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Image yourself wanting to enter a house of God, may it be a Church or Temple, perhaps you would like to go meditate and pray to Buddha but your denied entrance because the priest, monk, Imam, or random worshipper prevents you from walking into the building to worship. Even though your religious text told you …
The mosque scene in the Western world is way different than what it was just 10 years ago. Around twenty years ago, there were not that many mosques in the United States or Canada. Immigrants often held prayer services in homes, when their Muslim community was small. As the Muslim community grew and the need …
Things That Shatter: A Memoir by Kaighla Um Dayo was an interesting read, one with loads of “GRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLL” moments. Um Dayo is a woman who converted to Islam and married the wrong man, and this book is a manifesto of one bad marriage with a Sheikh. As a white Muslim convert, …
Recently, I have started to run into LGBTQ Muslim authors at Barnes and Noble. Since I have a habit of buying most Muslim author books (not all) I bought the two fiction novels on Gay Muslim men from different Islamic backgrounds. A few months ago, I did buy a non-fiction novel on the LGBTQ community …