(WBNS) A petition drive by a group of Muslim students in Hilliard resulted in the first school district in Ohio to recognize the Muslim holiday of Eid. As a result, the district will change the school calendar to reflect a district holiday. […]
(MPR) For the first time since 2018, over 35,000 people are expected to gather Saturday to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the second Muslim holiday of the year, at U.S. Bank Stadium. The first holiday, Eid al-Fitr, occurs after Ramadan whereas Eid al-Adha is […]
(Free Beacon) Congressional Republicans on Friday launched a formal probe into the Biden administration over its decision to alter federal law so that individuals tied to terrorist organizations can more easily enter the United States. The investigation, led by House Armed Services […]
(New Arab) The US state of Maryland has passed a law that will protect the rights of hijab-wearing female athletes and others with faith-related head coverings to play sports, without concerns of exclusion. The bill, called the Inclusive Attire Act, which took […]
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(First Coast News) A St. Augustine man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Romeo Xavier Langhorne, 32, of St. Augustine, pleaded guilty in the […]
(New Arab) If US President Joe Biden looks like he’s in trouble with the average voter in the United States, then there’s even worse news for him among Muslim voters. A new survey of US Muslim voters released Wednesday by the Council […]
(Morocco World News) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group based in Washington, raised alarms last week over a grant program run by the US State Department, arguing that it would use taxpayer funds “to promote […]
(AP) The Justice Department on Tuesday settled a decades-old lawsuit filed by a group of men who were rounded up by the government in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and held in a federal jail in New York in […]
(Daily Wire) Far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was booed at a concert in Minneapolis over the weekend in front of a predominantly Somali crowd, with some in the audience telling her to “go home” and “get the f*** out of here.” The […]
(Middle East Eye) Mohammad el-Mezain, a Palestinian resident in the US, was released from detention and subsequently deported to Turkey after serving more than a decade in an American prison, following a controversial case in which he and others involved in a […]
(National-UAE) President Joe Biden will present the top civilian honour to Khizr Khan, the Pakistani-American father of a veteran killed in action who criticised Donald Trump over his proposed “Muslim ban.” He is one of 17 people Mr Biden announced would receive […]
(KSAT) A Gonzales County man was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for conspiring to provide material support to the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria, also known as ISIS. Jaylyn Christopher Molina, also known as Abdur Rahim, […]
(KTVT) Dallas Judge Chika Anyiam postponed the pre-trial hearing for Egyptian-born Yaser Said, 65, who’s accused of killing his teenage daughters, Amina and Sarah, on New Year’s Eve 2007. After Judge Anyiam said the hearing wouldn’t start on June 30, Said asked if […]
(Star Tribune) For years, Shukri Ali has called her son Yusuf’s school every time she had to organize her family’s Eid al-Fitr celebrations to make sure he’s excused from classes. It’s another mental stressor each spring on a busy day for Muslim […]
(Daily Caller) A man who is a dual-citizen of Iran and the U.S. pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to illegally conspiring to export technology and other electronic equipment to Iran’s authoritarian government, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Kambiz Attar […]
(Free Beacon) The Biden administration altered federal law to make it easier for individuals who have worked with designated terrorist groups to legally enter the United States. The State and Homeland Security Departments last week amended federal immigration laws to allow foreigners […]
(NJ Herald) A Hopatcong woman admitted Tuesday she sent money and gave advice to terrorist organizations in Syria fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad’s regime, according to federal authorities. Maria Bell, 54, a former U.S. Army soldier in the 1980s, appeared before […]
(AP) The first American to be convicted in a U.S. jury trial of joining the Islamic State had his prison term reduced Tuesday from 20 years to 14 years after an appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing. Mohamad Khweis was convicted […]
(AP) Two years ago, Leili Ghazi quit studying biomedical engineering in Iran and seized the chance to travel to the United States to build a new life for herself and her parents. Now, the 22-year-old is separated indefinitely from her family because […]
(AP) An Army private charged with plotting to murder members of his unit overseas with help from a secretive violent anarchist group was planning a defense calling it all an internet fantasy before pleading guilty just before trial, court records show. Plans […]
(AP) A U.S. Army private from Kentucky pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he plotted to murder members of his unit in an attack that he planned to carry out in 2020 on behalf of a group that promotes extreme violence to […]
(Middle East Eye) Fatima* remembers every painstaking detail as if it were yesterday. Her parents had gone out for dinner and she stayed at home with her uncle. She was wearing purple pyjamas under her abaya. Her T-shirt had a small hole […]
(IPT) “Why not?” Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank asked that simple question last week after the normally publicity-mad Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told him it had nothing to say about a BDS chapter’s promotion of a “mapping project” condemned as antisemitic […]
(Fox) A Palestinian activist with a history of antisemitic social media posts and deep ties to “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has campaigned with multiple Democrats over the last year, Fox News Digital has learned. Maher Abdel Qader, who has deep political ties […]
