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By JUMMANAHFor QAnon adherents, March 4 was supposedly the day when Mr. Trump would emerge victorious, and regain his “legitimate” 19th presidency. None of that happened. In a statement released on Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol Police department said it made necessary “security upgrades” to make sure that the Capitol would be protected from potential attacks from…
By Asiya BharadiaIn a historic move, the new federal prosecutor of the Eastern District of Michigan from next month will be Saima Mohsin, a Pakistani-Muslim. Mohsin, 52, is the first ever Muslim woman and Pakistani to be acting United States attorney. According to the Department of Justice, the Joe Biden administration appointed Mohsin as the acting United…
By AmaniOn the first day President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris take office, the pair have said they want to end the controversial Muslim Ban that banned Muslims from a list of Muslim countries from entering the United States, a relief for Muslim Americans across the nation. But is our bar for progress really that low, especially…
By Mariam TanvirInauguration Day is finally upon us, and we can now see a brighter hope ahead. The last four years under a Trump presidency has cost millions of Muslims not just in this nation, but around the world, much heartache and grief. In 2017, as soon as Donald Trump was sworn into office, he implemented the…
By MG StaffStartling revelations have come forward regarding the insurrection at the Capitol. Among those who have been arrested have been retired military veterans, retired and/or firefighters and police officers, a school therapist, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and a realtor who flew to D.C. on a private jet. Two on-duty Capitol police officers are suspended and…
By MG StaffToday, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol after results of the Georgia Senatorial race comes in with Democrats winning the majority. This also comes after over a month of Trump perpetuating the idea of unfair play in the presidential election, claiming that the electoral college results should not be accepted. The unmasked mobsters were shown live…
By Fathma AliThe Muslim world is bleeding. Bleeding with no one by their side. Bleeding with continuous stabs digging further down their back. Bleeding to bleach humanity red. Bleeding uncontrollably that the last drop will be the world’s turning point. You may be asking why I’m invoking this imagery; what’s happening? Let’s start with the holocaust of…
By sarahmohrThe latest in a slew of demonstrations held throughout France was on Saturday, December 12, (article in The Guardian) (article from Dec 12 in ABC News) to protest the recent law under consideration in response to the horrific murder of Samuel Paty. The law in question, otherwise known as the Law Against Separatism, is a…
By Rokia HassaneinThis week brought a huge win against religious discrimination in Tanzin v. Tanvir. The 8-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling said that the Muslim men could sue the FBI over the FBI’s retaliation of placing them on the no-fly list after they refused to spy on their communities. In individual situations, the FBI asked Muhammad Tanvir,…
By sarahmohrSeptember 17, 2021 – The 10 Year Anniversary of OccupyWallStreet Ten years ago, a great popular movement swept across the world. OccupyWallStreet, or Occupy, was a moment in time when people protested the unequal distribution of wealth. People protested all the myriad social consequences and costs it entails. The 99%, most people in the country,…
By Rokia HassaneinDiana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, was known as “the people’s princess” for a good reason. She was compassionate, relatable, and exemplified humanity that will keep her legacy alive forever. In this season of “The Crown,” a young Princess Diana, played by Emma Corrin, makes her debut. I was delighted to see more people, especially…
By MG StaffAuthorities have declared the drowning of Shukri Abdi, the 12-year-old Somali refugee killed in the UK last year, as an accident. A coroner opened an investigation into the child’s death following an eruption of protests around the world seeking justice. Shukri Abdi drowned in River Irwell in June 2019, in the presence of several schoolchildren,…
By MG StaffBioNTech and Pfizer announced that a vaccine for the coronavirus has has been found to be more than 90% effective in its recently concluded large-scale trial. The two scientists who developed this vaccine are Turkish-born Muslims named Dr. Ugur Sahin and his wife, Dr. Ozlem Tureci. Born in Turkey and raised in Germany, Sahin…
By Jessica DaqamssehThe U.S. Military has purchased global movement data from a wide-array of apps including Muslim Pro–yes, that Muslim Pro. If, like me, you’re one of the nearly 98 million users worldwide who rely on the Muslim prayer and Quran app on a daily basis, then it’s time to hit delete and explore other options. Your…
By MG StaffOn the morning of Saturday, November 14, 2020, founder of Muslim Girl, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, boarded an American Airlines flight, only to have its staff ask her to leave the plane after a man in first class complained about feeling uncomfortable with her on the flight. Police boarded the plane to have her removed, and she…
