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A Story of Islamophobia: Bias, Fear, and Injustice
Author’s note: This is the story of someone whom I know personally, whom was a victim of malicious, immoral, unethical, and illegal, Islamophobia, just because they were Muslim, had an Arabic name, came from, ancestrally, from a part of the Muslim-World, and, because they were neither a U.S.-citizen, nor a citizen of their respective native-land. Continue reading
Activism, Africa, Allah, Asia, College, College-Life, Community-Service, Culture, Domestic-Violence, Europe, Global Politics, Islam, Islam & Activism, Latin America, Muslim, Muslim Student Association, Muslim Writers, Muslims, Muslims & Activism, Muslims at College, North America, Political-Awareness, Religion, Religious-Discrimination, Religious-Racism, Self-Discovery, Self-Empowerment, Self-Therapy, Social-Awareness, U.S. Politics, United Nations, Writing, Youth-EmpowermentAirport Security, Airport-Scanning, Anti Muslim, Anti-Islam, Anti-Islamic, Bias, CAIR, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil-Liberties under attack, Council on American Islamic Relations, Detainment, Ethnic-Bias, Ethnic-Discrimination, Faiza Ali, Fear, Human Rights, Humiliation, Injustice, Interrogation, Interrogator, Interrogators, Islamism, Islamist, Islamists, Islamophobia, Linda Sarsour, Muneer Awad, Religious-Bias, Ryan Mahoney, Terror, Terrorism, Terrorist, Torment, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, U.S.-Customs, Unfairness, War On Terror, War on Terrorism, Xenophobia -
Karl Ernst von Baer: a Human-Sign used by Allah
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Quick Deen Revival (@quickdeenrevival) If you don’t know who this man is, then, as a Muslim, you owe it to yourself, to learn about him: he is Karl Ernst von Baer. He was a well-renowned German-Embryologist, actually considered one of the Founding-Fathers of Embryology. Karl Ernst Continue reading
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The Fallacy of “Muslim Male Privilege”:
Author’s note: The following is a personal-commentary, of an article, written by a fellow Muslim-Writer/Blogger, Jamerican Muslimah, about this concept, she dubbed as, “Muslim Male Privilege”-This concept is based (directly/exclusively) upon B. Deutsch’s “The Male Privilege List”, as well as Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”-In this article, 16-points, detailing what “Muslim Male Privilege” actually Continue reading
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al-Ightisab/Sexual-Abuse is a Crime…no matter who does it!!!
I, as a Muslim, am truly disgusted when I hear about Rape (especially referring to cases of children being assaulted). Things like Rape via the Muslim-World cause Islamophobes to reinforce all of the classic Islamophobic-Rhetoric against Islam.(https://gbwrites.com/2020/10/29/judeochristianislamophobia) We, as Muslims, have a Horrible-Habit of making the Job of Islamophobes easier, by doing things that will Continue reading
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My New Books:
Salam/Hello People I will, with the permission of Allah, be publishing two books this year. These projects are some of the best work that I’ve produced since I’ve been professionally writing. These will be my very first literary-publications. For more details, of when the books will be published, please go to these links: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gareth-Bryant/137796123047230 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ampli-Pages/440859329272328?fref=ts Continue reading
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2012 in review:
The gbwrites.com/ stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 29,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 7 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report. Continue reading
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Christmas is just like al-Mawlid: A Bid`ah!!!
View this post on Instagram A post shared by |🇦🇫/🇨🇦| ᴹᵞ ᵀᴵᶜᴷᴱᵀ ᵀᴼ ᴶᴬᴺᴺᴬᴴ🕊 (@mytickettojannah) https://muslimmatters.org/2009/03/11/the-birth-date-of-the-prophet-and-the-history-of-the-mawlid-part-i-of-iii/ al-Muqaddimah/Prelude The following article is based primarily, but, not exclusively, upon two previous articles that I’ve already written, one about Non-Islamic holidays, generally (http://www.garethbryant.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/thereasonsmuslimsdonotcelebratenonislamicholidays), and the other specifically about the celebration of the Psuedo-Islamic holiday, known as al-Mawlid (http://www.garethbryant.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/mythoughtsonthemawlid). Continue reading
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Oppression: What the World needs to be constantly reminded of:
In light of what has recently been happening in Palestine, let’s look at some historical examples of the same type of oppression, that’s just as vile as what we’ve witnessed in the Levant during our very own lifetimes: 1. The Crusades, the Christian invasions of the Muslim-World, during the Middle-Ages (1095-1456 C.E.) 2. The Spanish Continue reading
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The Perfect-Solution to the whole “Ahl-ul-Bayt” Issue:
Author’s-Note: I hear Muslims (all the damn time) debate about this issue, so unnecessarily. So, what I’ve decided to do is the following: do some actual, honest, unbiased, historically true, research as to who the Ahl-ul-Bayt truly are. And, once you embark upon this type of research, you’ll learn so much about the actual Ahl-ul-Bayt, Continue reading
Activism, Africa, Asia, Community-Service, Culture, Global Politics, Horn of Africa, Islam & Activism, Muslim Writers, Muslims & Activism, Political-Awareness, Religion, Religious-Racism, Sarcasm, Self-Discovery, Self-Empowerment, Self-Therapy, Social-Awareness, Writing, Youth-Empowerment`Abbas, `Aqil, 12 Imams, Abbassi, Abbassid, Afghanistan, Ahl, Ahl-ul-Bait, Ahl-ul-Bayt, Ahlul-Bait, Ahlul-Bayt, al Hussein, al-Hasan, al-Husayn, Ali, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bahrayn, Bait, Bayt, Egypt, Family of Muhammad, Fatima, Fatimah, Fatimid, Hussein, Imam, Imamate, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Isma`ili, Ismailis, Ja`far, Ja`fari, Ja`faris, Jordan, Karbala, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mahdi, Messengership, Muharram, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, People of the Cloak, Persian, Persian Gulf, Prophethood, Prophetic Household, Qatar, Rafidah, Rafidhah, Ramadan, Ramadhan, Rawafid, Rawafidh, Relatives of Muhammad, Saudi Arabia, Sayyid, Sect, Sectarian, Sectarianism, Sects, Shi`ah, Shi`i, Shi’ism, Shia, Shiite, Sunnah, Sunni, Sunnism, Syed, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Twelver, Twelvers, UAE, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Wives of Muhammad, Yemen, Zaidi, Zaidis -
Some Brief Islamic-History (The Rightly-Guided Khulafa’)
These new posts of mine, which will be posted periodically, which will be labeled “Some Brief Islamic-History” will be, what I hope to be, many educational articles about the history of Islam. And, by history of Islam, I really mean from the time from Adam, to the present-day, because, based upon Islamic-Texts, Islam didn’t begin Continue reading
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