Muslim students respond to advertisers
Lowe’s has been the center of controversy after pulling its advertisements from TLC’s new “All-American Muslim.” (By Michael Dwyer, AP) Two companies drew fire this week after pulling advertising from...
View ArticleUndercover as a Muslim woman: Veiled misconceptions
A poster promoting the University of Maryland Muslim Student Association’s inaugural “Undercover as a Muslim Woman” immersion. (Courtesy of Aleena Khan and Ainee Fatima) On Nov. 22, the University of...
View ArticleDespite gains, many Muslim students still struggle for acceptance
By Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAY A college student studies her Arabic. The Sept. 23 beating of a Columbia University professor who identifies as a Sikh is being investigated as a hate crime. Police say...
View ArticleThousands gather at UNC to honor slain students
People gather at UNC-Chapel Hill’s “Pit” to mourn for Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammed and her sister Razan Mohammed Abu-Salha in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/The...
View ArticleUNC slayings still resonating across Southern campuses
Organizers hold signs at a vigil in downtown Athens, Ga. (Daniel Funke, USA TODAY College) The murder of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Feb. 11 sent...
View ArticleZaytuna becomes first accredited Muslim college in the U.S.
There are hundreds of accredited religious colleges in the U.S., but none of them have ever been Muslim. That changed on March 4, 2015, when Zaytuna College in Berkeley, CA, became the first Muslim...
View ArticleKansas fraternity expels 4 members for mocking Muslims
A fraternity at the University of Kansas has kicked out four members who admitted involvement in a video posted on social media that mocks Muslims. Zeta Beta Tau chapter president Jason Finkelstein...
View ArticleAutopsies: 2 of 3 North Carolina Muslim students shot with gun held to heads
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A man charged with killing three Muslim college students appears to have held his gun to the heads of two victims when he pulled the trigger after shooting the first in the...
View ArticleUniversity chaplain experiences Islamophobia on United Airlines flight
The associate chaplain and director of interfaith engagement at Northwestern University says she felt humiliated after she was allegedly discriminated against while 30,000 feet in the air. In a...
View ArticleTexas Christian Univ. student's suspension for controversial social media...
Harry Vincent, a 19 year-old Texas Christian University student, was recently placed on “suspension in abeyance” from his school for social media posts regarding the Baltimore riots and Muslims. The...
View ArticleStudy abroad tips: What to wear in a modern Muslim country
Packing efficiently and effectively can be a struggle on any trip, packing for a Muslim country such as Morocco is no easy task. Things worn every day in the U.S. are usually not considered respectful...
View ArticleThe hijab lesson: Muslim student uses her headscarf to teach about Islam
Lamia Arafa, a 20-year-old Muslim student at Florida State University, wears the hijab — a scarf that covers the head and neck, but leaves the face clear — and sometimes, she says, people stare. But...
View ArticleNorthwestern chaplain talks United discrimination incident, Islam and sports
Tahera Ahmad is about more than just a Diet Coke controversy. When the Muslim chaplain from Northwestern University boarded a United Airlines flight in May, she had no idea a discrimination conflict...
View ArticleStudents nationwide react movingly to Trump's Muslim stand
On Monday, Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” at a rally in Mount Pleasant, S.C. The GOP presidential candidate — who dominates the GOP field,...
View ArticleEvangelical college suspends professor for comparing Christianity to Islam
Wheaton College has suspended tenured political science professor Larycia Hawkins after she penned an essay on Facebook showing her solidarity with the Muslim community, according to a statement posted...
View ArticleGroup demands Trump apologize to Muslim woman ejected from rally
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks Jan. 9 in Ottumwa, Iowa. (Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein, Getty Images) The Council on American-Islamic Relations is demanding an apology from Republican...
View ArticleVoices: Follow Rose Hamid's example, and stand up for Muslims
I have few, disjointed memories of Sept. 11, 2001, but they’ll stay with me all my life. I remember being in my second-grade classroom in New Jersey, an hour outside New York City, when my teacher...
View ArticleDay in Her Hijab offers students chance to explore culture of Muslim women
Participants of the #ADayInHerHijab event join in prayer. (Photo courtesy of The Daily Collegian) Early Friday, Emily Burke stood in the middle of her single dorm preparing to venture out into the...
View ArticleFormer Wheaton professor Larycia Hawkins finds new home at UVA
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia announced Thursday that Larycia Hawkins, the former Wheaton College professor who had thrown the school into turmoil for...
View ArticleFrom Christian to Muslim: One student's coming out story
Editor’s note: The story below was altered to remove a reference to William Rhew’s wife. Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this article misspelled Nathan Rhew’s name. Wil Rhew...
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