(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, […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(KARE) It was standing room only, as dozens of people packed inside Minneapolis City Council chambers. “I want to thank Councilmember Aisha Chughtai and the two other Muslim councilmembers,” said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on […]
(CTV) Via Rail says it is working to improve its diversity and inclusion policies after a Muslim man was told not to pray at the Ottawa train station. Via Rail and the National Council of Canadian Muslims, a civil rights and advocacy […]
(CTV) Via Rail is apologizing after a Muslim man was told he couldn’t pray at the Ottawa train station. Ahmed, who asked that his last name not be used, said a security guard at the station told him he was not allowed […]
(AP) Muslim men who were praying together in their housing unit at a Missouri prison were doused with pepper spray, physically assaulted by corrections officers and then retaliated against when they complained, according to a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed Thursday by […]
(Washington Times) A Maryland Muslim who says Southwest Airlines fired him from a ramp agent position at Baltimore-Washington International Airport over a request to attend Friday prayers has asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to take up his case. Justin Mavins, who […]
(UPI) A Muslim man is asking an appeals court to reverse a ruling to throw out his lawsuit that alleged his constitutional rights were violated when he was forced to say his prayers inside a cell next to a toilet at a […]
(BBC) A proposal to broadcast a mosque’s call to prayer once a week has been passed. The Farooq E Azam Mosque and Islamic Centre in Stockton requested permission to broadcast the adhan on Friday afternoons. A council hearing was told it would […]
(WPR) Somali residents in the rural northern Wisconsin city of Barron are withdrawing a request to play an amplified Muslim call to prayer from two mosques after the idea drew stiff opposition from some residents at a recent city council meeting. Barron […]
(AP) The Islamic call to prayer was sounded in public for the first time from one of Germany’s biggest mosques on Friday, but at limited volume, as part of a project agreed with authorities in Cologne, which has one of the country’s […]
(AFP) Germany’s largest mosque will for the first time broadcast the call to prayer on Friday after city authorities in Cologne gave the go-ahead for a pilot project, under strict limits. Cologne’s Central Mosque, an imposing building in the western city’s Ehrenfeld […]
(KSTP) With its newly opened facility in Woodbury, Amazon can now deliver packages more efficiently in the east metro. The location is also the company’s most accommodating to date for its employees from Minnesota’s Somali community. The brand new “sortation center” sits […]
(Anadolu) Muslims in Germany’s city of Cologne welcomed the permission granted to them for two years to announce the call to prayer every Friday on loudspeaker. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Abdurrahman Atasoy, the acting president of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs […]
(European Conservative) With the start of the new school year, Islamist threats are once again hovering over French schools, according to two successive memos issued by the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalisation and Territorial Intelligence, one dated August […]
(Breitbart) A man on the French S-file terrorist watchlist was arrested over the weekend in Marseille after brandishing a large knife and threatening locals and passers-by in the street. The 27-year-old man, identified as Ali B., who was dressed in the traditional […]
(AP) The chant in Arabic blasted from rooftop loudspeakers, drowning out both the growl of traffic from nearby interstates and the chatter and clinking glasses on the patio of the dive bar that shares a wall with Minneapolis’ oldest Somali mosque. Dozens […]
(Spokesman-Review) Four Muslim detainees in the Spokane County Jail filed a U.S. District Court lawsuit April 11 citing religious discrimination, charging that their requests for halal food before and during Ramadan were not met in violation of the First Amendment and the […]
(Middle East Eye) A county jail in the US state of Georgia has agreed to accommodate Muslim inmates during the holy month of Ramadan, saying it will provide them with adequate, timely meals and also notify the detainees of the five daily […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Monday that conservative “snowflakes” had a “complete and glorious meltdown” over her tweet criticizing Christian-based missionaries singing on a plane. In a tweet over the weekend, Omar, who is Muslim, commented on a viral video […]
(NY Daily News) Seeing a video of Christians on a plane singing spiritual songs left Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar wondering what might happen if her Muslim family behaved the same way. “I think my family and I should have a prayer session […]
(Middle East Eye) New York City’s Times Square is set to host its first ever Tarawih prayers on Saturday, but several members of the Muslim community have voiced concern over the event being held at the bustling location. According to social media advertisements […]
