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This year's Eid stamp design released by Canada Post.
Lifestyle & Belief
Canada unveils a first-of-a-kind Eid stamp this year
A box containing stacks of cash with a 50 note stack from New Zealand on top
Top of The World
Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting
US Sen. Marco Rubio is shown wearing a dark suit and speaking with a small placard in front of him with his name on it.
Top of The World
China announces sanctions targeting Rubio, Cruz; Polish President Andrzej Duda reelected; Remembering Zindzi Mandela
A large group of students are shown protesting with one women in the center raising her arms up.
Protest
India citizenship law protests spread across campuses
Instagram
Indonesia’s newest Gen Z craze? Marrying someone you’ve never even dated.
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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A Christian man, portraying Jesus Christ, is hung on a cross during a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday in al-Qraya village, in southern Lebanon on April 14, 2017. Muslims also revere Jesus as a prophet. In the Quran, the stor
Culture
Muslims revere Jesus too, but this Turkish author sees the Islamic Jesus in a new light
Torn up Quran in Canada
Education
Canadian groups are lashing out about Muslim prayer in schools
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One for his first international trip as president, including stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, Brussels and at the G7 summit in Sicily, from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U
Global Politics
Donald Trump’s first foreign trip is a lot like a pilgrimage. And that’s the point.
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, the creator of the website Muslim Girl.
Culture
From facing Islamophobia, to creating a hit website that fights Muslim caricatures
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
Hawaii
Global Politics
Trump’s travel ban has been blocked twice but the president is still fighting for it
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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Palestinian students supporting the militant group Hamas, an organization that's ideologically linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, hold a poster depicting Hassan Al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood founder, during an election campaign for students' council at
Justice
Should the Muslim Brotherhood be designated a terrorist group?
White Nationalism in The White House, Muslims for Trump, The Paris Attacks One Year Later
Full Episode
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
Relatives of Mohammad Akhlaq mourn after he was killed by a mob over rumors that he butchered a cow.
Belief
A lynch mob killed a man in India — after rumors he ate beef
Ani Zonneveld
Belief
She’s an imam in LA and doesn’t have patience for a strict interpretation of Islam
Fourteen year-old Nuru Sheha studies at night in the light of solar-powered LED lights at home in the village of Matemwe, on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. He family's first electrical system was installed by one of Zanzibar's 13 "solar mamas," illiter
Environment
Zanzibar’s ‘Solar Mamas’ flip the switch on rural homes, gender roles
The temporary monument "Pillar of Shame" in Berlin commemorated the 1995 mass murder in Srebrenica.
Justice
Serbia is finally seeking those responsible for the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica
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
An Islamic State fighter gestures from a vehicle in the countryside of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after the Islamic State fighters took control of the area in October.
Conflict
The so-called Islamic State looks bleak to outsiders, but supporters see it as ‘liberating’
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
Tala Khudairi and Jack Lindsay are two of the pilgrims who appear in a new PBS documentary about the Hajj.
Belief
PBS goes on the Hajj with Muslim pilgrims from around Boston
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
This satirical t-shirt was one of many images posted on Twitter under the hashtag #MuslimApologies
Belief
Frustrated Muslims are ‘sorry for algebra’ and many other things
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - ISIS - on a street in the city of Mosul.
Lifestyle & Belief
Just what is a ‘caliphate’ — and why are some Muslims keen to reestablish one?
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - ISIS - on a street in the city of Mosul.
Lifestyle & Belief
Just what is a ‘caliphate’ — and why are some Muslims keen to reestablish one?
Mohammed Shamma, an Egyptian American in Berkeley, contributed to the anthology,"Salaam, Love." He writes about the cultural consequences of his first kiss during a game of spin-the-bottle.
Arts, Culture & Media
Muslim American men share their stories of love and intimacy in a new book
An ex-Seleka soldier stands guard in Bossangoa, Central African Republic.
Conflict & Justice
France reasserts itself in Africa, with fresh troops to a troubled Central African Republic
Four year old Portia Walton runs toward Abdul Haji during the Westgate Mall massacre. Her mom and others shelter under the black and white table in the middle. The terrorists are holed up and firing from the supermarket beyond the table.
Conflict & Justice
Meet the Kenyan hero who fought terrorists and rescued dozens
Arts, Culture & Media
Swiss philosopher tries to find common ground with contemporary Muslims, secular society