Source: MPR News By Matt Sepic Minneapolis police now say they’re investigating the shooting of two young Muslim men early Wednesday as a possible bias crime. Jaylani Hussein with the Council […]
Source: Reuters BY DAN WHITCOMB A Muslim policeman who sued the New York City Police Department after he was suspended for refusing to shave his beard has been reinstated and the department has agreed to review its ban on beards, his lawyers said on Thursday. A judge last week ordered […]
Source: The Washington Post By Jose A. DelReal Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump drew criticism on Thursday for responding affirmatively when asked by a supporter to consider removing people who wear hijabs from Transportation Security Administration positions, in favor of giving those posts to military veterans. The comments came during […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell The Democratic primary is over and Bernie Sanders has all but conceded. But that doesn’t mean his fight has ended. Even as his campaign has largely […]
Source: The Washington Post By Antonio Olivo A new member of Virginia’s Republican State Central Committee apologized over the weekend for posting anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric on Twitter and Facebook — […]
Source: Associated Press By MICHELLE L. PRICE and KRISTEN WYATT In this photo taken Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Democratic candidate for Senate Misty Snow speaks with. SALT LAKE CITY […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal PAUL SONNE in Taylor, Mich., and GORDON LUBOLD in Washington, D.C. The death of a young Muslim-American recruit at boot camp is at the heart of […]
Source: SunSentinel By Kate Jacobson Contact Reporter Sun Sentinel The Fort Pierce-area mosque once attended by Orlando shooter Omar Mateen is receiving threats and members are being intimidated, according to an Islamic group representing the mosque. Since Mateen killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub June 12, the mosque has received threatening […]
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON Religious liberty is a rallying cry for many evangelical voters, and it has been popping up repeatedly throughout this presidential campaign. But in the current political […]
Source: Forward BY Sam Kestenbaum The doors are open to everyone at Shabbat services held on the ground floor of this Nostrand Avenue building in Brooklyn. But, unlike most Orthodox spaces, here it’s the women who lead prayers. Men? They can sit in the back. “Men are welcome,” said Nechama […]
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) The call went out for 600 volunteers to make care packages for Syrian refugees. Nearly 1,000 Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, Buddhists, Christians and Hindus answered it. […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell Trump once supported “leaving borders behind” With the aid of a teleprompter,Donald Trump on Tuesdayrepeated the defiant anthem of his campaign: selfish businesses are sending American […]
Source: Huffington Post Hint: It involves actually getting to know Muslim Americans. By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Leave it to Samantha Bee to tear down Islamophobia […]
And more solidly constitutional, too. Updated by Dara Lind on June 30, 2016 @DLind dara@vox.com STOP in the name of Trump.(Photo by Ty Wright/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s Muslim ban isn’t a Muslim ban anymore. It’s a much more — terrifyingly — workable policy. In 2015, Trump proposed a “total and […]
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne joined Muslims in fasting on Wednesday, June 22nd and then took part in the Iftar (fast-breaking meal) with the community at the Sayeda Khadija Centre […]
Source: Pew Research Center About four-in-ten blacks are doubtful that the U.S. will ever achieve racial equality Almost eight years after Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president –an event that engendered a sense of optimism among many Americans about the future of race relations1 – a series […]
Source: Associated Press BY Jill Colvin NEW YORK (AP) — From the moment he first declared it, the plan has been a signature of his campaign for president: “Donald J. […]
Source: JTA (JTA) — The New Jersey Legislature passed legislation that prohibits the state from investing pension and annuity funds in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses. The bipartisan bill in response to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel passed the state’s General Assembly on Monday by […]
Earlier this month, Brookings’s Democracy Dashboard released a new collection of indicators focusing on institutional functioning and capacity. By assembling a range of data in one place, researchers and other interested parties can assess trends in the behavior of the president, the judiciary, and Congress. Today, we’ll spend some time […]
Editors’ Note: Terrorist groups don’t emerge out of nowhere, and wars are perhaps the richest soil for seeding and growing violent groups of all stripes, writes Dan Byman. This post originally appeared in the Washington Post. Study after study has found no common profile of a terrorist. It is […]