Jihadists Could Use US Travel Restrictions as Recruiting Lure, Analysts Say
Jihadist groups like Islamic State and al-Qaida could use the recent U.S. travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations as a way to recruit followers, according to some analysts. While the Trump Administration has been arguing the ban on those seven nations is temporary in nature, some analysts are concerned that terrorist organizations have received more […]
Booker on Muslims, Trump, and breaking Senate traditions | A Q&A
Sen. Cory Booker complete testimony against Senator Sessions (C-SPAN) During his two years in the Senate, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has made a mission of finding common ground with Republicans. But President Donald Trump has him sputtering with outrage, and sounding more like a partisan warrior that he never intended to be. Below, he discusses […]
N.J. Islamic law expert: Trump comes off as bully in chief | Opinion
President Donald Trump is still in campaign mode and tweeting about the irrelevant. Instead of gradually mainstreaming his policies to represent all Americans, Trump anchors his national security polices in his extreme, divisive campaign rhetoric swamp. The executive order severely restricting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries is politically pandering to the fringe in…
Bannon is the No. 2 man in government. Everyone OK with that? | Editorial
Given the blizzard of activity during the first two weeks at the White House, it’s been easy to overlook who is actually running the White House. That would be Steve Bannon – unelected, unvetted, and unhinged – the guy who wants to “destroy the state, bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment,” […]
Dozens attend interfaith march for ‘peace and decency’ in Paterson
Khaldiya Mustafa said there were times, particularly after 9/11, when she was afraid to leave her home alone out of fear that she would be discriminated against for being a Muslim American. At the time, she said, people told her to speak English instead of Arabic, to go back to her “own country” and…
View From Sudan: Muslim Hospitality and Generosity
Many Americans have never visited a predominantly Muslim country and may know relatively little about the faith of Islam. This is relevant in light of the Trump administration’s recent executive order attempting to reduce terrorist threats to the U.S. by halting the issuance of visas to travelers from seven…
White Nationalists Celebrate Trump Radical Islam Reclassification
Efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to focus counter-extremism efforts solely on combating radical Islamist movements have drawn praise from far-right groups and criticism from many within the civil rights and law enforcement community. Trump reportedly planned to restructure the existing “Countering Violent Extremism” federal program and rename it to either “Countering Islamic Extremism” or […]
A Biblical Reading of Trump’s Immigration Ban
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. On Friday, Jan. 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that placed a stay on refugees from seven Muslim majority countries. Entrance of refugees from Syria, however, will be banned for the next 120 days. Two days prior to that, he committed the United States to building […]
Thousands Protest Globally Against Trump, Travel Ban
Protests erupted for a third straight week across the United States and beyond, targeting policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and criticizing his presidential demeanor. Late Friday, a U.S. federal judge temporary blocked the president’s executive order, signed January 27, that banned travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. However, that didn’t […]
US court rejects bid to immediately restore travel ban
A US appeals court in San Francisco has denied an emergency motion filed by the justice department to reinstate President Donald Trump’s halted immigration ban. The decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit means the ban will remain frozen throughout the weekend, and that a decision on a further request to […]