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2013: The top 14 Muslim news stories of the past year

By Omid Safi — December 30, 2013
2013 was a bloody, difficult, unraveling year for many Muslims around the world. May 2014 be a year that sees the discomforted comforted, the orphans cared for, the hungry fed, the naked clothed, the homeless provided with shelter. May there be a widening of the circle of compassion, may there be a real peace rooted in justice, and above all else, may all of us be participants in making it so.

How To Keep Malala from Being Appropriated: 5 points on Malala, Obama, and Jon Stewart

By Omid Safi — October 12, 2013
It is vital for Muslim reformers to have and maintain a holistic sense of justice in which one speaks simultaneously against both abuses of Muslim extremists and Western colonial powers. As for Malala, it means simultaneously to speak against the misogynist policies of the Taliban AND the violence inflicted on the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan by American drones.

Malala Yousufzai, the young Jihadist, released from hospital. #RiseAgain

By Omid Safi — January 5, 2013
Malala is ready to embark on the her Jihad. #RiseAgain
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