Tag: Muslim Americans

A Retiree in California Is Teaching Afghan Women How to Drive

Bibifatima Akhundzada wove a white Chevy Spark through downtown Modesto, Calif., on a recent morning, practicing turns, braking and navigating intersections. “Go, go, go” said her driving instructor, as she slowed down through an open intersection. “Don’t stop. Don’t stop.” Her teacher was Gil Howard, an 82-year-old retired professor who happened upon a second career […]

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A Showcase for Israeli Property Creates Rancor in a Diverse Town

Hundreds of demonstrators protested on Sunday outside an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Teaneck, N.J., where 35 Israeli real estate companies were promoting their properties to potential American buyers. The demonstrators carried Palestinian flags and signs denouncing Israel. Some brought prayer rugs and paused their chants to pray. Cars honked in support, or drivers and passengers […]

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Why Joe Biden Should Be Very Worried About the Michigan Results

“It’s real interesting when my colleagues on the other side talk about, ‘We need less government, we need less government overreach in our lives,’” Pearson told The Tennessean about Monday’s measure. “This exact bill, this very legislation, overreaches the Constitution of Tennessee.” Since their return to the state Capitol, tensions between Republicans and Jones and […]

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Joe Biden Should Pay Close Attention to the Michigan Results

“It’s real interesting when my colleagues on the other side talk about, ‘We need less government, we need less government overreach in our lives,’” Pearson told The Tennessean about Monday’s measure. “This exact bill, this very legislation, overreaches the Constitution of Tennessee.” Since their return to the state Capitol, tensions between Republicans and Jones and […]

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Michigan Students Clash on Israel-Gaza War: Two Views, One Campus

They represent opposite corners at the University of Michigan, two sides of student activism who have hunkered down and almost never communicate. Salma Hamamy is one of the most prominent faces of the pro-Palestinian movement on campus. “One, two, three, four, open up the prison doors!” she shouts, bullhorn in hand, as she leads anti-Israel […]

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In Private Remarks to Arab Americans, Biden Aide Expresses Regrets on Gaza

In a closed-door meeting with Arab American leaders in Michigan this week, one of President Biden’s top foreign policy aides acknowledged mistakes in the administration’s response to the war in Gaza, saying he did not have “any confidence” that Israel’s government was willing to take “meaningful steps” toward Palestinian statehood. The remarks came after months […]

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Dearborn Mayor: Abandon Biden? Sorry, That’s up to Biden, Not Us

Tuberville single-handedly blocked more than 450 military promotions last year, throwing the entire U.S. military into disarray. He finally partially relented in December when he agreed to allow most of those promotions to go forward with the exception of four-star generals. He subsequently dropped those remaining 11 holds, which the Senate promptly confirmed at the […]

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Michigan Mayor to Biden: Heed the Calls of Americans on Gaza

Tuberville single-handedly blocked more than 450 military promotions last year, throwing the entire U.S. military into disarray. He finally partially relented in December when he agreed to allow most of those promotions to go forward, with the exception of those for four-star generals. He subsequently dropped those remaining 11 holds, and the Senate promptly confirmed them […]

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Hate Crimes Reported in Schools Nearly Doubled Between 2018 and 2022

The number of reported hate crimes in schools and colleges nearly doubled between 2018 and 2022, according to data released Monday by the F.B.I. About 1,300 hate crimes were reported in elementary schools, secondary schools and colleges in 2022, up from 700 in 2018 — an increase of about 90 percent, according to the report, […]

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A Map Without Israel Plunges a Grade School Into a Political Firestorm

A cherished tradition at Public School 261 in Boerum Hill, the heart of gentrified Brooklyn, is the annual march to Borough Hall in honor of Martin Luther King’s Birthday. Children prepare for weeks, making signs denouncing racism, homophobia, climate upheaval and other expressions of social and ecological pox. So the disappointment was pervasive this year, […]

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Mideast War Pushes Companies to Extend Diversity Programs to Faith Groups

When Nabeela Elsayed was speaking at a corporate conference several years ago and explained that she would miss the group dinner because she was fasting for Ramadan, she recalls, her manager responded: “Just don’t fast.” Ms. Elsayed, an executive coach who was previously chief operating officer for Walmart Canada, said she had heard many such […]

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In a Place Called Little Palestine, People Feel Afraid. And Forgotten.

The mood has been dark lately in the Palestine Hair Salon. The TVs behind the barbers’ chairs play a stream of war images that repeat across the mirrored walls: children in Gaza crying, men clawing at rubble, the wounded carried on planks through the streets of Rafa. Raed Odeh is the owner and top barber […]

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What Is Happening in Vermont?

