Islam | Islam
Mar.16.2011
Have you ever received news that you were going to go on a long distance trip and needed to take an airplane, but you weren't excited? In fact, the very thought of flying gave you an immediate feeling of dread. Or may be you needed to take the train some where and yet again, felt some what...
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Mar.09.2011
I can still remember being asked in the fourth grade by my teacher, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" and my response to her was that I wanted to be a writer. I remember the smile that tugged at the side of her mouth briefly before it gave way to a quick rolling of her eyes and...
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Mar.04.2011
Born Female, Islam in the Heartland, competitive Advantage, Seeds of Change
The House voted to bar Planned Parenthood from federal funding. They cut funding for HIV tests, cancer screenings, birth control, and more, putting millions of women and families at risk. No matter...
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Feb.03.2011
Curious, isn't it, how much of the commentary about Egypt's current uprising is hyperfocused on the fact that Egypt happens to be in the Middle East while tending to ignore the larger historical framework in which this current revolt finds itself. Granted, the region is incendiary, but the...
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Dec.29.2010
This is Iran's way of getting back at the Western propaganda using the means employed by the mainstream western entertainment industry. Sakineh Ashtiani may have been hanged to death, not stoned, but now they just might do it - to spite the international pressure. Or they will keep her alive...
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Dec.28.2010
Willow's wish for a better world in 2011 on AOL News: http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/27/my-wish-for-2011-a-better-world-for-my-daughter/
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Dec.07.2010
Thilo Sarrazin was a leading member of the German Contralbank. He has been under fire for his anti-Semitic remarks on Jews. Personally, I understand that Jews were offended by his remarks because he should have had used his common sense, when he made a decision to write a book about Germany being...
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Nov.26.2010
For Thanksgiving this year, I celebrate the legacy of A'isha bint Abi Bakr, the youngest and favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad who became the most famous and influential woman in Islam. Her courage, heart, and pluck inspired my novels, "The Jewel of Medina" and "The Sword of...
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Nov.26.2010
In 52 years of marriage,Vladimir Nabokov wrote hundreds of love letters to his wife, Vera.
This I find touching, even moving. But surprising? Hardly. Nabokov was a writer, after all, and no doubt he expressed himself most perfectly via the written word.
He was also, as anyone...
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Nov.25.2010
She was very young when my stepdaughter, now a beautiful young lady, met my extended family for the first time at our traditional Thanksgiving gathering. When the evening was over and we were driving home, I asked, "Well, what'd you think of Thanksgiving at the McSwains?""I think I...
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