The shinning star

  I love writing Immigration and turmoil in the Middle East have always been “hot topics” that resurface in every presidential election. Even though there are many other presidents who have taken discriminatory actions against certain minorities of people, such as internment camps for the Japanese in World War II, Donald J. Trump, the 45th and 47th president with the lowest approval rating seen over 80 years of any president, proposed an unconstitutional ban for an entire race of people (Muslims) from entering the U.S, perpetuating the perception that all Muslims are terrorists. Amid all the Islamophobic hysteria, the United States is trying to deal with an unprecedented number of Syrian refugees coming into the country, who are trying to escape the Syrian Civil War. Although we are called upon to act, our political parties are very polarized; some do not believe that the United States should play much of a role in helping refugees directly or indirectly. Congress is extremely divi...

I love being Muslim and modest As someone aiming to raise strong Muslimahs, I do not like the idea of "women aren't safe anywhere." Because that instills fear in our girls/women. Now that doesn't mean we aren't wise in how we move and where we go, it also doesn't mean we don't follow Islamic rulings of traveling with mahram etc if we have mahram around. Or that we unnecessarily go outside or put ourselves in wrong situations and locations. Or we go out uncovered.  What it means is as we follow all that we remember ultimately Allah is protecting us. If some harm has to come our way it can come anywhere. We don't live our life in fear. We are smart, we have situational awareness. We learn skills necessary for our safety. We follow rules. We do all that because we gotta tie our camel. And after that we fully and wholeheartedly Trust Allah. A scared woman is an easy target. Because fear shows, it shows through body language, it shows through how you move a...