The global Church has failed its duty to challenge the Gaza genocide
Pope Leo XIV on the loggia after his election, May 8, 2025. (Photo: Edgar Beltrán / The Pillar / Wikimedia)We have all witnessed close to two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza but heads of the church—its spiritual leaders, its bishops, its pastors—have...
The rise of women’s mosques shows the female face of Islam
In some Mosques around the world, women are relegated to the basement, silenced by the imam and barred from the front door, some Muslim women have had enough of male domination at the mosque and are setting up their own. From Copenhagen to Los Angeles, a...
Legislation group feels fallout from Wisconsin lawmakers over invitation to hate-group leader
He was introduced as “one of America’s heroes.” The man who took the stage in front of hundreds of state legislators at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)’s annual meeting this August was none other than David Horowitz, an influential leader...
Student group at Madison causes uproar over removal of animal gelatin in campus ice cream
"The reasons given for not changing the gelatins, in the name of 'tradition,' exclude Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Vegetarian, and Vegan students from partaking in eating the official, campus wide, traditional ice cream that is often listed as part of...
American group secretly placed misleading Facebook ads targeting Pro-Palestinian Activist
In 2016, as Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi performed at college campuses around the United States, his appearances seemed to spark student protests. Before his visit to John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, a page called “John Jay...
One million Uighur Muslims held in Chinese concentration camps
Rwanda. East Timor. Myanmar. The world has a cruel habit of ignoring humanitarian disasters until it's too late. Old habits die hard, and the people targeted by state-led ethnic cleansing programs even harder. But the reports of mass concentration camps...
Zeshan B: Rising star talks about “Brown-Skinned Soul” and his identity
Chicago-born Indian-Muslim artist, Zeshan B performed a special concert of his remarkable blend of music at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts on September 15. Zeshan B weaves soul music from the 1960s and 1970s with Indo-Pakistani folk...
Community partnership fulfills hometown dream for Zeshan B with Marcus Center concert
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition partnered together on September 15 for the first time to host a cultural entertainment special with the American-born Indian singer and songwriter, Zeshan B....
IRC Book Review: Zeitoun
Elise Bellin, MLIS is the IRC Librarian and this book review is part of an ongoing series that focuses on a range of books within the IRC collection as a service to the community. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, © 2009 ISBN: 9781934781630 For those of you that are...
SAFLI students from UW-Madison experience a day of language and cultural immersion
For the fourth summer now, students from the South Asia Flagship Languages Initiative (SAFLI) program through the University of Wisconsin-Madison visited the Islamic Resource Center for a local cultural immersion experience. The special initiative of the...
