(Global News) Almost a decade after he became the first person convicted of trying to leave Canada to join a terrorist group, Mohamed Hersi is being released from prison amid concerns he remains a threat. In a decision released on Monday, the […]
(Dawn) US President Joe Biden assured Muslims in his Eid message on Friday that his administration was committed to addressing Islamophobia as an ideology of hate. “As we celebrate our blessings this Eid, let us also recommit ourselves to the timeless work […]
(Religion News) Loud chants carried through the main plaza at Baruch College in the early afternoon on Thursday (April 20) as a group of around 40 students protested near the Office of Student Life. The students, a majority of them Muslim, were […]
(Washington Post) A Virginia man who left the United States more than 14 years ago to fight alongside extremist groups in Afghanistan pleaded guilty Friday to a terrorism charge in federal court in Alexandria, but U.S. prosecutors are not seeking prison time […]
(Al-Jazeera) Growing up in the United States, Selaedin Maksut would skip school on Eid to go to the mosque, attend festivities with his family and celebrate one of the most joyous days for Muslims across the world. While he said he never […]
(CBC) Quebec’s education minister officially prohibited schools from transforming classrooms into prayer rooms Wednesday, as announced two weeks ago. “Schools are places of learning, not places of worship,” said Bernard Drainville. The guidelines put out by the Education Ministry say that “the […]
(Time) When Abdullah Hammoud was elected mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, last year, he became the city’s first ever Muslim and Arab American leader. This week, he is making history once again — this time, by making Dearborn the first U.S. city to […]
(Canadian Press) Islamophobia and violence against Muslims is widespread and deeply entrenched in Canadian society, early findings from a Senate committee studying the issue indicate. Muslim women who wear hijabs — black Muslim women in particular — are the most vulnerable, and […]
(NY Post) Yale University is being blasted for hosting a French academic accused of horrific anti-Semitism during Passover — defying Jewish groups who pleaded with the college to call off the lecture. The Ivy League college invited French-Algerian Houria Bouteldja to speak […]
(Daily Caller) Border Patrol nabbed 80 individuals at the southern border whose names appeared on the terror watchlist in just six months, meaning the number of potential terrorists apprehended at the border is on pace to shatter the previous record, according to […]
(College Fix) San Francisco State University has rejected requests to stop investigating a professor who allegedly showed a drawing of the prophet Muhammed in a history class. Two nonprofit organizations sent letters to SFSU leadership requesting the university halt its probe of […]
(CBC) Two Canadian women and three teenage girls who were set to be repatriated from camps for family members of ISIS suspects in Syria were instead detained and mistreated by their Kurdish guards rather than being taken to their pick-up point, their […]
(Canadian Press) A member of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s new multiculturalism panel resigned Monday after the opposition resurrected past antisemitic social media posts. The Alberta NDP asked Smith to remove Tariq Khan, a Calgary-based realtor, from the Premier’s Council on Multiculturalism, citing […]
(Daily Wire) Yale University hosted a virulently anti-Semitic and anti-white speaker on the second night of Passover, when Jews were celebrating the second Seder and thus couldn’t appear to protest. Houria Bouteldja, who has reportedly insisted that Jews “cultivated Nazism” and thus […]
(JNS) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has compared boycotts of Israel and of Nazi Germany, was slated to deliver opening remarks at a U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom event on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims, […]
(KARE) With the stroke of a pen, the more than 20 mosques throughout Minneapolis are now allowed to publicly broadcast the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, five times per day throughout the year. Mayor Jacob Frey officially signed the new ordinance […]
(Detroit Free Press) After 10 p.m. on a recent Saturday night in Dearborn, crowds started to form around the downtown area in the western part of the city near Michigan Avenue. Organized by city officials for the Islamic month of Ramadan, a […]
(AP) With a bagpiper playing “The Bells of Dunblane” and a few runners looking on, families of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the 10th anniversary of the tragedy early Saturday by slowly walking together to the memorial sites near […]
(Religion News) President Joe Biden has appointed Mazen Basrawi as a senior adviser and White House liaison to American Muslim communities, making good on a campaign promise to fill a slot eliminated by former President Donald Trump, according to a spokesperson for […]
(Sahan Journal) The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted Thursday morning to pass an ordinance allowing the public broadcast of the Islamic call to prayer five times a day year-round. Mosques were previously allowed to broadcast the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, […]
(Star-Telegram) An Arlington Republican who faced backlash after voting against a resolution celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan says he has since met with Arlington’s mayor and members of the Muslim community and apologized. State Rep. Tony Tinderholt last month posted […]
(Global News) Two Toronto-area women were ordered released from custody on Tuesday after returning to Canada from detention camps for ISIS suspects in northeast Syria. Ammara Amjad and Dure Ahmed had been detained by the RCMP on terrorism allegations since landing in […]
(Washington Times) Complaints involving bias against American Muslims fell 23% in 2022, the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported Tuesday, 5,156 versus 6,720 the year before. The overall decline, CAIR said, “is the sharpest single-year change” since 2017, when a 32% increase in […]
(Canadian Press) Muslim groups are speaking out against the Quebec government’s intention to ban prayer spaces in public schools, saying they will monitor how the Education Department enforces its new rules. In response to reports that at least two Montreal-area schools had […]
(NY Post) Stuyvesant High School has eliminated girls-only swimming classes, forcing female Muslim students to sacrifice the modesty their religion demands if they want to earn a prestigious diploma. Stuyvesant, which boasts an Olympic-sized pool at its Lower Manhattan campus, mandates a […]
