(Detroit News) A federal judge has denied Troy’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Muslim community group that claims the city was discriminatory when rejecting plans to build an Islamic center there last year. The order that U.S. District Court […]
(Religion News) Farida Ahsan, a candidate for school board in this city’s Parkway district, was answering a question about racial disparities in school discipline when a melodic phrase came over the loudspeaker. It was the Muslim call to prayer ringing through the […]
(Salt Lake Tribune) Utah’s Muslim community has mushroomed from a simple student-led prayer group in the 1950s to more than 60,000 adherents of varied ethnicities and a dozen mosques today. It has produced doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, entrepreneurs and leaders contributing to […]
(Yle) A man who left Finland to join the terrorist group Isis was the son-in-law and business partner of the imam of the Oulu-based Islamic Society of Northern Finland, Yle’s investigative journalism programme MOT reported on Monday. As part of a programme […]
(Times of Israel) A New Jersey imam has accused the chief rabbi of the Israeli army of condoning the rape of Palestinian women. In a February sermon at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, NJ, Baker Assaf said Muslims should […]
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(JTA) A Muslim community leader in New Zealand dismissed claims by the head of the country’s biggest mosque that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was behind the killing of 50 Muslims at two Christchurch mosques. Mustafa Farouk, president of the Federation of Islamic […]
(Jewish Journal) The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is working to deepen engagement with American Muslim communities, institutions and leaders by creating a listening tour. The AJC opened a dialogue in Washington, D.C., this week with leadership from Masjid Muhammad, the Nation’s Mosque, […]
(Newshub) New Zealand’s Jewish community is outraged and revolted after a prominent mosque leader blamed Mossad for being behind the Christchurch terror attack. On Saturday, a group called Love Aotearoa Hate Racism organised a rally for the victims in Auckland’s Aotea Square. […]
(LA Times) Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, accused President Trump on Saturday of inciting hatred of Islam and inspiring attacks like the killing of 50 people this month in mass shootings at mosques in […]
(Jewish Journal) Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper called on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to condemn an imam in her district who preached against a “Zio-Crusader agenda” in a recent sermon. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported that […]
(Local) A Sweden Democrat politician from Kramfors, on Sweden’s northern Baltic coast, is facing possible expulsion after proposing that his municipality build a mosque to draw more immigrants to the city. Mark Collins, 63, who represents the normally anti-immigration party on Kramfors […]
(Anadolu) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) urged Muslims Friday to come together in unity and solidarity after 49 worshippers were gunned down at two mosques in New Zealand during Friday prayer services. “Do not be afraid and do not abandon your […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Scott Morrison has led a swift and strong repudiation of Queensland Senator Fraser Anning, who linked Muslim immigration to the terror attack carried out at two mosques in New Zealand by suspected far-right extremists. The prime minister tweeted late […]
(ABC) A top Muslim organization is blasting President Donald Trump after a mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand left 49 people dead and dozens more injured. “During your presidency and during your election campaign, Islamophobia took a sharp rise and […]
(FrontPage) When visiting Khurrum Wahid’s Facebook page, you see photos of what appears to be a clean-cut politician attending different events, posing with important politicos, standing with young people, and smiling broadly for the camera. Wahid is running for the position of […]
(Copenhagen Post) A new law proposal from the government and Dansk Folkeparti would make it illegal for foreign governments and authorities to give money to religious bodies in Denmark. The law would come into play if it is decided that the purpose […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A visiting imam accused of making anti-Semitic statements at a North Philadelphia mosque has said the slurs attributed to him are “completely false,” prompting the Anti-Defamation League on Monday to label him “shamefully unrepentant” and his denial “brazen.” Imam Abdelmohsen […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) Officials at a North Philadelphia mosque known for its commitment to interreligious dialogue have apologized for anti-Semitic statements made by a guest imam during several sermons delivered there over the last few months. The comments in Arabic by Imam Abdelmohsen […]
(FrontPage) CAIR-Florida has taken down from its website Nezar Hamze’s photo and bio, as he has left the Hamas-linked group and gone elsewhere. His new position, however, poses no less of a threat. Hamze, who is also a deputy at the Broward […]
(NY Times) These are heady times for Kahina Bahloul, organizer of a women’s mosque in France, a country that is home to the largest Muslim population in Europe. Practical considerations dominate the spiritual — a search for an affordable location, a flurry […]
(Courthouse News) A Ninth Circuit panel resurrected a class action Thursday challenging the use of an FBI informant to infiltrate several Los Angeles and Orange County mosques and secretly collect information on Muslims for more than a year. In its long-awaited ruling, […]
(Dutch News) Amersfoort city council was within its rights to reduce the welfare benefits of a man who refused to shave his beard while following training to work with asbestos, administrative appeal court judges said on Tuesday. The man needed to shave […]
