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.
Virginia state senator Amanda Chase was criticized by Muslim and Jewish groups for comments against ending mask mandates. In a Facebook post on her personal page, Chase attempted to draw parallels between masks and the niqab – a face veil worn by some Muslim women. In her post, Chase claimed that the Muslim face-covering was […]
In an opinion piece published on the 20th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay prison this week, U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called for its closure. She urged younger Americans to make it “a day to reflect, and to act”, as well as to put pressure on President Joe Biden to close the prison. The […]
Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, a Pakistani American Muslim, led a team of U.S. surgeons that implanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human being. It was a medical first that could help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations. About 110,000 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant, and more than 6,000 patients die each […]
President Joe Biden took a major political gamble Tuesday, calling for an end to the Senate’s supermajority rule. The aim is to allow Democrats to override Republican opposition to voting rights reforms, that Biden called crucial to saving U.S. democracy. Biden called the Capitol riot by supporters of Donald Trump last year an “attempted...
The United States set a record Tuesday for the number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus, shattering a previous high set in January 2021. Nationwide over 145,000 people were hospitalized with the virus, according to the US Health and Human Services Department. Cases have been spiking across the country as the omicron variant has led ...
Ahmed Guessoum, Imam of the Cannes mosque in France, denounces the planned closure of the mosque on the French Riviera. This was after France’s interior minister ordered its doors to be shut because of anti-Semitic remarks made there. Imam Guessoum says that the person being accused today is the former director who does not live [&helli...
Democracy defenders on Wednesday cheered a ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court that invalidated Republican-drawn state legislative district maps. A majority of the justices found these were unconstitutionally gerrymandered against the will of the state’s voters. In a 4-3 decision, they ordered the maps redrawn, as the GOP-controlled Ohio R...
A Muslim civil rights group today called on Alabama State Representative Mike Holmes to drop his membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. “It is unacceptable for a lawmaker, whose duty it is to represent all constituents in his district, to be a member of an organization that honors traitors and white supremacists,” said Ibrahim [&helli...
The United States on Wednesday urged an investigation after an 80-year-old Palestinian-American was found dead in the occupied West Bank, following arrest by Israel. The mayor of the village of Jiljiliya, north of Ramallah, told AFP that Omar Abdulmajeed Asad’s body was still in handcuffs after his death. In Washington, US State Departme...
