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The Indian government bought Israeli spyware Pegasus in 2017 as part of a $2-billion package for weapons including a missile system, the New York Times reports. The year-long investigation revealed the FBI had bought and tested the spyware for years with plans to use it for domestic surveillance. That’s until the agency decided last year [&hel...
The United Arab Emirates intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early this morning, during the Israeli president’s official visit to the country. No damage was caused by the attack, the UAE’s defense ministry said in a statement on Twitter. It added that debris fell in an unpopulated area and there [&hell...
Maryam Khan made history Wednesday becoming Connecticut’s first Muslim woman endorsed as a candidate for the state House. She was nominated for Connecticut’s 5th District seat, representing Windsor and Hartford. Khan says part of her motivation to run is setting an example for young Muslim women. She said youth need to know they can be [&helli...
The global Islamic funds market grew more than 300% over the last decade to reach nearly $200 billion in assets under management. That’s according to a report released Wednesday by Bahrain-based General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions. Islamic assets under management grew 13.7% in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic. That ...
Nigeria’s Kwara state on Tuesday reaffirmed its stance of allowing Muslim girls to wear hijab in public schools. The state government released a policy statement declaring it will not tolerate any form of religious bigotry at educational institutions. Authorities met with Muslim and Christian leaders over the headscarf issue. State Commi...
Saifullah Muhammad works full-time as a community builder in Canada while also pursuing a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Waterloo. Muhammad fled a cycle of persecution in his home of Burma’s Rakhine state with his parents in 1991. He and thousands of refugees took shelter in Bangladesh, which is […]...
A Syrian neighbourhood bombed by the ruling regime lies in ruins, with bodies and broken toys poking out of the rubble. Tall, gray buildings are reduced to crumbling, empty shells, their walls blown away or pockmarked by the blast. ThIS scene has been captured in devastating detail by artist Khaled Dawwa, a Syrian exile and […]
Hijab-wearing footballers played an impromptu game in Paris’ Luxembourg garden, behind the Senate protesting a decision banning them from sports competitions. Founé Diawara, co-president of the collective Les Hijabeuses, an offshoot of the Alliance citoyenne group “What bothers us is that some women are being left out, including ...
Kashmiris across Pakistan-administered and Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday observed India’s Republic Day as a “Black Day.” They protested New Delhi’s withdrawal of the decades-long special rights of the disputed Jammu Kashmir region starting in August 2019. Tensions have been mounting between the two nuclear powers since then. P...
An investigation revealed 93 sites of “potential human burials” in a small area around a former residential school in the province of British Columbia, Canadian media reports. The sites were identified during a survey of the St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School and nearby Onward Ranch, CBC News reported. Whitney Spearing, who led the probe,...
