CONNECTICUT – United by grief and anger, dozens of Yale students rose up Thursday, April 5, against discrimination and racism, hosting a “Hoodies and Hijabs” day in protest of the murder of Trayvon Martin and Shaima Alawadi. “Being discriminated against for wearing certain types of clothing, or coming from certain religious or racial backgrounds is…
VERNON, Conn. — A Muslim woman in Connecticut says a roller rink’s request that she either remove or cover her head scarf was discriminatory. Marisol Rodriguez-Colon of Windsor tells WTIC-TV that she and her sister-in-law went to the Ron-A-Roll indoor rink in Vernon on Sunday for her niece’s birthday party. She says inside, a woman…
A Muslim inmate at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Hartford, Connecticut has filed a lawsuit alleging that prison officials ignored his requests for food and meat conforming to Islamic standards. Ricardo Collins said that he was being denied his constitutional right to freedom of religion said that the denial during Islamic feasts are also denying…
The annual Islamic Circle of North America convention drew thousands at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, bringing Muslims from a wide variety of backgrounds, mixing “tradition” with the “modern.” Women with headscarves holding Starbucks coffee cups, American converts, and Muslim Americans from states including Texas and the Carolinas came to the convention, drawing more…
