May 3, 2016 Suburban Chicago imam charged with sexually assaulting woman at Islamic school A prominent Islamic scholar and longtime head of a suburban Chicago school has been charged with sexually abusing a 23-year-old woman who worked at the school, authorities said Tuesday.Â
May 3, 2016 Faith leaders show solidarity after Islamic school defaced; FBI joins investigation Local faith leaders say the community won't be divided by a perpetrator who tagged the Islamic School of Rhode Island with offensive graffiti.
May 3, 2016 California Muslim civil liberties group stands with Jewish fraternity targeted in hate crime While detectives investigate spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-campus Jewish fraternity house as a hate crime, a Muslim civil liberties group has come out in solidarity with the Jewish community.
May 3, 2016 NY school apologizes for reciting Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic after residents complain A school in rural upstate New York is apologizing for reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic after district residents who had lost family members in Afghanistan complained.
May 3, 2016 Philly transit system ordered to accept provocative ads with Hitler, Arab leader; may appeal Philadelphia's transit system has been ordered to accept provocative ads that include a 1941 photograph of Adolf Hitler with a former Arab leader after a federal judge ruled in favor of a pro-Israel group's free-speech lawsuit.
May 3, 2016 Cook County to pursue grand jury indictment against head of Chicago-area Islamic school Authorities in Cook County say grand jury indictments will be pursued against the head of a suburban Chicago Islamic school who is charged with sexual assault.
May 3, 2016 Mayor de Blasio: NYC public schools to close on 2 Muslim holidays The New York City public school system is set to observe a pair of Muslim holidays for the first time.
May 3, 2016 Turning the tables on Tehran, US persuades Iraq to sideline Iranian-backed militias in Tikrit The United States persuaded Iraq to sideline Iranian-backed Shiite militias as a condition to American airstrikes in the strategic city of Tikrit, a senior U.S. general said Thursday.
May 3, 2016 Los Angeles female-only mosque may be first in US; aims to empower women A downtown Los Angeles mosque that forbids men from attending may be the first of its kind in the United States.
May 3, 2016 Military judge weighs arguments over restrictions on female guards at Guantanamo prison A military judge is hearing arguments on whether to make permanent a temporary order limiting the use of female guards to move prisoners around the Guantanamo Bay prison.