Archive for May, 2016
Bernards Township, NJ Gives Lame Excuses to Stop Mosque
Dear Bernards Township, New Jersey, Did you ever hear of the Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) of 2000? Better yet, have you ever heard of The Constitution? Or how about common decency? It’s disheartening to read about another mosque on U.S. soil whose attempts to exist are being stopped because of planning […]
As My Firstborn Graduates
When I was pregnant for the first time, I couldn’t believe a baby would be in my arms at the end of the journey. My friend even had to keep reminding me that yes … a real baby will be yours at the end of this journey. And then she arrived and I was dissociated […]
Book Review of Talk to Me by: Qasim Rashid
In his third book, Talk to Me, Author, Qasim Rashid continues his jihad of the pen. His book, The Wrong Kind of Muslim, shined a light on the persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan while his second book, Extremist, took on renowned extremist-Islamophobe, Geert Wilders. In Talk to Me, Rashid takes his activism to the […]
Our Story in Daily Sabah, Turkey’s English Newspaper
Honored to cover this feature story with Sadaf Syed for Turkey’s Daily Sabah. We visited Fatima in Lombard, IL and met her beautiful girls. We brought our own daughters along to break the ice. I am so amazed at the resilience displayed and her heart of gold. ****** A day with a Syrian mother in […]
Thank You, HuffPost! 15 of HuffPost Religion’s most moving blogs from 2015
Thank you HuffPost Religion for choosing my Khadija piece as a top blog of 2015. Honored! Original Khadija blog Carol Kuruvilla Religion Associate Editor, The Huffington Post HuffPost Religion has been blessed with a wonderfully diverse group of bloggers who practice many of the world’s great religious traditions. Over the past year, our bloggers […]