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Growing up in a Muslim neighbourhood, it wasn’t difficult for Indian expat Vijayalakshmi to embrace Islam when she got married to a Muslim man in 2015. After they moved to the UAE in 2015, Vijayalakshmi, who is now known by her Muslim name Fathima Noushad, took her Shahada once again. …

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers gathered at a sacred Jerusalem plaza for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan after coronavirus lockdowns kept the site off-limits last year. About 70,000 faithful, most of them Arab citizens of Israel, prayed at al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, said an …

By Elizabeth Culliford Civil rights group Muslim Advocates sued Facebook Inc and its top executives on Thursday, alleging they misled the U.S. Congress and others by falsely claiming the company removes content that violates its policies. The lawsuit claims that Facebook routinely failed to remove content that violated its rules, …

A 23-year-old Muslim man from Karnataka’s Mangaluru is currently critical after a mob of right-wing activists stabbed him, because he was accompanying a Hindu woman on a bus. The incident took place in coastal Dakshina Kannada district, in a bus en route Bengaluru from Mangaluru on Thursday night. It was …

IQNA: A Turkish charity society has distributed more than 700,000 copies of the Quran among Muslim seminarians in Africa. Ali Othman Aslanchi, the representative of the  Khayrat Charity Society in Turkey’s Izmir Province, said the donations of Quran copies began in 2017, Turk Press reported. He said many Muslims in …

In February, a woman wearing a Hijab was waiting inside the University of Alberta transit centre when she was approached by a man she didn’t know. Police said he made racial comments and postured “as though he was about to assault her.” For months Alberta’s Muslim community has been on …

A young Muslim girl was punched, kicked and had her religious head covering pulled in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime in Calgary’s Prince’s Island Park. The incident happened Sunday at around 1:30 p.m. as two girls, both under the age of 16, were walking along the …

With personal warmth paired with the careful phrasing of diplomats, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory and Imam Seyyed M. B. Kashmiri, a representative of Shia Muslims in North America, held a dialogue on Christian-Muslim relations March 17. It was a follow-up to Pope Francis’ historic meeting in Iraq March 6 …

“To me, Hijab and chastity is far beyond the veil/clothing and physical guard of a Muslim. It is a spiritual guard as well as an obligation and a duty upon a believing person; a true indicator of submission and God consciousness,” Katherine Reyes said in an interview on the occasion …

A fire broke out on Sunday at a private school in central Sweden that educates Muslim children, according to media reports. Hussein Aldaodi, the principal of Alsalamskolan School in the province of Orebro, told Swedish state broadcaster SVT that footage captured on school security cameras showed two people setting fire …