Source: Associated Press By CURT ANDERSON MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors secured a relatively rare federal hate crime conviction punishable by a tough sentence on Thursday as a Florida man pleaded guilty to leaving a voicemail that threatened to shoot people at a mosque. Legal experts and Islamic advocates said it […]
Source: Star Tribune By By Miguel Otárola Star Tribune Leaders of an Islamic center in Bloomington remain concerned about their safety and desperate for justice, more than two months after an explosion destroyed […]
Source: The New York Times By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH OCT. 19, 2017 Photo An alkaline hydrolysis unit at a funeral home in Windom, Minn. This week, California became the 15th state to outline commercial regulations for the disposal of human remains using the method. CreditJoe Wilson What do you want done with your […]
Source: The Washington Post By Griff Witte and Luisa Beck October 20 at 5:00 AM BERLIN — A little over a century ago, the ancestors of modern Austrians were at the vanguard of religious liberty […]
Source: The Guardian Donald Trump has erroneously linked a rise in recorded crime in England and Wales to the “spread of radical Islamic terror” in his latest outburst on Twitter. “Just […]
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police arrested 120 people on Thursday during a demonstration by ultra-Orthodox Jews who blocked roads and set fires in protest at the forced […]
Source: BBC News A landmark assisted dying bill has passed through the lower house of Australia’s second-most populous state after a marathon all-night debate. Lawmakers in Victoria discussed the voluntary […]
News Courtesy: Imam Anees Ahmed Nadeem A group of students from the local theological seminary visited the Bait-ul-Ahad – the Japan mosque in Nagoya. Students were given a detailed tour around the mosque by Imam Anees Ahmed Nadeem. The Imam also gave a brief overview of the teachings of Islam […]
Source: BBC A suicide bomber has killed at least 30 people inside a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say. An eyewitness told the BBC the scene at the Imam Zaman mosque, in the west of the city, “looks like a frontline”. The blast happened as worshippers were gathering […]
Source: Huffington Post By Deedra Abboud, who is an attorney and expert on the art and science of finding solutions, not fault – at work, at home, and in the […]
Source: BBC News Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush have voiced concern about the current political climate in the US, in comments seen as a veiled rebuke of […]
Source: The Washington Post By Ann E. Marimow October 18 A federal appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a towering cross-shaped monument that has marked a major intersection in Prince George’s County […]
Source: The Globe and Mail BY Ingrid Peritz Quebec has adopted a law that will force people to show their faces when taking the bus or borrowing a book from the library, pushing ahead with legislation that is being criticized for targeting Muslim Canadian women. Bill 62, which the Justice […]
Source: BBC News The United States says the militant Islamist movement Hamas must lay down its weapons if it is to play a part in a new Palestinian government. Hamas, […]
Source: Associated Press By BISWAJEET BANERJEE LUCKNOW, India (AP) — India’s famed monument of love, the white marble Taj Mahal, is finding itself at the heart of a political storm, with some members of the country’s ruling Hindu right-wing party claiming that the mausoleum built by a Muslim emperor does […]
Source: Huffington Post Raheel Siddiqui died during boot camp after allegedly being hazed. By Antonia Blumberg The family of a Muslim Marine recruit who died during boot camp at Parris Island last […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Shayan Modarres, Contributor Legal Counsel at the National Iranian American Council We just blocked Muslim Ban 3.0! Overnight, Judge Theodore D. Chuang, the federal judge who issued […]
Source: Pew Research Center Break with past responses to global refugee surges BY PHILLIP CONNOR Mohammad Mobin smiles on Feb. 1 after greeting his sister’s family, who had arrived as refugees […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY GREGORY A. SMITH Most U.S. adults now say it is not necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values (56%), up from about half […]
Source: ABC2 News BY Jeff Hager JOPPATOWNE, Md – The heavy equipment now sits idle on the Ansar housing development in Joppatowne, but Muslim leaders are now trying to build […]