Lifestyle website for Muslim teens is covertly funded by the Home Office
The GuardianTwo SuperSisters employees resign after discovering links to counter-extremism strategy
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Parallels Between the Central Park 5 and the Minnesota “ISIS Trials”
We Are UbuntuThe notion of who is and who is not criminal is something that evolves over time, and the super predators of yesterday have been replaced with the terrorists of today. Dr. Yusef Salaam’s recent visit to Minneapolis was a reminder that we need to be constantly vigilant about the criminalization of Black youth.
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Who is a 'Muslim American?'
Al JazeeraThe fact that despicable Islamophobes hate us and we hate them 10 times back cannot be the sole force of determining who and what we are.
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India’s massive, scary new detention camps, explained
VoxThe Indian government stripped citizenship from 2 million people, mostly Muslims. Now it wants to put them in camps.
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Thai PM defends police monitoring of Muslim university students
ReutersThailand’s prime minister on Tuesday defended police for requesting information about minority Muslim students from universities around the country, after criticism of the move as discriminatory and illegal.
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Pakistan temple attack: Muslim locals offer support to Hindus
Gulf NewsGhotki residents helped guard the vandalised temple from further attacks from extremists
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Islamic studies lecturer held for a year in one of Iran’s harshest prisons
NY PostKylie Moore-Gilbert, who studied at Cambridge University and lectured at Melbourne University, has been held at Iran’s notoriously harsh Evin Prison for almost a year and has been slapped with a 10-year sentence, the Australian government told The Independent.
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Muslim, Jewish leaders team up in 'exemplary' European initiative
Deutsche WelleImams and rabbis from across Europe are attending a summit in Italy organized by the Muslim Jewish Leadership Council. Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and right-wing populism are all topics they’d like to address better.
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Mosquers film fest shines spotlight on Muslim women in arts
CBC CanadaThe one-day event showcases the diverse Muslim experience through short films in an effort to change how people perceive Muslims in film, said Sofia Alani, the festival’s external events director.
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Mass Stampede At Iraqi Shia Shrine Kills More Than 30 Pilgrims
NPRA mass stampede at a Shia Muslim shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala left at least 31 people dead and about 100 injured. Ten of the injured are in critical condition, according to local officials, and the death toll could rise.
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Tajikistan: Imams do government's bidding – and building
Eurasia NETThe constitution of Tajikistan speaks explicitly about the separation between religion and state. The authorities have long disregarded this principle, however, and Islamic clerics make little secret that they are an adjunct of the government..
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World’s religious leaders urge co-operation to ‘fight against prejudice’
The NationalImams, rabbis and bishops gather in Paris to usher in a new era of religious discussion.
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Mississauga’s Sisterhood Softball League encourages Muslim women to play ball
The StarSince 2016, it has given Muslim women the opportunity to play softball in a safe environment.
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Muslim faith group honors 9/11 victims with blood drive in St. Paul
Minnesota Public RadioThe state chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community set up booths inviting community members to donate blood on the 18th anniversary of 9/11. It’s part of a national campaign to collect 10,000 pints of blood across the country.
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For Muslims wrestling with substance abuse, it’s often a silent struggle
Minnesota Public RadioCommunity members are trying to discuss addiction openly, normalize treatment and provide culturally competent counseling.
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World Uyghur Congress slams Pakistan PM Imran Khan for his ‘silence’ on Uyghur Muslims issue in China
Times Now NewsWorld Uyghur Congress said that it was a matter of shame that Islamabad was silent on China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims.
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Rohingya still in Myanmar face 'threat of genocide': United Nations
ReutersHundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who remain inside Myanmar face systematic persecution and are living under the threat of genocide, a U.N. fact-finding mission said on Monday, repeating calls for top generals to face trial.
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Where Christians are banned from selling property to Muslims
BBCIn Lebanon, a Muslim Shia family was asked to leave its house because it was in a Christian neighbourhood.
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Couple Separated By The Muslim Ban Reunited After HuffPost Report
Huffington PostRamez Alghazzouli and Asmaa Khadem Al Arbaiin say they believe this site’s coverage helped put pressure on the State Department.
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Report: Muslims Most Negatively Portrayed Minority in US Media
The BridgeThe portrayal of minority groups in mainstream media can have a disparate impact on how they are viewed by the general public. In the eighteen years since 9/11, the American Muslim community has borne the collective brunt of negative media portrayals from cable news to Hollywood movies.
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Stopping Islamophobia means recognizing its racism. Interfaith panel talks solutions for hate
Times Free PressEnding Islamophobia in the United States requires recognizing that the hatred of Muslims is rooted in cultural racism and is part of a national system that marginalizes people of the faith, said Todd Green, associate professor of religion at Luther College.
