The Caliphate & You



In anticipation of the reestablishment of the Caliphate what better way to prepare for that coming paradise than with a quick quiz to help one get acclimated to the new rules? This test was given to me by local Hizb ut-Tahrir rep and he requested that I forward it on to my friends at MWU.

EID MUBARAK



All of us at MWU wish our readers a wonderful Eid....

Saving Sudan & Darfur …..The Muslim Silence and the American Paradox



A question that must be asked is why is the relative silence in the Islamic World about the on-going atrocities in the Sudan and in particular Darfur and what can the West and in particular the USA do to stop the carnage in Sudan.

GOD OF OCEANS, GOD OF EDGES



By Kyla Pasha Don't ask me to love you like that again, my love. - Faiz Ahmed Faiz So I'm standing here at the foot of the ocean wondering how you can call me by so many names. If I...

One Walnut Hemisphere



By Mohja Kahf Half a cigarette tastes like four at the end of a day abstinent One walnut hemisphere, poured over with olive oil, is almost too much How could I have eaten such richness, undizzied, before? A spoonful of...

A Bully in Military Uniform



Many Canadians are rightfully upset at the derisive manner with which Pakistan's ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, mocked our soldiers serving in Afghanistan. Others are simply scratching their heads, not knowing what to make of the machismo of the general as he locked horns with Carole Off of CBC Radio.

Incomplete Ablution



By Kyla Pasha Don't count the earth - there are plates under there that do the moving and insanity caused by gravity sends her spinning, my earth. Neither is it God. God watches with big uncountable eyes and nudges the...

My First Ramadan



I was REALLY young when my parents allowed me to start fasting. I was five and we had just moved to Germany from Egypt a handful of months before Ramadan. My grandmother was visiting us (her first trip ever out of Egypt) and I was jealous that all the big people were fasting.

On The Eve of The Anniversary of the Yum Kippur / Ramadan War and the Cold Peace between Egypt & Israel



The last time the first day of Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah coincided was thirty three years ago; that was the year of the “war to end all wars” according to Anwar el Sadat which started on Yum Kippur or the tenth of Ramadan. I celebrated the first day of Ramadan this year at the house of Jewish friends joining them for their Rosh Hashanah dinner to break my fast. On the way back from dinner I was reflecting on an Al Jazeera TV news program that I saw a while back which showed images of Sadat’s first moments visiting Israel and then the famous pictures of Sadat, Begin and Carter and their big hand shake. The Jazeera program focused on the failure of the normalization between Egypt and Israel and had two guests, the former Israeli ambassador to Cairo and an Egyptian writer. The anchorwoman did not hide her delight at the failure of normalization; the Israeli guest did not seem to have much coherent to say and was not allowed to say much anyhow. The Egyptian guest was full of solidarity with the Palestinians and rejection of the peace process, full of slogans from the Nasser era about Egyptians never forgetting their Arabism. There was really no debate, an Israeli complaining about the Egyptian Government failure to push normalization and an Egyptian complaining about the Egyptian Government for pushing normalization.

Ramadan Red White and Blue



By Mohja Kahf Ramadan in the West ‘ll put hair on your chest No sleeping in, fool Boss here won’t invest in your Ramadan slouch It’s not your limp-wrist Saudi-soft Ramadan It’s Ramadan, Shaker school It’s Medina-meets-Sparta Get your Abu...