South Korea’s efforts to build mobile prayer rooms for Olympics tourists thwarted by anti-Muslim group
Source: The Washington Post By Dara Elasfar February 16 The Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea were supposed to include two mobile prayer rooms, but threats of protests scuttled those plans. (Jean […]
Iceland law to outlaw male circumcision sparks row over religious freedom
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Iceland is poised to become the first European country to outlaw male circumcision amid signs that the ritual common to both Judaism and Islam may be a […]
‘I’ll be Muslim too’: Fans embrace Liverpool’s Mo Salah
Source: Aljazeera Liverpool Football Club fans have embraced Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian player, with a new chant that celebrates the 25-year-old forward’s faith. “Mo Sa-la-la-la-lah, Mo Sa-la-la-la-lah, if he’s good […]
Muslim, Millennial and single: A generation struggles to find love
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner February 14 at 8:19 AM Email the author ANAHEIM, Calif. — Osman Aslam has tried the apps. On Minder, he wrote he enjoys hiking, going on long […]
Muslim boys who insulted Christianity sentenced to memorise verses of Quran that honour Jesus
Source: Independent By Bethan McKernan Unique sentencing from Christian judge in Lebanon, where insulting religion can be punishable by up to three years in prison, praised as message of coexistence The […]
Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.
Source: The Washington Post By Ismail Royer February 12 fa(iStock) Last month, my wife and I joined a small group of Muslims and thousands of Christians at the annual March for Life […]
Anti-Muslim protests in PyeongChang get Winter Olympics prayer room scrapped
By and large, PyeongChang has gone out of its way to welcome the world for the 2018 Winter Olympics. But not everyone in the South Korean host city is feeling the Olympic spirit. Read more: https://sports.yahoo.com/anti-muslim-protests-pyeongchang-get-winter-olympics-prayer-room-scrapped-141802474.html
The long read The fight for the right to be a Muslim in America
Source: The Guardian A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump. By Andrew Rice Forty […]
Boston police’s social media surveillance unfairly targeted Muslims, ACLU says
Source: Boston Globe By Alanna Durkin Richer ASSOCIATED PRESS FEBRUARY 07, 2018 BOSTON (AP) — A social media monitoring tool used by the Boston Police Department to identify potential threats swept up […]
Draft DHS Report Called for Long-Term Surveillance of Sunni Muslim Immigrants
Source: Foreign Policy Those fitting broad “at-risk” profiles would be targeted for continuous vetting. BY GEORGE JOSEPH | FEBRUARY 5, 2018, 4:53 PM Two Muslim women stand near a fence across the […]
Trump nominee for U.N. migration post called Muslims violent, Christians top priority
Source: The Washington Post By Aaron C. Davis and Jack Gillum February 3 Email the author The Trump administration’s nominee to coordinate billions of dollars in assistance to migrants around the world has suggested in social-media […]
Muslim inmate sues state over failure to provide halal meals
Source: The Oregonian By Noelle Crombie The Oregonian/OregonLive An inmate has sued Oregon Department of Corrections staff for failing to serve meals that observe his Muslim faith. Rashid Kambarov, 29, who […]
Muslim students and families get a close-up view of politics at State House
Source: Boston Globe By Cristela Guerra GLOBE STAFF JANUARY 30, 2018 On Muslim Lobby Day at the State House, some of the most outspoken, curious, and determined activists weren’t yet old enough to […]
Indian Muslim cleric says women watching soccer un-Islamic
Source: Associated Press BY BISWAJEET BANERJEE LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A senior cleric at an influential Islamic seminary in northern India has issued a religious decree saying that Muslim women should […]
Muslim woman receives death threats after leading prayers in Kerala
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 […]
The Strange Cases of Anti-Islam Politicians Turned Muslims
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 […]
Thin crowds greet Bollywood film after rumors set off anger
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 […]
China ‘holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps’
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 […]
India’s top court rejects bid to reinstate ban on film as Hindu groups protest
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”, […]