The international community must act together to overcome the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. Erdogan spoke during a joint news conference alongside his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic ALEXANDER VOO CHICH, referring to recent moves toward separatism in Bosnia. Erdogan said all parti...
President JoeBiden on Wednesday nominated Nusrat Choudhury to serve as a federal judge. She will be the first Muslim woman to do so. She was among the eight judicial nominees announced by the president. Choudhury currently serves as the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. She will be a U.S. judge […]
A former senior officer in Spain’s National Police Corps claimed the 2017 terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils were organized by the country’s secret service. Jose Manuel Villarejo said the attacks were a bid to destabilize Catalonia before the independence referendum there. The attacks in August of that year included a truck running over ...
Israeli police were in a standoff Monday with a Palestinian man who carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in Jerusalem. The man’s family has been facing the threat of eviction since 2017 in the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah area of Israel-annexed east Jerusalem. Israeli media reported Mohammed Salhiya had threatened to set […]...
During the 2016 presidential election campaign, some U.S. politicians made Muslims the “bogeyman,” says a former Hillary Clinton staffer. Huma Abedin, Clinton’s chief of staff, said she endured calls for her investigation by a Republican Congressman in 2012, because she and her family were practicing Muslims. The prejudice intensified througho...
French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has been fined 10,000 euros for provoking racial hatred. Zemmour was convicted Monday by the Paris Criminal Court after he described migrants as “thieves,” “murderers” and “rapists” on a French news channel in September 2020. This is the third time Zemmour has been convicted of a hate offense. Despite...
The Parliament of the World’s Religions, the world’s largest international interfaith group headquartered in Chicago, has denounced another namesake group’s hate speech. A meeting of the Dharma Sansad — called the “assembly of religions” in English — held in Haridwar, India last month, reportedly included calls for lethal violence agains...
Muslim American human rights group Justice for All joined Illinois faith leaders in signing a letter urging state lawmakers to enact bond reform. It led to the passage of the Pretrial Fairness Act in January of 2021 and was signed into law last February. On the anniversary of the law’s adoption, advocates plan to celebrate […]
Malik Faisal Akram, the man who caused a dramatic 10-hour standoff Saturday at a Texas synagogue last weekend, had mental health issues, according to his brother. The 44-year-old British national held four people captive at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. Akram wanted Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to be brought to...
A demolition drive in a tribal Muslim area by the Jammu Development Authority or JDA has sparked protests in Jammu and Kashmir. The drive left more than a dozen tribals homeless. Local tribal Muslims accused the JDA of selectively targeting them. Muskan Choudhary told TwoCricles.net that a JDA team along with police demolished their houses [...
