The US Supreme Court handed over Donald Trump's «Muslim ban» on Monday (June 26th), pending a hearing in the fall, AFP said. The decree prohibiting the entry into the United States of the inhabitants of six predominantly Muslim countries (Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya). The court is allowing the ban to go into effect for foreign nationals who lack any «bona fide relationship with any person or entity in the United States.» This decision of the Supreme Court
The white house, and for the first time in 20 years did not organize an Iftar to celebrate Ramadan. According to the CNN, President Donald Trump and first Lady Melania Trump instead wished the Muslim community residing in the USA a happy Eid in a statement released on Saturday. In their statement the presidential couple urged «Muslims in the United States joined those around the world during the holy month of Ramadan to focus on acts of faith and charity», adding that :
Known mainly for his exhibition «Jihad al-nikah», presented in Osaka and Tokyo in Japan, Mostapha Romli, a Moroccan visual artist, was invited by the Building Bridges Foundation in Los Angeles to present his new work. A project that denounces underage marriage, «it tackles frankly another uprising problem», the artist said in a statement sent to Yabiladi. Indeed, this new exhibition entitled «20-21» refers directly to the two articles of the Moudawana, which
Nabra hassanin, a 17-year-old Muslim teenager, was killed on Sunday in Virginia, USA, New York Times reports. The victim’s body was found in a pond as the Fairfax County Police Department announced on Monday night. According to the same source, Nabra was out on Sunday night with a group of her friends when they argued with a 22-year-old driver identified as Darwin Martinez Torres. The police said, as New York Times indicates, that the group were heading to a fast food restaurant in their
A Moroccan-based group of hackers accessed computer systems of four schools in Florida district networks only two months before the U.S presidential elections. They attempted to steal personal data of hundreds of students with the hope of entering voting systems.
High-ranking members of the so-called «Islamic State» (ISIS) have been put on the Washington «international terrorists» blacklist. Among them, a Moroccan-Belgian man implicated in the November 2015 attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis and the Brussels attacks in March 2016, the AFP press agency reports. Oussama Atar is one of the coordinators operating from Syria according to the investigators. The US Department of State has placed him on the blacklist, translating into
Anti-Sharia protesters took the streets in several cities across the USA to oppose Islamic laws. Organized by Act for America, the marches considered Sharia a threat for the USA and its culture. However, the Council of American-Islamic Relations says that the rallies were «hateful anti-Islam marches».
Anti-Islamic manifestations broke out on Saturday 10th of June in several cities in the United States, the CNN reports. The same source indicates that «a right-wing group protesting Islamic law, or Sharia, on Saturday clashed with counter-demonstrators in Seattle, Minneapolis and other cities». A group called «Act for America» organized a number of marches in several American cities in the USA indicating on its website that : «Sharia is incompatible with
A few days ago two men were killed in Portland for defending two Muslim women that were being bullied because of their religion. The incident is a sign of the rising of bigotry and hate crimes in the USA, an unfortunate situation that increased after the infamous "Muslim ban".
Two men were stabbed to death Friday 26th May on a crowded commuter train in Portland, Oregon's largest city in the USA after defending two Muslim women that were bullied by a passenger, US police said as reported by Aljazeera. The suspect was yelling racial and anti-Muslim slurs at two Muslim women when he got confronted by two men. The stabbing occurred on a Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) light-rail train, CNN indicates adding that one victim died immediately while the second died in the