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How Muslim Players Bring their Faith to the Field
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a woman with dark hair on a beach
Women & Gender
For one woman with an eating disorder, Ramadan was a chance to blend in
A woman wearing a headwrap and as shimmering blue and gold dress stands in front of a camera, with her hands to her hips.
Culture
Fashion, faith and culture come together through the global art of head wrapping
doctors in afghanistan
Bioethics in Islam
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Torn up Quran in Canada
Education
Canadian groups are lashing out about Muslim prayer in schools
Sarah Zouak is one of the co-founders of Lallab, a new webzine featuring the voices of Muslim women in France.
Religion
One group aims to give Muslim women in France a voice
Imam Khalid Latif
Jobs
This NYPD chaplain is young, male and Muslim. He’s been told ‘those things don’t go together so well right now.’
Rumana Ahmed at the White House during the last year of the Obama administration.
SHORT: Rumana Ahmed lasted eight days in Trump’s White House
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Abu Radwan and his family converted to Christianity after they fled Syria to Lebanon. He says it's a genuine conversion, though he does say he thinks it might help him get resettled in the West.
Conflict
Why some Muslim Syrian refugees are converting to Christianity
Afghan journalist Habib Zahori made a cold trek across the US-Canada border on foot and on bicycle. "I remember thinking, wishing, 'Oh God, please, please send someone to arrest me!’ "
Conflict
Habib Zahori was scared to seek asylum in the US. So he pushed a rickety bicycle through snow to get to Canada.
Protestors gather at San Francisco International Airport to oppose Donald Trump's "Muslim Ban."
Conflict
Donald Trump’s ‘disruptive’ leadership style presents huge problems for Homeland Security
Trump’s Immigration Ban, Security Council Shakeup, NATO Reckons With Russia
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White Nationalism in The White House, Muslims for Trump, The Paris Attacks One Year Later
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Brexit-EU
Rule Britannia
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Community members take part in a protest to demand a stop hate crimes during the funeral service of Imam Maulama Akonjee, and Thara Uddin in New York City.
Justice
How likely are you to be the victim of a hate crime?
People light candles on the ground
Justice
Born with two strikes? These Somali Muslims in Minnesota find a home with Black Lives Matter
The Beirut-based indie-rock band Mashrou' Leila.
Arts
A Beirut-based band that challenges homophobia
Muslim Reform Movement Struggles for an Inclusive Islam
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Spying for Citizenship: An FBI Deal for Muslim Informants
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Islamophobia
Conflict
Love in the time of mania: Six ways Americans are defying Islamophobia
Dueling demonstrations in Irving, Texas: Residents supporting their local mosque hold placards critical of armed men who are intimidating those who attend the Islamic center.
Conflict
A Texas town stands divided, after armed men in camouflage menace worshipers at a local mosque
Puteri Hasannah Karunia is a popular fashion blogger, one of Indonesia's generation of young Muslim fashionistas known as "hijabers."
Belief
Hijab fashion is so popular in Indonesia non-Muslim designers are getting in on it
mosqueMuslim women arrive for the prayer service at the Women's Mosque of America in downtown Los Angeles in January. The mosque, the first of its kind in the US, launched with a women-led prayer service.
Belief
America’s first all-female mosque is receiving praise — and some pushback
Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed and Zahra Noorbakhsh are the women behind the new podcast: Good Muslim/Bad Muslim.
Culture
How to eat pork, drink booze and be a ‘good’ Muslim
Nigerian pastor Esther Ibanga joined with Muslim leaders in the city of Jos to call for the return of Chibok girls who were kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram.
Justice
‘It’s not about you being a Muslim and me being a Christian,’ says one Nigerian activist
A photo of Tam Duong's family during Lunar New Year in the early 1990s. Tam, on the right in the red dress, is from Los Angeles and now lives in Boston. Her parents are from Vietnam and Duong says she was confused as to why Santa never came to their home.
Belief
There’s nothing traditional about an immigrant Christmas
Muslim Leader Responds to NYPD Surveillance & Terror Labels of Mosques