Let’s be real – it’s rough fasting 16-hour days for a month! Add to that equation our bread, juice, and cereal-loaded breakfasts that cause our blood sugar to crash by 11 AM, and it’s no wonder we have no energy left by the end of the first week.
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Since the capture of Anders Behring Breivik, the Oslo terrorist and murderer, at least two critical issues have emerged. The first is his sanity, or lack thereof. The second is that Breivik’s assaults may have been ideologically motivated. According to Breivik’s logic, the murder of 76 people was necessary to challenge the Muslim takeover of the West. It was also an act directed at some of the people who, in his mind, were making the conquest possible: liberals or, more specifically, the Labor Party.
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A recent article on altmuslimah.com entitled “Searching for Khadijah: A boy’s perspective” by Sajid Hassan garnered quite a bit of attention as evidenced by the long string of passionate comments it received, far more than most other articles on Altmuslimah. The article described the pressure that professional Muslim American women face from their families and their social circles to get married in their early twenties, because it becomes much more difficult to find a partner once they hit their thirties.
Read MoreI can’t help but feel some closure from Usama bin Laden’s death…
Read MoreLast night, the world watched with rapt attention as President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been found and killed in a house in Abbotabad, Pakistan. While much of the commentary will focus on the geopolitics of this event, what does it mean for ordinary Muslim men and women around the world?
Read MoreA look at how embracing the spirit of Islam helped me genuinely honour my parents for the first time.
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Even in these modern times, our community does not support the older generation of unmarried Muslim women who are struggling to find compatible spouses. These women are calling the community to account for this problem, and as a young man who sympathizes with them and seeks to marry one of them, I have encountered the same extremely negative attitude from the community.
Read MoreDuring this month of March, we are celebrating Women’s History Month. When I think about this time of celebration, I think of women rising to the occasion to tell our stories- our girl-powered, female-inspired, women-lens-ed experiences- our truths, adventures, narrations, retreats, and journeys- present through the uninhibited XX-chromosome-vision.
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Every human being who reads the book will find someone in it with whom they identify, and there is no end to the potential of such a unifying force.
Read MoreI have come to believe healthy human civilizations need to share dreams.
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