A Muslim flight attendant who was placed on unpaid leave last summer after she refused to serve passengers alcohol is suing the airline. She converted to Islam two years ago and later found out it was forbidden to serve alcohol so she went to her supervisor to note her concerns. Her supervisor reportedly told her …
Bangladeshi Imam and his associate were killed in New York City
A Muslim imam of a mosque in New York City and his associate have been shot dead while walking along together following afternoon prayers, authorities say. Police said that the victims, identified as Imam Maulana Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 64, were both wearing religious garb at the time of shooting. Members of the Bangladeshi …
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IMF reaches initial deal with putschist Sisi’s administration for $12 bn loan
The International Monetary Fund has reached an initial agreement with Egypt’s coup administration for a $12 billion loan over three years, the fund said on Thursday. The IMF’s extended fund facility is aimed at countries with payment imbalances and tepid growth to aid structural reforms, according to the fund’s website.
Muslim couple kicked off Delta flight for ‘sweating’, saying ‘Allah’ and texting
A Muslim couple who accused Delta Air Lines of Islamophobia for throwing them off a flight have spoken of their ordeal for the first time. Nazia Ali had removed her sneakers, finished sending a text message to her parents and was putting on headphones and settling into her seat for the nine-hour flight from Paris …
Woman ‘fired for wearing hijab’ as boss tells her to ‘keep religion out of the office’
A Muslim woman said she was fired as she refused to remove her hijab at work. On the third day at her new job at the Fair Oaks Dental Care clinic in Viriginia Najaf Khan decided to go into work wearing her head scarf. She claimed her boss immediately took her aside and told her …
US and Europe did not back democracy and elected government in Turkey
United States and European Countries had not condemned until it was obvious that coup was failing. During the coup attempt, US Secretary of State John Kerry hoped for “stability, peace, continuity”, not for democracy. Amid the coup attempt, US Embassy in Turkey referred the coup as “uprising”. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon also said that …
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Racist and islamophobic shares in Trump’s staff online posts
Donald Trump’s paid campaign staffers have declared on their personal social media accounts that Muslims are unfit to be American citizens, ridiculed Mexican accents, called for Secretary of State John Kerry’s death by hanging and stated their readiness for a possible civil war, according to a review of their postings by The Associated Press. The …
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Muslim doctor in US: “My patient refused to let me treat her because of my religion”
“Making my rounds in the hospital one day, I put my stethoscope to a patient’s chest while she kept her eyes fixed on the television screen over my shoulder. Hours before, bombs had torn through an airport and a train station in Brussels. My 65-year-old patient watched a flurry of images on Fox News showing …
Texas Muslims received death threats amid increasing Islamophobia in US
Vincent Simon recalls feeling shocked when he flipped on the Masjid Al Sahaabah mosque’s voicemail to hear a death threat from a man promising to behead Muslim worshippers. Simon, a US military veteran who converted to Islam some five years ago, said that the small mosque and its attendees are threatened regularly, receiving three or …
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In full page NYT ad, liberal Zionist group calls for ethnic segregation to retain Jewish majority within Israel
The Daniel S. Abraham Center for Peace, a prominent liberal Zionist Israel lobbying group, purchased a full-page newspaper advertisement in Friday’s edition of the New York Times, calling for the immediate separation of Israelis and Palestinians into separate countries to keep Israel as a Jewish majority state. “Separation between Israelis and Palestinians is Essential. No …
