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Why America is the greatest Islamic Caliphate there exists
Last Friday, Maulvi Sahab again said that God’s wrath is soon going to descend on the United States of America (USA) and the Muslim World will rise again. Although these are two entirely different...
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Is there place for a Pakistani girl applying to universities in Trump’s America?
This election has been unprecedented and historic on all accounts, and I’m not talking about the obvious surface-level facts – Hillary Clinton being the first ever female nominee of a major party, or...
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An American Muslim veteran reflects on resisting the Muslim Ban
I am an American Muslim veteran. I was raised in America, and I joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) while in college. I followed in the footsteps of generations of men in my family who...
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Is Islam the most feminist religion?
I’ve been reading about Australian youth activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied (we appeared on an Australian show once together) and her words to Jacqui Lambie on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)...
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Why is Imran Khan so racist?
Captain of a cricket world cup winning team, founding multiple cancer hospitals and a University - Imran Khan had enough credit to be welcomed as a hero anywhere he went in Pakistan but he seems to be...
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No, Imran Khan’s “phateechar” comment was not racist
Prejudice has flown through Pakistani society across generations. We have held open biases against ethnicities that aren’t our own, against women, against religious minorities, against those of a...
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Why do students in American high schools resort to humiliating Muslims and...
When the student body president of a Northern California high school won his campaign after posting an Islamophobic joke, I was not surprised. It is part and parcel of American high schools to reward...
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Why is my brown skin, unapologetically bearded face, and big backpack a...
Reading about the developments from Finsbury Park, London, where Darren Osborne drove a van onto innocent civilians leaving a Mosque makes me sad, upset, and angry, but it is not shocking. We all know...
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The London mosque incident was not only an attack against Muslims, but an...
On Monday, as the clock struck midnight, Darren Osborne, a 47-year-old from Cardiff, drove a rented white van over innocent people outside Finsbury Park Mosque in London. Eleven innocent people were...
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Dear Disney, casting Naomi Scott as Jasmine just because she’s brown...
Disney recently announced their selections for the cast of the new live-action remake of the 1992 animated movie, Aladdin. The announcement, however, was met with widespread outrage. British actress...
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Donald Trump’s America is awfully racist and discriminatory, but is Pakistan...
Q: Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the biggest racist of them all? A: The human race Recently, I came across a video which showed a young Palestinian-American Muslim mother talking about the struggle...
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Can Islam and democracy coexist in today’s world?
Germany has given its verdict and elected Angela Merkel for the fourth consecutive term. Her victory has relieved many as her popularity took a nosedive after her brave decision to take in refugees in...
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Muslim immigrants’ alternative terror: “I’m relieved my religion or...
I am a Muslim American and have lived in Las Vegas for over 17 years. It is my city, it is my home, and this is where all three of my kids were born. They were born in three different hospitals; the...
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When a white “terrorist” is awarded a privilege 1.8 billion Muslims are denied
If the world can largely agree on one thing, it is the need to defeat terrorism. However, the frequency of unity seen when condemning terror does not echo beyond that, for every state of the world is...
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‘Basmati Blues’ unsurprisingly does what Hollywood has always done –...
In case you were wondering, the white man’s burden is still alive and well! Even though it is the 21st century, while India is launching US satellites into space and is the world’s fastest growing...
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‘Victoria and Abdul’ wittily and poignantly portrays the bond between an...
Victoria and Abdul, the latest offering by director Stephen Frears, is a cautiously patterned yet realistic biographical drama about the deep friendship between the Queen of England and her...
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Black Panther is hypnotic, imaginative and nothing like anything you would...
After spending thousands of hours watching films over the years, I rarely come across anything that I haven’t already watched before in a slightly different guise. It doesn’t necessarily mean that we...
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Is the Sana Safinaz campaign actually racist, or are we just selective of our...
Social media may have been created for people to be more closely connected, but it would not be an overstatement to suggest that today it is largely just a tool for people to share their outrage with...
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For a nation obsessed with fair and lovely, are we really surprised at...
If there is one thing Pakistani TV is good at, it is never failing to surprise audiences with how low it can go in its attempts to “entertain”. The most recent instance of such an effort took place on...
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No, you may not call me a ‘Paki’
There was a strange time when I was growing up, where I didn’t fully understand the dual identity I had as a Pakistani-Canadian. I thought I was just like everyone else, until I was nine-years-old. At...
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