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Islamic Relief USA Rebrands as IDEA Amid Congressional Pressure | 2026 Islamic Relief USA has renamed itself IDEA after lawmakers threatened its tax-exempt status what the change means for one of America’s largest Muslim charities.One of the largest Muslim humanitarian organizations in the United States has changed its name after coming under direct pressure from…
Nearly a year after the October 10, 2025 ceasefire was meant to end Israel’s war on Gaza, none of Gaza’s 37 hospitals are fully operational, and only 19 are even partially functioning, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) [3]. The Palestinian Ministry of Health’s running casualty count, cited by…
Asad Dandia was eight years old when he watched the Twin Towers fall from his Pakistani immigrant parents’ home in New York. By 19, he was living the backlash himself a police informant had posed as his friend to infiltrate his family’s home, part of a since-disgraced surveillance program targeting Muslim New Yorkers [1]. Twenty-five…
Fifteen-year-old Habiiba Quresh stood before the Texas State Board of Education and said what thousands of Muslim families across the state were feeling: that a single sentence written by adults who don’t share her faith had made her feel like she didn’t belong in her own history class [4]. Days later, on September 5, the…
Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD) has announced a new investment in Pakistan’s cricket industry at the grassroots level. Through its partnership with the Jalaluddin Cricket Academy (JCA), HHRD is expanding its Cricket Skills Development Program to Rawalpindi, continuing the organization’s commitment to youth empowerment through structured sports training. The expansion builds on HHRD’s…
HHRD’s Emergency Relief & Disaster Management (ERDM) Program has been responding to ongoing flooding across Afghanistan, including in Logar Province, where heavy rainfall and flash floods have damaged homes, roads, and farmland, displacing thousands of families and leaving them in urgent need of assistance. According to OCHA’s Afghanistan Natural Disasters Dashboard, more than 97,000 people…
Market forecasts put the global halal food industry in the trillions, but certification costs and financing remain barriers for small operators The halal food industry is in the middle of a well-documented global growth run, and market analysts say that expansion is increasingly being driven by demand beyond Muslim consumers alone, a trend small business…
Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD) has completed a two-tank water filtration system at Parwan University in Charikar, Afghanistan, the fourth and final installation in a series of campus water projects under HHRD’s Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) program. The launch was celebrated on campus with prayer and marked publicly on HHRD’s social media.…
From Long Island to Los Angeles, masjids are partnering with regional food banks and nonprofits to feed families Mosque-based food pantries have become a growing fixture of community infrastructure across the country, often built through formal partnerships with regional food banks and interfaith or immigrant-services nonprofits rather than run as standalone charity efforts. On Long…
From the Islamic Scholarship Fund to targeted STEM awards for women, funding pipelines are diversifying Scholarship and mentorship programs aimed at Muslim American students are expanding in both scope and specialization, with dedicated funding now reaching fields from filmmaking and public policy to engineering and medicine. One of the most established players, the Islamic Scholarship…
CAIR’s new Muslims Vote platform and expanding local representation aim to close a persistent voter-eligibility gap. With the November 3, 2026 midterms approaching, Muslim American civic organizations are running one of the most coordinated voter mobilization efforts the community has seen, combining new digital tools, mosque-based outreach, and expanded local political representation. The Council on…
A recent piece from IslamiCity, a leading online resource for Muslim news, faith, and community life since 1995, explores how the Quran doesn’t just appeal to human reason; it actively nourishes and develops it. Reason as a Path to Understanding Drawing on multiple verses, the article by Mansoor Alam explains that the Quran was revealed…
