By Irena Akbar “No woman in my family has ever observed the purdah.” “No one in my family wears the hijab or the burqa”. Do these lines sound familiar? Most likely, you’ve read them in liberal Muslims’ declarations of “support” on social media for the right of Muslim girls in…

WHY I REJECT INDIAN ISLAM Irena Akbar I am Muslim. I am Indian. I choose to write “Muslim” before “Indian” in defiance. Defiance of the pressure, often from within the community, to say “I am Indian” before “I am Muslim”, or even “I am Indian Muslim”. …