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The first time Iman Vellani grabbed an issue of Ms. Marvel at her local comic book shop in Markham, Ontario, she was floored. It wasn’t just that the titular superhero was a Muslim Pakistani girl, like herself. It’s that the character was a Muslim Pakistani girl she could actually vibe with. “It felt like she […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A New Jersey high school teacher has been suspended after allegedly telling a Muslim student “we don’t negotiate with […]
Rihanna’s Fenty brand has been sued by a musical artist who alleges that she received death threats because the company played the wrong version of her song during Savage X Fenty’s 2020 fall show. The musical artist—who filed the suit anonymously—said that Fenty played the wrong version of her song, titled “Doom,” that includes a […]
A crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $800,000 to help Fayez Salman—a 9-year-old Muslim boy whose family was killed in a suspected hate-crime attack. According to The Hill, the incident occurred on the night of June 6, as Fayez and his family were walking alongside a park in London, Ontario. At around 8:40 p.m., a black pickup truck jumped the […]
Four members of a Muslim family of five in Canada were killed after being struck by a pickup truck in what police suspect to be a “planned, premeditated” attack, CBC reports. The driver, 20-year-old Nathaniel Veltman, has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder after he mounted the curb and hit […]
San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh has been hired as head coach by the New York Jets, making him the NFL’s first Muslim head coach in the league’s history, NBC News reports. “We’ve reached an agreement in principle with Robert Saleh to become our head coach,” the Jets announced in a statement on Thursday. “We […]
A Muslim prayer app that tells its users when to pray has reportedly sold user location data to a company that sells to U.S. military contractors. In a report by Joseph Cox for Vice, it has been revealed that Muslim Pro, an app with over 98 million downloads, is being utilized by the military for “counterterrorism” […]
An immigration detention center in Florida has reportedly been consistently feeding Muslim detainees pre-packaged pork meals and expired halal food. Forbes reports that civil rights lawyers sent a letter to ICE to address the situation at Krome Service Processing Center, where detainees have been forced to choose between their faith or go without food. The letter […]
A Muslim woman is suing the City of Yonkers after local police allegedly forced her to remove her hijab. According to the civil lawsuit obtained by the Huffington Post, 42-year-old Ihsan Malkawi has accused the police department of violating her religious rights after she was taken into custody last year. The complaint states Malkawi and her husband were […]
A Colorado woman says she was racially profiled last week when she was told to remove her hijab before entering a Nuggets game. The incident occurred on Nov. 5 when Denver hosted Miami Heat. The woman, 36-year-old Gazella Bensreiti, says she was at the arena to watch her 8-year-old daughter perform the national anthem with her school […]
