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It’s been a crazy three days.
On Tuesday, our article headlined at HuffPo Comedy and brought the nation together in our shared love for Jon Stewart.
Yesterday, our amazing friends and families rallied in support and our book climbed to #8 on the Amazon women’s studies bestseller list.
Today, a light-hearted excerpt from our anthology was published by HuffPo Books – with a photo of a niqab-wearing woman heading it. That was enough to bring the Stealth Sharia Islamophobe trolls out in force and there are almost 1,000 comments on the piece already.
I had to stop reading after awhile; too much vitriol. But this must be said: the many readers standing up against the hatred are what makes this country great.
I’ve learned a few things from the drama surrounding our book excerpt in HuffPo Books this morning:
1. Sexy Muslim women bring the trolls to the blog (943 comments & counting)
2. Ask & ye shall receive – once the editors understood how the photo perpetuated stereotyopes, they changed the niqabi pic – to a pair of juicy pink lips
3. There is no such thing as bad publicity. We are now #5 on Amazon’s women’s studies bestseller’s list and in the top 450 books in the nation.
Suck THAT, trolls.
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women hits the shelves in just three weeks! It’s a moving and provocative non-fiction anthology featuring 25 American Muslim women speaking openly for the first time about their search for love.
Here are the top five ways you can help amplify Muslim women’s voices right now:
- Order the book today!
- Share this post with your family, friends, and networks and ask them to support Muslim women writers by ordering the book
- Select Love, InshAllah for your book club–we’ve included discussion questions at the back of the book
- Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter - and then ask your networks to do the same!
- Connect us to your university or a community organization (e.g., place of worship, student association, non-profit org, etc.) to organize a reading/panel discussion
This book wouldn’t have been possible without our wonderful writers, families and friends. Thank you for supporting Muslim women in telling their own stories and sharing their perspectives!
The Love InshAllah anthology website is live! Please come meet our 25 gorgeously powerful writers and read what early reviewers have to say.
It’s been an extraordinary five-year-long journey to this moment on the brink of publication. I am so proud of the honesty and beauty with which each woman has shared her most intimate thoughts on love, faith, and sexuality.
Also, our first op-ed was published in Altmuslimah this morning. We discuss the freedom of choice/religion issues that are highlighted in the TLC show “All-American Muslim” and its depiction of Muslim women. Our opinion:
Some Muslims may not always agree with the way in which these women practice their faith, but the authenticity of their beliefs and identity as Muslims are not ours to question.
Looking forward to your feedback on the site & article!
And a special thank you to my blog readers over the years – this project would not have been possible without your participation, support and outreach to the women you know. Almost each and every story in the anthology has some connection back to this blog and to you. Thank you! 
After a four-year-long journey, I am proud to announce that my non-fiction anthology, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, is ready to hit the shelves on Valentine’s Day 2012!
Please take a second to click the link below and ‘like’ our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/LoveInshAllah
Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to the release date. Thank you so much for your amazing support throughout this process!
A friend reminded me today how much I love Warsan Shire’s raw, powerful, steeped-in-womanhood poetry.
Enjoy!
We have a publisher! Our book, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women will be released on Valentine’s Day 2012.
If you’ve been thinking about submitting your story there’s still time. Check out our website for more details.
The Eco Muslim profiles Green Hijabi: Healing, Vegan, & Halal Living. The days when I couldn’t be a vegetarian in protest of the way factory-farmed animals were (& continue to be) treated in the US without being told it was “haram to leave that which God has made halal for you” are thankfully over. Check out this green sister!
Raquel Evita Saraswati is a woman after my own activist heart with interests in “religion and human rights, conflict resolution, women’s issues and democracy.”
Muslim Women in the Arts is a support group for Muslim women artists. Lots of wonderful artists, and you can suggest more for this worldwide database too.
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