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Making A Meal Of Ramadan

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Is it just me or does Ramadan seem to get more air-time and column inches with every passing year?

Published June 22, 2015
Categorised as Blog, Islam Tagged Fasting, Muslim, Ramadan

An Apologist’s Apology

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Instead of building intercultural bridges as I imagined, I was adding my bricks to the prisons so many are walled up in by their own communities…

Published March 12, 2015
Categorised as Autobiographical Posts, Blog, Islam Tagged #AnApostatesExperience, apologist, apostasy in Islam, belief, Muslim, Religion

Leaving Islam – the hangover

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There’s no room for questions or variance in expression of belief in Islam – to be true to myself I must step out.

Published November 10, 2014
Categorised as Islam Tagged #AnApostatesExperience, apostasy in Islam, Apostate, leaving Islam, Muslim

Leaving Islam – irreconcilable differences

Sunset through a scalloped archway
Sunset viewed through a scalloped archway

Previously I owned up to the deep disquiet I’ve been feeling about my faith; how I suppressed it, and how I tried to reignite my conviction.

But my quest only unearthed more reasons to hold it in question. This wasn’t a dip in devotion – it was a derailment.

Published October 31, 2014
Categorised as Islam Tagged Apostate, leaving Islam, moderate muslims, Muslim

Leaving Islam – the greatest jihad?

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Zealous muslim converts strike out for Syria in droves answering the Islamist call to jihad, but this one’s eyeing the back door…

Published October 20, 2014
Categorised as Blog, Islam Tagged crisis of conscience, faith, Islamism, moderate muslims, Muslim

Merry Christmas from the Muzzies

The tree’s up, gifts have been bought and three homemade Christmas puddings are chilling in the cold cupboard. So far so good – this Muslim household is on track for Christmas…

Published December 12, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Interracial marriage Tagged Christmas, Muslim, Religion and Spirituality, religious celebration

What made you become a Muslim?

Solitary Journey

There are times when the faith I connect with seems a different animal viewed through the eyes of others. I wonder if I still count as a Muslim when I disagree with so much it’s purported to represent…

Published September 18, 2013
Categorised as Interracial marriage, Islam Tagged convert, Muslim, Quran, Religion

Ghosts Of Ramadans Past

Sunset on Lake Ontario

It’s the early hours of the morning. The sky is still a bottomless black and I’ve roused myself from sleep to eat before the fast begins…

Published August 6, 2013
Categorised as Interracial marriage, Islam Tagged Family life, memories, Muslim, Ramadan

How I Discovered The Real Ramadan

Window on our world

I ached to experience the nightly anticipation of breaking the fast as part of something larger. Deprivation is so much more tolerable, and joy heightened, in company…

Published July 30, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Islam Tagged Fasting, Muslim, Ramadan

Make Me A Muslim

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The other night I watched a documentary about UK women who’d converted to Islam. A convert myself, I was curious to hear their experiences and find out what people think when they hear of westerners converting…

Published February 12, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Islam Tagged convert, halal, hijab, Islamism, Muslim, Religious conversion, revert, Stockholm Syndrome, Women in Islam

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