Fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks, Islamophobia is on the rise in America. Anti-Muslim hate crimes are approximately five times more frequent than they were before 2001, according to the FBI. The ...
On a rainy day during her sophomore year of high school, as Aissata Ba studied in the library, a photo popped into her phone. It showed a beheading by Islamic State militants, along with a caption in ...
Imam Yassir Fazaga remembers the panic he felt. He remembers opening up the electrical sockets in his office and searching behind his computer monitor, looking for recording devices. In conversations ...
As I sat behind the table at the young adult book conference, I had the sales pitch promoting my new young adult novel “All-American Muslim Girl” ready to go: “It’s about a white-passing Muslim girl ...
A 52-year-old Houston-area Muslim physician was stabbed to death this weekend but police say so far, there is no evidence the crime was motivated by hate. “At this time we have not found any evidence ...
As a writer, the minute I started questioning my sexuality I ran to Google to look for other queer writers. Writing has become a source of flourishing comfort, and there was something pivotal about ...
Shaikh Rahman, a business systems analyst in Chicago, was not a proponent of COVID-19 vaccines because he did not feel that credible information about them was being disseminated effectively and the ...
It is worth pausing over every murder that goes on in this city. But a brutal killing this week deserves special attention. Not least because it tells us something it appears we don’t want to know.