Muslim-Americans

(Special to Informed Comment) – To those outside of the music business the title, “The House that Ahmet Built” might sound like the name of a Turkish folktale for children. But for those in the know, the ‘house’ was Atlantic Records and ‘Ahmet’ was Ahmet Ertegun, the great record company’s co-founder. In 1947 along with […]

Muslim-Americans

The black Muslim female fashion trailblazers who came before model Halima Aden

The Conversation

By Kayla Renée Wheeler | – Media reports have celebrated Halima Aden becoming the first woman to be featured in the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit edition wearing a hijab or a burkini. In the past, she has appeared on the covers of Allure, British Vogue and Glamour Magazine. Halima Aden, the first Muslim model to […]

Muslim-Americans

Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse

The Conversation

By Saeed Ahmed Khan | – Most Americans say they don’t know a Muslim and that much of what they understand about Islam is from the media. It’s not surprising then to see the many misunderstandings that exist about Muslims. Some see them as outsiders and a threat to the American way of life and […]

Muslim-Americans

New Rep. Ilhan Omar vows to make the US live up to Religious Freedom

Middle East Monitor

Ilhan Omar marked her first day in office by promising to make the US live up to its ideals of religious liberty, and she demanded the country reject divisiveness and hate, Anadolu Agency reports. Omar was sworn into the House of Representatives on Thursday, and joined Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib in becoming the first Muslim women […]

Democratic Party

The First Muslim-American Women in Congress may get to Impeach Trump

Juan Cole

The most diverse House of Representatives in American history was sworn in on Thursday. The new Congress (including the Senate) is religiously diverse as well as diverse with regard to gender. Out of 534 members (one contest has yet to be decided), there are 34 Jews, 10 Mormons, 3 Hindus, 3 Muslims, and 2 Unitarian […]

Music

How Muslim-Americans Helped Create Modern Jazz

Shalom Goldman

Jazz, the art form dubbed ‘ America’s Classical Music’ by pianist and composer Dr. Billy Taylor, has garnered a world-wide following in the century since its birth in New Orleans and other cities. Rooted in the African-American experience, jazz has attracted practitioners and listeners from all ethnic groups, religions and nationalities. And from a uniquely […]

Muslim-Americans

The ‘Blue Wave’ Was Also a ‘Muslim Wave’

Domenica Ghanem

( Otherwords.org) – In the most Islamophobic election in history, Muslim candidates scored big wins by embracing progressive policies. By Domenica Ghanem | November 7, 2018 With the Muslim Ban, the promotion of torturer Gina Haspel to CIA director, and increases in hate crimes, it’s been a rough year for us Muslims in the United […]

Featured

Refugee Muslim Women that Trump wouldn’t Have Let in, win House Seats

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With some 100 congressional victories, women staged a pink wave in the face of Trump’s tone of misogyny and feckless patriarchy. But what is interesting is that the pink wave isn’t exclusively white, exemplifying difference feminism more than the old Second Wave. For the first time in history, two Native […]

Muslim-Americans

US Voters poised to Elect 2 Muslim Women to Congress

Nova Safo

by Nova SAFO | – Chicago (AFP) – US voters are poised to elect two Muslim women to Congress in the midterm election next week, marking a historic first even as anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric has been on the rise. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee, is all but certain to be elected to the US […]