(AP) Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen claimed responsibility Sunday for last year’s deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station Pensacola by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia. The shooter, 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, was a member of the Saudi Air Force in […]
(Middle East Eye) As soon as communal prayers ended at a mosque in Des Moines on Friday, Imam Jaaphar Abdul Hamed turned to worshippers to remind them that the state’s caucuses to pick the Democratic presidential nominee [are] on Monday. Such announcements […]
(Middle East Eye) If Muslim-Americans want to become “visible” and elevate their issues on the decision-making table, they must participate in the upcoming presidential elections. That was Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s message to worshippers at the Muslim Community Organization in Des Moines, Iowa. […]
(Hill) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ripped President Trump’s expanded travel ban after he included six other countries to the list of those that will face increased travel restrictions. “The Trump Administration’s expansion of its outrageous, un-American travel ban threatens our security, our […]
(Arizona Republic) An Iraqi man who is alleged to have been the leader of a group of al-Qaida terrorists has been arrested in Phoenix, according to federal officials. Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, a 42-year-old Phoenix resident, is wanted to stand trial in […]
(Politico) President Donald Trump will expand his contentious travel ban, placing new restrictions on six additional countries, just as he embarks on a tough reelection campaign where he will tout his hard-line stance on immigration. Immigrant visas will be suspended for citizens […]
(HuffPost) The national board of the Muslim Caucus of America as well [as] Iowa state Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad announced their endorsements of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for the 2020 presidential election. “What you have here is an individual who stands up for […]
(Canadian Press) The wife of a notorious Palestinian terrorist who attacked an Israeli airliner has lost out on her bid to collect on her late husband’s life insurance because he failed to mention his unsavoury past when he took out the policy […]
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Activist, educator and former imam Abdullah Jaber has been named the new executive director of the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Jaber, 29, assumes the post on March 1. Jaber plans to make his first public appearance […]
(Chicago Tribune) Since 2016, documentary filmmaker Assia Boundaoui has been waiting for answers from the FBI to one question: Which parts of her Arab American community in Bridgeview were surveilled after 9/11? After a court hearing last week, she learned she will […]
(AP) A Minnesota Roman Catholic priest apologized Wednesday for saying in a sermon that Islam was “the greatest threat in the world” to the United States and Christianity. The Rev. Nick VanDenBroeke apologized in a statement issued by the St. Paul-Minnesota Catholic […]
(Global News) Foreign fighters from countries including Canada were captured during an operation against ISIS in Afghanistan last November, according to a report to the United Nations Security Council. The report said the Afghan security forces and Taliban had dealt a severe […]
(Free Beacon) A Muslim community leader accused of having financial ties to Hamas donated to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D., Mich.) campaign last month, records show. Salah Sarsour, an alleged Hamas sympathizer who once boasted about meeting a Muslim Brotherhood leader known for […]
(Daily Caller) Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped a peace deal that was proposed Tuesday at the White House by President Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This is not a peace plan,” Omar wrote in a tweet. “It is […]
(Fox) Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., walked back a controversial retweet spreading [a] “blood libel” against Israel that placed blame for the death of a young Palestinian boy on the Jewish state, vowing to “strive” for higher standards when it comes to sharing […]
(AP) A federal appeals court appeared skeptical Tuesday as civil rights groups sought to allow legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim countries to move forward despite a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the ban. The […]
(Lexington Herald Leader) A Lexington Islamic leader who was accused last year in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot pleaded guilty Monday to some of the charges against him. Mahmoud Shaker Shalash pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring with at least […]
(Hill) Democratic lawmakers joined faith and civil rights leaders on Monday to rally in support of legislation that would overturn President Trump’s travel ban, a move that comes as the administration prepares to expand restrictions to other countries. Monday marked the third anniversary of […]
(Hill) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that the House will consider legislation in the coming weeks to repeal the Trump administration’s travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries. Pelosi’s announcement came on the third anniversary of Trump signing orders to suspend immigration from […]
(Algemeiner) Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib faced a firestorm of criticism on Sunday after retweeting a false assertion on the micro-blogging website accusing Jews of murdering a Palestinian child in Jerusalem, with critics describing the claim as a “blood libel.” Eight-year-old Qais Abu […]
(NY Post) The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, the Post has learned. Two FBI agents held an hours-long meeting in Minnesota in mid-October with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents […]
(AP) After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries in 2018, the ruling appeared to shut down legal challenges that claimed the policy was rooted in anti-Muslim bias. But a federal appeals court […]
(Jerusalem Post) US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib retweeted a claim that “Israeli settlers” had “kidnapped and executed” a Palestinian boy. In fact the boy was found by Israeli emergency services dead in a cistern on Saturday morning after going missing on Friday. Nevertheless, […]
(Fox) An Iranian student who was denied entry to the United States on arrival and deported this week, amid objections from top Democrats and left-wing activists, has family ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah, a Department […]
(AP) Delta Air Lines is being fined $50,000 for ordering three Muslim passengers off planes even after the airline’s own security officials cleared them to travel. Delta denied that it discriminated against the passengers in two separate incidents but agreed it could […]
