Source: NPR BY CAMILA DOMONOSKE A low-profile confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill this week raised eyebrows when the questioning turned to theology — specifically, damnation. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont pressed […]
The mayor of London is used to beating the odds. Sadiq Khan grew up in a council house and has risen to become one of the most important and recognized […]
Source: The Guardian BY Vikram Dodd and Sarah Marsh The London Bridge attacks have triggered a big spike in hate crimes with a significant amount of them being attacks in the […]
Growing up half time in the United States and half time in Pakistan, Ghazi finds herself joining Muslim women in being stereotyped at the same time they are expected to […]
By Omar Alnatour To follow Omar Alnatour on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeTeachLifeSir Source: Huffington Post Picture this: You wake up in the morning to hear your wife screaming at you because it’s […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ambassador Akbar Ahmed At a time of heightened Islamophobia, Western converts could be the key to bridging cultural barriers and eliminating misconceptions. “Islam is not a […]
Source: Notre Dame University website By Dennis Brown Rafat and Zoreen Ansari and their family, of South Bend, Indiana, have made a $15 million gift to the University of Notre […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Omar Alnatour, ContributorPalestinian-American Muslim. Medical Student. Humanitarian. When I was a toddler, I was terrified of getting my vaccinations. No, terrified is an understatement. My fear […]
Source: Russian Times Nine wooden stakes topped with pieces of a dead pig have been found on a plot of land where a mosque is scheduled to be built in […]
Source: CNN By Madison Park, (CNN)As tears streamed down her cheeks, Destinee Mangum, 16, thanked the three strangers who intervened on a Portland light rail after a man hurled anti-Muslim […]
Source: Huffington Post By Cristian Farias The court said that the president’s executive order “drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.” In yet another setback for the Trump administration, a […]
Source: The Guardian By Jamie Grierson and Robert Booth Senior members of Muslim community say they have received reports of abusive behaviour since Manchester Arena attack Fawzi Haffar, a trustee at […]
Salon: President Donald Trump, like his predecessors before him, has discovered the potent language of religious tolerance and interfaith unity when discussing Islam, as he demonstrated in his speech in Saudi Arabia to leaders of some 50 Muslim nations. But unlike previous presidents, he has not linked that rhetoric with […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ryan Grenoble A federal judge in Texas has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit brought by Ahmed Mohamed, the 9th grader who was arrested in 2015 for bringing a […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver a speech on radical Islam to Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia later this month, the White House […]
Source: Harvard University Press By Cemil Aydin When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians […]
By Elizabeth Lesser, who is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. There’s an angry divisive tension […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Hannah Allam The invitation seemed like no big deal: Would Muslim students at Duke University like to give their call to prayer from the chapel bell […]
Source: Reuters By Scott Malone | BOSTON When the Masjid Al-Kareem mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, received a threatening letter in November calling Muslims a “vile and filthy people,” its […]
Source: The Guardian BY Angelique Chrisafis in Aulnay-sous-Bois Hanane Charrihi, whose mother, Fatima, was the first person killed in the Nice truck attack last year. Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images In […]