Me, God and the London Bendy Bus

Richard Dawkins is paying £5,500 to have signs put up in the London bendy buses which say “God probably does not exist, so stop worrying and go out and enjoy yourself”. My first reaction was: How sad! Instead of instilling hope in people it raises feelings of despair and loneliness. Despair that this is all [...]

Kolna Laila, or is it Khadra?

Funny that this event should coincide with the week in which I completed “Girl in the Tangerine Scarf”, by the Syrian-American academic Mohja Kahf. The heroine of the story, Khadra, is the daughter of Syrian Daaiays (da3iyas) who join a Dawah centre in the middle of Indianapolis. The parents come across as decent folk, who [...]

Shame on us…

We say that God does not change a peoples’ situation until they change what is within them. Lebanon treats Palestinians worse that criminals, the rest of the Arab nations are complicent in the Palestinian predicament, the Gulf states exploit their migrant workers, all in the name of capitalism and a luxury lifestyle for the minority. [...]