St. Louis-area Muslims post ‘HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK’ billboard
Source: St.Louis Post By Kristen Taketa St. Louis Muslims are assuring people, in case they’re still unclear: Muslims are against ISIS as much as anybody else. A new billboard on […]
Mike Pence Disavows Donald Trump’s Earlier Proposal Barring Muslims
Source: The New York Times By ALAN RAPPEPORT The Trump campaign appeared to disavow one of its most provocative policy proposals on Thursday, as Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana said […]
Complaint to feds says Southwest Airlines profiled Muslim
Source: Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — A religious rights organization has filed a complaint with federal authorities against Southwest Airlines for what the group says was racial and […]
Yalla, Vote: Registering Muslim and Arab Americans
Source: Philly.com By Michael Matza, Staff Writer Ez-Zohra Baidouri, 73, emigrated from Morocco in 1986, settled with her family in Northeast Philadelphia, and embraced U.S. citizenship 15 years ago. On […]
California Is Trying To Keep Muslim And Sikh Students From Being Bullied
Huff Post: by Christopher Mathias — Fifty-five percent of adolescent Muslim students in California say they’ve been targeted for their faith. In a move hailed by civil rights groups, California Gov. […]
How has India changed a year after Dadri beef lynching?
Source: BBC It has been a year since a Muslim man in northern India was lynched over rumours that his family had slaughtered a cow and eaten beef. Hindus consider […]
Unity gives Jerusalem a prayer: Jews, Muslims and Christians join for worship
Source: The Guardian By Hannah Ellis-Peterson Eight religious leaders brought their congregations together for eight days in one room. It was a dangerous move In a small building in the […]
Donald Trump’s rhetoric energizes Muslim voters
Source: Boston Globe By Lisa Wangsness In a different election year, Bilal Durrani, a busy electrical engineering student at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, might have ignored the background noise […]
New Jersey Muslim leaders gather in Elizabeth to condemn recent bombings
Source: Yahoo News By Caitlin Dickson ELIZABETH, N.J. — Nawaz Sheikh, president of the Muslim Community Center of Union County, says he never knew bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, though his […]
Muslim immigration poll result due to poor leadership, says Tanya Plibersek
Source: The Guardian By Paul Karp A poll showing almost half of Australians surveyed want to ban Muslim immigration shows Australian leaders have not done enough to foster cohesion, the Labor […]
Meet the muslim blogger whos proving modesty can be fashionable
Source: BuzzFeed By Zaina Arafat Salam Alaikum, everyone!” Yasemin Kanar, known to her fans as YazTheSpaz, uses the traditional Muslim welcome to greet her 68,000 subscribers at the start of almost […]
Staten Island mosque mixes prayer and patriotism
Source: Gulf News New York: The man stood at the podium in the cramped Masjid Un-Noor mosque on Staten Island as hundreds of Muslims sat barefoot on the carpet before […]
Muslims Are More Unpopular Than Atheists In The U.S.
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — Islamophobia is real, and it likely won’t go away anytime soon. THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES In a recent study, 45.5 percent of respondents say Muslims don’t share their vision of American society. It’s all too common to turn on the news and hear […]
As Islamophobia Rises In Many Countries, Muslims Find Unlikely Sanctuary In Western Ukraine
Source: Huffington Post By Ian Bateson Freelance Journalist LVIV, Ukraine ― Ernes and Alime Mambetov have been living with their 2-year-old son in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for a […]
Protest over proposed mosque in Newton County ends quietly
Source: myAJC By Meris Lutz – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A protest by a small but strident group of about a dozen militia members, some armed, ended quietly Tuesday, after several […]
Eid as a holiday in the country
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner It was late afternoon on Monday when the Great Falls family of five piled into their minivan and headed for the Virginia countryside […]
Muslim Leaders Move to Boost Voters in Their Community
Source: The Wall Street Journal By BETH REINHARD MANASSAS, Va.—Corey Stewart had visited the Dar Al-Noor mosque many times as chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, but […]
How Muslim sectarianism affects politics and vice-versa
Source: The Economist SAUDI ARABIA’S most senior cleric has bluntly said that that Iranian Shias are not Muslim at all. The kingdom’s grand mufti, Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh, was responding […]
At Mount Arafat, Water Fights and Prayers — for Peace and, Yes, for a Husband
Postcards From the Hajj Our correspondent Diaa Hadid is one of millions of Muslims making the pilgrimage to Mecca A mountain of water bottles The pilgrims’ chants of “Here I […]
How the burkini debate boosted sales of modest swimwear in Israel
Source: The Washington Post By Ruth Eglash September 11 at 6:00 PM HOD HASHARON, Israel — One of the most jarring images of the summer was of French police demanding […]