Yasmina Reality
I'm a Writer, Speaker and Muslim Activist. I'm a former Board Member of the #MyJihad Public Education Campaign.
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Peace!
I’m a new Contributor to The Good Men Project
I’ve been wanting to flush out my feelings about the feminist movement for awhile now. Being a woman, I am pro-woman obviously. But I am also a woman that is pro-man. It has taken me awhile to observe and digest the various social constructs of women’s activism and the modern ramifications of pro-women movements. There […]
Eid Mubarak 2015
It’s nearly 10:30 Chicago time. I’m sitting in my kitchen waiting for the banitza to come out of the oven. I texted “mabrook” to my brother for completing another perfect month of fasting. I told my son he cannot open the huge bag of lollipops that the kids will get tomorrow. And my kids are […]
My Reflections on Srebrenica
20 years ago, 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were massacred by Serb forces in the worst genocidal event since 1945. In 1945, Serb forces massacred Croatian soldiers that included my grandfather, leaving my mother an orphaned refugee before she even left her mother’s womb. Growing up “Yugoslavian,” it was very clear how the maternal elders […]
Grieving the Victims of the Charleston Church Terrorist Attack
On this first day of Ramadan, our nation grieves the victims of a terrorist attack that took place at an historic Charleston Church in South Carolina, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church . My friend and fellow interfaith peace lover, Larry Perlman, put to words what I could not say better! With his permission, I am […]
Islamophobia, Inc. Musings
The past few weeks, the Islamophobia Industry and its repercussions have created a lot of craziness here in the states. There was the armed biker gang that came brandishing semi-automatic weapons and “F*ck Islam!” t-shirts and Neo-Nazi t-shirts to the Islamic Community Center in Phoenix. Pretending that freedom of speech and our first amendment isn’t […]
A Poetic Apology
Thank you, Tim Torkildson, for putting one of my articles to poetry. Tim creates poems about trending news topics. His bio in the New York Times can be found here: A Reporter’s Beat, and a Poet’s Muse. Tim Torkildson is a retired circus clown who messes around with words. He is the author of Clown […]
7 Remarkable Things About Khadija, Wife of the Prophet of Islam
Thanks for the shares and making this article go viral! It’s been re-printed around the world and translated into French, German, Bosnian, Albanian and Indonesian. It was also voted one of the top 15 most moving blogs of Huffington Post Religion for 2015. Mother Khadija was truly epic. May Allah (swt) be pleased with her. […]
18 Years Ago You Left Me
March 20, 2015 18 years ago you passed away- at the young age of 58. You didn’t want to go. We didn’t want you to go. But these things are not up to us. We weren’t ready to live life without you in it. And like everything else you did in life- you faced it head on […]
A Terrorist Murdered Three Promising Young Adults in North Carolina
I’m supposed to feel weird stating the truth- that a terrorist murdered three young people in North Carolina. The reason I’m supposed to feel weird is because the three young people were Muslim. And terrorists don’t murder Muslims according to what we are told. We are told that Muslims are the terrorists. All other types […]
My Debut as a Huffington Post Blogger
I’m thrilled to now be a Huffington Post Blogger. 🙂 What a fun week where my blog inspired the open-hearted and got haters riled up. When I was a teenager talking with my father about my dream of becoming a Journalist, I never imagined I could one day be accepted as a Muslim Writer in […]