The Hit-and-Run That Led the NYPD to an Imam’s Alleged Murderer
Source: The Daily Beast By MICHAEL DALY The Hit-and-Run That Led the NYPD to an Imam’s Alleged Murderer Less than 48 hours after an imam and his assistant were gunned […]
2 Killings Near Mosque Plunge a Queens Neighborhood Into Fear
Source: The New York Times By RICK ROJAS and NOAH REMNICK On Sunday afternoon, Nurul Khan changed clothes after working around his house on a sweltering day and set off […]
Muslims sue Sterling Heights after city rejected mosque
Source: Detroit Free Press Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan and the Department of Justice are investigating whether a proposed mosque was […]
UK: Western Europe’s biggest mosque ‘The Bait-ul-futuh’ will be redesigned
Source: qz.comqz.comqz.com Western Europe’s biggest mosque complex will be redesigned to counter anti-Muslim stereotypes The Baitul Futuh, in the south London neighborhood of Morden, with a capacity of 10,000. Like many European mosques, it was not purpose-built. The original structure, purchased in 1996, was a disused bottling plant in a narrow […]
In A Turbulent Election Year, Mosques Organize En Masse Voting
Source: NPR By CHAS SISK In an election year filled with anti-Muslim vitriol, some mosques are urging their worshipers to vote in an attempt to make their voices heard. To do […]
France plans mosque funding foundation to stop radicalisation from abroad
Source: The Guardian A new foundation will be created to help finance mosques in France in an effort to prevent the funding of places of worship by radical overseas benefactors, […]
Ireland: “Government should regulate mosques and do checks”, says Ahmadiyya Muslim Imam Ibrahim Noonan
Source: irishexaminer.com The Government should “regulate mosques” and gardaí should have the power to conduct random, unannounced checks on them, according to a Muslim cleric. Imam Ibrahim Noonan said there are some Imams here who are “telling young men to fight the West ideologically” and that these young people are further […]
French PM considers ban on foreign-funded mosques
Source: The Guardian By Agence France-Presse in Paris France’s prime minister has said he would consider a temporary ban on the foreign financing of mosques, urging a “new model” for relations […]
Florida Muslim group vows to fight removal of Islamic center as voting site
Source: The Guardian By Richard Luscombe in Miami ‘We thought it’d be great to invite the community at large to visit us,’ the Islamic Center of Boca Raton’s president said. Photograph: […]
Justice Department: Bensalem discriminates against Muslims
Source: THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER by Justine McDaniel, Staff Writer Bensalem Township has temples, synagogues, and churches, but in 2014 Bucks County’s largest municipality declined to grant a permit for a mosque. That, said the U.S. Justice Department in a suit filed Thursday, constituted religious discrimination. The suit seeks to have […]
U.S. Reps. Frankel, Deutch on mosque polling site: Don’t discriminate LOCAL GOVT & POLITICS
Source: The Palm Beach Post By Eliot Kleinberg Boca Raton’s two U.S. representatives Tuesday appeared to support the use of a mosque as a polling place in the Aug. 30 […]
Army Reserve officer who threatened mosque set for hearing
Source: Associated Press By Anna Groneworld RAEFORD, N.C. (AP) — A lawyer for an Army Reserve officer accused of leaving bacon outside a mosque and making death threats against some of its members asked a judge on Wednesday for more time to probe the accusations, explaining later that his client […]
Anti-Muslim incidents at US mosques surged last year
Source: Boston Globe By Matt Rocheleau Anti-Muslim incidents at mosques in the United States surged last year, according to a new report that blames the trend on backlash from terrorist attacks and the rhetoric of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. There were nearly 80 incidents — including vandalism, property […]
Historic Bosnian mosque reopens in move towards reconciliation
Source: Reuters BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA | BY GORDANA KATANA AND MAJA ZUVELA Thousands of Muslims flocked to the capital of Bosnia’s Serb region on Saturday for the reopening of a historic mosque destroyed during wartime, a ceremony seen as encouraging religious tolerance among deeply divided communities. Twenty years after the […]
Banja Luka mosque rises from rubble, 23 years after it was destroyed in Bosnia
Epigraph And if Allah did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques, wherein the name […]
The Marseille synagogue that is becoming a mosque
Source: BBC By Lucy Williamson BBC News, Marseille For the first time, a synagogue in Marseille is in the process of being sold to a Muslim organisation, which has plans […]
There are over 1.6 million Muslims in Italy—and only eight mosques
Source: Quartz By Annalisa Merelli Italy, home to the fourth largest Muslim population in Europe, has a mosque problem. Not because, as many a xenophobic politicians would claim, there are […]
Marseille synagogue to be converted into mosque
Source: Yahoo News Marseille (AFP) – A synagogue in cfris to be converted into a mosque, reflecting demographic shifts in the southern French city, a Jewish leader has told AFP. […]
Palestinians threaten to smash Temple Mount security cameras
Source: The Times Of Israel Palestinians placed notices on the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem warning of plans to smash security cameras installed at the site holy to both Muslims […]
Turkish Cultural Center to open in Lanham amid tensions over Islam
Source: The Washington Post By Hamil R. Harris There were about 15 of them there at the beginning. Turkish American engineers who in the early 1990s worked at NASA’s Goddard […]