Don’t speak for me!

Share Muslimas Oasis is all about sharing the voices of Muslim Women, this is hugely important when it comes to quieting the bigots who are dead set on liberating us from our own beliefs and choices. I wrote a response to a comment by a radical christian campaigning against Sharia law, here is the original... 
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For Haiti

Share As most of us well know by now, the poverty and politically stricken nation of Haiti was hit by a 7.0 Earthquate on Tuesday (January 12th) that killed possible up to 100 thousand people and affected somewhere around 3 million. The easiest thing you can do is make dua (pray) for the people affected.... 
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They call it Islamophobia

Share That’s the word for people who are afraid of me. Well, of us. Muslims. The very word ‘Muslim’ or ‘Islam’ sends some people into fits of rage. The political climate around the world, to which the media lends it’s often skewed platform, has reinforced so many misconceptions,... 
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Purple Hijab Day

Share Purple/Lavendar Hijab day is on February 13th in memory of Asiya Hassan who was murdered allegedly by her husband, the founder of Bridges TV a Muslim TV Channel in the US. Purple Hijab Day (much like Pink Hijab Day in October raising awareness for Breast Cancer) is intended to raise awareness about... 
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Focus on our Climate

Share The future of our children It was only a week ago that the COP15 Climate Conference was being held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and what really disappointed me was the fact that the outcome wasn’t a new agreement, because the leasers of our world couldn’t agree. It is really sad that a country... 
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Sweeping it under the rug

Share I was discussing recently with a sister, the many issues that are Taboo in general Muslim culture (at least some parts of it) and the dangerous potential ignoring some of these things has. Not everything though… We all know the hadith about concealing our sins “All of my people are forgiven,... 
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Discrimination

Share In light of the recent Swiss ban on Minarets and in honor of World AIDS Day Today with UmmHend is going to address discrimination. Against us It’s an unfortunate human mishap for a given group of people to discriminate against another group different from themselves. It has happened since... 
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AIDS Awareness Day (2009)

Share Today is International AIDS Awareness day. More about World AIDS Day. More about the day here. UNAIDS Website. Wikipedia World AIDS Day page. Positive Muslims. See also our AIDS and Muslims post.  Read More →

Hajj 2009

Share Just a little video of an interview with a revert brother before his first Hajj. May Allah accept the hajj of all who performed it and make it a means of renewal and removal of sins amin. swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/Pry4dk_wu9Q&border=1&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1",... 
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I’m as Mad as Hell, and I’m Not Going to Take This Anymore

Share Like the iconic Howard Beale from the 1976 film Network, I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Worse than bad. In fact, down right crazy. We have Muslims, Muslims that people look up to, listen to, actually saying the niqab has nothing to do with Islam. Before I go any further, I’ll be the... 
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