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  The bigot and the Muslim are both actors, but their small social experiment proves that there are still good souls out there.

Wajahat Ali is a playwright, journalist, attorney, humorist and consultant. His award-winning play, “The Domestic Crusaders” [www.domesticcrusaders.com], is one of the first major plays about the American Muslim experience originally premiering at the Thrust Stage of the Tony award winning Berkeley Repertory Theater to universal acclaim in 2005 and making its New York premiere on […]

  “The climate of suspicion towards our fellow American Muslims compromises the great values that our country was founded upon. Take the pledge and stand with American Muslims: http://www.myfellowamerican.us Follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/MyFellowAmericanProject Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/usmuslimstories Please note that, while we invite your comments, the My Fellow American Channel was created to […]

Audhubillahi min as-shaytaani rajeem, Bismillahi Rahmaani Raheem. Assalaamualaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to our dear readers, In the past few weeks, we have seen a series of Islamophobic postings by Jason Neo, Christian Eliab Ratnam and Donaldson Tan. While some segments of society, and even the local media may have portrayed it as a racial issue, it […]

BERN (OnIslam)– Sending shockwaves across the peaceful Swiss Muslim community, body parts of a dead pig were buried on the site of a future mosque, in a new clear sign of growing anti-Muslim sentiments in the European country. “Since the ban on minarets there’s been an increase in Islamophobia and Islamophobic events, so it was […]

Below is a post from Loonwatch.com which contains lots of links to critical reading material with regards to the bombing and shooting at Oslo. _____ For much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front pagestrongly suggested that Muslims were responsible for the attacks on Oslo; that led to definitive statements on the BBC […]

While I was living in Sydney, Australia last year, a very interesting topic almost continuously dominated public discourse—the right of women to wear the burqa. As is the case in many Western countries, Australians greatly value individual rights and freedoms, and this led to an interesting split in opinions. There were those who believed that […]