The First Amendment Was Written for Every Faith. American Muslims Are Keeping It That Way
Religious freedom for American Muslims in 2026 has a quiet exception the Constitution never wrote. In Texas, a governor branded a planned Muslim housing and mosque community a “Sharia city” and moved to block its construction. The community already owned the land. Zoning was approved. Every document the First Amendment requires was in order, and […]
What Sharia Actually Means and Why the American Scare Campaign Gets It Wrong
Sharia, Islamic law, Muslim women’s rights, and the Islamophobia industry collide in a new episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, where host Dr. Daisy Khan and legal scholar Sumbul Ali-Karamali expose how a 1,400-year-old ethical framework became one of the most deliberately distorted words in American political life. Ali-Karamali, author of Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It’s Not […]
A Thousand Years of the Same Lie: Inside the Christian Playbook Against Islam
In 1095, Pope Urban II stood before a crowd of European Christians and called Muslims “of the accursed race,” granting divine permission to seize their land by force. Nearly a thousand years later, American politicians use almost identical language to justify military incursions, surveillance programs, and immigration bans targeting Muslim communities. The words changed slightly. […]
Muslim Family Violence Exposed: 1 in 3 Women, 45 Homicides, and the Silence That Kills
Muslim family violence, domestic oppression, and the silence shielding abusers in faith communities take center stage on the latest episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan. Host Dr. Daisy Khan welcomes Dr. Denise Ziya Berte, Executive Director of the Peaceful Families Project and a licensed clinical psychologist with over 30 years specializing in trauma, torture, and interpersonal violence. Together, they expose […]
Laylat ul-Qadr Explained: The Night of Power Every Muslim Is Being Called to Experience
There is a night buried within the final ten days of Ramadan, which Muslims worldwide spend an entire month preparing for. It has no fixed date. It cannot be marked on a calendar. And that ambiguity, according to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is entirely by design. In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Dr. […]
Who Erased Muslim Women From History? The Quran Told a Different Story All Along
Muslim women were erased from history not by scripture but by the men who interpreted it. On this International Women’s Day episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Professor Asma Afsaruddin sits down with Daisy Khan to trace exactly when and why that erasure happened. Professor Afsaruddin is a scholar of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at […]
She Left Hollywood at 12 to Find God: Sheikha Maryam Kabeer’s Interfaith Journey
A Jewish girl raised in Hollywood and a Sufi spiritual teacher guiding seekers across the globe sound like two entirely different people. They’re not. In this episode of Wise Women with Daisy Khan, part of the Muslim Women Project series featuring 100 Muslim women of authority shaping their destiny and society, Dr. Daisy Khan sits […]
Ramadan in Islam: Why Muslims Fast and What the Soul Awakens
The world does not slow down for hunger. Emails still arrive. Traffic still roars. Deadlines still press. Yet for one month each year, nearly two billion Muslims reorder their days around an unseen rhythm. They wake before dawn. They close their lips to food and water. They measure sunset with longing. This is Ramadan, and […]
When Culture Wears a Veil of Faith, Exposing the Truth About FGM
A man in a Manhattan church raised his hand and sliced through a polite interfaith script with one question. Why does Islam allow female genital mutilation while girls bleed and scream around the world? Daisy Khan, a Muslim woman steeped in interfaith dialogue, froze. She had never heard the term. The gap between what many […]
How Muslim Women Are Rewriting the Story of Power and Participation
A Black History Month assignment in Madison, Wisconsin, changed everything. Asked to write about a civil rights leader, a public school student picked up The Autobiography of Malcolm X and discovered he was Muslim. She had not known Muslims were part of America long before her Egyptian immigrant family arrived. That book helped shape Dalia Mogahed into one of […]