Sentences with phrase «many muslim»

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein became the first major Wall Street leader to speak out against President Donald Trump's order to halt arrivals from several Muslim - majority countries.

He published an op - ed in 2008 criticizing Keith Ellison, who had become the first Muslim elected to congress.

But when you call people out on it the reply you get is: «You can be anything in Rotterdam - look, we even have a Muslim mayor!»»

Applying this test, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that a Muslim prisoner was free to practice his faith by wearing a half - inch beard that posed no risk to prison security.

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order to bar immigrants from seven Muslim - majority countries from entering the U.S., the ban promised to have far - reaching consequences for businesses and employees.

In the wake of Trump's move to bar immigrants from seven predominately Muslim countries, Starbucks» CEO vowed to hire 10,000 refugees globally.

Tamerlan had also visited Dagestan and a region bordering Chechnya, which are conflict - ridden and predominantly Muslim areas of Russia.

According to a poll of PVV supporters in the city, Rotterdam's Muslim mayor is more popular than the prime minister.

Though he witnessed Aboutaleb's landmark appointment, Erdogan thinks having a Muslim mayor hasn't fixed the problem.

The column was titled: «Muslim Ellison Should Not Sit in Congress.»

But Muslims who support sharia in Afghanistan and Iraq also favor a particularly harsh application of the law.

In Iraq, 58 percent majority of Muslims who support sharia law also support the stoning of adulterers, and 56 percent support corporeal punishments for stealing.

«I've heard from many of you who are deeply concerned about the executive order issued yesterday restricting immigration from seven Muslim - majority countries,» Cook wrote.

Those fears are underscored by the findings of a new Pew survey of the social and political attitudes of Muslims worldwide.

Interestingly, Pew also found that, across the countries surveyed, attitudes toward honor killings were not consistently linked to religious observance; Muslims who pray several times a day are just as likely to oppose honor killings as those who do not.

With 47.7 % of its population of non-Dutch origin, Rotterdam is proud of its multiethnic makeup, and in 2009 it further cemented its multicultral status after Ahmed Aboutaleb became the first Muslim mayor of a major Dutch city.

«Since having a Muslim mayor, the problem of xenophobia has got bigger.

According to the report, of the 23 countries surveyed, Iraq and Afghanistan are the only two countries where majorities of Muslims surveyed said that honor killings of women are justified as punishment for alleged pre - or extra-marital sex.

Trudeau also mentioned the 40,000 Syrian refugees that Canada has welcomed, a pointed contrast to Trump's attempts to ban immigration from seven mostly muslim countries.

These numbers alone are not alarming — interpretations of what sharia means and how it should be applied vary widely across the Muslim world.

The mosques and homes in Bo - Kaap, a historically Muslim quarter, are a dazzling rainbow of blues, fuchsia, sunshine yellows, and neon greens.

And many in the Muslim community who you would suspect would feel an affinity with Aboutaleb instead feel ignored by him.

In Iraq, part of Petraeus's success was built on helping to engineer a shift in loyalties among Sunni Muslim militias that, in many cases, had been fighting against the U.S. and Iraqi government.

U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order banning travellers and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries has stoked ire and concern from tech communities down south and here in Canada.

He berated members of his local mosque and Muslim community who weren't as devout as he thought they should be.

Chitchat at Davos last January centered on Trump's controversial campaign pledges to impose a travel ban on a number of predominately Muslim countries, to upend the North American Free Trade Agreement and to build a wall at the Mexican border.

Although he did not elaborate on this remark, it came just days after US President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily barred people from seven Muslim - majority nations from entering the US.

If a member of your team from one of the seven Muslim - majority nations leaves the US, you can no longer assume their visa will get them back in.

In particular, Trump's order to ban travel from seven Muslim countries spewed uproar across the world last week.

Facebook, Snap, Google, and roughly 160 other technology companies told a federal court in Virginia on Wednesday to scrap President Donald Trump's new order banning travelers and refugees from several majority - Muslim countries.

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority signaled on Wednesday it was likely to uphold President Donald Trump's contentious travel ban targeting several Muslim - majority countries.

Tamerlan was offended by Muslim immigrants» attempts to «assimilate» into the US.

Some people tried to track celebrities based on known sightings and home addresses, while another attempt even purported to be able to identify which taxi driver were muslim based on activity during the five prayer times a day.

While hiding in a boat hours before his arrest, Tsarnaev scrawled a note reading, in part, «we Muslims are one body you hurt one you hurt us all,» a message that counterterrorism expert Matthew Levitt said was similar to extremist writings found on his computer.

It offered free housing to those impacted by Trump's attempted ban on travel from some Muslim countries, and ran a Super Bowl ad critical of isolationism.

There are also awkward gaps in the history it archives, such as the dearth of footage documenting one of the largest massacres of civilian protesters in modern world history — the infamous assault on a Muslim Brotherhood — led sit - in shortly after the military coup of 2013, which killed more than 800 civilians.

Prosecutors have painted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an equal partner to his brother in the bombing, citing al Qaeda propaganda found on his computer and a note he wrote that cast the attack as retribution for U.S. military campaigns in Muslim lands.

Last week the FBI reported a 6 % increase in hate crimes against all groups, with a 67 % increase in hate crimes against just Muslim Americans.

Protestors rally during a demonstration against the Muslim immigration ban at Dulles International Airport in Sterling, VA..

His revised travel ban, affecting travelers from six Muslim - majority nations, was set to go effect Thursday before it was put on hold Wednesday by a federal judge in Hawaii.

Facebook also tried to avoid taking a stance on one of Trump's signature proposals, his plan to create a registry of Muslims; the company only came out against that after inadvertently admitting its desire to avoid controversy by stonewalling.

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit denied the government's emergency appeal to lift the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Trump's immigration order issued last week by a federal judge in Seattle, indicating in its opinion that Trump's past comments about a «Muslim ban» can be used as evidence for discrimination.

Some employees allegedly said that a post on Trump's Facebook page from December about the presidential candidate's call to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. should be taken down as hate speech.

Because the ban does not explicitly mention «Islam» or «Muslims,» it may be shielded from legal challenges arguing that it violates the Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom.

While the leaders of Apple Inc, Google and Facebook Inc emailed their staff to denounce the suspension of the U.S. refugee program and the halting of arrivals from seven Muslim - majority countries, many of their counterparts in other industries either declined comment or responded with company statements reiterating their commitment to diversity.

Demonstrators gather in Copley Square for the «Boston Protest Against Muslim Ban and Anti-Immigration Orders» in Boston, Massachusetts.

And if you're looking for a Subway sandwich in any other predominantly Muslim or Hindu country, don't bother asking for sliced roast beef or ham.

The decision to ban people from seven - Muslim majority countries to enter the United States will give further arguments to extremist groups, such as the Islamic State, and will not guarantee national secutiry.

It refers to negative comments Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made about various groups of people, including Mexicans, Muslims, and women, asking that people support the petition to encourage Starbucks to cut ties with the businessman.

United States Senator Cory Booker attends a rally to protest the executive order that President Donald Trump signed clamping down on refugee admissions and temporarily restricting travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries in New York City.