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New York (AFP) - Hundreds of US Jewish activists peacefully occupied New York's Statue of Liberty on Monday to demand a ceasefire by Israel and an end to the "genocidal bombardment" of civilians in Gaza. Dressed in black T-shirts emblazoned with the slogans "Jews demand ceasefire now" or "Not in our name," the protestors unfurled banners reading "The whole world is watching" and "Palestinians should be free" at the base of New York's iconic landmark. The huge copper statue sits on Liberty Island at the entrance to New York Harbor. "The famous words of our Jewish ancestor Emma Lazarus etched in...
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New York (AFP) - The author Salman Rushdie released excerpts of a new novel on Monday, four months after he was severely injured in a stabbing attack in the state of New York. The New Yorker magazine published an excerpt online entitled "A Sackful of Seeds" from the 15th novel by Rushdie, titled "Victory City," which is due to be published in early February by Penguin Random House. The book tells the "epic tale" of a woman in the 14th century in what is now part of India, the publishing house said. The New Yorker said this excerpt will be published in its print edition dated December 12 and du...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Sunday deplored the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico, which police say may be linked. "I am angered and saddened by the horrific killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque," the US president said on Twitter. "While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims' families, and my Administration stands strongly with the Muslim community. These hateful attacks have no place in America." Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico's largest city, said Saturday they are investigating the murders of three Muslim men that they now suspect are ...
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Washington (AFP) - Police in the US state of New Mexico said Saturday they are investigating the murders of three Muslim men that they suspect are related to a fourth homicide from last year. The Albuquerque police department said in a statement they had found the latest victim overnight Friday. They did not identify him but said he was in his mid-20s, Muslim and "a native from South Asia." "Investigators believe Friday's murder may be connected to three recent murders of Muslim men also from South Asia," the statement said. Two of the previous victims were Muslim Pakistani men, a 27-year-old ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court dealt a blow Friday to three Muslim men who accused the FBI of having spied on them because of their religion after the attacks of September 11, 2001. While it did not shut the case down completely, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the government had the right to invoke state secrets privilege to refuse to provide information to the court responsible for studying the men's complaint. The judgment, limited in scope to a technical point, overrides a 2019 decision by an appeals court and returns the case to the lower court for it to continue its ex...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Monday will take up a case involving three Muslim men in California who say they were surveilled at their mosque by the FBI after the September 11, 2001 attacks based solely on their religion. The three men -- Yassir Fazaga, imam of the Orange County Islamic Foundation, along with Ali Uddin Malik and Yasser Abdelrahim -- say the FBI sent a confidential informant to several mosques in the county in 2006 and 2007, ordering the man to pose as a convert and gather information. "The FBI employed a paid informant person with a prior criminal history to infi...
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Istanbul (AFP) - Halima Aden, the first supermodel to wear a hijab and pose in a burkini, has ripped up her lucrative contracts in an industry she feels lacks "basic human respect" and entered the world of modest fashion design instead. For the Somali-American who was born in a refugee camp in Kenya, it was a matter of preserving her self-worth and well-being in a fast and loose sector that increasingly clashed with her Muslim values. "Since I was a little girl, this quote -- 'don't change yourself, change the game' -- has gotten me through so much in life," she told AFP in an interview in Ist...
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Washington (AFP) - The US envoy on international religious freedom on Tuesday voiced concern about ally France, warning against "heavy-handed" measures as President Emmanuel Macron targets radical Islam. "I am concerned, obviously, for what's happening in France," Ambassador Sam Brownback told reporters when asked about Macron's initiative. "There can be constructive engagements that I think can be helpful and not harmful. "When you get heavy-handed, the situation can get worse." Macron has ordered a crackdown on extremism amid shock in France over the October 16 beheading of a teacher who sho...
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Washington (AFP) - The US envoy on international religious freedom on Tuesday voiced concern about France, warning against "heavy-handed" measures as President Emmanuel Macron targets radical Islam. "I am concerned, obviously, for what's happening in France," Ambassador Sam Brownback told reporters when asked about Macron's initiative. "I think there can be constructive engagements that I think can be helpful and not harmful. "When you get heavy-handed, the situation can get worse." Macron has ordered a crackdown on extremism amid shock in France over the October 16 beheading of a teacher who ...
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Washington (AFP) - Pamela and Afshin Raghebi will celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary this December -- but whether it's a joyful occasion or one marred by the pain of their ongoing forced separation depends on the outcome of the November 3 election."I need him home," Pamela tearfully told AFP, two years after her husband left the US to complete a routine legal process to finalize his permanent residency, but was prevented from returning because of the "Muslim ban."In June 2018, the Supreme Court upheld Donald Trump's third travel ban, which focuses its most restrictive measures on citize...
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