Source: The Guardian BY Amrit Dhillon in Delhi A Muslim woman in the southern Indian state of Kerala has received death threats after leading prayers for a mixed congregation in an act […]
Source: The Atlantic By DAVID A. GRAHAM Last fall, Arthur Wagner was part of something remarkable: His political party, the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland, entered the Bundestag, becoming the first far-right […]
Source: Associated Press By MUNEEZA NAQVI NEW DELHI (AP) — There was anger about a rumored romance between a Hindu queen and a Muslim invader. There were death threats. There […]
Source: The Guardian BY Tom Phillips in Beijing At least 120,000 members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority have been confined to political “re-education camps” redolent of the Mao era that are springing […]
Source: Reuters BY Suchitra Mohanty, Shilpa Jamkhandikar NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected bids by two states to reinstate a ban on the disputed Bollywood film “Padmaavat”, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Michael Safi and agencies The gradual repatriation of more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees to Myanmar from Bangladesh has been postponed amid widespread fears that refugees would be forced […]
Source: Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader accused Saudi rulers on Tuesday of committing “treason” against Muslims by aligning themselves with the United States and Israel. Addressing parliamentary representatives […]
Source: Religion And Politics It was June 12, 2016, and a man named Omar Mateen had just opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and […]
Source: The Guardian With increasing numbers of Muslim women participating in Australian sport – from amateur through to professional ranks – photographer Lisa Maree Williams caught up with some of […]
Source: Associated Press By PHILIPPE SOTTO PARIS (AP) — A French labor court was unable to agree Thursday whether four Muslim security guards were unfairly fired from their jobs at […]
Source: CNN Cape Town, South Africa (CNN) – With more than one million visitors in 2016, Cape Town already ranks highly among the most popular destinations in Africa. But South Africa’s legislative capital […]
By Ken Chitwood | June 8, 2017 A boy is evacuated during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran, Iran, on June 7, 2017. Photo by Omid Vahabzadeh/TIMA via Reuters (The […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla MUSLIM GIRL VIA GETTY IMAGES The Pew Research Center estimates that Muslims make up about 1.1 percent of Americans. America’s Muslim population is growing […]
Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — They meet in a conference room on the second floor of the Islamic Association of Raleigh, a therapist and a member […]
Source: NPR BY LEILA FADEL On a recent night in Chicago, a Muslim preacher sits on the floor in the center of an ethnically mixed and mostly young group of men […]
Source: The Guardian Decision by far-right local authority in southern France, affecting about 150 mainly Muslim pupils, has been called ‘an attack on the rights of children’ In a newspaper […]
Source: The Boston Globe By Christopher Wallenberg Rohina Malik was attending a friend’s wedding some 15 years ago when the realities of post-9/11 America rocked her world. A Chicago-based theater […]
Source: The Guardian BY Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim is to spread fear about Muslims People demonstrate against allowing an Islamic community center near Ground Zero at a rally […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED Muslims at a 2017 prayer service celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. (John Moore/Getty Images) Recent political debates over […]
Source: The New York Times By NINA SIEGAL DEC. 31, 2017 The Slagerij Marcus kosher butcher shop in Amsterdam. Jewish and Muslim groups have agreed to change ritual slaughter practices in […]