Raja Bazaar: A Pakistani, Indian, Arab grocery filled with life lessons
Photos courtesy of Haq NawazHaq Nawaz, 45, opened his Brookfield grocery store Raja Bazaar in 2018. After building this successful business, he is now negotiating to buy a store and a restaurant in Milwaukee.Raja Bazaar, with its zabiha, halal meat shop,...
I resigned from Canada’s largest broadcasting corporation over its complicity in Israel’s genocide
CBC headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo: Adam Moss/Wikimedia) Words can empower, arm, and evoke sentiments that stimulate new ideas, worldviews, and policies. Being the only Muslim in the newsroom, I feared the language the Canadian Broadcasting...
Two Milwaukee Jewish organizations observed High Holy Days by calling to end genocide in Gaza
Photo by Cherrie Hanson Jewish Voice for Peace-Milwaukee and Chavurat Tziporah held an interfaith tashlich Oct. 6 on the shore of Lake Michigan recently to symbolically cast off the sin of not doing more to prevent Israel's genocide of Palestinians and to...
PATRICK LAWRENCE: De-Westernizing Ourselves
Bust of Herodotus. (Bradley Weber, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) The barbarities of Zionist Israel force fundamental questions upon us: Where is our humanity as the Israelis prosecute their terror campaigns before us daily? What shall we do as we find ourselves...
UK Faces Backlash for Barring Nelson Mandela’s Grandson from Crucial Pro-Palestinian Speaking Tour
Mandla Mandela was expected to emphasize shared struggles between South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement and Palestinian resistance, drawing powerful parallels between the two fights for justice and freedom. Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela,...
Hundreds gather in Milwaukee at Interfaith Vigil for victims of Israeli onslaught
Participants at Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine's vigil Tuesday placed flowers in water for victims of Israeli military bombing in Gaza and Lebanon. Hundreds of somber participants filed into the Islamic Society of Milwaukee Community Center...
Is US really prioritising Israel and allies over its own flood victims?
A resident on Magnolia Avenue cradles his dog as he surveys the flooding damage after Hurricane Milton passed in South Daytona, Florida, on October 11, 2024. Photo: ReutersRelief agencies in the US are running out of money as Congress drags its feet...
Google Was Set to Host an Israeli Military Conference. When We Asked About It, the Event Disappeared.
The Luma page, left, for the Google-sponsored Israeli defense tech event. The same event page, right, after The Intercept contacted the organizers. ScreenshotThe Israeli Defense Tech Conference, aimed at tech companies working with the Israeli military,...
Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival opens with powerful story of forgiveness
Photos courtesy of Rais BhuiyanRais Bhuiyan holds up a photo of his face, damaged by a neo-Nazi who shot him from point-blank range in a post-9/11 revenge attack on Muslims.In September and October of 2001, an American neo-Nazi went “hunting” for Muslims...
Worldwide Demonstrations Mourn and Condemn ‘Year of Genocide’ in Gaza
Tens of thousands of people around the world took to the streets Sunday just ahead of the one-year anniversary of Israel's catastrophic assault on the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 41,000 people, decimated the enclave's civilian infrastructure,...
