You aim comedy up. If comedy is aimed down, you're a jerk. You laugh at the powerful as a way of bringing them down to your level or bring yourself up to theirs. Donald Trump doesn't actually laugh. I've never… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
I have no expertise of other religious traditions so I'm not going to opine on them, but in Islam the more you know about… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
If you are an American Muslim, you live in a community that is really struggling to get its feet off the ground. We're a… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
“Islam was no longer a straitjacket into which I forced myself, nor a nonnative language I learned from others around me, but a grammar… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
Writing something down and processing it, sitting with a text and a story, editing and rewriting new drafts - that entire process helps clarify… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
The one thing that's missing from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and I don't imagine we'll see it any time soon, is that there's no memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died because of how the memory of 9/11 was used. Memory is a very interesting thing. We very selectively curate our story and then stop when… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share
It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to myself, and as a Muslim, I believe that God created everything and intended everything and here we are in this unbelievably vast universe that's billions of years old. And yet, here I am, an individual human being, in… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share
“I was the kid who made a beeline for the library when the last bell rang, but also harder, because how do you define… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
Humour is a way of relating and connecting to people, especially when you're a minority or misunderstood. It has the power that other forms… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
You aim comedy up. If comedy is aimed down, you're a jerk. You laugh at the powerful as a way of bringing them down… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
After September 11 there was feeling obligated to respond, and allow other people to set the terms of the conversation. There was this ritualistic… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
