Sunday, February 16, 2025

Less Context

لا يُقاتِلونَكُم جَميعًا إِلّا في قُرًى مُحَصَّنَةٍ أَو مِن وَراءِ جُدُرٍ بَأسُهُم بَينَهُم شَديدٌ تَحسَبُهُم جَميعًا وَقُلوبُهُم شَتّى ذلِكَ بِأَنَّهُم قَومٌ لا يَعقِلونَ [Al-Ḥashr: 14]

(14) They will not fight you all except within fortified cities or from behind walls. Their violence [i.e., enmity] among themselves is severe. You think they are together, but their hearts are diverse. That is because they are a people who do not reason.

- English Translation

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Colleges and Universities Have a Racial Profiling Problem

 We have seen it again and again: A Black or brown person is sitting in a Starbucksbarbequing in a public park, touring a college they hope to attend, or sitting down in the college they already attend. Then someone calls the cops on them for looking like they “don’t belong” or are “out of place.”

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