(Sahan Journal) Minneapolis mosques would be able to broadcast the adhan — the Islamic call to prayer — five times a day under a proposed ordinance unanimously approved March 29 by the City Council’s Public Health and Safety Committee. The resolution would […]
(WMTW) A Waterville teenager has pleaded guilty to a federal indictment that he conspired to provide material support to terrorists — Maine’s first adjudicated ISIS terrorism case. 19-year-old Xavier Pelkey entered his plea in person Friday morning in Bangor Federal Court before […]
(Canadian Press) A Canadian woman who returned to Canada from a prison camp in northeastern Syria this week has been released on bail in Edmonton pending a terrorism peace bond application, Mounties in Alberta said Friday. She was among four Canadian women […]
(Daily Caller) Free speech watchdog Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) wrote to San Francisco State University (SFSU) on Thursday urging administrators to drop its investigation into a professor who showed a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad during a history class. […]
(Daily Wire) The most radical member of the most radical school board in Virginia, Fairfax County’s Abrar Omeish, has declined to run for reelection, citing the toll of investigations into the school system. Omeish voted against a resolution honoring the victims of […]
(AP) A Connecticut prison guard who was fired in 2021, several years after posting what the state determined to be an anti-Muslim meme on Facebook, has been reinstated to his job. An arbitrator ruled in February that Anthony Marlak’s termination was an […]
(FFXnow) The Fairfax County School Board will have a lot of new faces next year — and perhaps, a couple of members reemerging from its past. The latest member to opt out of a reelection bid is at-large member Abrar Omeish, who […]
(Canadian Press) The RCMP says its Federal Policing Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested two women at the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport and is seeking a terrorism peace bond against them under the Criminal Code. Police say in a release Thursday that Ammara […]
(Canadian Press) Quebec’s education minister said Wednesday it will soon be forbidden to have prayer rooms in the province’s public schools. Bernard Drainville told reporters in Quebec City he has learned of at least two Montreal-area schools that have permitted students to […]
(Global News) The victim slashed in the neck by an alleged ISIS supporter aboard a transit bus in B.C. says the attack was unprovoked. “I wasn’t expecting it at all,” the resident of Surrey, B.C., told his family in text messages written […]
(CBC) Multiple Canadian women and their children are on their way back to Canada after spending years held in camps for ISIS suspects and their families in northeastern Syria, according to their lawyer. Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon told CBC News that some of his clients […]
(AP) A northern Virginia man convicted on terrorism charges as a teenager has been sent back to prison for a year after violating conditions of his release by meeting with convicted Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh and others linked to terrorism. Prosecutors […]
(Global News) A Canadian terrorism expert says police and crown prosecutors will have their work cut out for them in proving a horrific attack on a Surrey, B.C., bus this weekend was an act of terror. Abdul Aziz Kawam was initially facing […]
(Pioneer Press) Hamline University President Fayneese Miller, who was criticized for her handling of a Muslim student’s complaint after a professor showed art in class that depicted the Prophet Muhammad, will retire next year. Miller has been president of the St. Paul […]
(WDET) The National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) is working to get the Middle Eastern and North African designation added to the federal Office of Management and Budget. NNAAC is an advocacy arm of Arab Community Center for Economic and Social […]
(Washington Times) A Muslim inmate at the Green Rock Correctional Center in Chatham, Virginia, is suing for what he claims is the prison’s denial of accommodations during Ramadan, a monthlong religious observance that calls for fasting from dawn to sunset. Alexander Crichlow […]
(Canadian Press) A grassroots Muslim charity is pointing to internal Canada Revenue Agency documents in a bid to persuade an Ontario court that a long-running federal audit is fundamentally tainted by systemic bias and Islamophobia. The Muslim Association of Canada wants the […]
(Vancouver Sun) A man arrested after a bus passenger was seriously injured in a knife attack in Surrey on Saturday now faces four terrorism charges. The charges of “committing an offence for the benefit of a terrorist organization” — specifically the Islamic […]
(Miami Herald) A U.S. citizen with several addresses listed in South Florida in the early 2000s will spend 20 years behind bars for supporting ISIS and dragging his family along to Syria. Emraan Ali, 55, was sentenced last week in Miami federal […]
(Canadian Press) Six Canadian children are set to leave a Syrian prison camp and fly to Canada without their mother who cannot come with them because federal officials have not completed her security assessment, advocates for the family say. The federal government […]
(AP) With her 3-year-old daughter sitting inside a red Target shopping cart, Aya Khalil looked through the aisles with anticipation. The author was on a mission: See for herself that her children’s book about a boy and his grandmother baking for an […]
(Canadian Press) Several members of the non-profit sector, including the United Way and Imagine Canada, are calling on the federal government to take immediate steps to shield Muslim-led charities from potentially discriminatory federal audits. More than a dozen organizations issued a statement […]
(CNN) A Virginia man convicted of providing support to ISIS in 2015 was sentenced Thursday to serve an additional year in prison for breaking his release conditions after meeting multiple times with John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” and sharing ISIS […]
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday) Former Rio Claro resident Emraan Ali has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the US for his involvement with the ISIS terrorist group from 2015-2019. On Tuesday, Chief Magistrate Judge Edwin G Torres of the District […]
(WLS) A Maine teenager has signed a plea agreement admitting he had weapons and Isis-inspired plans to attack Chicago-area Shia mosques last March. As part of the plan, 19-year-old Xavier Pelkey would rendezvous with underage accomplices from Chicago and Canada to stage […]
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