(KTRK) Three Houston-area men have been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, records show. Abdulrahman Mohammed Hafedh Alqaysi, 24, and his cousin Mohammed (aka Moe) Amer Faisal Al Qaysi, 26, another former Iraqi refugee, and […]
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(Cleveland Jewish News) A Cleveland police officer who was named the department’s 2019 officer of the year and received a distinguished service medal has been identified for antisemitic posts on his social media accounts prior to his tenure as a police officer. […]
(Corona Press-Enterprise) Shannon Johnson’s last words are now carved in stone. Johnson, one of 14 people killed in the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack, died shielding others in the mass shooting. The last words Johnson, a health inspector for San Bernardino County, […]
(IPT) Deadly riots broke out in several Indian cities June 10 over perceived blasphemous remarks by a spokeswoman for India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Enraged Islamist mobs burned posters and hanged effigies of Nupur Sharma after Jummah prayers over her controversial […]
(Fox) Border Patrol arrests of migrants on the terror watch list at the southern border in Fiscal Year 2022 [have] already eclipsed prior years — amid a massive migrant wave hitting the border. In Fiscal Year 2022 there have been 50 arrests […]
(AP) The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that have not been changed in a quarter century following calls for more accurate categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering. The revisions could open […]
(NY Jewish Week) At the Brooklyn Amity School, a majority-Muslim private school in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, high school students are taking part in a new Holocaust education initiative with an unlikely ambassador: NBA center and free agent Enes Kanter Freedom. Kanter Freedom, […]
(Axios) The Department of Homeland Security and State Department announced on Tuesday that they would expand the number of terrorism-related exemptions to allow Afghan evacuees who worked with and supported the U.S. government to qualify for protection and immigration benefits. Why it […]
(Newsweek) An uninterrupted audio recording of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has resurfaced online. The 90-minute audio recording was initially uploaded to YouTube by ElReyDeNorte. However, it was later shared in Reddit’s “Today I Learned” (TIL) forum, where it has amassed over 60,000 […]
(New Arab) Getting people to go out and vote can be hard, especially in communities where people don’t feel like their voices are heard. Humour is one way to break the ice on serious topics, like politics. This month, the Council on […]
(WJLA) For two days on Capitol Hill, activists and delegates from national, state and local Muslim organizations are meeting with congressional leaders to discuss issues impacting American Muslims in the United States. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will join the U.S. […]
(Free Beacon) Jihadist militants imprisoned in the United States are receiving cash and legal assistance from a website similar to Facebook that connects them with terrorist sympathizers and publicizes their location, including “GPS-coordinated satellite imagery of the facilities at which the inmates […]
(AP) An Iraqi man who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for more than 15 years pleaded guilty Monday to war crimes charges for his role in al-Qaida attacks against U.S. and allied forces along with civilians in Afghanistan. […]
(Middle East Eye) Most American Muslims believe gun control laws should be stricter, a new report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (Ispu) has found. According to the poll, 65 percent of Muslim respondents believe existing gun control laws need to […]
(AP) Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Senate primary on Wednesday, narrowly defeating former hedge fund CEO David McCormick after a dayslong statewide recount buffeted by litigation that reached the nation’s […]
(AP) A Connecticut prison guard has been fired after an investigation found he fabricated a complaint about being the target of anti-Muslim harassment at work. The Correction Department confirmed Tuesday that Officer Shem Brijbalis was terminated on April 7 for violating the […]
(Daily Caller) Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Republican California Rep. Tom McClintock sent a letter Tuesday to the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calling for information about the May assassination plot against former President George W. Bush. […]
(CNN) A female ISIS fighter from Kansas who led and trained a unique battalion of over 100 women and children in Syria pleaded guilty in an Alexandria, Virginia, courthouse Tuesday to conspiring to provide support to the terrorist global organization. Allison Elizabeth […]
(NY Daily News) An Uzbekistan citizen living in Brooklyn was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for offering financial support in American dollars to the terrorist group ISIS. Dilkhayot Kasimov, 34, was convicted for driving to Kennedy Airport in February 2015 […]
(Free Beacon) Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas created a Muslim community outreach position after meeting with an Arab-American activist who has cheered violence against Israel and praised the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas. Mayorkas met on March 18 with Arab American News […]
(AP) Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a discrimination complaint on […]
(AP) A group of people evacuated from Afghanistan as the Taliban returned to power last year held a protest Wednesday in Albania over the failure to expedite their move to the United States. A small group of families in Shengjin, a town […]
(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 […]
(Detroit News) A federal judge Wednesday ordered a paroled Islamic State “soldier” from Detroit back to prison for 18 months after he was caught amassing weapons, consuming radical jihadi propaganda and deceiving court officials. The pattern of conduct by Sebastian Gregerson, aka Abdurrahman […]
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