anti-Islam
Muslim ICE detainees in Miami forced to choose between pork or rotten halal food, lawyers say
By Aysha Khan — August 19, 2020
(RNS) — The ICE chaplain reportedly dismissed Muslim detainees' repeated complaints by saying, ‘It is what it is,’ the legal advocates allege.
For Italy’s Muslims, few places to pray and fewer places to bury COVID-19 dead
By Lorenzo Bagnoli — August 12, 2020
(RNS) — As the pandemic proceeded, the building of Islamic cemeteries became a front in a populist culture war.
Federal hate crime charge in Missouri Islamic center fire
By Jim Salter — May 13, 2020
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Nicholas J. Proffitt has been indicted in an April fire that destroyed the Cape Girardeau Islamic Center, the same center he defaced more than a decade earlier.
Women leaders condemn threat against Muslim candidate
By Luis Andres Henao — May 7, 2020
(AP) — Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, the founder of MuslimGirl.com who is running for Congress, is the first Muslim woman to run for federal office from New Jersey.
Albany becomes third city to condemn India’s citizenship laws
By Aysha Khan — March 4, 2020
(RNS) — As anti-Muslim violence continues unabated in India, the capital of New York state has passed the United States' third resolution denouncing the far-right Indian government’s changes to citizenship laws that have drawn international condemnations alleging anti-Muslim bias.
An imam and a rabbi see the State of the Union address as less than reassuring
By Omar Suleiman and Nancy Kasten — February 7, 2020
(RNS) — Does the president believe in protecting the religious liberty of all citizens of the United States?
Trump’s new HHS rule will harm far more people than you realize
By Maggie Siddiqi — November 14, 2019
(RNS) — This proposed rule allows this discrimination at a much larger scale. It invites discrimination against people of all faiths and no faith, against women and against LGBTQ people.
A look at attacks on houses of worship over last decade
By Associated Press — March 15, 2019
Houses of worship around the world, a place of reflection and peace, have been targeted regularly by extremists.
Muslim groups condemn Fox News host for questioning Rep. Omar’s loyalty to US
By Aysha Khan — March 11, 2019
(RNS) — "Jeanine Pirro should be fired, and Fox News should apologize to its viewing audience," said a statement by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Absent an imam, Domineque Ray’s execution by Alabama disenfranchises Muslims
By Megan Goodwin — February 13, 2019
(RNS) — The American legal system's anti-Islam problem might be more accurately seen as a pro-Christianity problem.
US Muslim leaders call on China to end persecution of Uighurs
By Aysha Khan — February 8, 2019
(RNS) – The letter called for the release of detainees from the internment camps and for U.S. consumers to boycott imports produced by detainees’ forced labor.
Texas GOP dispute pits religious freedom against claims of ‘stealth jihad’
By Bobby Ross Jr. — December 11, 2018
FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — The appointment of a Muslim doctor to a county's party leadership has fractured the Republicans of Tarrant County.
What Richard Dawkins doesn’t get about the Muslim call to prayer
By Rose Aslan — July 31, 2018
(The Conversation) — Richard Dawkins' tweets are not the first time the Muslim call to prayer has been misconstrued or that Muslims have been attacked for their prayer practices around the world.
Texas city council members censure colleague over anti-Islam Facebook post
By Delta Systems — February 18, 2018
PLANO, Tex. (RNS) — The post featured a student in a hijab and these words: 'Share if you think Trump should ban Islam in American schools.'
‘Faithkeepers’ film is a not-so-subtle attack on Islam
By James Zogby — May 18, 2017
(RNS) The film mixes real stories of Christians and others who have suffered at the hands of ISIS with the insidious insinuation that such persecution is at the heart of the Muslim faith, writes James Zogby.
