Islamic Republic Of The Gambia Orders Female Government Workers To Wear Headscarves
The Gambian government has banned its female employees from showing their hair at work and ordered them to wear headscarves, commonly referred to as “hijab” in Islam. The new rule was announced Monday in a memo circulated to all ministries and departments and later obtained by private newspapers and news agencies, one month after President […]
Offensive license plate kicks up controversy in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS—A man from Big Lake has spent the past two days trying to clear his name after an offensive license plate that disparages Muslims was spotted last weekend in St. Cloud and linked to a pickup truck he owns. Chad Betland, a truck aficionado, bought a gray 1987 Chevrolet from a Foley man last summer. […]
John Wood, Marine dad, banned from daughter’s graduation after objecting to Islam lessons
A former Marine is asking a judge to lift a no-trespass order ahead of his daughter’s graduation after her high school reportedly banned him from campus for objecting to classroom lessons about Islam. “She’s in the final semester of her senior year, and as it stands right now, she’s going to have to go through […]
Duke sets aside space for interfaith prayer
DURHAM, N.C. — Like many Duke students, when Yossra Hamid isn’t in class, the senior is most likely studying in Perkins Library. And that has posed a daily quandary for Hamid, a devout Muslim who prays five times daily. Sometimes she walked to the Bryant student center or Duke School of Divinity, where there are […]
Global Halal trade: Over 80 percent dominated by non-Muslim states: FPCCI President
President FPCCI and ECO CCI Abdul Rauf Alam said that the global Muslim population constitutes 24 percent of the total world population but in fact more than 80 percent of the world halal trade is dominated by non-Muslim states. He informed that the world’s leading suppliers for Halal products including high quality meat, poultry, dairy […]
Pakistan’s commendable role against eliminating terrorism lauded
Shaarik H. Zafar Special Representative to Muslim Communities U.S. State Department has said that across the world, Muslims are facing sever challenges and passing through turmoil of the time, to get rid of menace of terrorism and extremism, it is utmost need to value education and to empower youth which is precious asset of Muslim […]
Majority of South Carolina GOP Voters Favor Muslim Ban
Exit polls show that three quarters of Republican voters in South Carolina favor temporarily barring Muslims who are not U.S. citizens from entering the country, ABC News reports . Results from the South Carolina Republican primary were still coming in Saturday, but Donald Trump, who has called for such a ban on Muslims entering the […]
Why I stopped wearing the hijab
As an Arab and Muslim woman who wore the hijab for 16 years, I am accustomed to experiencing hostility toward my religious and ethnic identity. In particular, the covering of my hair seemed to draw out the worst in strangers, from the waitress at the restaurant taking my order and demanding to know if I […]
Saudi Arabia says war games will boost military ties with Muslim allies
The Middle East’s largest ever war games are now underway and will boost military cooperation between the 20 Muslim nations taking part, host country Saudi Arabia said on Monday, as it seeks to check the growing influence of arch rival Iran. The Northern Thunder exercises, which began on Feb. 14 and will run until March […]
UK police launch murder probe into Muslim cleric’s death
British police have launched a murder investigation and arrested one person over the death of a Muslim cleric whose body was found in a children’s playground in the Rochdale area of Manchester on Thursday. The 56-year-old imam, Jalal Uddin from Bangladesh, was found Thursday night with a fatal head injury, the Guardian reported. He died […]