(Star Tribune) The Muslim call to prayer will soon be heard regularly in parts of Minneapolis. Minneapolis mosques can now publicly broadcast the adhan, or call to prayer, over loudspeakers without acquiring a permit and so long as they abide by the […]
(Morocco World News) Authorities in the German town of Raunheim, in the Frankfurt Rhein-Main region, have decided to allow the Muslim call to prayer, “Adhan,” to be broadcast over loudspeakers on Friday afternoons. Mayor Thomas Juhe (SPD) announced the news on Tuesday […]
(Deutsche Welle) The Central Mosque of Cologne will be permitted to broadcast its call to prayer over loudspeakers on Friday afternoons, officials said on Monday. All 35 mosques in the western German city will now be able to play the call for up to five […]
(New Arab) Municipal authorities in the western German city of Cologne have announced that the Muslim call to prayer will be allowed to be recited on loudspeakers on Fridays, when Muslims hold weekly congregational prayers. The public call to prayer, known in Arabic […]
(Breitbart) Police arrested three Muslim men who engaged in a street prayer on September 11th using a loud sound system to broadcast the prayer. The three men had gathered on Saturday between 7 am and 7:30 am on the rue du Maréchal […]
(National-UAE) An Islamic school in Sweden should be shut down because of its “connection to extremism,” a member of the country’s Parliament has said. The Romosseskolan school, in the south-western city of Gothenburg, attracted criticism after it was accused of gender segregation […]
(Religion News) On the day in June when Muslim Advocates announced it had been selected for a high-profile donation from MacKenzie Scott, the philanthropist and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the nonprofit touted “the tremendous work and accomplishments of our […]
(Free Beacon) Convicted terrorists linked to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda led religious services at one-third of the federal prisons audited by a federal watchdog, a practice officials say presents safety and security risks. The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General […]
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(AP) The second-largest producer of beef, pork and chicken in the U.S. will pay up to $5.5 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the company discriminated against Muslim employees at a meat processing plant in northern Colorado. The U.S. Equal Employment […]
(BBC) Millions of Muslims around the world are currently observing Ramadan. But some mosques in the UK are not allowing women inside to pray. Some say it is time for change. Almas barely has time for her religion. She is a single […]
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(Anadolu) France’s Senate approved the addition of a ban on religious practices in university corridors to a controversial bill to fight “Islamist separatism” late Wednesday. Discussing the draft bill, which has been criticized for alienating Muslims, the center-right Republicans (LR) party proposed […]
The English city of Peterborough is the latest stop in the ongoing debate over a symbol of Islam’s growing footprint in the West: the amplified call to prayer (adhan). Last fall, Masjid Ghousia requested permission to broadcast three daily prayer calls using […]
(Calgary Herald) Ordering a private Calgary school to allow Muslim students to pray on campus negatively affected the non-denominational principle that attracted parents and teachers to the institution, a lawyer argued Thursday. David Corry, who represents Webber Academy, said Justice Richard Neufeld […]
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(Des Moines Register) When the Iowa Senate gaveled in Feb. 8, Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, D-Windsor Heights, stood to offer an opening prayer asking God for inspiration, guidance and peace. The prayer was written by one of her constituents, a young Muslim woman. A few […]
(BBC) Muslim minicab drivers working at Heathrow Airport have described feeling “humiliated” after being forced to pray in a bus stop car park. Drivers said they have prayed on the kerb of the road due to a lack of facilities for more […]
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(AL.com) An Islamic group has sued the Alabama Department of Corrections for not allowing an imam, a Muslim clergy, into the death row chamber to pray with an inmate at his execution. [Yusef] Maisonet, an imam who volunteers to lead Islamic prayers […]
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(BBC) A taxi driver who took Salman Abedi on his final journey to the Manchester Arena has described how the bomber asked for his prayers. Tariq Nadeem, who drives a black cab, was approached by Abedi outside Piccadilly station in the city […]
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(Anadolu) Turkey on Thursday condemned a police raid on a mosque in Berlin, Germany. “I strongly condemn the immoderate police raid on the Berlin Mevlana Mosque during the fajr prayer time,” Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Twitter. The Berlin prosecutor’s […]
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