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Abu Ruyaa

8 Jumada II, 1441 A.H. 

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Abu Ruyaa

8 Jumada II, 1441 A.H. 

By Hazel Gómez In this strange era of the increased attempt of institutionalizing Islamophobia from the right and the subtle cultural Islamophobic blows from the left, Muslim women who choose to cover with the khimar aka ḥijāb/headscarf are at the receiving end of it all. From governments trying...

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Latina American Muslimah on Khimars and World Hijab Day

By Hazel Gómez In this strange era of the increased attempt of institutionalizing Islamophobia from the right and the subtle cultural Islamophobic blows from the left, Muslim women who choose to cover with the khimar aka ḥijāb/headscarf are at the receiving end of it all. From governments trying...

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Noura Erakat

8 Jumada II, 1441 A.H. 

The inimitable Dr. Barbara Ransby reminding us that the legacy of Dr. King is the legacy of a movement that percolates from the bottom up. And no other figure helps illuminate that power like the late Ella Baker. May we all aspire to follow her tradition and legacy. We are the ones we have been waiting for.

“Throughout her life, Baker insisted on the importance of grass-roots leadership. “Strong people don’t need a strong leader,” she declared, warning activists to eschew messiahs and saviors and build local leaders by the thousands. “Martin didn’t make the movement,” she said. Rather, “the movement made Martin.” She did not mean this to be a disparaging assessment but a hopeful one. The strength and determination of ordinary people and the power of the organizations they build together are the locus of the power that fuels change, power that is bigger than any one individual, no matter how charismatic or committed.”

#MLK #EllaBaker #Freedom #Struggle

Her fighting spirit lives on in today’s social movements.

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Opinion | Remembering Ella Baker on Martin Luther King

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Abu Ruyaa

8 Jumada II, 1441 A.H. 

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Dalia Mogahed

8 Jumada II, 1441 A.H. 

For #worldhijabday let’s finally dispel the myth that women who wear hijab do so primarily because a male forces it upon them. Source Institute for Social Policy and Understanding - ISPU www.ispu.org/poll