Last week, three black Sudanese Americans were killed “execution-style” in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Their names were Mohamedtaha Omar (23), Adam Mekki (20), and Muhannad Tairab (17). All of them were members of a diaspora community from East Africa. Regardless of their shared affiliations, Omar and Tairab were Muslim, while Mekki was Christian. According to Fort…
Fourteen people were killed and 22 were injured during the shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino on December 2nd. The two shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, identified as Muslims, which fueled a lot of anti-Muslim hate. Since the shooting, hate crimes against Muslims across America have been rising. Republican presidential…
On November 13, the Un-Islamic State attacks flooded Facebook walls, Twitter pages, and breaking news flashes on television. As if to counter, a second wave of angry Facebook posts then came with news of the attack in Beirut on November the 12th which had not been as popularly shared or discussed on major news centers…
November 13, 2015. 3:15 P.M. When I got home from school that day, I went through my usual routine: open the door, lay all my stuff on the couch, grab a snack, turn on the TV and watch the news. Nowadays, all the news ever talks about is the presidential election, focusing on a few…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has some interesting plans in store for us, and it is pressing that we understand these plans and what serious effects they have on our community. Just a few weeks ago, the White House convened a three day summit on “Countering Violent Extremism”(CVE). CVE is the creation of specific…
This is to all the strong women inhabiting my memory: to mothers who whispered lullabies to their daughters about how they should grow up to be storytellers and tell about lost histories who closed their eyes and held tiny soft hands outstretched and drew geometric lines, solved equations with permanent ink and dreamt about routes…
By Ayesha Khan & Sarah Rahimi On Feb. 12, the Muslim Student Association at UCLA hosted a vigil to commemorate the lives of Yusor Abu-Salha, her husband Deah Barakat and her sister Razan Abu-Salha. These three Muslim students were shot execution-style by their white male anti-theist neighbor in their home in a hate crime.…
An armada of thoughts clash against the mind, march in a cadre, colorfully interweave, and ultimately find confluence, architecting the very physics of a single, untamed noise, awaiting to spill against the silhouette of the subconscious. There it knocks on the heart in a faint, muffled concerto, hoping to be heard. A stroke of the…
February 16, 21 years after the independence of Bosnia in the bloody genocide where Chetnik Serbs slaughtered women, men, and children for the sake of the “Greater Serbia,” the first Bosnian was registered as a Bosnian. The number of tweets about this: not enough to make it trending or show up. Number of Facebook posts…
By Chakib Mouzaoui & Sanna Alas In the shadow of the murders of Yusor and Razan Abu-Salha and Deah Barakat, discrepancies in media representation of violence have become more glaring than ever. This tragedy has confirmed for us what many in the Muslim community already knew– that the lives of certain people are more valued, that there…