Dear Prime Minister Imran Khan I wanted to reach out to you as a former journalist, US foreign policy advisor, women’s activist, Pakistani citizen with dual nationality in the USA, but above all as a former acquaintance and supporter of you and PTI when you first entered politics and I reached out to you as […]
A Mullah Sahib in San Jose
The beauty of California, other than its rugged mountains and bays, is its cultural diversity. A diversity where you are under the same sky as people from all over the world. In San Jose the other day, just as in Lahore, the Women’s International Day was celebrated with walks, slogans, speeches, and ceremonies, with pledges […]
Being a Muslim in American: the American integration experience Part-III
Our journey as humans is a never ending attempt to transform, from children who do not understand to beings of understanding, from fear to strength, dark to light, inertia to action, and hate to love. I dare to dream and work for a world where one day, our children will be completely color blind, and […]
Being Muslim in American: Part 2 Make America Safe Again
Let us focus our attention on President Trump’s recent executive order banning Muslim families from seven countries from entering the US temporarily and banning refugee services to Syrian families fleeing for their lives. Apparently this was done for the sake of making America safer and fighting terrorism. That is not the America that will go […]
Day of remembrance: American horror stories (Part-1)
I was exactly 76 years ago on Feb 19th 1942 that President Roosevelt’s executive order 9066 was issued in the name of keeping America safe. The government used euphemisms such as “internment,” “evacuation,” and “non-alien” to describe what was actually illegal incarceration and a violation of the American Constitution. The irrational fear that spread was […]