Shaila Kibria

Okay, great. So a Muslim goes and kills innocent civilians, and guess what? The emails start coming saying, “Shaila, look, one of your brothers in Islam just entered heaven according to your religion, because he killed people in the name of Islam.”    Great.    So, then I have to pull open the Quranic verse again, type out [...]

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To love is to suffer but still be open to life.  I don’t necessarily mean love in the romantic sense, I mean to love everything, whether it be a neighbour, friend, or a passerby.  Too often, doing something nice is considered weird, not normal.  If someone were to walk by, they will try their utmost to not look [...]

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