Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A national organization of university religious leaders elected its first Muslim president last week in a move that could influence college diversity for years. […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Jenée Fowler It’s not easy for everyone. Some people simply haven’t experienced cultures outside their own. America is a bubble, a place where we’ve been told to […]
Source: BBC By Alex Strangwayes-BoothBBC News Muslims with mental health issues could be helped by re-embracing their beliefs and religious teachings, it is claimed. Traditionally, therapists have shied away from […]
Source: Smithsonian.com Long before today’s anxiety about terror attacks, Spain and England feared that enslaved Africans would be more susceptible to revolt if they were Muslim (Wikimedia Commons) By Andrew […]
Source: RNS By Yonat Shimron RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) Wrapped around the porch molding of a blue clapboard house in this capital city is a saying inscribed on thin sheets of […]
Source: The Washington Post By Dan Lamothe The scholarly journal of the Pentagon’s top general published an essay that examines what someone in his position should do if a president […]
Source: Politico Magazine By BLAKE HOUNSHELL and NAHAL TOOSI Trump administration officials pushing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization face at least one significant obstacle: analysts […]
By SHIREEN YOUNUS, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER When I was four years old, my mother taught me how to read the Quran. We started with the Arabic alphabet. I remember learning how to sound out “alif,” the first letter in the word “Allah,” and “sheen,” the first letter of my own […]
Source: The Guardian Ashifa Kassam in Toronto Friday 3 February 2017 19.46 GMTLast modified on Friday 3 February 2017 23.16 GMT Hundreds across Canada gathered around mosques to form protective barriers – […]
Source: The Washington Post By Samantha Schmidt February 3 at 9:32 AM Kellyanne Conway’s erroneous ‘Bowling Green massacre,’ explained In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Feb. 2, White […]
Source: The Washington Post By Mark Maske The NFL Players Association expressed its support Thursday for Muslim players in the league amid the controversy generated by President Donald Trump‘s immigration order. […]
Source: The Guardian Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Friday 3 February 2017 11.50 GMTLast modified on Friday 3 February 2017 14.35 GMT More than 150 mosques around the UK will open their doors […]
Source: Associated Press By PHILIP MARCELO BOSTON (AP) — A nationwide campaign to get more Muslim Americans involved in local politics is being launched by a Massachusetts nonprofit. Jetpac Inc. […]
Source: RNS By Bhavya Dore MUMBAI (RNS) Eleven years ago, Shahid Nadeem witnessed the blasts that rocked the small town of Malegaon, 167 miles from Mumbai. The experience and its aftermath, which […]
Source: Deccan Herald Governor Vajubhai Vala spoke about the need for peaceful coexistence among people of different religions, castes and races at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Peace Symposium 2017 here […]
Source: The Washington Post By Amy B Wang Former New York mayor Rudy W. Giuliani said President Trump wanted a “Muslim ban” and requested he assemble a commission to show […]
Source: Reuters By Kevin Dougherty (In this Jan. 29 story, corrects quote of tweet by Canadian legislator Greg Fergus to ‘demonizing’ instead of ‘sermonizing’) By Kevin Dougherty Six people were […]
Source: Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Massachusetts man is accused of attacking a Muslim airline employee at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, allegedly kicking and shouting […]
Source: Associated Press By RUSSELL CONTRERAS and JEFF KAROUB ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Muslim and Latino advocates have joined forces in opposing changes to immigration rules by President Donald […]
Source: BBC A former US Secretary of State and a Big Bang Theory actress have both vowed to register as Muslim if Donald Trump creates a database of Muslim Americans. […]