TweetOn Monday, more than a billion and a half Muslims worldwide started their fasting month of Ramadan, a month when Muslims unapologetically celebrate their traditions and religion.Through the years, Muslims in America have celebrated their holy month with family and friends, in community gatherings under tents, in restaurants and in mosques. Since the 9/11 tragedy, they’ve been in self-cultural exile. Living in America as a Muslim has been a challenging ride and a constant struggle, every day stumbling over the bumps of the Islamophobia landscape, racism and the MAGA version of domestic terrorism. Even so, Muslims have celebrated the holy month of Ramadan in Times Square in New York, the…
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ISRAEL, FROM A WATCHDOG TO A MAD DOG!!
TweetThe Palestinian majority at the time was 95%; however, according to Belfour’s declaration, the Palestinians were called the non-Jewish people, and according to the racist Zionist ideology, they didn’t even exist; with the myth, the Jews, people without land were given land without people, the Palestinians, according to the Western racist ideology, then and now. I grew up in a small village in the heart of the delta in Egypt, Meet Swaid; my town has only one street, mosque, cemetery, river, and elementary school. The village students had to go to the city a few miles away for middle school. We walk to the train station every morning to go…
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WHY IS A NORTHERN IOWA TOWN NAMED FOR AN ARAB/MUSLIM HERO?
TweetWhy is a northern Iowa town named for an Arab/Muslim hero? There are almost 20,000 cities incorporated in the United States. Elkader, Iowa, may be the only city in America named after an Arab Muslim. Emir Abdelkader was a young Algerian hero who fought French settlers for almost 20 years in the mid-19th century. How did a small town in the northeast corner of Iowa get a name like Elkader, a name that in the post-9/11, post-Trump era could get you kicked off a flight? I have a friend who, after 9/11, changed his name from El-Kader to Randy to avoid trouble at the airport and the hassle of spelling…
