Deporting Dissent: Weaponizing the U.S. Immigration System
Mapheze Saleh, a Palestinian American activist and researcher, campaigning for the immediate release of her husband, Badar Khan Suri. Image Ced: @maktoobmedia on InstagramAt 6:15 a.m. on March 19, 2025, United States federal immigration agents in tactical...
CAIR calls for resignation or removal of a Wisconsin county supervisor for spreading Islamophobia
Morgaine Ford-Workman The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, called last week for the resignation or removal of Brown County Supervisor James Murphy following an investigative report...
Islamic fashion show celebrates modesty, highlights designers’ creativity
Designer Adiellah Bates participated in the Sealed Nectar Fashion Show. Her latest line from her label, Aya Donna, was among those featured in the show. If she had her way, N’aimah Abdullah would have spent her summer island hopping through the Caribbean with her...
US President Biden Addresses Islamic New Year Wishes to Muslims
US President Biden Addresses Islamic New Year Wishes to Muslims Denver - United States President Joe Biden expressed a celebratory message on his Facebook and Twitter page ahead of the upcoming Islamic New Year holiday. In his message, Biden sent his “warm wishes” to...
ISM Core’s Young Adults & Professionals – a new community for young Muslim adults
Abdullah Tugan, 30, of Milwaukee said he is “a perfect example of someone who could benefit” from the Islamic Society of Milwaukee’s Young Adults & Professionals group. “I’m 30 years old, out of college seven years. I work as a professional in a larger company,...
Tokyo Olympics are not a bikini showcase. Let women athletes wear unitards, and hijabs.
German artistic gymnast Pauline Schaefer-Betz performs her floor routine in the Tokyo Olympics on July 25th, 2021. Gregory Bull/AP The Olympics are supposed to be about sports. So why are we talking about what female athletes are wearing? The latest uproar over who...
BDS Takes Hollywood: David Clennon Invokes Cultural Boycott of Israel
U.S. Emmy-winning actor David Clennon By: Omar Mansour/ Arab America contributing writer In 2019, Emmy-winning U.S. actor David Clennon revealed he had turned down an audition for a new Netflix series from the makers of Israeli series ‘Fauda’ because of his support...
Marquette University hosts interfaith discussion on social justice Thursday
Dr. Irfan Omar speaking at the National Muslim and Catholic Dialogue hosted at the University of St. Mary of the Lake Photo Credit: Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic When Dr. Irfan Omar was an undergraduate in the 1980s at the University of Delhi in India, “a country...
New initiative seeks to get Muslims to the golf course
For Amir Malik, there's a close tie between the values of golf — especially honesty and integrity — and his faith. RNS) — For much of the last four years, Farrah Batti has battled life-threatening illnesses with chemotherapy and surgeries. The experience has been a...
Palestinian woman becomes first Arab New York police captain
The New York State Police Department has appointed Palestinian-American Falasteen Srour as captain in the Bronx County Police Command, making her the first woman of Arab origin to be appointed to this rank, Quds News Network reports. Thirty-eight-year-old Srour was...
