It’s no surprise that the topic of protesting is a major issue in our times. Muslims everywhere are eager to make a difference and help correct the wrongs of our geopolitical world with their voices since they cannot do so with their hands. As you can imagine, emotions often run high when the topic is raised. In the West, protesting has a storied history and has been a tool of anti...
﷽ As Muslims, we know that we cannot afford to follow along with whatever the people are doing—we have a clear guidance before us, alhamdulillah; a set of principles by which we measure everything we do. "Are those who know equal to those who do not know?" —Qur’an (az-Zumar) 39:9 Once we understand the nature of memes and what’s involved in them, the rulings attached to...
There are several devious and underhanded ways in which Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner attempts to paint a narrative of Muslims/certain kinds of Muslims. Looking broadly, we see a few distinct categories, which we will explore below. Character Tropes The Liberal Muslim The narrator’s father is given this trope, which paints him as a "good" Muslim because he drinks, throws...
This post was written in response to a thread on Reddit which railed against the idols that were destroyed in Afghanistan. Iconoclasm For Me, But Not For Thee Most of the comments on the post are bemoaning the loss of "great heritage" and how savage, unlearned and terrible it is that the terrorists destroyed the idols in their own lands. Me, reading this—I’m bewildered. Any ruling...