Our Writers
MuslimThought will be introducing an array of talented (and sometimes unknown) regular and featured guest writers to our audience. Our contributors will be from all walks of American Muslim life, raised in America with experience in Islamic work, leadership, and activism at all levels as well as academia and politics. As always, we hope through meaningful discourse, research, and analysis we can perpetuate the indigenization of Islam and Muslims in America.
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Danish S.
The founder of MuslimThought.com, Danish comes from an Indo-Pak heritage, has grown up in the South, and is a product of the public school system. Upon entering college, he was immersed into Islamic work where he was thrust into on- and off-campus leadership of various organizations while also becoming involved at a national level. During and after college, Danish continued to work in various capacities with just about every major Muslim organization in the country.
Currently Danish contributes to several local and nationally renowned organizations in various roles. The lessons he’s learned along the way have been invaluable to obtaining a dynamic and integral understanding of Islam and Muslims in America. It is experiences such as these of a young American Muslim that have lead to the mission behind MuslimThought. It is his hope that his experiences in years of grass roots leadership can help contribute to forming a unique American Muslim culture.
Tariq Nelson
Born in Sardis, Mississippi, but currently residing in the Washington D.C. area, Tariq has traveled to many Muslim communities (as well as overseas) and covered a lot of bases in his life. He has lived in small town USA and the big inner city. He has friends that are rich and those that are dirt poor.
Once acclaimed “King of the Muslim Blogosphere”, Tariq is the founder and operates his own hugely popular site www.tariqnelson.com where he often posts various thoughts about the problems faced by different groups within the American Muslim community as a whole and the Ummah in general in hopes of creating some dialogue to solve the problems. He’s become a popular speaker along the East Coast and has been a featured guest on various shows and a writer for many publications, blogs, and online magazines.
Tariq provides the following disclaimer about himself:
“I discuss a lot of taboo subjects and typically look at things from an angle that others will not. Please check all emotional baggage at the door.”
More writers will be added soon!
