Tag: america
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Community Call-In: Gaza Genocide and the U.S. Election
This is a pre-brief and a summarized article, a precursor to a possible lengthy “Community Report” (CR) that I have undertaken (along with veteran observers) for the sake of sanity within our bruised and healing community. It acts as a ‘Call-In’ to community leaders, particularly scholars of theology and jurisprudence, to take-heed and address the…
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American Failure of “Lesser of Two Evils”
Palestine was and remains the red line, but Biden and his allies have decided to draw “no red lines for Israel.”The political class has taken to writing think pieces and downtrodden essays about how their party, and by extension their wallets, will suffer if we retract our votes. The White House is “scrambling to repair…
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I Welcome the Overturning of Roe, But There are Problems
As a Muslim woman, I welcome the overturning of Roe v. Wade. However, there are two glaring problems that I believe Muslims must address. Just as there were un-Islamic ideological premises that guided court to Roe, overturning it returns the question of moral and legal status of abortion to states who still fail to reckon…
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Sharia and the Texas Abortion Law
In early September, the nation’s strictest abortion law went into effect in Texas . . . Among the controversy that has ensued since, self-identifying American liberals responded by making comparisons to the Taliban, the sharīa, and Islam.
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Biden and the Uncivil War That Divides America
President Joe Biden in his inaugural address promised to heal the country and defeat ‘white supremacy,’ yet nativism remains a potent force that can still destabilize the republic
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The Secularization of Christmas
I have a vivid memory from a time in middle school when I begged my parents to let me partake in our school’s annual Christmas celebrations. Every year, classes were canceled on the last Friday before winter break and all the students would be ushered to the school gymnasium to listen to Christmas music, have…