The life of a bisexual man is seldom easy or simple, but mine is more complicated than most. The name is Suleiman Mehdi. I was born in the City of Casablanca, Morocco, to a Moroccan father and Somali mother. Growing up a biracial man in one of the Muslim world's most beautiful and famous cities wasn't easy. Even though Moroccan society is fairly tolerant and...
"Salaam, Fatou, Jummah Mubarak, gorgeous, how are you doing?" Nagla Massoud whispered into Fatouma Kandeh's ear, and the six-foot-tall, brown-skinned, Afro-sporting young African Muslim woman turned around and smiled. Standing at the cash, waiting on slow-moving, short-tempered and often foul-mouthed customers to drop their crap on the counter so she could s...
People have a funny way of meeting their other halves, that's what movies and romance novels tell us. Well, the first time I met my other half, we kind of clashed. Seriously, she literally slammed her fist into my gut. For a short Turkish chick in a low-cut dress and tiara, Beyza "Bebe" Ataturk certainly packed one hell of a punch. Seriously, I'm six-foot-th...
Please lay off my faith, I thought angrily as I sat on the toilet seat inside the ladies room on the second floor of the university library. A couple of white chicks were talking trash about some Hijabi friend of theirs, her style of dress and Islamic faith apparently the focal point of their mockery. That's Canada for you. People up here smile to your face...
Always hold your head high when walking in the sea of hostility, I say to my grandson Djohar "Joe" Pierrot. Thanks grandma, the six-foot-tall, honey-colored young man says as he gently kissed my forehead. With a sigh, he pulled away from me. Tugging at his collar, he straps on his backpack and gets ready to leave. Enjoy your classes at U of T, I shout to him...
Nazia Choudhary is a diligent, upstanding, goody two Senior Detective in the Police Department. She is also a woman of the Muslim faith, who wears the hijab (headscarf) as an expression of her identity. She is incredibly proud of who she is and her achievement as a sharp detective. She dresses smartly but a tad conservatively. She is extremely dedicated to h...
Ash took a deep breath. For as good as life had been for the trainer, things were starting to become... stale. It felt as if he was stuck in a loop of sorts, unable to break free no matter what he did. "I just want a change." he thought, laying down in his bed. Sleep came quickly, with him unaware of what would await him come tomorrow.What's next?...
As Salam Alaikum, people. The name is Farah Hussein and I'm a young Black Muslim woman of Somali descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I was born in the City of Mogadishu, Somalia, and raised in provincial Ontario. These days, I'm studying police foundations at Algonquin College, and life simply couldn't be better. I recently got out of a bad relati...
A lot of people say that Islam is violent, the religion of extremists and dangerous people. To back up these words, the haters point out to the worst examples of Muslims that the Ummah has to offer. Among all races, all religions and all cultures, you will find both the good and the evil. I am Muslim, but I have many friends who are Christian, Jewish and eve...
"In my Islamic faith, it's considered perfectly okay for the men to marry women of other faiths, other cultures and other backgrounds, since it's up to the man to spread the faith, but the women are prevented from doing so, it's simply the norm," Wahida Salman said with a casual shrug. The young woman looked at her good friend and classmate, then shrugged fa...