Statewide campaign aims to end Illinois’ investment in Israel
Activists protest outside of the Illinois State Board of Investment in Chicago on June 20, 2025. (Photo: Paul Goyette)Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs has been investing in Israel for nearly a decade. Since becoming the sole fiduciary of the...
Muslim travelers find comfortable space for prayers in Mitchell Airport’s Meditation Room
General Mitchell International Airport opened its meditation room in November 2017 as a designated space for private contemplation, prayer, and public worship for travelers of all faiths. Along with the rise of air travel in the Twentieth Century, chapels...
Second annual Muslim Women’s Day on March 27 continues to promote positive images
Getty Images, a world leader in visual communications, and MuslimGirl.com, the largest Muslim women's online platform in the United States, continued its content partnership designed to change the misrepresentation of Muslim women in marketing and...
Inside Masjid-e Haji Piyada: Uncovering the mysteries of Afghanistan’s ancient Nine Domes Mosque
Agence France-Presse (AFP) Farshad Usyan In the white dusty plains of northern Afghanistan, archaeologists are seeking to unravel the secrets of one of the oldest mosques in the world, whose structure is still standing after a thousand years of...
Salam School seniors organized annual Student Convention for 8th year
Hundreds of middle and high school students attending Milwaukee’s Salam school participated in its annual Student Convention on February 24. The senior class has organized the school program annually since 2010, with all arrangements and planning done by the...
Integrating Islam into the Wisconsin Workplace
“Religiously mandated practices are protected both by the First Amendment, which protects the freedom of religion, and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which provides that an employer may not discriminate against a person due to religion and should...
Leaked report details how DHS used false data to justify surveillance of Muslims
A recent draft report from the Department of Homeland Security called for the discriminatory surveillance of Sunni Muslims in the United States. The report originated in U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Intelligence and was obtained and...
Mehreen Amjad: Taking the hijab to the global market
A British-born entrepreneur of Kashmiri origin started the Coco Hijab London e-commerce platform in January 2016 when she found it difficult to find hijabs – a veil worn by Muslim women in the UK. Having had prior experience in the fashion industry Mehreen Amjad says...
Muslim students join Madison Walkout against guns at State Capitol
The March 14 protest began at the library mall, where hundreds of students at UW-Madison left their classes and marched towards the capital, meeting with the hundreds of high schoolers who walked out of class to voice their opinions. Having less than five days...
IRC Book Review: What Color Is My World?
Did you know that the man who invented color graphics for computers was an African American? What about the inventors of the potato chip, bread machines, or open-heart surgery?
