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The dietary laws that forbid Jews and Muslims from eating pork date back millennia—but when they were laid down, nobody conceived of detection tools that could find minuscule traces of the forbidden foods. Malaysia is the latest country to find itself with a tainted food scandal, after the government’s halal inspectors—who ensure that ...

A set of controversial billboards funded by the informational website Ask-A-Muslim.com is causing a stir in Columbus, Oh. The signs have slogans like “Jesus is Muslim” and “Muslims love Jesus too.” Dave Daubenmire of the Pass the Salt Ministry feels the billboards are misleading and disrespectful, especially as they have gone up ...

Students across the world grow up dreaming of the opportunity to study at the best universities the United States has to offer, either to bring their skills back to their home country or to start a new life in the land of opportunity. Many go to great lengths to achieve ...

A Kitchener woman said she felt humiliated when her family was detained for hours at a U.S. border crossing and then denied entry into the United States. Mehdiya Hudda, 22, planned a short shopping trip in Lewiston, N.Y., near Niagara Falls, with her mother and husband on April 26, returning ...

Cheryl Sudduth is set to become the second Muslim woman to run for Congress in the United States. Seeking to enter the House of Representatives to represent the 11th congressional district of California, she hopes to improve the public  education system, and close the achievement gap among underserved and vulnerable members of the community. As ...

In mid-April, after an eight-year, “Kafkaesque” ordeal implicating its vast architecture of official secrecy and bureaucratic intransigence, the US government finally, if grudgingly, informed Dr Rahinah Ibrahim that she was no longer on the No Fly List. Dr Ibrahim, a Malaysian architecture professor, had been placed on the list as a result ...

In a letter to the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN), Canada’s RCMP confirmed that the Harper government “has added the group to a list of “terrorist entities” as of April 24″. IRFAN has been involved in channeling humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Canadian government’s naming of ...

In what seemed to be a random act of kindness, a Muslim man gave his shoes to a needy man before walking home barefoot. (Photo courtesy: Facebook) Acts of kindness come in different shapes and sizes and a Muslim man in Canada has had photos of his act go viral ...

Arnoud van Doorn helped distribute the anti-Islam film that was created in Holland a few years back. This motivated him to learn a little more about Islam and after a few years he converted. Then, just yesterday, his son Iskander Amien De Vrie converted to Islam in Dubai at an ...

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — An Iraqi immigrant was convicted Thursday of bludgeoning his wife to death in a case that initially was considered a hate crime because a note found next to her body said: “This is my country, go back to yours, you terrorist.” Kassim Alhimidi, 49, shook his ...