You Can’t Legislate the Human Heart: This Isn’t About...
You cannot legislate the human heart, I once told someone. Emotional needs are real, as are emotional wounds.
When our...
The Truth Is Scary, But I Had To Tell...
I suppose some will see it as courageous to share with the world why I almost left Islam. And...
Super Muslims and Religious OCD in Ramadan
In the beginning, it all seems necessary, and even praiseworthy. The questions, the doubts, the paranoia...and the endless phone...
How Could You? A Movie!
When I was in high school and still trying to decide how I would use my writing professionally, I...
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number? Child Marriage and...
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Years ago, when television was still a part of my life, I was watching a Seinfeld episode in...
Reverencing the Wombs That Broke You, a self-help book
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Her mother was raped. This is how Melanie was born. For years,...
He Apologized? We Have No Idea What an Apology...
"An apology, if it is truly an apology, is no more than a hope and a prayer—that the damage...
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Why I Wrote Muslim Girl: They Put Me On...
“The loneliest place to be is on a pedestal. No mercy lives there. No understanding. No
compassion. Only the expectation...
Pay It Forward! Give the Gift of a Book...
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Introducing the first ever UZ “Pay It Forward” program.
For nearly fifteen years, UZ books have...
We Love Labels and Following Our Desires
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Neither your love for someone nor their apparent kindness or goodness cancels out their shirk or disbelief. Allah says, "Only...
What Does Paradise Have To Do With Anything?
Why I Wrote Pain. From the Journal of Umm Zakiyyah
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“Well,” I said, a...
‘But I Don’t Trust God’
“But I don’t trust God,” the man said.
He was a neighbor of ours and had just learned that his...
Got a Survival Kit? Help for Muslim Apostates
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“I'm just calling to let you know I'm not Muslim anymore,” the woman...
You Don’t Matter. Our Image Does
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‘And here is the tragedy. Muslims, African-Americans, and other oppressed groups learn that...
