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By Eric Roper and Maya Rao Legal challenges are mounting in a contentious state house race that has divided Minneapolis‘ Somali community. Rep. Phyllis Kahn’s campaign filed a petition with the state Supreme Court Monday alleging that acity election judge was biased toward Kahn’s opponent, Mohamud Noor. The filing comes just days ahead of a hearing on the eligibility...

British Muslims urged not to travel to Syria and Iraq as fears grow over homegrown involvement in terrorism A Briton who claims he has been fighting alongside jihadist militants in Syria has told the BBC he would not return to the UK until he could raise “the black flag of Islam” over Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. The...

THE Mpeketoni killings on June 15-16 that left 65 people dead was a terrorist attack and not politically instigated, according to a report by a Coast human rights organization. The detailed, 17-page report released yesterday by Haki Africa said investigations on the ground showed that the killings were carried out by the Somali al Shabaab...

There has been a surge of anti-Islamic attacks following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby Jonathan Brown Muslim women are more likely to fall victim to Islamophobic hate crimes than men, with many of the attacks “opportunistic” and provoked by hostility to traditional dress, a new study has found. Researchers said that traditional dress such...

PHOTO | FILE Burnt cars are seen outside the Mpeketoni police station after the deadly attack on June 16, that left more than 60 people dead. There are fears that some terrorists behind attacks in Kenya could have been trained to combat al-Shabaab in Somalia.  NATION By ANDREW TEYIE At the height of the al-Shabaab...

 AP- A Massachusetts mayor is calling for an end  to refugee resettlement in his city, saying Somali families are putting pressure  on already strained services in Springfield, a onetime industrial center where  nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line. Mayor Domenic Sarno is the latest mayor to  decry refugee resettlement, joining...