About 40 leaders addressed a packed audience during the candlelit interfaith gathering at First United Methodist Church of Chicago on Clark and Washington Streets.

Source: Faith leaders gather to support Chicago's immigrant communities | SikhNet

NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Jolted into action by a wave of hate crimes that followed the election victory of Donald J. Trump, American Muslims and Jews are banding together in a surprising new alliance.

Source: Both Feeling Threatened, American Muslims and Jews Join Hands - The New York Times

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The student who wounded 11 people this week at Ohio State University, plowing his car into a cluster of pedestrians and then slashing some of them with a butcher knife, may have been inspired by Anwar al-Awlaki, a Qaeda recruiter and propagandist, or by the Islamic State terrorist group, investigators said on Wednesday.

Source: Ohio State Attacker May Have Been ‘Inspired’ by Al Qaeda, F.B.I. Says - The New York Times

LETTERS ARE BEING SENT TO MOSQUES CLAIMING TRUMP WILL “CLEANSE” AMERICA OF MUSLIMS. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has reported that a total of four mosques have received letters saying when it comes to the treatment of Muslims, President-elect Donald Trump will follow Hitler's example of treatment of Jews. Of the four mosques, three of them are in California while the remaining one is in Georgia. All four letters were written by hand.

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A Muslim, an Orthodox Jew and a religious Christian walked into a room, but it wasn’t a bar and this was no joke. On the contrary, representatives from each of the Abrahamic religions had gathered during fashion month at New York University for the Meeting Through Modesty fashion symposium to discuss something they take very seriously: modest style.

Source: What Does Modest Fashion Mean? - The New York Times

He leaned against the subway doors in a faded denim jacket, camo cargo pants, combat boots and, to top it off, a black ski mask. I wondered if he had a gun. I wondered if he was a white supremacist. I wondered if he had seen my friend and me, with our brown skin and black hair. Our Islamic faith and immigrant parents — could he somehow see that, too?

Source: Muslim 'Twoness': Fearful Of Some, Feared By Others : Code Switch : NPR

CA Governor Jerry Brown signs Safe Place to Learn Act to protect Muslim and Sikh students from bullying. The aim of the Safe Place to Learn Act or AB 2845 is to prevent discrimination, harassment, and bullying against Muslim and Sikh students in the classrooms of California. This new law will provide teachers, staff, and administrators with resources that will help them to identify, prevent, and find a solution to bullying and discrimination happening in their schools. The bill comes in the wake of the rise in incidents reported in the California. The law requires the...

PARENTS FIGHT “ISLAMIC INDOCTRINATION” IN TENNESSEE SCHOOLS. Tennessee residents have recently requested local education authorities restrict the syllabus on Islam from ten standards to five. The proposed change does not apply to other religions and comes as a measure to restrict children from learning about Islam.

Source: Tennessee Plans to Limit the Teaching of Islam in Schools - World Religion News

Some of the children who rushed to cool off in the pool on a sunny July morning would not have attended camp together a few years ago. They lived next-door to each other, but their South Brooklyn communities often kept their distance.

Source: Jews and Muslims Form Enduring Friendships at Brooklyn Camp - Culture – Forward.com

DUDLEY, Mass. — When Dr. Amjad Bahnassi, a psychiatrist who lives in the central Massachusetts city of Worcester, wants to visit his son’s grave, he braces for the drive to the Muslim burial ground in Enfield, Conn., about 60 miles away. It is the nearest cemetery devoted solely to Islamic burials — and, he said, it is filling up.

Source: Muslims Seek New Burial Ground, and a Small Town Balks - The New York Times

The U.S. Education Department announced it will begin collecting data this year about allegations of discrimination or bullying of students based on their religion, bringing new attention to what educators and advocates call a growing problem in public schools, particularly for Muslim students.

Source: U.S. to track religious discrimination in schools as anti-Muslim sentiment grows - The Washington Post...

Fifteen years after the attacks of Sept. 11, Americans have grown aware not only of the danger of terrorism but also of the reality that their nation is far less white, Christian and European than it used to be.

Source: Sept. 11 Marked Turning Point For Muslims In Increasingly Diverse America : NPR

U.S. Catholic bishops and Shia Muslim leaders from Iran recently found common ground, taking a cohesive stand against terrorism, religious extremism and weapons of mass destruction.

Source: Catholic bishops and Muslim leaders unite to decry terror, extremism and weapons of mass destruction

PARIS (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended a ban on burkinis in more than a dozen coastal towns on Thursday, saying France was locked in a “battle of cultures” and that the full-body swimsuit symbolized the enslavement of women.

Source: France, the burkini and 'a battle of cultures' - SpokaneFāVS

AMSTERDAM — On April 30, 1941, a Jewish man here in Amsterdam wrote a desperate letter to an American friend, pleading for help emigrating to the United States.

Source: Anne Frank Today Is a Syrian Girl - The New York Times