By Kathryn Reis Our current political climate is not the only instance when Muslim Americans have been framed as foreigners who did not fit into American culture, according to oral historian Zaheer Ali of Brooklyn Historical Society in a lecture Thursday. “Have Muslims become a shorthand way of referring […]
HATEM BAZIAN@hatembazian Published19 hours ago A figuring representing U.S. President Donald Trump as a warrior of the Crusades. The otherization of Muslims and Islam by Trump and his administration has awakened a sleeping civil society giant, a human decency guided by universal ethical and moral imperatives that soon will bring […]
Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy testifies in front of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee in March 2006.Larry Downing / Reuters PETER BEINART On March 6, the zoning board in Bayonne, New Jersey, turned down a request to convert an old warehouse into a mosque. Such denials […]
HATEM BAZIAN@hatembazian Protesters holding up signs in a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning Muslims from certain countries, Seattle, Jan. 29. It is high time for a courageous political, social, and economic faith-based coalition between American Muslims and Jews (who are aware of the danger of Zionism) […]
JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS | AP | Published — Sunday 5 March 2017 Imad Enchassi, center, leads a group of Muslims gathered at the Oklahoma State Capitol in prayer in Oklahoma City on March 2, 2017. (Jessie Wardarski/Tulsa World via AP) TULSA, United States: An American lawmaker known for anti-Islam remarks is […]
Qasim Rashid I’m an immigrant, an American Muslim and I have family overseas. A Muslim ban would materially impact me — but I can’t help but thank President Trump. I thank him, but not because I think the ban is a necessary — it’s not. Our immigration and refugee process […]
The Colombian port of Buenaventura is home to a small Muslim community who have successively embraced the Nation of Islam, Sunni and Shia interpretations Sheik Munir Valencia leads a small Muslim community in Buenaventura, Colombia. Photograph: Sybilla Brodzinsky Sibylla Brodzinsky in Buenaventura Monday 23 January 2017 Blaring salsa music from […]
Compared to the platitudinous, snide, divisive, war-mongering rant the world received from Trump, George W Bush was a visionary Robert Fisk @indyvoices A bad day for Muslims, I’d call it. The only mention they got in the inaugural tweet was pure Hollywood, and very dangerous. “Radical Islamic terrorism we will […]
12/09/2016 Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post If there was ever a year that needed Muslim women to show the world just how great America already is, 2016 was it. Muslim Americans continue to face rising intolerance and Islamophobia as a result, in part, of aggressive attacks on their […]
By Holly Yan, CNN December 9, 2015 Fierce backlash over Trump’s plan to ban Muslims 02:11 Story highlights American Muslims have alerted law enforcement to more terror suspects than U.S. intelligence has Muslims are the most racially diverse religious group in the country This report includes facts and figures from […]
Acknowledging that Islam is a religion of peace, we, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno Board of Trustees, on behalf of the congregation, affirm our solidarity and support for the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno and our Muslim neighbors. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF FRESNO Read more […]
By Vickie Connor | AP December 8 SILVER SPRING, Md. — For the past 10 years, Dr. Ashraf Meelu has paid out-of-pocket to offer basic health care in clinics open to the public. The 64-year-old Muslim doctor from Lothian, Maryland, along with a few volunteers, spends Friday mornings providing flu shots, measuring […]
HATEM BAZIAN@hatembazian Thousands of protesters marching in reaction to the election of Republican Donald Trump, Nov. 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. This is not the time to hide away and withdraw from civil society out of fear. The American Muslim community as a whole must develop a united front […]
UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER Janis Shinwari, an Afghan interpreter for the US military, sought refuge in America after the Taliban put him on a hit list. His story turns the debate on Muslim refugees on its head. By Anna Mulrine Grobe, Staff writer OCTOBER 5, 2016 Courtesy of Matt Zeller View […]
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Blair Imani meeting Bill Clinton. Courtesy of Blair Imani On April 13, 2016, barely a month after I started observing hijab, I attended an event called “Conversations with Bill.” It was a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, one of the first I had attended, and I was so excited to hear […]
And more solidly constitutional, too. Updated by Dara Lind on June 30, 2016 @DLind dara@vox.com STOP in the name of Trump.(Photo by Ty Wright/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s Muslim ban isn’t a Muslim ban anymore. It’s a much more — terrifyingly — workable policy. In 2015, Trump proposed a “total and […]
Plans to turn a vacant church in a Chicago suburb into a mosque have been the target of anonymous flyers. Ray Hanania | 12 Feb 2016 In a Chicago suburb, a Muslim society wants to turn a vacant church into a mosque [Ray Hania/Al Jazeera] Proposals to convert an abandoned […]
(RNS) Republicans and Democrats divide sharply over views on Islam, Muslims and how a U.S. president should label violent extremists. But Americans overall agree there’s “a lot” of discrimination against Muslims living in the United States — and it’s rising — a new Pew Research survey finds. RELATED STORY: Obama pleads […]
Source: Time By Muhammed A. Chaudhry is CEO of Silicon Valley Education Foundation and Communications Director for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. ‘If you’ve ever demanded Muslims stand up to extremism, […]