New UN report reveals the companies getting rich off Israeli occupation and genocide
Israeli army tanks deploy into the Gaza Strip on May 20, 2025 amid the ongoing genocide. (Photo: © Saeed Qaq/ZUMA Press Wire/ZUMA Wire/ APA Images)The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since...
New film follows Dallas university students as they found 1st Muslim fraternity in the US
Courtesy Of 'Kufi Krew: An American Story." Founding members of ALM, the first Muslim college fraternity -- established in 2013 at UT-Dallas A group of University of Texas at Dallas students made headlines in 2013 by establishing the first Muslim...
Halal Economy Thrives as Product Demand from Muslims and non-Muslim Nations Surges
The buoyant market for the global halal economy is expected to reach $4.96 trillion by 2030, says Frost & SullivanRIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Global Halal Economy Growth Opportunities,...
Milwaukee’s Rohingya Community honors students and parents for commitment to education
Photos by Kamal Shkoukani (Second row, left) Othman Atta of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes join students and their parents from Milwaukee's Rohingya community to celebrate the students' academic achievement. It wasn’t a...
Taste-testing at Lebnani House, Milwaukee’s new Middle Eastern restaurant
Photos by Kamal ShkoukaniLebnani House, 5051 S. 27th St., Milwaukee, offers Levantine fine-dining.When a new restaurant opened down the street from the Islamic Resource Center on South 27th Street in Milwaukee, the IRC staff took notice.As they drove home...
UN cites possible crimes against humanity in China’s Xinjiang
FILE - Residents watch a convoy of security personnel armed with batons and shields patrol through central Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region, Nov. 5, 2017. China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the...
Op-Ed: Reviving Islamic Excellence in Scientific Knowledge and Discovery
In 1990, I was asked to present a paper on great Muslim scholars of Spain at an international convention of the Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA). I must confess to having little knowledge about the great Muslim scholars of the medieval...
Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention returns in person
Safaa Zarzour, president of the Islamic Society of North America, speaks at a news conference on Tuesday at the Downtown Islamic Center, where the group announced details of its 59th annual convention, being held next month in Rosemont. Jordan...
Pakistan seeks aid as massive floods leave behind destruction
While international assistance is slowly trickling in, a lot more needs to be done to protect the country against the ravages of climate change.Bridges and highways have been swept away, entire villages inundated, standing crops destroyed, homes flattened,...
ISM religious director speaks out about Salman Rushdie, free speech and double standards
(AFP)Novelist Salman Rushdie, who was condemned in a fatwa by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 for his book The Satanic Verses, was stabbed this month. No verse in the Qur’an says Muslims should execute a person for blasphemy (insulting God or sacred...
