A deadly earthquake has killed over 1,000 people and injured nearly 1,600 in eastern Afghanistan, officials said today. Bakhtar News Agency reports the death toll could rise as rescue operations continue in Paktika and Khost provinces. There hundreds of houses were destroyed by the last night’s magnitude 6.1 earthquake, Taliban officia...
On Saturday, advocacy groups and thousands of people from low-income communities gathered in Washington, D.C. to demand policymakers “fight poverty, not the poor.” The demonstration was led by the Poor People’s Campaign. The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the campaign, said “we are the 140 million poor and low-wealth people” who won’t be ...
Abdul Muzikir was convicted of killing a 24-year-old journalist as a group of Hanafi Muslims took hostages during the 1977 takeover of D.C. government buildings. In April, Muzikir, now 67, was ordered released as part of an effort to let out inmates who have served at least 20 years. That’s once it is determined they […]
On June 19, 1865, Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas two months after the Civil War ended. This was to proclaim more than 250,000 enslaved people in Texas were free. President Abraham Lincoln had freed all enslaved people two and a half years earlier, with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. […]...
Eight million people have been affected by historic flooding in Bangladesh and India that has left 75 people dead. Trains have been flipped by landslides and a lack of telecommunication services has made it difficult to fully assess the extent of the damage. The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society aims to help with resettlement efforts. The [&hell...
A 2018 report by investment bank Morgan Stanley found 23,000 Indian millionaires had left the country since 2014. A recent Global Wealth Migration Review report revealed nearly 5,000 millionaires, or 2% of all high net-worth people in India, left the country in 2020 alone. Bob Dhillon, Canadian-Indian real estate magnate and chief executive o...
The Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria applauded the Supreme Court judgment on female Muslim students wearing hijab in public schools in the country’s largest city, Lagos. Group national coordinator Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi called the court’s ruling a landmark judgment that would restore sanity, peace and progress in the education system. Ibr...
A new film depicts two different periods of war during which Bosnian Muslims saved Jews from Nazis, and 50 years later Jews rescued Muslims from Serbian extremists. U.S.-based film director Sabina Vajraca, who fled Bosnia during the 1990s war, said she wants her film to remind the world of the goodness of ordinary people. Vajraca’s [&hel...
Al-Azhar University, the top Sunni Islamic Institution in the world, is calling for enacting a new law to protect mosques and confront Islamophobia. The Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism said there is an urgent need to enact a new law guaranteeing protection of mosques and criminalizing Islamophobia. This call comes amid rising hate...
The International Union for Muslim Scholars has called for enacting a law to ban insults against religions and sanctities. The Qatar-based group said it will dispatch a delegation of Muslim scholars to Islamic countries for talks on the rise of insults targeting Islam. The union said it will ask the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and [&he...
