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August 2018

August 17, 2018

Catholic Sex Abuse Report – Universal Pain, Sorrow, Questioning, Sympathy and Prayer

Sexual abuse, abuse of power, it’s all awful and terrible and nauseating in any form....

March 2018

March 27, 2018

What Does Being “Unapologetically Muslim” Mean?

What does it mean to be "unapologetically Muslim?" Does it mean to be a loud...

March 01, 2017

Reza Aslan’s “Believer” – Seeking Truths & Understandings in an Increasingly Divided World

How do people personally experience religion and faith? Why do they believe what they believe,...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

A Trump Presidency – Conversations with our Children

Last night (in my opinion) ended badly. This morning started badly. I had to do...

April 2016

April 17, 2016

D’s Declaration of Faith

Ali Family Autism Truths #17 - April 17, 2016 I harbor secret fantasies of chartering...

November 2015

November 03, 2015

His Happily Ever After

So how is he doing? I pause at the question, put forth to me by...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

A Muslim #PrayerforEveryone – Prayer Backed with Action to Achieve Global Goals

There is this: "It is He who produces gardens with trellises and without, and dates...

April 2015

April 09, 2015

Ali Family Autism Truths #9 – The Best Muslim, the Innocence of Humanity

April 9, 2015, Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #9 I’ve noticed a trend during the...

April 05, 2015

Ali Family Autism Truths #5 – How Inclusive was Your Easter or Passover Service?

April 5, 2015 – Autism Awareness Month, Ali Family Autism Truths #5 In private conversations...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

The Heavy and the Light

The car line at my son’s autism school can be an emotional roller coaster. I...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Patheos Welcomes the “Love, InshAllah” blog

A few years back a manuscript (for review purposes) came mailed to my house, not...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

Life Goes On

They prayed for my son at Friday prayers last week. Another milestone I never imagined...

April 02, 2014

You are Enduring Love

My darling boy, The sun is shining and the air is warm with the scents...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

It’s Ok to Say, Why?

Maybe I’m wrong. I could very well be entirely wrong on this, but I am...

July 2013

July 19, 2013

An Autism Unbound from the Rituals of Ramadan

In no way is he part of any of our Ramadan rituals. He does not...

July 12, 2013

Autism, Childhood and the Perpetual Questions – A Sibling Speaks Up

How do the siblings of individuals with autism cope with the spectrum disorder's grip on...

May 2013

May 12, 2013

Loved and Loved Back

The whole family came out for Amal’s soccer game on Saturday morning – Lil D,...

April 2013

April 15, 2013

Where Our Concern Should Be Right Now – With the Victims, Not the Faith of the Perpetrators of Violence

If you’re Muslim, you can’t help but be thinking, oh God – let it not...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

The Magician Who Can’t Make Autism Numbers Disappear

He’s a regular parlor-room magician. But instead of pulling a never-ending trail of colorful handkerchiefs...

December 2012

December 26, 2012

My Jihad is Autism, Faith and Everything In Between. What’s Yours?

What’s your jihad? Mine is autism awareness and living with autism. My jihad is my...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

Reflecting on the Holy Days, the Year of Autism, and One Resolution

Has it been a year already? Yes, one year has passed since witnessing the extraordinary miracle that...

October 15, 2012

I Don’t Know – Three Bad Words in Autism Land

I think, today at least, that the three most frustrating words in Autism Land for...

July 2012

July 21, 2012

Lean On Me

My mother always told me that one of our biggest fallacies is that when ten...

July 09, 2012

More Thoughts on Balancing Appreciation of Good Days with Wanting Better Good Days

I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude and good days since my last post, in which...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Autism and the Fractured Family – Making A Choice

This is part one of two posts on making tough choices, the blessing of having...

May 15, 2012

Walking Away from Autism

You can’t. Walk away from autism, that is, no more than you can walk away...

May 09, 2012

Giving Thanks for Good Autism Teachers

When I entered Lil D’s classroom to pick him up the other day, Sanjay* immediately...

April 2012

April 11, 2012

Hey Autism, Verily with Difficulty There is Ease

Spring break on the beach: Are we a couple of free-wheeling college students on Daytona...

April 06, 2012

When Prayer and Rituals Change Us, Not Our Circumstances

Spring break has started here, and the kids are home. I sent my younger two...

March 2012

March 20, 2012

Rituals of Religion to Break Autism’s Mr. Hyde Meltdowns

In my post last week about the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of autism, I...