Category Archives: Muslims in the News

Source: CNN.COM – Br MJ Lee – October 17, 2016 Muslim Americans describe the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a seminal moment that painfully altered their place in American society. But when CNN interviewed American Muslims about the presidential ...

By ALIYAH FRUMIN – July 25, 2016 – NBC News Donald Trump will cast a long shadow in September when Muslims across the U.S. gather to celebrate Eid al-Adha, known as the Feast of Sacrifice. Now that Trump, whose anti-Muslim rhetoric ...

VOA News – July 23, 2016 At an estimated 3.3 million, Muslim Americans represent a small portion of the American population. But the community could play an important role in so-called swing states during the upcoming presidential elections. When the ...

By Gretel Kauffman – Christian Science Monitor – July 20, 2016 A campaign that aims to register one million Muslim voters by November is in full swing, as organizers and volunteers canvass college campuses, bus stations, and gas stations in Muslim neighborhoods ...

By Billy Hallowell – Desert News – July 21 2016 Muslim Americans make up around 1 percent of the U.S. population, accounting for about 3.3 million people. But despite constituting such a small sliver of the populace, Muslim advocates are looking to ...

Source: The Scoop Blog – May 27, 2016 By James Ragland Something remarkable is happening in Irving, a city that, for the better part of a year, clumsily became a tinderbox for anti-Muslim madness. This is the town where Ahmed Mohamed, the “clock ...

Source: The Bridge Initiative – May 24, 2016 Amid rising hate crimes and prejudicial political rhetoric, religious leaders are speaking out against Islamophobia. But these calls to reject anti-Muslim bias aren’t just coming from the Muslim community. Jews, Christians, atheists, and others ...

Source: KTIC – June 4, 2016 By ABC News Radio Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was the first of the presidential candidates to express his condolences over the death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. “Muhammad Ali is dead at 74! ...

Source: Anadolu Agency – May 31, 2016 By Esra Kaymak Avci American Muslims are involved in this year’s presidential elections in greater numbers than in years past because of heightened Islamophobic rhetoric, the head of a voter education and advocacy group ...