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News Articles: Muslims

An aerial view shows Gyanvapi mosque (left) and Kashi Vishwanath temple on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.

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A Hindu-Muslim dispute tests centuries of interfaith culture in India's Varanasi

Both faith communities have long shared this sacred city. But some Hindus have taken legal action over a mosque they claim holds idols of Hindu deities.

September 16, 2023
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By:
  • Sushmita Pathak
The circuitous journey by Chinese Muslims reflects the extraordinary means China is undertaking to surveil and stop its citizens from making the Hajj — as well as the equally resourceful ways believers circumvent them.

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  • Asia

China makes it harder for its Muslim citizens to go to Mecca, or anywhere else

Chinese Muslims take roundabout trips for their Hajj pilgrimage, trying to circumvent China's tightened surveillance at every turn — and possible arrest on their return, pilgrims and tour leaders say.

August 17, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Loh Siew Hong, in a pink shirt, arrives with her three children at Kuala Lumpur High Court for a hearing on May 11.

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  • World

In Malaysia, a mom is contesting her kids' conversion to Islam. It's a landmark case

The children were converted by their father after the parents divorced. The case has thrown into sharp relief the ethnic and religious identity markers that form the bedrock of Malaysian policy.

July 18, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Feng
The Muslim community at Kyungpook National University mostly comprises students from Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and other countries with large Muslim populations. Here some members of the community pray at the Dar ul Emaan Kyungpook Islamic Center, in Daegu, South Korea.

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  • Asia

Muslims in South Korea want to build a mosque. Neighbors protest and send pig heads

The tensions are a test of the nation's tolerance of increasing diversity, when South Korea is looking to immigration to bolster its aging and shrinking workforce.

May 24, 2023
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By:
  • Se Eun Gong
Muslim pilgrims walk around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on July 10, 2022.

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  • Religion

Saudi Arabia says this year's hajj pilgrimage will return to pre-COVID levels

Before the pandemic, the hajj pilgrimage drew millions each year to Islam's holy city of Mecca, home to the cube-shaped Kaaba that observant Muslims pray toward five times a day.

January 10, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Archie Panjabi at the Emmy Awards in 2010. Panjabi, a non-Muslim actress, played a Muslim character in the 2018 British limited series <em>Next of Kin</em>, a show discussed in a new study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.

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  • Arts & Life

There are barely any Muslims on popular TV series, a new study says

When Muslims do appear, they tend to be violent Middle Eastern men, a new study has found after surveying 200 popular series from the U.S, U.K. and elsewhere.

September 07, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Members of the All India Muslim Students Federation protest at Delhi University against the hijab ban in educational institutions, on Feb. 8 in New Delhi, India.

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  • World

As India turns 75, Muslim girls are suing to wear the hijab — and protect secularism

When her high school banned the hijab, Ayesha Shifa sued. Her case went to India's Supreme Court. A verdict, expected soon, could redefine what secularism means in the world's largest democracy.

August 24, 2022
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  • Lauren Frayer
A Muslim pilgrim prays on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday, July 8, 2022.

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  • Middle East

Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat as hajj reaches apex

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Friday.

July 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A student takes photographs of placards during a protest against banning Muslim girls from wearing the hijab in educational institutions in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, in New Delhi on Feb. 8, 2022.

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  • Asia

India court upholds a ban on hijab in schools and colleges

Some rights activists have voiced concerns that the ban could increase Islamophobia in a country where violence and hate speech against Muslims have increased in recent years.

March 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Crowds turn out to cheer India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a road show in support of Uttar Pradesh state elections on Friday in Varanasi, India.

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  • World

India's ruling party says crime is down. Muslims say they've never felt less safe

India's Hindu nationalists say they've drastically cut crime in Uttar Pradesh, where key elections are underway. Human rights advocates say there's been a spike in police brutality against minorities.

March 05, 2022
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  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Raksha Kumar
Xining's Dongguan Mosque has been a source of community for Chinese Muslims for seven centuries. Here, Hui Muslim men pray in the mosque in 1983.

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  • World

China is removing domes from mosques as part of a push to make them more 'Chinese'

China is removing domes and minarets from thousands of mosques. Authorities are taking down overtly Islamic architecture as part of a "sinicization" push to make them seem more traditionally Chinese.

October 24, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
Ali Malik, 37, with his sons Muhammad Binyamin, 9, and Layth Noah, 5. Malik is part of a class action lawsuit against the FBI alleging religious discrimination and violations of surveillance laws.

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  • National

For Many American Muslims, The Legacy Of 9/11 Lies In The Battle For Civil Rights

A Southern California community grapples with the legacy of being secretly surveilled by the FBI. Twenty years later, the matter is a legal fight that has reached the Supreme Court.

September 11, 2021
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  • Leila Fadel
Abdul Muhaymin al-Salim (center), a 49-year-old who was formerly incarcerated on drug charges, works at the Tayba Foundation, where he mentors incarcerated Muslims.

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  • Religion

There Are 11,073 Muslims In Federal Prisons But Just 13 Chaplains To Minister To Them

Muslims, the third-largest faith group in federal prisons, are significantly underrepresented among the chaplaincy, according to a recent Department of Justice report.

July 12, 2021
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  • Dalia Faheid
A woman wears a hijab and an American flag mask during an election celebration last month in New York's Times Square.

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  • National

Majority Of Muslims Voted For Biden, But Trump Got More Support Than He Did In 2016

Despite anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies, President Trump appears to have gotten more support from American Muslims in the 2020 election than four years ago.

December 05, 2020
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  • Leila Fadel
Podcast hosts Ikhlas Saleem and Makkah Ali are trying to change America's perception of Muslims.

'Identity Politics' Starts Conversations About Race, Gender And Being Muslim In America

Muslims all over the world celebrate Ramadan this month. The holy month began two weeks ago. Muslims fast during this time to commemorate the Islamic...

May 29, 2018
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  • Fenly Foxen

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