Status Updates From The Butterfly Mosque

Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul Qadr, the holiest night in Ramadan, drifts--its precise date is unknown. The iconclasm laid down by Muhammed was absolute: you must resist attachment not only to painted images, but to natural ones.

“Conversion is a personal process, and to bureaucratize it is, I still think, a little cruel.”

“we must learn to look out at the world not through the medium of self-appointed authorities, but with our own eyes.”