(New York, NY 08/03/2020) -On August 5th, Hindutva supremacist groups will celebrate the construction of a Hindu Temple at Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, the very location where the historical Babri Mosque was destroyed and over 2,000 Muslims were killed in pogroms and riots across India since 1992. At a time when India is facing intense right-wing…
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(New York, NY, 06/08/2020) – Muslim leaders across New York City will hold a press conference in front of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building at 163 W 125th St. in New York in response to police brutality across the country and structural racism underlying many policies that target, kill, and disenfranchise African-Americans in…
(New York, NY. 05/27/2020) – Majlis Ash-Shura: Islamic Leadership Council of New York strongly condemns the reprehensible murder of George Floyd at the hands of four police officers. The scourge of police brutality has taken another innocent black man’s life once again in Minneapolis, demonstrating the failures of law enforcement in protecting the people. Right…
In light of the recent Bill A.10399/S.08291 introduced by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) and State Senator Luis Sepúlveda (D-Bronx) to effectively ban all markets that sell freshly slaughtered livestock in New York City, Majlis Ash-Shura: Islamic Leadership Council of New York and signatories strongly oppose this bill as an extreme measure proposed for regulating the…
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(New York, NY. 02/28/2020) – In a recent interview on PBS NewsHour, Democratic presidential candidate, Michael Bloomberg, attempted to defend his heinous and discriminatory policy of the secret surveillance program of Muslims during his tenure as New York City Mayor as “part of a larger effort to keep America safe.” Majlis Ash-Shura: Islamic Leadership Council…
(New York, NY. 02/27/2020) – This past week, the world has been shaken with horrific levels of mob violence by right-wing Hindu supremacists, leaving dozens of Indian Muslims brutally murdered on the streets of India. Indian Muslims in the country and around the world have been peacefully protesting against the new citizenship law in India…
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