Islam

Just this week, Trump said there should be a database that keeps track of Muslims within our country. "There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases," he told NBC News yesterday. "I would certainly implement that, absolutely."

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson on Monday stepped up his anti-Muslim rhetoric in an effort to draw and hold onto evangelical voters in early primary states, chiefly in Iowa, which is known as a bastion of religious conservatism. The move comes amid rising competition from ex-Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina, who catapulted over the retired pediatric […]

The father of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed told the newspaper that he withdrew his son from the Irving Independent School District

Ahmed Mohamed, the Irving, Texas student who was detained after teachers mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, has received support from all over the world. The MacArthur High School student was interrogated by police on Monday after he presented the homemade gadget to his teachers, who were consequently convinced it was a detonation device. Authorities were […]

Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim high school student who alarmed teachers for making a clock thought to be a bomb, will not be charged.

Muslim organizations have banded together to raise $100,000 in an effort to help rebuild Black churches in the South that were torched in recent months, the Huffington Post reports. Three organizations — the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, the Arab-American Association of New York and Ummah Wide — launched the “Respond With Love” campaign July 2 to raise funds, combating a false […]

One suspect in #garlandshooting has been identified as Elton Simpson, official says – http://t.co/HrTyJfLzRVpic.twitter.com/Qefd7QZdO6 — Brian Ross (@BrianRoss) May 4, 2015 Update: 5/4/15, 4:45 p.m. EST: Law enforcement officials on Monday identified the second gunman in a shooting Sunday at an event in Texas where people were invited to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, […]

Political leaders, athletes, and musicians headed to the city of Baltimore this past week, making headlines for their kind words, ideas, and inspiration after peaceful demonstrations turned violent following the funeral of Freddie Gray on Monday. Gray, 25, died from a spinal injury while in police custody. While the chaos of arson and looting took over […]

According to a new study, Muslims will globally outnumber Christians by the end of the century. The report also shows that within the United States, the amount of individuals who don’t associate with a particular faith will increase. “Demographics are an underappreciated force that is shifting the contours of faith,” said Pew demographer Conrad Hackett, who […]

The national Muslim community has been vocal about the vitriolic nature of a shooting that left three young Muslim students dead earlier this week, but police in…

UPDATE: 2/11/2015 11:05 A.M.  Police have charged Craig Stephen Hicks  with three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of North Carolina University students…

Judge Mark Martin, an Iraq war veteran who converted to Islam, ruled that Talaag Elbayomy, also Muslim, was justified in attacking Ernie Perce, an atheist who was marching in a Halloween parade dressed as a zombie version of the prophet Muhammed in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Martin threw out the case, claiming that Elbayomy was justified in […]