Islam Beyond Phobia
In Mecca on Eid al-Adha, carrying the burden of those lost in Gaza
By Omar Suleiman — June 16, 2024
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (RNS) — In my kaffiyeh, I received prayers from random worshippers and even my taxi driver for the Palestinian people.
Netanyahu, an accused criminal at the Hague, becomes an invited guest in Washington
By Omar Suleiman — June 11, 2024
What’s happening at Columbia is monumental
By Omar Suleiman — April 24, 2024
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All eyes on Rafah as Ramadan gets underway
By Omar Suleiman — March 13, 2024
(RNS) — Muslims have navigated war, famine and death in Ramadan, but we’ve never watched a genocide in real time.
Israel’s crimes in Gaza may be condemned at the Hague. The real victory is already won.
By Omar Suleiman — January 12, 2024
(RNS) — After nearly 80 years, Israel is a defendant at the Hague.
Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism
By Omar Suleiman — December 8, 2023
(RNS) — Equating the two is designed to stifle criticism and instill fear in those who speak out, Jews and non-Jews alike.
In Gaza, the cease-fire accentuates the barbarity of the war
By Omar Suleiman — November 28, 2023
(RNS) — The relative quiet is only a reminder that the status quo in Gaza is cruelty.
I am a child of Palestinians. I could’ve been killed in Gaza.
By Omar Suleiman — November 8, 2023
(RNS) — You claim to care about us here, but are OK with us being killed there.
Don’t look away. Israel’s response is textbook ethnic cleansing.
By Omar Suleiman — October 31, 2023
(RNS) — A leaked document shows Israel sees the war as an opportunity to push Palestinians into Egypt.
For what crime did Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old in Chicago, die?
By Omar Suleiman — October 18, 2023
(RNS) — Every child should have the right to grow up with the compassion that Wadea Al-Fayoume expected.
Why you’re not seeing Palestinian suffering
By Omar Suleiman — October 11, 2023
(RNS) — How is the conflict in the Middle East being presented?
France’s laicité in the name of secularism is really only supremacist legacy of colonialism
By Omar Suleiman — September 6, 2023
(RNS) — What is it that makes a schoolgirl’s choice to wear the abaya a form of religious proselytism?
Why do we remember Srebrenica?
By Omar Suleiman — July 11, 2023
(RNS) — We must recall the daily, routine dehumanization that leads to genocide.
When Ramadan means an escalation of Israeli occupation violence
By Omar Suleiman — April 5, 2023
(RNS) — To end the now annual attacks on Muslims during Ramadan, we must end the Israeli occupation.
Quelling the obsession with burning the Quran
By Omar Suleiman — January 31, 2023
(RNS) — Addressing Islamophobia as a policy matter would rob Quran burners of the attention they seek.
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