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Whistleblower says Facebook auto-generated pages for Islamic State, al-Qaida
USA TodayThe social networking company appears to have made little progress on the issue in the four months since The Associated Press detailed how pages that Facebook auto-generates for businesses are aiding Middle East extremists and white supremacists in the United States.
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Fire at Islamic School in Liberia Kills at Least 27, Police Say
New York TimesA fire at an Islamic school outside the Liberian capital has killed at least 27 people, the police there said on Wednesday, adding that it was likely that many of the victims were children.
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Muslim girls rock, but not about religion
Nikkei Asian ReviewIndonesian band Voice of Baceprot has a different story to tell.
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Muslim Brooklyn Inmate Denied Ramadan Meals Files $10M Lawsuit
The PatchA man held at the Brooklyn House of Detention is suing correction officers he says didn’t give him meals needed for the religious holiday.
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CAIR records more than 10,000 anti-Muslim bias incidents in US since 2014
TRT WorldMuslim civil liberties group links 2017 spike in anti-Muslim harassment by individuals and government agencies to President Trump’s Muslim travel ban.
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Artist hangs 440 shoes off a building to show how many women were killed by their husbands
Metro UKDomestic violence is a major issue around the world, with many women suffering abuse, and in some cases death, at the hands of their partners.
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Why many Muslims treat Bernie Sanders like a rock star
LA TimesSanders has maintained a fervent following as he campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination and tries to attract key voting blocs such as African Americans and Latinos. He has found success among a smaller group rarely on the radar for White House hopefuls: Muslims.
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Why American Muslims lean leftwards for 2020
The EconomistIslam’s followers are not so much firebrands as nomads in search of a home.
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The U.N. Secretary-General Says He Has Taken a Forceful Stance on China's Treatment of Muslims
TIMESecretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly rejected claims by five human rights groups that he hasn’t condemned the Chinese government’s detention of more than a million Muslims in the Xinjiang region, saying he has spoken out forcefully.
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2 Muslim men say American Airlines canceled flight after crew 'didn’t feel comfortable'
USA TodayAmerican Airlines has been criticized before over its treatment of passengers who are people of color.
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British Muslims launch first ever pride festival
Metro UKBritish Muslims are launching their first ever pride festival at a time when the community is ‘under attack more than ever’.
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With ‘Day of Dignity’ event, Muslim group gives ‘a blessing’ to West Baltimore neighborhood
Baltimore SunOutside Masjid al Haqq, more than two dozen residents were already lined up when the event began at 11 a.m. Volunteers handed them bags full of apples, honey, canned soup and tuna.
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Turkey’s first lady meets with women leaders of US Muslim community
Daily SabahFirst lady Emine Erdoğan met with female representatives of the U.S. Muslim community on Sunday in New York, where she is part of a Turkish delegation to the 74th United Nations General Assembly.
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Tunisia ex-president Ben Ali buried in Muslim holy city of Medina
France 24Ben Ali, who died Thursday in the city of Jeddah, was laid to rest at Al-Baqi cemetery next to the Prophet Mohammed’s mosque — a place of great reverence for Muslims.
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Virginia jail ends ‘God Pod’ after Muslim inmates sue
APA Virginia jail has ended a program which inmates dubbed the “God Pod” after a lawsuit alleged the program provided favorable treatment to Christians and discriminated against Muslims.
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Women's March accused of Islamophobia as CAIR's Zahra Billoo is forced out
The GuardianLawyer and activist is the latest high profile Muslim woman to be removed from board following a smear campaign in which she was accused of antisemitism.
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Civil rights group: Airline forced girl, 12, to remove hijab
APA Muslim civil rights advocacy group is demanding changes at Air Canada after a 12-year-old U.S. Squash Team player says she was forced to remove her hijab while boarding at San Francisco International Airport.
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Indonesian president postpones plans to outlaw extramarital sex
The GuardianIndonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has ordered his government to postpone the ratification of a deeply controversial criminal code that would outlaw living together outside marriage, extramarital sex and insulting the president.
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Ministers accused of 'radio silence' over LGBT school protests
The GuardianThe former integration tsar, Dame Louise Casey, has accused ministers of “radio silence” over protests against the teaching of LGBT equality at a Birmingham school.
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A Crackdown on Islam Is Spreading Across China
New York TimesIn China’s northwest, the government is stripping the most overt expressions of the Islamic faith from a picturesque valley where most residents are devout Muslims. The authorities have destroyed domes and minarets on mosques, including one in a small village near Linxia, a city known as “Little Mecca.”
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