Reuters: Nike will launch a hijab for female Muslim athletes early next year, becoming the first major sports apparel maker to offer a traditional Islamic head scarf designed specifically for competition, the company said on Wednesday. The head covering, marketed under the “Pro Hijab” brand, is designed to allow athletes to observe the traditional Islamic practice
Common Dreams: I had recently been asked to give a talk about “being an American Muslim in the United States.” Although wary of the uses and abuses of the term, I obliged. Islam is a religion propelled by values, not race nor, theoretically, by blind tribal allegiances, I explained. The ‘American Muslim’ identity which has been
Press TV March 1, 2017 Islam will replace Christianity as the most popular religion in the world after 2050, says a study conducted by Pew Research Center. The Washington-based nonpartisan think tank said in its analysis published on Wednesday that Islam had become the fastest growing religion in the world and the number of its
Press TV February 28, 2017 Interview Muslim activists have launched an online fundraising effort to repair two vandalized Jewish cemeteries in US states of Missouri and Philadelphia. Organizers of the fundraiser have succeeded in collecting over $130,000 in less than a week. It is interesting that “the mainstream media [in the West] is so quiet about this” fundraising
Press TV February 19, 2017 Hard-line Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, has launched a campaign for upcoming parliamentary elections in the Netherlands by scorning the Moroccan community in the country. Moroccan-Dutch people make up two percent of the Netherlands’ population. Wilders has been tried in the past for offensive remarks against them and has been also taken
Press TV February 16, 2017 The number of organized anti-Muslim hate groups in the United States has nearly tripled since 2015, according to a new report. A journalist and political commentator believes the rise has been “fueled” directly by US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Muslims. “We can see this level of Muslim hate in
via Stars and Stripes: The scholarly journal of the Pentagon’s top general published an essay that examines what someone in his position should do if a president ordered the establishment of Muslim internment camps, one day before President Trump signed an executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. The article appears in the most recent
Press TV February 8, 2017 US President Donald Trump says the United States will never be safe if his government loses a court battle over his travel ban blocking the entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. “If the US does not win this case as it so obviously should, we can never have the
The Sydney Morning Herald: It was being forced to work in a confined wire-fenced “cage” that finally pushed Mohd Younas Karzi to the edge. After a co-worker taunted the Toll Holdings’ dockhand, calling him a terrorist because he was born in Afghanistan, Mr Karzi’s bosses isolated him from other workers for his own protection. Click here to read
The Los Angeles Times: For seven years, Ekram Razeqy worked alongside U.S. forces in some of Afghanistan’s most volatile provinces, surviving roadside bombings and Taliban ambushes as an interpreter for American troops. Fearing he could be targeted by Taliban sympathizers when he returned to civilian life, he applied for a special visa that allows interpreters who