Children’s thinking is primarily impacted by the environment they grow up in. These include daily events, memorable experiences and peak feelings. Cartoons are one of the daily habits that children partake in; studies have shown that an average child with a television in the home watches approximately 18,000 hours [...]
Habeeba Husain Back in high school, my Quran teacher argued it was harder to end up in Hell than Heaven. My class of sixteen-year-olds did not immediately agree with her. Oftentimes, Islam is portrayed as a list of dos and do-nots. Lots of rules and lots of [...]
When I ride in an airplane, I enjoy looking at how small the world seems from a distance. Yet when you zoom in, what seemed so small and insignificant turns out to be very important and major for most of us. The size of the house, the kind of [...]
Habeeba Husain I never considered myself a germaphobe. Learning about the tiny little bugs that were on my hands, pencils, and desk never freaked me out. But in many television shows I watched as a kid, there was always an episode focused around one character’s obsession with [...]
Habeeba Husain After writing the title of this post, I had to sit back and take a deep breath. How can I begin to explain the significance Prophet Muhammad ﷺ has in my life? (Note: ﷺ is an Arabic symbol that translates to “may the peace and blessings [...]
Some people often conflate being Muslim with being a terrorist. Unfortunately many uninformed, scared (of what they don’t understand) or hateful people assume all Muslims have secret evil agendas against Westerners, especially against U.S. citizens. Media analyst Steve Randall explains that bigotry is about “dehumanizing members of a group [...]
Habeeba Husain Certain parts of the Quran can pop out at readers or listeners, whether or not they themselves are speakers of Arabic. I cannot fully understand the language, and yet, some verses demand my attention and push me to open up a translation of the Islamic [...]
This ABC News What Would You Do experiment shows two definitions of what it means to be an American. The experiment is a representation of the larger divide in our country concerning minorities in general and Muslims in particular. The rise in hate-crimes against Muslims and anti-Muslim rhetoric makes many [...]
When the word Islam is mentioned, the images that might come to some people’s minds are that of violent and angry extremists. One must question where these images come from and if they represent Islam and the norm in the Muslim world and communities. If our information about the Muslim [...]
