Muslims in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have changed the law to allow themselves to broadcast their calls to prayer any time of day throughout the entire year. Now, Minneapolis residents can look forward to hearing loudspeakers play calls to prayer in Arabic in the city at 5:30am some days of th...
So far al-Shabaab has recruited more than two dozen young men from the Somali-American population of Minneapolis-St. Paul to radical Muslim training camps overseas. Reports indicate that up tothree of the Kenyan mall gunmen were Americans. A Somali leader in Minnesota lost his nephew to this...
Charitable giving is an important component of the Muslim faith, and Muslims give generously in many ways. In addition to sadaqah, Shiʿi Muslims are expected to donatekhumsor 20 % of their annual profits or extra income, whichever is greater (Awang 2017;Bakar 2008).Zakatis traditionally ...
Leaders from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania gathered behind a lectern that read "Abandon Biden, ceasefire now" in Dearborn, Michigan, the city with the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States. The Health Ministry in...
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"They used very abusive language," said Nausheena Hussain, a marketing manager for Best Buy in Minnesota. "It was pretty sad." Best Buy executives stood by their decision. The company saw the holiday greeting as part of a larger goal of reaching consumers from different cultures. Soon, Mus...
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American Muslim women have scored significant victories in the 2018 US Midterm elections with both Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from Minnesota and Michigan winning their seats for the US Congress. Indeed, the dust has begun to settle on the US midterm el