I have heard it said that those who change the world don’t ask, “How can you serve me?”, but, “How can I serve you?”. When we set out to change the world through SE7EN FAST, we had a conflicted purpose. We existed to serve, but it was on our terms. If you wanted to participate… Continue reading SE7EN FAST: ReBoot
My friend Jordan works as a Research Fellow for The Bridge Initiative. She has perhaps one of the most depressing tasks on the planet – to track incidents of anti-Muslim hatred and bigotry and put together reports to share with the public. I talked with her a couple of months ago about her work and… Continue reading 2016: A Year of Peace & Reconciliation
Dear Republican/Democratic primaries, You win. It seems that you have successfully worn out the American public. Now that our country has found itself in the throws of argument and division, you have seemingly sapped the collective social and self-conscience of average Americans everywhere. I volunteer with the Abrahamic Initiative here in Colorado as a dialogue… Continue reading An Open Letter to the Presidential Primaries and You
You may have heard about the terror attack in Brussels earlier this week. You may have heard about the attacks in Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Nigeria, Iraq, Yemen, Paris, or San Bernardino. You may have heard a viable candidate for President declare that we need to “patrol Muslim neighborhoods” in the U.S. to combat… Continue reading SE7EN FAST: Food-based Peace Protest
Last year, my wife and I came up with an idea, that we hoped would turn into an annual event, inviting non-Muslims to fast in solidarity with Muslims for one day during Ramadan and to break fast with Muslims in their own communities. We called it SE7EN FAST, mostly as a mnemonic device to help… Continue reading SE7EN FAST 2.0
A month ago, my wife and I were in Houston. We met with new friends Bassel and Salmaa, the two behind #Muslims4Lent, a solidarity movement of Muslims in which individual Muslims chose to fast from something during Lent this year. Bassel befriended my wife while she was doing something equally opposite this year for Lent,… Continue reading #SE7ENFAST
