I would recommend that you look into Maajid Nawaz’s memoir Radical. As a former Islamist, he describes how he became radicalized in his youth and how he became disillusioned when jailed in Egypt in the early 2000s. He’s now a passionate advocate of democratic culture and has founded a counter-extremist think tank, the Quilliam Foundation. He has a…

A Letter to Chris Christie from a Muslim-American

Dear Chris Christie,

You don’t know me from Adam and I only know you as the governor of New Jersey, which is neither my home state nor is it the state I currently reside in. I’m a native New Yorker though, so I’ve seen…

Bite my heart down to its very core.

There is not much left there. At least, it feels that way right now. Pulpy mess, a few withered, drying seeds that may have flourished into branches of elegant, eloquent sentences and full-bodied works of art.

Did you even bother to research this thing? This is the most PC, suck up article on the topic I’ve seen. The whole thing was a set up and his parents were responsible. He takes apart a clock and places the components into a case, intentionally making it look like a bomb.

Society Expects Me To Explain Something That Had Nothing To Do With Me

I’ve been looking at the news all night, feeling distraught for the victims, feeling sadness for the refugees who fled there to escape this violence.

And angry. I feel angry.