“A new state provision, passed as part of a larger education bill last month, directs the Connecticut State Department of Education to develop instructional resources on Arab and Islamic studies, offering public schools optional materials designed to expand how students learn about the history, culture and contributions of Arab and Islamic civilizations.” - RNS
“A new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population shows Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated. Though it remained the world’s largest religion, Christians declined percentage-wise among the world’s population between 2010 and 2020.” - RNS
“Hamas in its Covenant was a relatively early adapter of this ideology [Salafism], but it was far from the last. In subsequent years radical militants influenced by Salafism used the same reasoning to justify taking arms against the Arab ruling class” - Providence
“Are they speaking about the same divine being? If so, does our sense of this being overlap enough to say we are worshiping the same God? Do we merely understand the one God differently, or are we speaking of an entirely different God?” - Lifeway
“Reviewing Islam’s belief, the group states that ‘by a decree from God, sexual relations are permitted within the bounds of marriage, and marriage can only occur between a man and a woman,’ citing Quran 4:16, 7:80-83…” - GetReligion
“The statement, issued as ‘the official position’ of the national organization, counteracts remarks made by its Minnesota chapter’s executive director” - RNS
“more than 13,000 scholars and students in the humanities — including many Muslims — have signed an open letter of protest addressed to Hamline’s board of trustees. …. ‘one of the most egregious violations of academic freedom in recent memory’ ” - RNS
“Local leaders weigh in on the Muslim-majority nation’s new penal code and whether governments should legislate morality.” - CToday
“American Muslims scored 26 on the Islamophobia Index, which measures a group’s endorsement of anti-Muslim stereotypes” - RNS
