The First Latino-Led Mosque in the Midwest
Illinois is home to over 2 million Latinos, predominantly of Mexican heritage. Of that 2 million, about 820,000 live in Chicago making Latinos the second largest ethnic group in the city as of 2020. With that comes a flourishing Latino Muslim community....
US Reps. Gwen Moore, Ilhan Omar call for investigation into Fort McCoy conditions
Government officials hold a town hall Monday to understand the concerns of Afghan evacuees at Fort McCoy. SPC. ERIC CERAMI, U.S. ARMY. U.S. Reps. Gwen Moore and Ilhan Omar are calling on the secretary of defense to investigate “possible mistreatment and/or neglect”...
Muslim Student Association connects interfaith students
Marquette University's Muslim Student Association works to connect students.Although Marquette is a Catholic Jesuit university, it is also home to many religious groups outside of Christianity. Muslim students make up about one percent of the student population.The...
Spy In Disguise: FBI Informant’s Role in Upcoming Supreme Court Case on Surveillance of Muslims
Craig Monteilh, pictured in Arab cultural dress, was recruited by the FBI to spy on Muslims. CRAIG MONTEILH WAS no stranger to federal agents. A hulking man who’d spent much of his teenage and adult years as an amateur bodybuilder, Monteilh had once made a living...
Unique photoshoot celebrates people with vitiligo
Two Muslim women volunteered their time and talents to help Visibly Imperfect Perfect create a photoshoot in Wisconsin celebrating people with vitiligo. A serendipitous connection between a medical student, a therapist and a photographer led to a unique project in...
WHAT OUR SCHOOLS TEACH ABOUT 9/11
University of Wisconsin - Madison scholars studied what U.S. secondary schools teach about 9/11. Wisconsin schools participated in a ritual this week that took place across the United States. Every year, on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,...
TWENTY YEARS AFTER 9/11 Complicating the Dominant 9/11 Narrative of National Unity (with reflections for teachers)
By Louise Cainkar, Marquette University With the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th attacks upon us, it is important to vigilantly recall that millions of Arab and Muslim Americans, who had nothing to do with those attacks, suffered enormous civil...
‘Breaking stereotypes’: How 9/11 shaped a generation of Muslim Americans
Muslim students report being teased and harassed when schools focus on 9/11. Maysoon Zayid gained fame as a stand-up comic and actor seen on the daytime soap "General Hospital." Yet she still gets death threats “all the time.” Farhaj Hassan served in the Iraq War with...
How America Can Win the Middle East
Since taking office, President Joe Biden has talked repeatedly about competition with China. To fight off Beijing and other autocracies, he has said, democracies must uphold their values. He has talked much less about the Middle East in that time, and although he has...
How U.S. Wars Abroad Are Intimately Tied to Police Brutality at Home
A protester holds up a Black Lives Mater sign in front of federal security forces in front of the White House during police brutality protests in Washington on June 3, 2020, in response to George Floyd's murder. There are obvious links between anti-war movements...
