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Muslimahs with disabilities need to you hold the lift door, not gawk at their mobility aids

Posted by syahirah on 11 Aug 2015 / 0 Comments

A Singaporean news channel produced a series of Youtube videos featuring selected athletes with disabilities, or para-athletes. One featured athlete is Aishah Samad, a shooter who had to have all four of her limbs amputated after going into septic shock and contracting gangrene in the hospital on the way home from a trip to China. […]

Disabled Muslims Need More than Du’a to Overcome Mosque Barriers

Posted by syahirah on 23 Sep 2014 / 0 Comments

“How is your situation with attending the mosque?” begins a video by Kuwaiti preacher Mishary Al-Kharaz, before he introduces us to his “friend in Yemen”. The video shows Kamal, a young man with a “handicap”, as he enters a mosque, prays sitting on a chair and then goes up to the second floor after the […]