There were more examples of generosity, Mr. al-Amoody said. Among the hundreds of emails he received in the days after the shooting were numerous offers of help, including one from a non-Muslim woman in the college town of Middlebury, about an hour south of Burlington, offering lodging and a car to the students, who are […]

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Biden Navigates Divisions Over Gaza Inside the White House and Beyond

President Biden’s guests did not try to hide their anguish. Just weeks after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Mr. Biden had invited a small group of prominent Muslim Americans to the White House to discuss Islamophobia in America. The participants were blunt with him, according to four people who were in attendance. They told […]

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U.S. Investigates Colleges for Antisemitism and Islamophobia Complaints

The federal government opened discrimination investigations this week into half a dozen universities, including Columbia, Cooper Union and Cornell in New York, following complaints about antisemitic and anti-Muslim harassment after the Israel-Hamas war broke out. Since the start of the war on Oct. 7, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has also […]

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F.B.I. Ramps Up Investigations of Hamas

Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, said on Wednesday that the bureau had opened a slew of investigations into Hamas as it tries to thwart potential attacks and stymie financial support for the militant group. “We also have a large number of tips and leads related specifically to Hamas and radicalization and recruitment,” Mr. Wray […]

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Harvard, Columbia and Penn Pledge to Fight Antisemitism on Campus

Over the last month, university presidents have been battered by a vocal cohort of alumni and faculty members who have accused them of not being strong enough in their denunciations of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel. Now at some high-profile universities that have faced heavy criticism — including Harvard, Columbia […]

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Report of Hit-and-Run at Stanford Prompts Hate Crime Inquiry

The authorities have opened a hate crime investigation into the report of a hit-and-run on Friday that left an Arab Muslim student injured at Stanford University. According to the university, a black S.U.V. hit the student on the campus in Stanford, Calif., just before 2 p.m. The driver left the scene, and the student was […]

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Muslims Showed Up for Biden in 2020. They Might Not Next Time.

“I’m hearing our president speak about the need to oppose antisemitism and oppose Islamophobia, paired with a push to fund the brutal mass killing of Palestinians,” said Abbas Alawieh, a former Capitol Hill staffer who served as Representative Cori Bush’s chief of staff, Representative Rashida Tlaib’s legislative director, and for Representative Andy Levin before that. […]

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American Muslims Are in a Painful, Familiar Place

When President Biden landed in Tel Aviv days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of more than 1,400 people, he told an audience of Israelis that this was not just Israel’s Sept. 11, that “it was like 15 9/11s.” The comparison, which emerged widely and immediately, seemed apt on the surface: a brutal attack that shocked […]

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In Michigan, Muslim and Arab American Voters Reconsider Support for Biden

“But the truth is that we are experiencing the same Islamophobic rhetoric right now coming from the Biden administration,” she said, adding that Muslims in Michigan “don’t feel safe, they don’t feel heard and they don’t feel seen.” Adam Y. Abusalah, a Palestinian American resident of Dearborn, joined the Biden 2020 campaign as a field […]

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A Dispatch From the Muslim Girl Scouts of Astoria

In her short 17 years on earth, Amira Ismail had never been called a baby killer. That’s what happened one Friday this month, Amira said, on New York City’s Q58 bus, which runs through central Queens. “This lady looked at me, and she was like: ‘You’re disgusting. You’re a baby killer. You’re an antisemite,’” Amira […]

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Hasan Minhaj Addresses Embellished Stories Detailed by The New Yorker

The comedian Hasan Minhaj released a 21-minute video on Thursday, addressing a New Yorker article that chronicled fabrications of personal experiences he recounted in his stand-up specials, and apologizing to those who felt “betrayed.” Minhaj, whose politically-minded Netflix show “Patriot Act” ran from 2018 to 2020, posted the video — which he called a “deep […]

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No Evidence of Hate Crime Has Emerged in Killing of Synagogue Leader, Officials Say

One day after the fatal stabbing of the leader of a synagogue in Detroit, authorities on Sunday said no evidence had emerged that suggested the killing was motivated by antisemitism. But James White, the chief of the Detroit Police, said that his department and the Michigan State Police were still investigating the death of the […]

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Jewish and Muslim Interfaith Communities Are Tested by the Israel-Hamas War

After reports of the massacre and kidnapping of Israeli Jews by Hamas militants, the two exchanged texts. “How are you holding up?” Ms. Hasan wrote, before expressing anger that such atrocity could be done in the name of God, and fear of a violent retaliation that would take innocent lives. “I love you,” she continued. […]

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Biden to Visit Israel, and More

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Funeral Planned for Illinois Boy Killed in Suspected Anti-Muslim Hate Crime

A Palestinian American family in Illinois was preparing on Monday for the funeral of a 6-year-old boy who the authorities said was stabbed to death in an attack motivated by hate for Muslims and the fighting in Israel and Gaza. A funeral for the boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, was scheduled for Monday afternoon at a mosque […]

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6-Year-Old Boy Dead in Anti-Muslim Attack Near Chicago, Police Say

A man who targeted a 6-year-old boy and his mother for being Muslims brutally attacked them with a military-style knife, killing the boy and wounding the mother at a residence outside Chicago on Saturday, the authorities said. The boy, who was stabbed 26 times with a serrated knife with a seven-inch blade, was pronounced dead […]

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Aaliyah Bilal on Her Debut, ‘Temple Folk’

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. How did you find your way to writing? My mother lives in Cairo and she has amazing taste in books, so she has this ample library. I spent a couple of months there in 2007 reading incessantly, and that was where my writing education began. I […]

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Hasan Minhaj’s Fabrications Found a Receptive Audience. There’s a Reason for That.

As my career progressed, I continued to write about these kinds of fraught experiences, in part because I felt it was important to tell these stories but also because editors and audiences really seemed to like them. After the airport security essay, I wrote an article about kids calling me a terrorist right as I […]

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