TRUE: Students in a Massachusetts school were taught an Islamic creed (Shahada) as part of a social studies lesson on Islam. FALSE: Students in that school were forced to recite the Shahada and ...
It may surprise some to learn Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills has a dozen or so Muslim students. It has been that way, say leaders, for many years. But questions have recently been raised ...
A VIDEO SHARED on social media appears to show a teacher leading a classroom full of schoolchildren, each kneeling on their own mat, in Islamic prayer during a class. The footage, however, is fake. It ...
The journey of my prayer rug reflects my own as a Muslim American. It has seen a lot, and despite its fraying fringes, ...
As the call to prayers began in Arabic on a recent Friday, a handful of people already had gathered in a room at the Iowa Memorial Union. The room was emptied of tables and chairs. Rugs and blankets ...
The story of Rabia al-Basri is one that Muslim kids learn early. She ran through her hometown of Basra, Iraq, with a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When townspeople asked her ...