After the events in Charlottesville, Virginia this summer, in which white supremacists rallied and ultimately killed a counter-protestor, this Virginia Muslim group is hoping to unite and build bridges with their local interfaith community. READ MORE (NBC29) ...
Muslim Students Create App to Track Anti-Muslim Incidents
More than two years after the murders of Muslim University of North Carolina Chapel Hill students Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha, UNC Chapel Hill's Muslim Student Association has launched an app to document instances of Islamophobia on and around the campus. Called Project Mawla, the open-source, Web-based app released last December allows students and residents of Chapel Hill to document anti-Muslim incidents. According to its website, Project Mawla was created as a ...
“Eat with Muslims” Brings People Together for Food and Conversation
Following the 2016 presidential election, Fathia Absie and Ilays Aden, Muslim immigrants living in Seattle, wanted to do something to help bring people together. They started "Eat with Muslims," a program that brings people of different religious faiths together for meals and conversation, offering the interfaith dinner guests a chance to ask questions about Islam. So far, they have held 11 dinners in the Seattle area, each one drawing more and more people. According to Absie, they "realized we ...
Inclusion, Acceptance, and American Pride at the NYC Muslim Day Parade!
This weekend, thousands gathered in New York City for the city's annual Muslim Day Parade, a day to celebrate American Muslim culture and all that the Muslim community contributes to the city and country as a proud part of the larger American family. The event was important, too, for its message of inclusion and acceptance, as members of other religious communities joined in the festivities, including Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, who was the grand marshal of ...
Proud Muslims, Proud Americans
A new study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that 1 in 5 Americans believes that Muslims (and atheists) lack First Amendment rights. This is, of course, completely false; the U.S. Constitution does not deny people rights based on religious beliefs. American Muslims value these rights very highly and members of the American Muslim community are engaged and active citizens who help their neighbors, run for office, and defend the U.S. and American ...
