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Dead Muslim Women As Opportunities


Posted by sana on 10 May 2012 / 0 Comments
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In April of 2011, 20 year-old Jessica Mokdad was allegedly gunned down by her stepfather Rahim Alfetlawi. The media uproar over the murder was immediate and, unsurprisingly, cloaked under the sensationalized trope of “honor killing.” While Mokdad’s family, including her biological father, stressed that Alfetlawi had issues of control and was not acting out of […]

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All-American Muslim Reviewed


Posted by azra on 14 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments
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TLC’s All-American Muslim, which I previewed last week, aired last night in the United States. The show features a group of mostly Lebanese American Muslims from Dearborn, Michigan as they go about their lives. There has been a stream of reviews, mostly positive from mainstream media outlets and ones that are more questioning by Muslim […]

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All-American Muslim: A Preview


Posted by azra on 08 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments
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On Sunday, November 13th, TLC is set to premier a new 8-episode series: All-American Muslim in the United States. As this comes from the same channel that brings American viewers Sister Wives and the Kate+8 debacle, I’ll admit my immediate thoughts surrounding the show are wary, to say the least, when it comes to its […]

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Surprise! FOX News Reports are Islamophobic and Sexist!


Posted by melinda on 12 May 2009 / 0 Comments
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If FOX News does anything well, it’s make its bias clear. A recent article entitled “Muslim Women in U.S. Struggle to Balance Western Freedoms and Islamic Culture” makes no attempts to hide the opinion of the writer and the message she wants to convey to her readers. Each line is so riddled with assumptions and misconceptions, I don’t know where to begin.

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