(CNN) In the United States, you could count the number of mosques like Masjid al-Rabia on two hands. It’s a small community built on “five pillars of inclusivity,” including pledges to be “women-centered,” anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming and welcoming to a variety of Islamic […]
(KING) Hundreds … turned out Saturday night to hear Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speak at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center. Omar is one of three Muslim members of Congress and she hoped to inspire other minority communities to get involved in politics. “You never […]
(Crosscut) Wherever U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar goes, layers of security follow. The freshman congresswoman’s visit to Washington state on Saturday was no exception. At Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, where Omar spoke Saturday night at a sold-out fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations of […]
(HuffPost) President Donald Trump’s decision to vilify Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has had real, harmful effects not just on the first-year congresswoman, but on Muslim candidates running for public office at the state and local levels as well. In March, Omar faced […]
(AP) John Walker Lindh, the Californian who took up arms for the Taliban and was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, got out of prison Thursday after more than 17 years, released under tight restrictions that reflected government fears he […]
(NJ.com) Federal authorities arrested a New Jersey man on Wednesday, claiming he sought to join a terror group after being radicalized online and posted an Instagram poll asking his followers if he should “bomb Trump Tower.” Jonathan Xie, 20, faces charges of […]
(CNS) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is criticizing Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin, saying that releasing the movie “during the Trump era” normalizes stereotyping. Aladdin, due for release in the U.S. on Friday, is a family fantasy film telling the well-known […]
(Global News) More than a quarter of Canadians believe that over the past five years, it’s become “more acceptable” to be prejudiced against Muslims, according to an exclusive poll by Ipsos for Global News. The polling seems to correlate with an increase […]
(HuffPost) On Monday evening, three Muslim members of Congress ― Reps. André Carson (D-Ind.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) ― hosted a historic iftar in the U.S. Capitol to recognize the holy month of Ramadan and honor the contributions of […]
(Christian Post) I interviewed Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser in January 2017, July 2017, and September 2018 on a range of topics including Islamism and what he believes is its antidote, the Muslim Reform Movement. This is a follow-up interview. Jasser is president […]
(SF Chronicle) John Walker Lindh, the Marin County man convicted of fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will be freed from a federal prison Thursday. Federal Bureau of Prison records show Lindh, dubbed the “American Taliban,” will […]
(CNN) Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib approached two of her fiercest GOP critics on the House floor Wednesday, an eye-catching moment amid a tense debate between the two parties over Tlaib’s recent comments about the Holocaust. In the unexpected encounter, Tlaib walked up […]
(Politico) The White House on Wednesday said it will not join an international call for Facebook, Twitter, Google and other tech companies to curb terrorist and extremist content online in the wake of the deadly New Zealand mosque shootings, videos of which […]
(Hill) Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) blasted Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for coming out in defense of Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-Mich.) comments on the Holocaust and Israel, alleging the California Democrat “is making a selfish play call for her gavel” instead of standing […]
(Hill) The war of words over race and anti-Semitism is heating up on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers in both parties launched new salvos Tuesday in the escalating uproar over recent comments from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) invoking the Holocaust. House Republicans fired […]
(Daily Beast) Last week, during his fateful interview with Meghan McCain, Seth Meyers urged The View host to be “careful” with the language she has used to criticize Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who has been repeatedly accused by the right of promoting […]
(VOA) U.S. President Donald Trump called it his “great privilege” to welcome ambassadors and diplomats from Muslim-majority nations to the White House for an iftar dinner Monday marking the end of fasting observed by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. He […]
(AP) President Donald Trump celebrated the month of Ramadan Monday evening as a time when people join forces in “pursuit of hope, tolerance and peace.” Trump held an iftar dinner for ambassadors and members of the diplomatic corps representing Muslim-majority nations. The […]
(Politico) Democrats in Congress believe the Republican attacks against their freshman progressives have finally gone too far. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer are charging to the defense of Rep. Rashida Tlaib as she faces a torrent of criticism […]
(Hill) President Trump on Monday accused Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) of harboring “tremendous hatred of Israel and the Jewish people” in response to comments she made about the Holocaust. Tlaib said in a recent interview that she has a “calming feeling” when […]
(Fox) House Republican leaders called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to “take action” against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Sunday after Tlaib said that thinking about the Holocaust gave her “kind of a calming feeling” in part because in its aftermath, the […]
(Haaretz) Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said she “loves the fact” that her “Palestinian ancestors” were part an attempt “to create a safe haven for Jews” after the Holocaust, although the role “was forced on them” and took place “in a way that […]
(Hill) Vice President Pence renewed his calls on Friday for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to be removed from her post on the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her comments about Israel and Venezuela. “Ilhan Omar has made statements, anti-Semitic comments against our […]
(National Post) It’s been more than a decade since U.S. authorities freed Ayub Mohammed from their Cuban prison, having decided he was not, after all, an “enemy combatant.” In that time the ethnic Uyghur from China has earned a business degree from […]
(Breitbart) The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Los Angeles compared “apartheid” Israel to Nazi Germany in a speech he gave to students at the University of California, Irvine, on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day last […]
