Saying it is a scary time to be a Muslim in America is sadly a gross understatement. As I write this post US GOP Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump has just called for an all out ban on Muslims entering/immigrating to the US. Yes and in 2015. These are terrifying times for Muslim-Americans who in the run […]
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The world mourns what happened in Paris last week, but most Muslims around the world immediately had to go into defense-mode as both backlash and rhetoric against us intensified in the aftermath of the devastating attacks in France. American political candidates are not helping the situation by exploiting the Paris attacks for their own political
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A series of apparently endless attacks on secular writers in Bangladesh continue to rock the nation & the world. After publishing my piece on the murders in The Daily Beast, I went on HuffPost Live to analyze what the deaths mean in the larger context of regional politics & Bangladeshi identity. There are so many
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*This post of mine was also published on The Daily Beast.* A spate of assaults confirms that secular Bangladeshi bloggers, and apparently those who dare to publish their work, are very much under attack in the one of the world’s most populated Muslim countries. Yesterday, two separate violent attacks on the lives of publishers and
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If you spend any time online then you know that when it comes to US Supreme Court Justices perhaps none are as revered as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or as the Internet lovingly refers to her, the “Notorious RGB.” Authors of the new book on the Justice, Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik joined HuffPost Live host,
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As mass shooting after mass shooting continues to take place in the US, I worry that the violence will soon become a part of our daily lives, something we will grow to get used to. It’s already happening. There were two separate shootings Friday morning. Americans barely blinked. Mass shootings was just one of the
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If you feel like you are having political deja vu with the Republicans going after Planned Parenthood yet again, you are forgiven. This week as Planned Parenthood President, Cecile Richards testified on Capitol Hill against the heavily edited tapes against her organization and fetal tissue donation, once against the GOP called for the government to
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As hard as you try, sadly the anti-Muslim rhetoric from GOP Presidential candidates just won’t die down, with Ben Carson now joining the road filled with racist language, a tactic pioneered in this case by Trump. I joined CNN on Sunday to give my thoughts on the entertainment of politics or the politics of entertainment
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Last week, when 14 year old Texas high-school student, Ahmed Mohammed got arrested by his school for bringing his invention, a clock, to his school it only took American-Muslims a few seconds to recognize what a wrong and racist act had just taken place. But sadly, these days these kinds of incidences are just becoming
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*This post of mine was also published on The Daily Beast.* This morning, Raja, a 16-year-old Bangladeshi boy, was beaten to death at a local political party heavyweight’s home after being accused of stealing the BCL (Bangladesh Chhatra League) leader’s laptop and mobile phone from his Hazaribagh residence on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Dhaka. However, it
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