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The MAGA parody hat, "Made You Look Allahu Akbar," got me thinking about American Muslim humor and its growing mainstream appeal.
Mar 14, 2025
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Zohran Mamdani’s rise is proof many Democratic voters have grown tired of the old guard continually offering up an out-of-touch white boomer or a slightly younger person of color who is just as clueless.
Humbling as it may have been to be demoted to the lower rungs of the celebrity hierarchy, a D-list diss at the Met Gala beats being mistaken for a terrorist. Khan, a Muslim, was racially profiled and detained by federal authorities three times when he flew into the U.S. between 2009 and 2016.
Many local South Asian Americans and others called for Hanuman Temple of Greater Chicago in Glenview to uninvite extremist Sadhvi Ritambhara from a speaking engagement this weekend. “Hate speech has no home in a house of worship,” they stated in a signed petition.
The MAGA parody hat, “Made You Look Allahu Akbar,” got me thinking about American Muslim humor and its growing mainstream appeal.
Aldermanic protest against the exhibit has raised its profile at the Chicago Cultural Center. ‘It’s a criticism of governments, not people,” the artist says.
As President Joe Biden leaves office, many are expressing that his legacy will be tarnished over his reluctance to keep Israel in check in its response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, columnist Rummana Hussain tells the story of her friend Dr. Jihad Shoshara, who first visited his paternal homeland in 1991. “This was the will of the Syrian people,” Shoshara said.
Once my family started celebrating Thanksgiving, at the insistence of my father, there have always been two constants: a slightly spicy turkey and an 8-ish p.m. ‘normal’ dinnertime.
I am far from ashamed of my last name, though Donald Trump repeatedly used it as a diss against Obama when he spoke to the Economic Club here in Chicago.
The American activist’s friends wonder if her killing will be another whitewash by Israel, like the deaths of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and Rachel Corrie before her. “She deserves justice,” Eygi’s classmate Juliette Majid said. “Her family deserves justice.”