New PEW Study On Muslim Acceptance
According to a new Pew Research Center survey: The vast majority of non-Muslim Americans (89%) say they would be willing to accept Muslims as neighbors. The same survey finds that most people … [Read more...]
Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
According to a new Pew Research Center survey: The vast majority of non-Muslim Americans (89%) say they would be willing to accept Muslims as neighbors. The same survey finds that most people … [Read more...]
Reader’s Digest recently asked their readers what's the nicest place in America and the winner is a small falafel shop in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yassin’s Falafel house was selected from a nearly … [Read more...]
Muslims and Jews recently held a joint memorial ceremony to mark the 74th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Litzmannstadt ghetto by the Nazis to the Polish concentration camp in Auschwitz. … [Read more...]
Last week, the Islamic Society of Mid Manhattan hosted a multifaith Passover celebration with Temple Emanu-El and the NYC Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee, a sharing of food and traditions of the … [Read more...]
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Journalist Amelia Gentleman writes about her recent trip to Jordan, saying that due to the war in neighboring Syria, Jordan is nearly empty of travelers though is quite safe. Since 2011, tourism has … [Read more...]
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Mohamed Khairullah is mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey and describes himself as “an American mayor who happens to be Muslim… I don’t impose my religion when it comes to running the town. But my … [Read more...]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has documented a 44% increase in the number of hate crimes reported by American Muslims in 2016. This has led to the launch of a new app called Making … [Read more...]
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Last summer a photograph of Syrian refugee Halim al-Attar carrying his sleeping daughter over his shoulder while desperately trying to sell pens to passing motorists in Beirut went viral, a moving … [Read more...]
Since so many people seem to have an opinion about the refugee crisis in Denmark, a local paper decided to portray a direct voice by giving refugees run of the paper last week. Liberal daily … [Read more...]
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CNN war correspondent, Clarissa Ward, recently gave a riveting speech before the UN Security Council where she said that in all of her experience covering war, she has "never seen anything on the … [Read more...]