Uyghurs in the U.S. protested in front of the White House Saturday against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. They criticized the Chinese government and accused it of carrying out “genocide” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In 2019, Human Rights Watch confirmed that the Chinese government has committed, and continues to commit, crim...
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation or OIC on Sunday welcomed Amnesty International’s recent report on Israeli apartheid against the Palestinian people. Amnesty’s investigation shows Israel imposes a “system of oppression and domination over Palestinians, which constitutes a crime against humanity.” The OIC hailed the report as a con...
French President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Saturday introduced a new agency to reshape Islam as part of efforts to rid France of extremism. The French government-appointed clergy and lay people will make up the leadership of the Forum of Islam in France. The French government shut down 92 mosques in 2021. Supporters say it will […...
College campuses have been the site of 141 shootings so far during the 2021-22 school year, according to Everytown for Gun Safety. A 19-year-old former student was shot and killed after a high school basketball game a week ago in Beloit, Wisconsin. Three teens were hospitalized after a shooting Monday outside Chaparral High School in [&hellip...
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis Saturday demanding justice in the fatal police shooting of a young Black man. Amir Locke was shot and killed by police who were executing a “no-knock” search warrant on an apartment last week. This allows law enforcement to enter private property without first alerting occupant...
When 33-year-old Syrian native Ahmad won the diversity lottery and a chance to get a visa to the United States in May 2018, he was in disbelief. It was his third attempt applying for the Diversity Visa Program, which gives up to 50,000 people a chance to apply for a U.S. green card every year. […]
Two progressive U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill that would replace the expired federal child tax credit with more generous benefits. Millions of poor and working-class American families were affected by the recent lapse of the benefit. Democratic Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Mondaire Jones of New York introduced th...
Former Florida Republican Representative Dave Jolly called out Mike Pence and his top aide for not speaking out earlier about attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Attempts, he said, that were spurred at former President Donald Trump’s request. Jolly spoke with MSNBC host Alex Witt on Sunday after watching a clip of former Pence aide [&helli...
A Toronto-area Ahmadiyya missionary is facing child pornography and extortion charges in the United States. Luqman Rana is charged with 10 counts of producing pornography of five children and extorting them by threatening to injure their reputation for personal gain. If convicted of all counts, he faces a mandatory term of 15 to 160 years [&he...
Hundreds of people protested Saturday in Istanbul as human rights organizations gathered outside the Greek consulate. They carried signs and banners, and chanted slogans. Representatives of human rights groups criticized Greece’s refugee policy. Kenan Alpay, Deputy Chairman of the humanitarian group Ozgur-Der, said they gathered to protest th...
