When Ghazala Khan, the mother of slain U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, spoke out against Donald Trump, her words set off a chain reaction. More

CHARLESTON, South Carolina — “I am a psychologist, and I run [the] Islamic School of Charleston,” said Ruby Abid, 48, an ace multitasker who has raised three grown children. “I am a substitute teacher, too, in like American schools, and I’m a Realtor. I sell houses, and I run a business, and I teach Arabic online, and like little stuff More

The Grand Shaikh of Al Azhar University in Cairo has been named the world’s most influential Muslim. More

A video has emerged of Olympic gymnast Louis Smith mocking Islam with a friend who was drunkenly pretending to pray. More

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has urged politicians and activists to seek political and humanitarian solutions to conflicts rather than military ones. More

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg Thursday rejected an appeal for Dutch commanders to be prosecuted for failing to prevent the deaths of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. More

“A total of 38,901 Muslim refugees entered the U.S. in fiscal year 2016, making up almost half (46%) of the nearly 85,000 refugees who entered the country in that period,” according to the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan research organization. More

Research conducted by the London School of Economics, Stanford University and the University of Zurich found being Muslim was one of most popular reasons for rejecting hypothetical profiles of asylum seekers. More

Right-wing politician has called for the hijab to be banned from passport photos in Switzerland. More

The “anti-extremism” campaigner Maajid Nawaz is to become a columnist on the pro-Israel British newspaper Jewish News. More

Bulgaria’s parliament has approved a law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. More

A controversial Egyptian MP has called for women to undergo mandatory “virginity tests” before being admitted to university. More