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(Brussels Times) The Flemish government will not accredit any new mosques in the region for the next five years, according to home affairs minister Liesbeth Homans. Homans (photo) had commissioned a study from the university of Leuven, which she now says justifies […]
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(Anadolu) A court in Austria annulled a government plan to shut down six mosques belonging to the Arab community, a Muslim body said late on Thursday. In a statement, Umit Vural, head of the Islamic Religious Community of Austria (IGGO), said that […]
(Falls Church News-Press) Islamic Relief USA, a nonprofit humanitarian and advocacy organization, recently awarded a $15,000 grant to Dar-al-Hijrah mosque (3159 Row St., Falls Church) to help provide food to families who weren’t receiving compensation due to the partial shutdown of the […]
(Dutch News) More research is need[ed] to establish if and how the government can stop money from what it calls restrictive countries reaching Dutch religious institutions, social affairs minister Wouter Koolmees has told MPs in a briefing. The government included a commitment […]
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) A high school art project helped students gain a new perspective by connecting them with people of the Islamic faith. Fayetteville High School students in Ashley Grisso’s advanced placement world history classes worked in groups of two or three. They […]
(France 24) Kahina Bahloul has set her sights on becoming France’s first female imam, as she moves forward with plans to construct an “inclusive” mosque in Paris. Bahloul submitted a proposal in November 2018 to construct a house of worship known as […]
(AFP) Outwardly, Komotini looks like other Greek cities, but there is a major difference: it has nine mosques whereas there are none in Athens. The northeastern city has existed from the second century and was captured by Ottoman-era Turkey in the 14th. […]
(NY Times) Maeen Ali remembers the worry he felt when he first spotted the “Punish a Muslim Day” screed online. The letter, mailed last spring throughout England, encouraged violence that ranged from pulling off a woman’s head scarf to bombing mosques. Each […]
(Boston Globe) Stepping before the congregation, Governor Charlie Baker took the microphone at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and softly offered “Salam,” a greeting of peace. “How’d I do?” he then asked, as light laughter rippled through the crowd. Weeks […]
(CBC) Quebec Premier François Legault has clarified his controversial comments about Islamophobia, now saying such discrimination exists but that it is not widespread. In a statement Friday, the premier’s office said Legault meant to say that there isn’t an “undercurrent” of Islamophobia in Quebec. “Quebecers are open […]
(CBC) Premier François Legault says there’s no need for a day devoted to action against Islamophobia — because Islamophobia isn’t a problem in the province. Legault made the comments two days after the second anniversary of the Quebec City mosque attack, when the deputy premier, Geneviève Guilbault, said the […]
(AP) Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is planning to visit a Boston mosque. Organizers say the visit Friday to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center — the largest mosque in New England — is the first by a sitting Republican Massachusetts governor. […]
(Forbes) Holy Defence looks like your typical shoot ’em up. The Android game sees the protagonist running around a carbon copy of the Sayyeda Zeinab mosque in Damascus, defending it from invaders with automatic weapons. More than 10,000 people have downloaded the […]
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(Anadolu) Greece just gave a new date for the inauguration of the mosque in Athens. Kostas Gavroglu, Greek minister of education, research and religious affairs, told that the inauguration of the mosque, for which five different dates were previously given with no […]
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(Gatestone) “New York, Geneva and Strasbourg are the only cities in the world which are home to international institutions without being national capitals,” an official page of the French city proudly proclaims. “The choice of Strasbourg as the European capital following the […]
(NL Times) Three persons were arrested after a demonstration by anti-Islam movement Pegida in the Utrecht district of Zuilen on Wednesday evening. Towards the end of the demonstration, the situation became unsettled and there were various vandalism incidents. The detainees were counter-protesters, […]
(Gatestone) An enormous amount about the hopes and expectations of a society can be learned from the news that people want to report and the stories its readers apparently want to hear. An equally large amount — perhaps even more — can […]
(Jewish News) A London mosque is to host the Yad Vashem-supported exhibition on Muslim heroes of the Holocaust after its cancellation by the Centre for Islamic Understanding in Golders Green. The Love Your Neighbour exhibit will take place in Redbridge on 20 […]
(D Magazine) In August of 2017, Alia Salem and Huma Yasin decided to launch something for Muslim parishioners to go for help. They’d seen enough. An imam in Irving had been accused of “sexually grooming” an 18-year-old congregant, beginning when she was […]
(Radio France) Two Muslim organisations in France have launched projects to create “inclusive” mosques: spaces where women and men can pray together, and where female imams would be able to lead Friday prayers. Kahina Bahloul conducts her prayers at home, in her […]
(Ahval) Radical Islamists participated in a conference organised by the Turkish government in the central mosque of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), German newspaper Kölner-Stadt Anzeiger reported on Jan. 6. “The Turkish-Islamic Union, DITIB, apparently maintains close contacts with alleged […]
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