(Hill) Conservative[s] and members of House GOP leadership criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over a tweet in which she lamented the violence in Gaza over the weekend. “How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) weighed in on the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip after escalation this weekend, with both Palestinian militants and Israeli military forces trading rocket fire. Omar, who in 2018 became one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, […]
(BuzzFeed) When the Supreme Court ruled last summer that President Donald Trump’s travel ban could take effect, restricting travel to the United States from a group of majority-Muslim countries, it seemed like the end of the fight. Not so. A federal judge […]
(Hill) Americans are more likely to associate Islam with violence in the lead-up to elections or military conflicts, pollster Dalia Mogahed said in an interview that aired Thursday on “What America’s Thinking.” “If you look at one measure that Pew has been […]
(AFP) Hungary’s anti-immigration Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italy’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini moved closer to formal cooperation Thursday for upcoming European Parliament elections, vowing to prevent an “Islamic caliphate” on the continent. European voters are due to choose a new […]
(Detroit Free Press) In a move that could revive Detroit’s historic female genital mutilation prosecution, Congress has intervened in the case, saying the Department of Justice gave up too easily on the law that makes the cutting practice illegal. Months after a federal […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday criticized President Trump’s January 2018 remarks calling Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations “shithole countries.” Speaking alongside activist Angela Davis and other black progressives such as Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) at a rally outside the […]
(JTA) After a self-avowed white supremacist shot up a California synagogue, some voices on the political right found their culprit: Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali Muslim immigrant who has posted tweets perceived to be anti-Semitic. In its statement on the synagogue […]
(CNN) Rep. Ilhan Omar, in her first extensive remarks since President Donald Trump publicly criticized her comments about 9/11, condemned the president’s “vile attacks” and “demented views.” “We are collectively saying your vile attacks, your demented views are not welcome here,” the […]
(Politico) President Donald Trump complained Tuesday that European countries are not carrying their weight in the effort to relocate captured Islamic State soldiers after the militant group’s physical territory in Syria crumbled earlier this year. “We have 1,800 ISIS Prisoners taken hostage […]
(Hill) Activist Angela Davis and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) joined numerous other black women activists and members of Congress in a rally Tuesday to support Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Davis and Barbara Ransby, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and adviser […]
(NY Times) The White House is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied and influential Islamist political movement with millions of members across the Middle […]
(AFP) German parents and relatives of Islamic State militants demonstrated Monday outside the foreign ministry, urging Berlin to repatriate wives and children of fighters held in Syria. Some brought posters saying “Children are not responsible,” while others held up banners reading “Innocent […]
(JTA) MoveOn, the progressive advocacy movement, in its first official endorsements for the 2020 election cycle said it will back Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for re-election. The organization said in a statement that it has over 16,000 members in Minnesota’s […]
(VOA) The California synagogue shooting that left one dead Saturday has revived a simmering debate over U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and U.S. lawmakers’ relationship with lobbyists for Israel. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and conservative […]
(USA Today) The Trump administration on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the father of Hoda Muthana, the American-born woman who fled Alabama in 2014 to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria. Hoda’s father, Ahmed Ali Muthana […]
(CBC) In an era when demagogues flourish on social media, reason gives way to rhetoric and opinion masquerades as fact, it’s easy to understand how ordinary, decent people have grown weary and wary of all sorts of political and cultural debates. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]
(Washington Post) Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday and stood by the company’s decision to permit a tweet from President Trump that later resulted in a flood of death threats targeting the congresswoman. The previously unreported […]
(Detroit Free Press) In Troy, a 25-year-old employee at an aerospace testing company who is Muslim says he was disparaged and mocked with pork products after his supervisor found out he was Muslim. In Taylor, a Muslim worker said he was belittled […]
(Hill) Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Wednesday that criticisms of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from President Trump and her other critics are “trafficking in Islamophobia.” “The criticisms of Congresswoman Omar, what Donald Trump has been saying about her, is reprehensible, it is […]
(AL.com) Constituents and observers of U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers’, R-Saks, Facebook page accused the east Alabama congressman of twisting the meaning of controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar’s words about 9/11 when he said Thursday that the Minnesota congresswoman is among “radical Democrats” that […]
(CNS) Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour urged a group of Muslims demonstrating outside the White House on Sunday to support Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — “the best that our community has to offer” — and to prepare in the 2020 election to “say […]
(Boston Globe) As President Trump’s attacks against one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress continue to reverberate, dozens of Muslims gathered in the sunlit Great Hall of the State House this week to carry a basic message to lawmakers: […]
(MPR) Growing up in Somalia, Ilhan Omar’s bedtime stories were about Araweelo, a tiny queen who ruled over a kingdom where all women were leaders and all men were peasants. Araweelo’s folklore spread throughout Africa, and even long after she died, women […]
(Religion News) Since President Trump tweeted a provocative video juxtaposing clips of Rep. Ilhan Omar and the falling Twin Towers, Omar has faced a surge of criticism along with direct threats of violence, both online and offline. But how did a video […]
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