Muslim Americans
A Hamline Adjunct Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job.
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Erika López Prater, an adjunct professor at Hamline University, said she knew many Muslims have deeply held religious beliefs that prohibit depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. So last semester for a global art history class, she took […]
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The Case for Being Touched
“Can I come over?” It was a simple text. One I probably shouldn’t have been feeling so anxious about having sent as I drove to Matt’s house on the west side of Los Angeles after a late night at the office. But for a Muslim woman in her late 20s who had lived her entire […]
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Dr. Oz’s Heritage Is Targeted as Rivals Vie for Trump Backing
Also running is Kathy Barnette, a political commentator who has written a book about being Black and conservative and has raised more than $1 million. Limited public polling shows a wide-open contest. A Fox News survey in early March showed Mr. McCormick leading, with 24 percent, and Dr. Oz at 15 percent, but many voters […]
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Muslim Lawmaker Comes Under Fire in House Debate on ‘Islamophobia’
WASHINGTON — A House effort to pass a bill to combat anti-Muslim bigotry became enmeshed in charges of exactly that prejudice when a right-wing Republican from Pennsylvania accused the bill’s co-sponsor, Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, of antisemitism and harboring terrorist sympathies. Representative Scott Perry, the incoming leader of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, assailed […]
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