U.S. judge blocks Obama transgender school bathroom policy
A U.S. judge blocked an Obama administration policy that public schools should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by 13 dissenting states just in time for the new school year.While a setback for transgender advocates, the ruling is only the latest salvo in a larger...Phoenix area Muslims pay for ‘ISIS sucks’ billboard
PHOENIX - A large electronic billboard has a simple message directed at ISIS: "Hey ISIS, you suck." The billboard was paid for by a national Muslim-American non-profit with help from the Muslim community in Arizona. Local Muslims in the state said they want to condemn the terrorist organization in a very public way. They said...Muslim inmate sues Indiana sheriff’s office over halal diet
LEBANON, Ind. — A Muslim inmate is using Indiana’s religious freedom statute in part to sue a central Indiana sheriff for denying him a diet that follows Islamic dietary laws.The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of Gannon Thomas against the Boone County Sheriff’s Office over its...Clinton’s top aide scrutinized for ties to Saudi magazine
WASHINGTON - The top campaign aide to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is being scrutinized for her ties to a Saudi-sponsored magazine. Huma Abedin, 40, has for years been one of Clinton’s closest confidantes. She began her career as an intern in the White House in 1996, when Hillary Clinton was first lady, and was...Islamic charity vandalized
ATLANTA - The Council On American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is asking police to investigate a vandalism incident in Atlanta targeting a Muslim charity. Sometime during the evening of August 17, an unknown number of vandals shattered the glass entry door to the Stone Mountain office of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA),...Michigan Muslim woman outraged at CNN for featuring her in ISIS video
MICHIGAN - A local Muslim woman and her family are outraged after discovering that her face was being used in a CNN video about ISIS recruitment. The woman's husband recognized his wife's face in the clip. Though she has no ties to ISIS, the woman's face was featured in the clip for a few seconds. The identity of the...Muslim woman gets thrown out of Trump rally…again
A Muslim woman has been ejected from a Donald Trump rally after handing out pens inscribed with the word “peace”. Rose Hamid said a member of the Republican Presidential candidate’s security staff removed her from the event in Charlotte, North Carolina, because she was causing a “disturbance”. “I just wanted to let people...Mexico’s president says he’s willing to meet with Trump
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Tuesday he was willing to meet with Donald Trump, months after comparing the Republican presidential candidate to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. "Yes, I would meet with him," Pena Nieto said, referring to Trump in a pre-taped television interview broadcast on Tuesday night. "I have...Trump calls for African-American support
MILWAUKEE — On Tuesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered his most aggressive call yet to woo African American voters, vowing to restore law and order, only days after a fatal police shooting of a Black man sparked more street violence. Speaking a few miles from Milwaukee, which was rocked by weekend riots,...Muslim couple invites dozens of strangers over for dinner
WASHINGTON - A Muslim couple is inviting strangers to their home as part of an initiative called “Meal with a Muslim.”Amanda Saab, former contestant on “MasterChef,” and her husband Hussein Saab, have opened their door in Renton to Americans who may have questions about their faith. The couple resides in Renton, Washington. The...U.S. will end federal use of privately-operated prisons
Obama during his visit to the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution outside Oklahoma City, 2015 (Reuters)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department plans to phase out its use of privately-operated prisons, which it called less safe and less effective than government-run facilities, according to a memo released publicly by the...30,000 Muslim refugees accepted in U.S. in 2016
The U.S. has accepted more Muslim refugees than any other religious group during the current fiscal year, according to data compiled by the Pew Research Center. Nearly half of the more than 63,000 refugees who have been granted residency this year are Muslim – marking the highest number since fiscal year 2002 when self-reported data...Trump: Clinton is a bigot
WEST BEND, Wis. -- Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a bigot in a speech Tuesday night and accused his Democratic rival for the presidency of pandering to “communities of color.”“We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes,” Trump said....Iraqi immigrant sues Whole Foods for harassment from co-workers
Emad Siddeeq, a Boston area resident and a former full-time employee at the Whole Foods Ink Block location, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston on Tuesday. He is accusing the Austin, Texas-based supermarket chain of not doing enough to stop harassment by co-workers that occurred "nearly every shift worked." The...Family of Muslim boy file $25 million lawsuit against school district
NEW YORK - The family of a 12-year-old Muslim middle school student has filed a $25 million federal lawsuit against the East Islip school district, claiming the seventh-grader’s civil rights were violated when school officials forced him to sign a false confession saying he was a terrorist.The family of Nashwan......
Man charged with double murder of imam and assistant
NEW YORK CITY — The man suspected in the fatal shooting of a Queens imam and his assistant was arrested and charged with murder, police said Monday night. Oscar Morel, 35, of East New York was charged with both men's murders and criminal possession of a weapon, the NYPD said. The charges come after police found a revolver they...
Man kills neighbor he called “Dirty Arab”
August 15th, 20160 TULSA -- A 37-year-old Arab American man was murdered last Friday following an escalated feud with his neighbor. Police said Khalid Jabara was fatally shot by his neighbor, Vernon Majors, 61, on his front porch.Residents in the area confirmed the suspect and victim had animosity for quite some time. Police said Majors had a criminal......
People offer to walk Muslims to mosques after Imam killed
The fatal shooting of a New York City imam and his associate in Queens has prompted people around the country to offer to accompany Muslim worshippers to and from mosques so that they won’t have to fear for their safety. Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and his assistant Thara Uddin, 64, were fatally shot in the...Imam, assistant fatally shot in the head in Queens, New York
NEW YORK - Police in New York say an imam and his assistant were shot dead as they walked along a street in the borough of Queens.The men were approached from behind by a man who shot them both in the head, a police spokesman said.Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, moved to the city from Bangladesh two years ago, reports in New York said.Police...Washington policeman charged with ISIS denied bond
WASHINGTON - A Washington transit police officer charged with attempting to help the Islamic State militant group was ordered held pending trial, U.S. court documents showed on Thursday. The suspect, Nicholas Young, 36, of Fairfax, Virginia, was arrested this month in an FBI sting operation. He is the first...Children killed, injured in multiple amusement park accidents
KANSAS - A boy was injured while riding a roller coaster on Thursday and rushed to a Pittsburgh hospital, emergency services and park officials said, in the third accident this week involving children hurt or killed on U.S. amusement park rides. The incident comes following the death of a 10-year-old boy who......
U.S. House Democrats’ Pelosi: administration may shift funds for Zika
U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said the Obama administration may announce as early as Thursday that it is shifting more money into fighting the Zika virus. "Maybe today or tomorrow," Pelosi told reporters in a hallway on Thursday. She did not give an amount, but said, "I think they are going to try...Mississippi woman gets 12 years for trying to aid ISIS
MISSISSIPPI- A U.S. judge on Thursday sentenced a Mississippi woman to 12 years in prison for providing material support to Islamic State after she and her husband conspired with an undercover FBI employee to travel to Syria and aid the group's media campaign. Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 20, had pleaded guilty to......
Google Maps under fire for ‘Palestine’ blunder
GAZA - Google this week was under fire by Palestinian activists for removing the word “Palestine” from Google Maps.However, according to Google, the word was never there to begin with.An online petition from March condemning Google (and insinuating its “two Jewish founders” removed the word “Palestine” because of...Trump calls Obama, Clinton ‘co-founders’ of ISIS
WASHINGTON - Republican Donald Trump called U.S. President Barack Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton the "co-founders" of Islamic State, ratcheting up his assertion that they are responsible for the rise of the militant group and sparking renewed criticism of his leadership ability. Clinton's campaign called the statements a "false......