Islam

Religion
Examining the question: What is and isn’t antisemitic?
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COVID-19
Here’s what to know about the new COVID variant ‘razor blade throat’
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Muslims pray in a mosque during celebrations of Eid al-Fitr holiday, a feast celebrated by Muslims worldwide, in Grozny, Russia, on Thursday, May 13, 2021.
Religion
The world celebrates Eid — including some of The World’s listeners
a woman with dark hair on a beach
Women & Gender
For one woman with an eating disorder, Ramadan was a chance to blend in
Arts, Culture & Media
Qawwali
Arts, Culture & Media
The 99
Arts, Culture & Media
Taqwacores
shukor in space
Islam and the cosmos
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Two men sit on sofa with large books in laps, pointing at texts and talking
Conflict
How hate and debate came to a Connecticut mosque
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
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Bioethics in Islam
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A woman gets her pulse checked at Jericho Road Community Health Center, a health center that focuses on culturally sensitive health care for refugees.
Culture
Some refugees suffer culture shock — with their health care
Man in blue polo stands on street corner looking up, with sign for "Crunch" gym behind him
Global Politics
A ‘man of no land’ tries to find home in Saudi Arabia
President Donald Trump before his speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 21, 2017.
SHORT: Is Trump cutting the US program that could stop bombings like Manchester?
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Muslim men gathered in a basement transformed into a a prayer room in the neighborhood of Agios Nikolaos, in Athens
Belief
Athens doesn’t have a single mosque, so Muslims worship in makeshift prayer rooms
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
Two men in smile in posed photo in front of small market
Justice
A Muslim immigrant and a Christian pastor find common ground — and try to connect with their Latino neighbors too
Demonstrators spell out "# No Muslim Ban" during a protest against President Donald Trump's executive order travel ban.
Justice
Why this Muslim American, who fled Iran in 1979, backs Trump’s travel ban
Marrakech’s Koutoubia mosque has soaked up the Moroccan sun for nearly 900 years. Now it also puts those rays to work generating clean electricity with newly installed solar panels.
Environment
Muslim environmentalists give their religion — and their mosques — a fresh coat of green
Woman at front of room in mosque
Religion
They gave her the keys to the mosque — and now she wants to open its doors to the neighborhood
Black and white photo of man at table, with books
Education
How a Lebanese immigrant helped pave the way for the study of Islam and Muslim culture in the US
White Nationalism in The White House, Muslims for Trump, The Paris Attacks One Year Later
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Suud Olat is a refugee advocate in St. Cloud, Minnesota
Conflict
Despite discrimination and backlash, this Somali in St. Cloud says, ‘I love my state’
Shaykh Yasir Fahmy preached on Friday, September 9th, at the Islamic Center of Boston Culture Center about the meaning of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Religion
These days of Eid are blessed — and trying — for American Muslims
Men surrounded by reporters, photgraphed from above
Justice
Islamophobia is on the rise in the US. But so is Islam.
IDP Camp in Sittwe
Culture
In Myanmar, refugees from Muslim-Buddhist conflict remain in limbo
Belief
Pain lingers one year after Hajj tragedy in Saudi Arabia
An aerial view of the Haj pilgrimage in Mecca
Global Politics
“You’re not Muslims!” Iran and Saudi Arabia in new war of words.
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
Suhaib Webb
Culture
Why both ISIS and some US right-wingers are threatening to kill this American imam
Mubin Shaikh
Conflict
He traveled to Syria to study Islam. He came back de-radicalized.
Muslim Reform Movement Struggles for an Inclusive Islam
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In Indiana, ‘Execution-Style’ Killings Stir Fears Among Muslim-Americans
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Arts
Dealing with hate, with an open mic
Prof. Larycia Hawkins told a news conference on January 6, "Wheaton College cannot scare me into walking away from the truth that all humans, Muslims, the vulnerable, the oppressed, are all my sisters and brothers."
Belief
This evangelical Christian professor might lose her job for the way she reached out to Muslims
Today’s Takeaways: Land and Guns, Rewriting Islamic History, Juvenile Sentences
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Islamophobia
Conflict
Love in the time of mania: Six ways Americans are defying Islamophobia
In the days after the Paris attacks, classes at the Great Mosque in Paris were canceled, though the mosque remained open.
Belief
At the Paris Great Mosque there’s tranquility inside and heavily armed guards outside
Five-year-old Leen, a Syrian refugee, poses for a portrait with her doll in her Sacramento, California bedroom on November 16, 2015. Her face is not being shown for security reasons.
Belief
We’re not showing her face. But this 5-year-old girl should be how we approach the Syrian refugee crisis, a Christian leader says
Activists from a Muslim group hold placards during a protest rally against the Paris attacks, in Kolkata, India on November 18, 2015.
Belief
Muslims condemn ISIS, but are the terrorists ‘apostates’?
The Paris Attacks: Making Sense of A Night of Terror
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Justice
#WhatObamaShouldKnow about women in Malaysia
Ayesha Albusmait, and her daughter, Reem Abdullah Rashid. Albusmait is one of the small, but growing number of single Emirati woman choosing to adopt.
Belief
When you’re a single woman in the Emirates, but you still want a child
Fatima Elati
Belief
Two friends find common ground in a divided Holland
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Canada on October 5, 2015.
Belief
Canadian politicians want to save the nation from the Muslim face veil
A Palestinian teenager checks his Facebook account, keeping tabs on the back and forth violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
Conflict
Escalating Middle East violence helped along by social media
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
Camp near Mecca
Belief
Should Muslims boycott the pilgrimage to Mecca?
Hajia Bilkisu Yusuf sits with former first lady, Laura Bush, at the National Center for Women's Development in Abuja, Nigeria, January 2006.
Belief
Lost in the Hajj stampede was a pioneering journalist who united Christians and Muslims
Ben Carson
Global Politics
An American Muslim Republican responds to Ben Carson’s remarks on an Islamic president
Suicide & Brotherhood, America’s Prison Problem, The Pope in the U.S.
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Congregants at the Zaytuna Mosque in Tunis during the reciting of the Quran.
Belief
Tunisian officials are tired of radicalization from within
Jason Bones (left) and Robert West are co-owners of Chopped n Smoked halal Texas BBQ, a food truck business based in Sugar Land, Texas.
Food
Halal BBQ: It’s what’s for iftar in this suburb of Houston
Imam Islam Mossaad speaks at a recent "Ramadan Open House" event at the North Austin Muslim Community Center in the Texas capital.
Belief
Texas Muslims open doors for the start of Ramadan
Debating Offensive Speech, Moving Beyond Margaritas, and Being Big Bird
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Debating Offensive Speech, Moving Beyond Margaritas, and Being Big Bird
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Rafida Ahmed, lost her thumb during an attack by jihadi assailants in Bangladesh. Ahmed's husband, Avijit Roy, a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen and blogger was killed in that attack.
Conflict
Another blogger — the third this year — is hacked to death in Bangladesh
Pamela Geller is a political blogger and the founder of the “American Freedom Defense Initiative,” which is described by some as a hate group.
Belief
A Texas imam says Muslims are better off ignoring this woman’s anti-Islamic hate group — and others like it
Heretic:  Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now is Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new book.
Books
‘Anyone in Islam who puts question marks on theology gets ostracized, gets silenced, gets killed’