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"Belongs To All New Yorkers": Mamdani Took Oath On This 18th-Century Quran
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday that one of the Qurans he used to take his oath as the city's first Muslim mayor will be placed on display at the main branch of the New York Public Library.
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Mamdani Sets Sights On Trump, Says New York Victory Shows Way To Defeat Him
Democrat socialist Zohran Mamdani declared victory in the historic New York election to loud cheers and thanked his supporters for electing him as the first Indian-American mayor of New York City.
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Donald Trump Eyes Ron DeSantis For Pentagon Amid Reports Of Misconduct By Pete Hegseth
According to The New Yorker, Hegseth in an inebriated condition, chanted "Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!" at a Veterans group event in 2015.
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What Comedian Hasan Minhaj Said On Allegations Of Faking Islamophobia
Minhaj said that he believed the article portrayed him in a negative light, making him appear like a "psycho." He defended the use of creative liberties in exaggerating certain aspects of his stand-up stories.
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Hijab-Clad 'Hero' Muslim Cop Called 'ISIS', Harassed In US
An off-duty hijab-clad Muslim police officer was called "ISIS" and told to go back to her "country" by a white man who also pushed her 16-year-old son, the latest in a series of incidents in which headscarf-wearing women have been targeted in the US following Donald Trump's win.
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He Walked Into a New York Store Wearing Lipstick. Then This Happened
Just three hours before a gunman killed at least 50 people in an Orlando gay bar on Sunday, a New Yorker stopped to buy ice cream at his neighbourhood store. Behind the counter were the Muslim couple who run the store and the wife, who speaks no English, had a question to ask of her customer - Jacob Tobia, a gender nonconformist and advocate for ga...
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New Yorkers want Islamic center moved, poll finds
Two-thirds of New York City residents want a planned Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated to a less controversial site farther away from ground zero in Lower Manhattan, including many who describe themselves as supporters of the project, according to a New York Times poll.The poll indicates that support for the 13-story complex, which...
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Hate charges for student who attacked Muslim cabbie
A 21-year-old film student accused of slashing a taxi driver last week after questioning whether he was a Muslim was indicted on two hate crimes on Tuesday.Michael Enright, was not present during the court proceedings, according to reports.Last week, Enright stabbed 43-year-old Ahmed Sharif from Queens, after asking him "are you Muslim," according ...
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After drinking, he slashed Muslim cabbie's arm and face
He could not have struck a more thoughtful tone. "My name is Michael Enright," he began in an e-mail sent in August 2009 to a young military veteran who had written a memoir about being a medic in Iraq.Mr. Enright told the veteran, Michael Anthony, 24, that he was a film student concerned with veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, especiall...
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What Muslim New Yorkers feel about Ground Zero Mosque
In the storm of anger and accusation over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero, one thing seems clear to Laique Khan: His fellow Muslims have a right to build the project."If this really is a free country," said Mr Khan, 56, the manager of a trucking company in Brooklyn, "then, by all rights you must, you must, allow it."The same h...
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"Belongs To All New Yorkers": Mamdani Took Oath On This 18th-Century Quran
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday that one of the Qurans he used to take his oath as the city's first Muslim mayor will be placed on display at the main branch of the New York Public Library.
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Mamdani Sets Sights On Trump, Says New York Victory Shows Way To Defeat Him
Democrat socialist Zohran Mamdani declared victory in the historic New York election to loud cheers and thanked his supporters for electing him as the first Indian-American mayor of New York City.
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Donald Trump Eyes Ron DeSantis For Pentagon Amid Reports Of Misconduct By Pete Hegseth
According to The New Yorker, Hegseth in an inebriated condition, chanted "Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!" at a Veterans group event in 2015.
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What Comedian Hasan Minhaj Said On Allegations Of Faking Islamophobia
Minhaj said that he believed the article portrayed him in a negative light, making him appear like a "psycho." He defended the use of creative liberties in exaggerating certain aspects of his stand-up stories.
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Hijab-Clad 'Hero' Muslim Cop Called 'ISIS', Harassed In US
An off-duty hijab-clad Muslim police officer was called "ISIS" and told to go back to her "country" by a white man who also pushed her 16-year-old son, the latest in a series of incidents in which headscarf-wearing women have been targeted in the US following Donald Trump's win.
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He Walked Into a New York Store Wearing Lipstick. Then This Happened
Just three hours before a gunman killed at least 50 people in an Orlando gay bar on Sunday, a New Yorker stopped to buy ice cream at his neighbourhood store. Behind the counter were the Muslim couple who run the store and the wife, who speaks no English, had a question to ask of her customer - Jacob Tobia, a gender nonconformist and advocate for ga...
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New Yorkers want Islamic center moved, poll finds
Two-thirds of New York City residents want a planned Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated to a less controversial site farther away from ground zero in Lower Manhattan, including many who describe themselves as supporters of the project, according to a New York Times poll.The poll indicates that support for the 13-story complex, which...
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Hate charges for student who attacked Muslim cabbie
A 21-year-old film student accused of slashing a taxi driver last week after questioning whether he was a Muslim was indicted on two hate crimes on Tuesday.Michael Enright, was not present during the court proceedings, according to reports.Last week, Enright stabbed 43-year-old Ahmed Sharif from Queens, after asking him "are you Muslim," according ...
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After drinking, he slashed Muslim cabbie's arm and face
He could not have struck a more thoughtful tone. "My name is Michael Enright," he began in an e-mail sent in August 2009 to a young military veteran who had written a memoir about being a medic in Iraq.Mr. Enright told the veteran, Michael Anthony, 24, that he was a film student concerned with veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, especiall...
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What Muslim New Yorkers feel about Ground Zero Mosque
In the storm of anger and accusation over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero, one thing seems clear to Laique Khan: His fellow Muslims have a right to build the project."If this really is a free country," said Mr Khan, 56, the manager of a trucking company in Brooklyn, "then, by all rights you must, you must, allow it."The same h...
