One thing I can’t seem to comprehend is why people suddenly jump on the bandwagon to help one country and not another. On the one hand you have Gaza which is slowly being strangled to death because they had the chutzpah to elect people we didn’t approve of, nobody makes a peep out of that, [...]
08 Mar
Posted by: Rukhsana Khan in: Islam, political correctness, racism, self-image, writing
I’m going to be interviewed on Shelagh Rogers radio show The Next Chapter tomorrow. It’s on CBC, which stands for Canadian Broadcasting Company and is national. It’s not the first time I’ve been on her show. But the first time was a different show. Years ago, when she was host of Sounds like Canada she was doing [...]
07 Mar
Posted by: Rukhsana Khan in: cultures, Islam, Muhammad (peace be upon him), racism
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your live to, broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools: This stanza of the poem If by Rudyard Kipling, always reminds me of the Prophet (peace be upon him) Sometimes I wonder what he would say if [...]
05 Mar
Posted by: Rukhsana Khan in: cultures, political correctness, racism, self-image
I subscribe to an email newsletter from a group called CAIR which stands for Council on American Islamic Relations. They’re a Muslim advocacy group and they field all kinds of issues that arise with regards to problems Muslims face in America. Most of them have to do with women who are fired for wearing the [...]