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January 2005
January 31, 2005
A Day with the World’s Angriest Imams
Over the holidays a friend of mine invited me down to Orlando to witness the 13th Annual World’s Angriest Imam Contest (WAIC).
January 30, 2005
The Iraqi Elections: Will Women Be the Biggest Losers?
Come election time in Iraq, remember Wijdan al-Khuzai. Her violent death is a brutal warning that although Iraq's Sunnis are said to have the most to lose, it is in fact women, from all sects, who could be the biggest losers of the Iraqi election.
January 29, 2005
Malaysia's Home-Grown Taliban: Is This the Future of 'Moderate' Islam in Asia?
Just when we thought that we had seen the back of the tide of radical religio-politics of the 1970s and 1980s, there came a string of embarrassing blunders to remind us that we, too, have our fair share of wannabe-Talibans right here in Malaysia.
January 28, 2005
Remembering Auschwitz: Comparing Palestinians' Unique Suffering with Holocaust Leads Nowhere
Whose suffering is greater? Which wound is more painful? When is a killing by one brutal occupier less painful than the killing by another brutal occupier? Comparisons and more senseless comparisons lead nowhere.
January 27, 2005
Dangerous Alliances: Islam Can Only Survive in a Secular America
The current agenda of “family values” is only the beginning. It is merely the foundation upon which Republicans and conservative Christians will seek to build a Christian America. There will be no room for Islam and Muslims in a conservative Christian America.
January 26, 2005
Let Them Be Scandalized: An Egyptian Woman Challenges Society's Ideas of Dishonor
The unabashed openness of her act makes of the mother a responsible adult and of the father a cowardly boy copulating in hiding.
January 24, 2005
Acting on a Frontier of Religious Ceremony: With Questions and Quiet Resolve, a Woman Officiates at a Muslim Wedding
I had just agreed to become the first woman, to my knowledge, to officiate at a Muslim marriage, giving the wedding sermon and administering the vows to the bride and groom in front of 350 assembled guests.
All Good
In the end, it’s all okay
January 23, 2005
At the Snowcap
By Mohja Kahf 12 Dhu'l-Hijjah 1425 - Poem 12 Eid al-Adha, Day 3 Behold, Abraham said, “My lord, show me how thou givest life to the dead. He said “Dost thou not then believe?” He said “Yea, but to...
Lifting the Hajar Heel
What she needed most
was right there all along
January 21, 2005
The Festival of Healing
Did we not find you cruel and hard
and soften you with kindness?
January 20, 2005
Shadows of the Past
To remember the war as a racket is not necessarily to re-open the wounds of a civil war that bitterly divided Lebanon along sectarian lines. Rather, it is to achieve a critical understanding of the power structures that have a vested interest in perpetuating war and gorging on the tragic waste of human potential.
Hagar No Roses
Detail from "Wilted Roses" ©Joan Everds By Mohja Kahf 9 Dhu'l-Hijjah 1425 - Poem 9 I only understood Hajar when my baby got a fever It was late & we were just off Medicaid & above the poverty line...
Hagar at the AIDS March
8 Dhu'l-Hijjah 1425 - Poem 8 By Mohja Kahf The pious, hiding in the mosque, won’t come out for the AIDS march, say the world's a cheap trinket and suffering's a ticket to a better show They want to...
January 19, 2005
‘Buyer Beware’? Since when was justice a consumer product? A Muslim woman's Open Letter to the Premier of Ontario
As Muslims we believe that what Ms Boyd is recommending under the cover of "Muslim principles" is in fact "Shariah by stealth."
A Call Against Hate: On the Massacre of a Coptic Family in New Jersey
e can't keep saying those who say the nasty things about Copts are not true Muslims and those who force conversions, or kill innocents, are not true Muslims and wash our hands. We have to own up to the fact that Islam and other religions are being hijacked by ignorant extremists.
January 18, 2005
Sarah’s Laugh II
7 Dhu'l-Hijjah 1425 - Poem 7 By Mohja Kahf I think I get it now Stories aren’t over till they’re over The meaning changes as the narrative unfolds Ismail had to come before Ishaq Hajar had to pass through...
Hagar in America
6 Dhu'l-Hijjah 1425 - Poem 6 By Mohja Kahf We came over together I spoke no English He had a mission: grad school, then it’s back to save the masses Here I am now with the baby on my...
January 16, 2005
Sarah's Egypt Diary
Excerpts from “Sarah’s Egypt Diary” (a long multi-section poem telling the story of her journey with Ibrahim to Egypt, and their ordeal with the sexual predator king there) 5 Dhu'l-Hijjah 1425 - Poem 5 By Mohja Kahf I set...
January 15, 2005
The Fire of Hajar
woman beyond our ken, out in a bigger world,
midwifing new earth. This was another trial by fire
January 14, 2005
The Water of Hagar
After the god who requires blood and obedience,
how do you find water?
January 13, 2005
The First Thing
The horizon is a razor
I moved across, severing
great expanses, slates
of earth, sediment
of ancient seas, toward this
revelation
January 12, 2005
Hagar in the Valley
It is hard to understand the will of God
Hard when the child is hoarse with thirst
and makes noises like a hurt animal
and what has he done to offend God?
January 11, 2005
A Chip Off the Old Block: Why the Fearmongers Want to Keep Tariq Ramadan Out
Why do some camps continue to portray Tariq Ramadan as a threat to a civilized way of life (as in France) or to national security (as in the US)? And why are these portrayals deemed credible by a considerable number of people?
January 7, 2005
Answering Fear: Calling All Defenders of Freedom of Expression
In this small corner of cyberspace, I found a collective symphony of voices inviting me to join in their song. In acknowledging – frankly and honestly – the multiple realities of living as a Muslim in various specific contexts, MWU! allowed Muslims like me the chance to approach a deeper understanding of ourselves.
January 6, 2005
Ramadan Does Boxing Day in the Sydney Opera House
Ramadan laments the fixation which Muslims in Europe and Australia have with being minorities. It’s as if we want to receive strange looks because we are dying to be different.
January 4, 2005
Islam Needs a Martin Luther
Let a Muslim Martin Luther step to the front of the line and represent the way of truth, freedom, justice and equality.
January 3, 2005
Where Is the Jihad Against the Tsunamis?
Al-Qaeda and its allies do not believe in reconstruction and rebuilding, and that is why the massive suffering in the wake of the tsunamis will further reveal them for the political opportunists they are.
As Seas Recede, US Should Seize Opportunity
It’s often been said that out of disaster comes hope and out of chaos comes opportunity. The Tsunamis that ravaged Southeast Asia this last week exemplify both. Most notably they give the West a chance to bring hope to a forgotten people and an opportunity for the United States in the War on Terror.
January 1, 2005
Remembering the Hijra
December 19, 2004—the 40th anniversary of Bilal heading to Medina to make the knowledge born—I went down to Mecca for Parliament, hoping to find some old Gods who could say how it all went down.
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