First Muslim mayor sworn in

    The first Muslim mayor in the Humber region was sworn in on Wednesday. Councillor Jawaid Ishaq MBE, 62, replaced Tony Ellerby as the Mayor of North Lincolnshire in a ceremony at the Plowright Theatre in Scunthorpe. He said: “I come from a tiny village in Kashmir and I’m proud to have come this far in…

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      First Muslim Sorority Hopes To Form Chapters Across USA

      CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Christine Ortiz slips quietly from the Muslim prayer room on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and into a group of squealing young women. Some of them are Ortiz’s Muslim sisters, the undergraduate pals who embraced her when she converted to Islam from her family’s Roman Catholicism. Less than a…

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