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) To protect against government secrets being exposed during the trial of a Helena-West Helena man accused of supporting a terrorist organization in Yemen, a federal judge agreed Thursday to the Justice Department’s request for a designated classified information security officer. […]
(AP) An Afghan-born U.S. citizen already serving life in prison for a bombing in New York City was sentenced Friday to an additional life term for a shootout with police in New Jersey as he attempted to avoid arrest in 2016. State […]
(AP) Rep. Ilhan Omar’s congressional career got off to a rocky start just a year ago, with her provocative remarks on Israel and Jews stirring anger across the country and raising speculation that some other Minnesota Democrat might step forward to challenge […]
(CBC) U.S. border officers working at multiple Canada-U.S. border crossings were instructed to target and interrogate Iranian-born travellers in early January, said a U.S. border officer in an email obtained by CBC News. The allegation follows reports that up to 200 people of Iranian […]
(Hill) Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and fellow committee members Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) asked acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf for further details on the process by which a Saudi national […]
(Hill) The Trump administration is expected to formally announce the addition of several countries to its travel ban next week, prompting questions about its timing and the rationale for which nations will be added to the list. President Trump told reporters in […]
(Reuters) With an FBI investigation underway, Navy security officer David Link still is not allowed to talk about what he saw when a Saudi gunman killed three U.S. sailors at this sprawling Florida naval base last month. But Link, one of the […]
(MPR) The families of four Somali teenagers detained by Minneapolis park police in 2018 are splitting a $160,000 settlement after lodging a human rights complaint over the officers’ handling of the incident. Bystanders recorded part of the incident, showing the boys being […]
(AP) The Pentagon has given the Navy and other military services conditional approval to resume training of Saudi Arabian nationals in the U.S. Operational training, such as flying and other non-classroom work, for the approximately 850 Saudis at multiple U.S. bases was […]
(Politico) President Donald Trump may expand his controversial travel ban with an announcement expected as early as Monday, the three-year anniversary of the original order, which targeted several majority-Muslim nations. The list of countries is not yet final and could be changed, […]
(AP) A psychologist who examined a man accused of planning an attack inspired by the Islamic State group at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., found “ample evidence” that he is mentally unfit to assist in his defense, a court […]
(WKYU) Frankfort will welcome hundreds of Muslims from across Kentucky on Wednesday, Jan. 22, for the inaugural Muslim Day at the state capitol. Muslims from all over the commonwealth will tour the building, meet with legislators, and pray in the rotunda. A […]
(Prince William Times) Human rights lawyer and former Democratic candidate for Virginia state Senate Qasim Rashid announced Monday his bid to represent Virginia’s 1st District in the U.S. Congress. Rep. Rob Wittman, a Republican, has held the seat since 2007. Rashid, 37, […]
(AP) The Pentagon is imposing new restrictions and controls on all international military students at American bases, including barring them from having privately owned firearms on base, in response to a shooting by a Saudi trainee in December that killed three sailors […]
(Canadian Press) An American civilian court has refused to order a military court to decide an appeal from former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr. In a brief decision this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied […]
(Religion News) After the U.S. killed Iran’s top military general this month in an airstrike directed by President Donald Trump, thousands of Americans protested at rallies nationwide, from Times Square to outside the Texas State Capitol. The airstrike served as an unwelcome reminder […]
(CBC) Civil rights groups challenging Quebec’s controversial ban on religious symbols have filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. Last month, Quebec’s Court of Appeal rejected a request to suspend portions of the law, known as Bill 21, pending a ruling on its constitutionality. […]
(Fox) Dalia al-Aqidi is a Muslim Iraqi refugee who says she’s tired of hearing Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., play identity politics while using language she believes is “dividing” America. So she is launching a campaign to unseat her in November. Al-Aqidi, who discussed […]
(FrontPage) Following the founding of Hamas in 1987, the Muslim Brotherhood set up worldwide committees to assist the newly formed terrorist group. In the US, it was called the Palestine Committee, and by the end of 1994, it would consist of four […]
(AP) U.S. training for more than 800 Saudi Arabian military students could be restarted “in the coming days,” the Pentagon said Thursday, nearly six weeks after a shooting by one Saudi trainee killed three sailors at a Florida base. The Pentagon had […]
(Free Beacon) More than 120 members of Congress privately issued letters of support to a controversial Islamic-American advocacy group known for its involvement in one of America’s most prominent terrorism financing cases, according to a copy of these official communications obtained by […]
(IPT) A Detroit-area Shiite imam with direct ties to Iran’s leadership used a press conference last week to push disinformation and propaganda about the U.S. killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani ran the IRGC and […]
(Columbus Dispatch) Columbus police Chief Thomas Quinlan said this week that he is open to taking another look at the division’s ban on head coverings for religious reasons. The ban made headlines in 2015 after a female police recruit left the Columbus […]
(PolitiFact) A fake tweet attributed to Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar says she called for violence against President Donald Trump over Iran. Screenshots of the tweet, which shows a Twitter handle profile photo that matches Omar’s verified @IlhanMN account, are being shared […]
(AP) A federal judge on Wednesday halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that gave state and local officials the ability to shut the door on refugees, and ignited a fierce debate in communities about how welcoming the United States should be. U.S. […]
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