The Bronx Islamic Cultural Center in Morrisania held a somber ceremony Sunday for 15 of the 17 victims of last weekend’s Bronx apartment fire. Caskets were wheeled into the center from hearses lined up the block on both sides of Clay Avenue. The youngest victim was 2-year-old Ousmane Konteh. The fire broke out at 333 […]
Tufail Ahmad, who founded Maryland’s Montgomery County Muslim Foundation or MCMF, died Thursday, according to a statement from the organization. Ahmad died in Pakistan while visiting his home country. He worked “tirelessly to uplift the needy,” the statement read. He came to Montgomery County with his family in 1973. After the 9/11 attack...
On Jan. 17, Illinois will for the first time mark Muhammad Ali Day along with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Illinois Muslim Coalition worked to get Muhammad Ali Day recognized statewide. The move is part of a new state law that requires history courses to include the study of the contributions made by Muslim […]
More than a dozen national Jewish organizations are calling for an additional one billion dollars in funding for Israel. That’s in addition to the more than $3.8 billion Israel already receives from U.S. taxpayers. Israel has received more U.S. funding than any other nation — on average, 7,000 times more per capita. The groups want […]...
In another setback to the President, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority blocked a Biden administration rule requiring 80 million workers to get COVID-19 vaccine shots or periodic tests. The court, however, allowed the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most healthcare workers in the US. Meanwhile, hospitals have ...
President Joe Biden on Thursday said he is not certain his voting rights agenda will pass the Senate after he failed to secure sufficient backing from his own Democratic party. Immediately after a last-ditch meeting to persuade party members, Biden said he hoped “we can get this done but I’m not sure.” “It’s about election [&...
The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday it has charged the leaders of the far-right Oath Keepers militia and 10 others for their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill attack. Stewart Rhodes, the group’s leader and founder, was arrested Thursday in Little Elm, Texas. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted Rhodes and 10 [&h...
The administration of US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said it will contribute roughly $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. But the newly announced aid falls far short of the war-torn country’s immediate needs. Millions of Afghans are on the brink of starvation and at risk of freezing to death in the aftermath of […]
Aviation regulators briefly halted flights from U.S. airports on the West Coast as a precaution Monday, after North Korea launched a high-speed missile test. The ground stop paused departures from an unspecified number of airports for less than 15 minutes. North Korea’s hypersonic missile flew at nearly 10 times the speed of sound into waters ...
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left Alabama to join ISIS, but then decided she wanted to return home. The justices declined to consider the appeal without comment Monday. Twenty-seven-year-old Hoda Muthana was born in New Jersey and grew up near Birmingham.
