Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, I didn’t do it. Guilt has a thousan...

"At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before." ~ Warsan Shire Home. W...

“It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know ...

“Verily, you (O Muhammad) guide not whom you like, but Allah guides whom He wills. And He knows best those who are the guided.” Quran 28:...

About two weeks ago, a young girl named Asha—12 years old—was killed after she was beaten and gang-raped in Somalia. Once I heard gang-ra...

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence—whether much that is...

It was narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that women will form the majority of the people of Hell. It w...

So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able become whom one had planned to be." ~From Night Train to Lisbon by...

I am so frustrated with African parents that sometimes I find it hard to not go off on them. I am not exaggerating when I say this but th...

For anyone who doesn't know the meaning of sister wives, here it is: they are any number of women who are married to the same man in a po...

"First, let's say that we go from here to Sharjah Airport and take a plane to China Are you with me? Concentrate now. Let's say that this...

Tonight in North America we are having a lunar eclipse and I am so bumped out that I can't go. Why can't I go? Well, 1) I'm coming down w...

Reader Discretion is Advised! The following post contains explicit language! To understand this post, please watch the video first. It wi...

Welcome back Readers of Rama blog! "The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters, who accidentally display...

Welcome back Rama Blog Readers! Once upon a time there were two girls who traveled from place to place with their families. They were nom...

Somali men are sitting in prisons across America. Some are abusing their wives. Others are wasting their money on khat in Europe and Afri...