in a Dayton. Ohio mosque. According to the police report, the girl saw two men standing outside a basement window, upon which one of them sprayed her with still-unknown chemical. The girl immediately felt [...]

(This topic is a message to any non-Arab muslim or non-muslim in specific, and to all in general)
When your around for Modern muslim images, You’d expect a picture of some angry mob burning down a chinese made American flag, or a turban wearing bearded fellow who’s yelling the name of Allah while waving around a [...]