Prophet Muhammad
New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down
By Philip Marcelo — April 3, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 lockdown violates inmates' constitutional rights to practice their faiths by preventing them from taking part in a religiously significant event.
Umrah diary: Crossing into Jerusalem, looking Muslim
By Dilshad Ali — January 24, 2024
(RNS) — Making a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia with two of our kids, we stopped to pray at the third-holiest site in Islam.
ACLU files suit against DC transit agency over refusal to display religious group’s ads
By Fiona André — December 13, 2023
(RNS) — The ACLU said the agency’s advertisement policy discriminated against certain opinions and violated the First Amendment.
Why Al-Aqsa remains a sensitive site in Palestine-Israel conflict
By Ken Chitwood — October 10, 2023
(The Conversation) — The Al-Aqsa mosque, a flashpoint in Hamas’ recent assault against Israel, hosts daily prayers and Friday gatherings. It lies adjacent to important Jewish and Christian religious locales.
Dutch prosecutors demand 12-year sentence for Pakistani cricketer for call to kill lawmaker Wilders
By Associated Press — August 31, 2023
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The suspect, identified by Wilders as Khalid Latif, is accused of offering a bounty of some 21,000 euros ($23,000) to anybody who killed Wilders.
Muslims across Pakistan hold anti-Sweden protests to denounce burning of Islam’s holy book
By Munir Ahmed — July 10, 2023
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Anger has grown in Muslim countries since last Wednesday when a man, identified in Swedish media as an Iraqi Christian immigrant, burned a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm on the festival of Eid al-Adha.
Hamline University president to retire following Islamic art controversy
By Yonat Shimron — April 3, 2023
(RNS) — The president of Hamline University, who was widely criticized for her response to a professor who showed a painting of the Prophet Muhammad, announced she would retire in 2024.
Hamline University faculty call on president to resign over handling of Islamic art
By Yonat Shimron — January 25, 2023
(RNS) — The faculty council voted 71-12 to ask the president to step down, saying its members no longer have faith in her ability to lead the St. Paul, Minnesota, school.
Hamline University retracts ‘Islamophobia’ charge as instructor sues
By Yonat Shimron — January 18, 2023
(RNS) — The art history instructor sued the university in Minnesota district court, alleging religious discrimination and defamation.
CAIR says Hamline University teacher is not Islamophobic
By Yonat Shimron — January 13, 2023
(RNS) — The statement comes after CAIR's Minnesota chapter said the classroom viewing of a painting of the Prophet Muhammad was bigoted and disrespectful.
CAIR MN backs student who says she was hurt by instructor showing image of Muhammad
By Yonat Shimron — January 11, 2023
(RNS) — At a press conference held by the Minneapolis chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the student said she was shocked and pained by an art history instructor.
An image of the Prophet Muhammad ignites an academic storm
By Yonat Shimron — January 3, 2023
(RNS) — An instructor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, showed a 14th-century painting of Muhammad. A Muslim student objected. The instructor was let go.
Rushdie’s right to blasphemy, not free speech, was attacked at Chautauqua
By Samir Kalra — September 2, 2022
(RNS) — Failure to confront religious blasphemy laws will only lead to more violence like the Rushdie attack.
Attack on Rushdie shows divisions among Lebanese Shiites
By Bassem Mroue — August 17, 2022
BEIRUT (AP) — The religious edict, or fatwa, urging Muslims to kill Rushdie was issued in 1989 by Iran's then-spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who accused the author of blasphemy for his portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in the novel 'The Satanic Verses.'
Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat as hajj reaches apex
By Amr Nabil — July 8, 2022
MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The pilgrims set out for Arafat before dawn, chanting. They remain there until nightfall in deep contemplation and worship.
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