
Mommying While Muslim
Mommying While Muslim is a one of a kind podcast where American Muslim moms share their experiences to raise second generation kids. Having experienced both pre and post 9/11 America, they're acutely aware of the unique challenges their families face on top of the regular messes that all moms share. Mommying While Muslim is a space to take back their stories, and tell those no one will air on the news or portray fully or fairly in the media. Host Uzma Jafri is mom first, careerwoman second, and global citizen at heart. She meets taboo topics head on because she wasn't allowed to do it growing up, not at home or at school and work. Her aim is to better her immediate household, community, and her momsisterhood the world over by telling the truths sometimes people don't want to face or to hear. Not everyone has these privileges, and she is eager to learn as well as share her own experiences. Always looking to give back, MWM finds women and families who need a mic because no one needs a voice; they just need an opportunity to speak. Besides tough social issues, MWM tackles political ones because when laws affect kids, we're coming for them as well as the ones who make them! There's no lane that doesn't get taken here. Along the way, MWM recruits momallies for Muslim Americans who have been inordinately targeted for the last 20 years. True moms know that ALL our children deserve to be safe, loved, and happy, and we bust every yellow brick on the Islamaphobic road to make sure they all are. If you like good trouble, this one's for you!
Mommying While Muslim
SERIES Muslim Foster & Adoption: Adoption: What’s Holding Us Back
Dr. Alia Irshad, pediatrician and adoptive mom, joins us today to talk about some of the hindrances to domestic adoption for Muslim parents, and the process of going international as she did. The process is demystified for us today, and her personal experience is the happy ending we want for every child of every faith and background. Let’s address some of the problematic beliefs the Muslim community has about adoption, and reveal the religious stipulations of adoption for our non Muslim audiences.
Dr. Irshad is a wealth of knowledge and expertise on her experience as well as on the rights of orphans in Islam, the mandate by Allah SWT Himself and the sunnah we are SO SLOW to fulfill, but ask about 4 wives and everyone wants to fulfill that sunnah! Check out the resources she’s collected for us and you won’t be sorry.
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Links:
- Contact Superintendent Pantoliano to say ‘thank you’: Lpantoliano@ridgefieldschools.com
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- Or call at 201-945-7747 to leave a message.
- Adoption Agencies providing services for Moroccan adoptions
- Religious recommendations at
- Yaqeen Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0BidbbUScc
- Wise Muslim Women: https://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/WISE-UP-Adoption.pdf
- Muslim Adoption Network: https://www.muslimadoptionnetwork.org/
- Muslim Foster Care Assocation: https://muslimfostercare.org/
- Want to help but can’t foster or adopt:
- Bloom Charity: https://bloomcharity.org/
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- Islamic Relief Sponsor an Orphan: https://irusa.org/orphans-and-children/
- Adoption reading: https://adoptuskids.org/?r=u
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