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• Baton Rouge Islamic Center celebrates Eid with changes amid pandemic Play Video

  July 31, 2020 10:04 AM

  Since the start of the year, COVID-19 has ravaged nations across the world, leaving death and economic hardship in its wake, but as people of faith traverse the precarious waters of the pandemic, they find various reasons to hold on to hope and to even have joy. This is... more »

• Fast food worker sent home for refusing to take her hijab off at work

  January 2, 2020 11:00 AM

  An employee of a Chicken Express restaurant in Texas says she was discriminated against when her manager sent her home for refusing to remove her hijab, which is a headscarf that many Muslim women choose to wear as a part of their religious beliefs. I converted to Islam... more »

• Baton Rouge Veterans Parade apologizes for anti-muslim image

  February 20, 2017 11:39 AM

  BATON ROUGE- An apparent anti-Muslim image was posted and quickly removed from the Baton Rouge Veterans Day Parade group Facebook page Monday morning. The meme depicted a racial slur of a middle eastern man using his hand to clean himself after going to the bathroom. The post only stayed... more »