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Apr 09 2024
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Hilliard City Schools closes for first time Wednesday for Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday
Hilliard City Schools will be the first school in the state to close Wednesday in observation of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday. In 2022, the Hilliard Board of Education unanimously approved school calendars through the 2025-26 school year including Eid as a district holiday beginning this school year, The Dispatch previously reported. The board action came following a campaign from Islamic
The Columbus DispatchApr 18 2024
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USC tensions high after Muslim valedictorian's speech cancelled and Trump complains about jury selection: Morning Rundown
Uncertainty over how many hostages are still alive are complicating Gaza cease-fire negotiations, officials say. Donald Trump complains about jury selection as his hush money trial resumes. And accusations of sexual abuse are made against a teacher at an elite girls’ boarding school. Here’s what to know today. Uncertainty over how many hostages in Gaza are still alive More than six months
NBC News (Online)Apr 05 2024
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Members of the Greater Boston Muslim community reflect during the last few days of Ramadan
Members of the Greater Boston Muslim community reflect during the last few days of Ramadan
In the last few days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, we check in with Mahmoud El-Rifai, Muslim chaplain at Boston College and scientist at Harvard, and Hajar Delshad, physician’s assistant and a Brookline resident, about what this year's holiday means for them.
WBURApr 04 2024
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Denver Muslim and Jewish faith leaders are coming together to combat hate and foster hope
They sit together like the old friends they have become. To some, unlikely partners in the current political and religious climate, but unabashed and unbowed by the pressures that exist amid war and death, tragedy and fear, insult or threat. "We have known each other for a while," said Imam Mohammad Kolila, of the Downtown Denver Islamic Center. "It started in a restaurant having lunch
CBS News (Online)Mar 20 2024
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Afghan Refugee, Not ‘White Supremacist’ Convicted in Muslim Community Murder.
Afghan refugee Muhammad Syed was convicted on Monday of first-degree murder in the shooting of 41-year-old Aftab Hussein in 2022 in New Mexico. This case marks one of three murders in Albuquerque’s Muslim community last summer. Syed is also due to stand trial for the other two alleged murders in the upcoming months. During the trial, prosecutors unveiled cell phone data pinpointing Syed’s
The National PulseApr 04 2024
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Muslim women push Chicago community to join green Ramadan: ‘We are the caretakers of the Earth’
On a recent Sunday evening, a group of Muslim women huddled around a hot beverage dispenser. They watched as one woman mixed cardamom tea, anise seed, cinnamon, ginger and different kinds of milk. It would be easier to offer hot water and tea bags, Sam Bawamia said as she stirred the warm beverage. But she had recently read that tea bags contain countless microplastic particles and, horrified
Chicago TribuneMar 18 2024
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Muslim community holds humanitarian aid fundraiser in Cumberland County
The event's organizers believed that holding the fundraiser during Ramadan honored the holy month's themes. Example video title will go here for this video Example video title will go here for this video NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Local members of the Muslim community held a fundraiser Sunday for humanitarian aid in Gaza to coincide with the holy month of Ramadan. The fundraiser was hosted by the
FOX 43 WPMTMar 15 2024
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Muslim-led prayer rally for Palestine held at State House
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — A group of community organizations held a prayer service and rally at the Rhode Island State House calling for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel. Attending organizations included the Falsteeni Diaspora United, Islamic Center of Rhode Island, Islamic School of Rhode Island, Muslim Students Association – University of Rhode Island, Muslim Youth Rhode Island, Rhode
ABC 6Jan 19 2021
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Pompeo Declares China’s Crackdown on Uighurs ‘Genocide’
With less than 24 hours left in office, the Trump administration on Tuesday declared that China’s violent repression against its Uighur population constituted a genocide, following widespread condemnation of the Chinese government’s campaign of mass internment, forced labor, forced sterilization, and other human rights violations against more than 1 million Muslim minorities.
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Foreign PolicyApr 03 2024
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Anti-Muslim hate spikes amid Israel-Hamas war: Council on American-Islamic Relations
Last year saw a record-breaking number of anti-Muslim bias incidents in the U.S., according to a new report from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which noted 8,061 reported complaints that the organization largely tied to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The figure marks the highest total in the 28 years CAIR has been tracking the data — and a roughly 56% increase from 2022, when
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