Six people were hospitalized after a shooting Friday night outside a popular concert venue in Eugene, Oregon. One of the victims was critically injured, Eugene police said. Authorities took five people to a hospital. A sixth victim went there on their own, police said. No arrests have been made at this time.
Malik Faisal Akram, the man who caused a dramatic 10-hour standoff Saturday at a Texas synagogue last weekend, had mental health issues, according to his brother. The 44-year-old British national held four people captive at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. Akram wanted Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to be brought to...
The Bronx Islamic Cultural Center in Morrisania held a somber ceremony Sunday for 15 of the 17 victims of last weekend’s Bronx apartment fire. Caskets were wheeled into the center from hearses lined up the block on both sides of Clay Avenue. The youngest victim was 2-year-old Ousmane Konteh. The fire broke out at 333 […]
Tufail Ahmad, who founded Maryland’s Montgomery County Muslim Foundation or MCMF, died Thursday, according to a statement from the organization. Ahmad died in Pakistan while visiting his home country. He worked “tirelessly to uplift the needy,” the statement read. He came to Montgomery County with his family in 1973. After the 9/11 attack...
South Africa launched three locally produced nanosatellites into space Thursday. It was part of U.S. aerospace company SpaceX’s Transporter-3 mission. It marks the first launch of a satellite constellation developed entirely on the African continent. According to a government statement and a live webcast by SpaceX, the nanosatellites were lau...
A British Jewish leader has resigned following comments he made about Muslims. Gary Mond, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and treasurer of the U.K. branch of the Jewish National Fund, wrote on Facebook that “all civilization” is “at war with Islam.” A senior member of British Jewry’s main communal organization, [&helli...
A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in prison for crimes against humanity.The “historic” verdict marked the end of the first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria. Anwar Raslan was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people at the Al-Khatib detention center in Damascus in 2011 and […...
On Jan. 17, Illinois will for the first time mark Muhammad Ali Day along with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Illinois Muslim Coalition worked to get Muhammad Ali Day recognized statewide. The move is part of a new state law that requires history courses to include the study of the contributions made by Muslim […]
More than a dozen national Jewish organizations are calling for an additional one billion dollars in funding for Israel. That’s in addition to the more than $3.8 billion Israel already receives from U.S. taxpayers. Israel has received more U.S. funding than any other nation — on average, 7,000 times more per capita. The groups want […]...
In another setback to the President, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority blocked a Biden administration rule requiring 80 million workers to get COVID-19 vaccine shots or periodic tests. The court, however, allowed the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most healthcare workers in the US. Meanwhile, hospitals have ...
