Caring for the Planet is a Universal Task
A carbon footprint is a critical measure of responsibility to the planet. While environmental degradation affects everyone, the sources of the damage — and the ability to mitigate it — are far from evenly distributed. For Muslims living in North America,...
Hayat Pharmacy offers help to federal employees affected by government shutdown
Families of federal employees are feeling the financial sting of the government shutdown, and one Wisconsin company is making sure that members of the local community can still get their expensive but life saving prescription medicines. The government of...
IRC Book Review: Big Red Lollipop
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. Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan, illustrated by Sophie Blackall, © 2010 –...
Muslim youth clean up national parks during Trump’s shutdown of U.S. government
Members of a Muslim youth group collected trash and cleaned up national parks around the U.S. recently in an effort to relieve some of the damage done during the government shutdown. Dozens of people associated with Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, the...
2019 Inaugural Committee Interfaith Service “Our Wisconsin, Our Values”
Faith leaders from across southeastern Wisconsin gathered on Saturday, January 5th at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Milwaukee for an Interfaith Service with Governor-elect Tony Evers and Lieutenant Governor-elect Mandela Barnes. The audience of...
IRC Book Review: The Sky of Afghanistan
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. The Sky of Afghanistan by Ana A de Eulate and illustrated by Sonja Wimmer, ©...
A black Muslim hero: Othello adaptation explores religious roots of Shakespeare’s tragic Moor
An adaptation of Othello subtly reinterprets the tragic hero's religious identity, presenting to audiences the possibility that the Moor of Venice was a closeted, practicing Muslim. Produced by the English Touring Theatre, there is an Arabic recitation in...
Wisconsin Women join #TweetYourThobe in support of Rashida Tlaib
Women in Wisconsin and across the country used social media on January 3 to share photos of their traditional Palestinian gowns. It was a celebration of the day that Representative-elect Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) was sworn into the 116th...
Thomas Jefferson’s Quran: A Founding Father’s vision of American Islam still matters today
The new Congress includes its first two Muslim women members. One of them, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, considered getting sworn in privately using a copy of the Qur'an from the library of one of America’s Founding Fathers. “Islam has been part of American...
Milwaukee’s Rohingya refugee community is one of the largest in America
Many people still have not heard about one of the world's fastest-growing refugee crises: the Rohingya exodus out of Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country also known as Burma. After long waits in countries like Malaysia or Bangladesh, a tiny percentage of...
