Rasa - The Oklahoman on Sunday will publish stories from interviews with several Muslims about their experiences living or growing up in the Sooner State.

Rasa - An estimated 3.3 million Muslims live in the United States, and in the 14-year span between Sept. 11, 2001 and the end of 2014, 344 Muslims in America have been involved in violent extremism, according to the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.

Rasa - Following the impassioned Monday night speech of a parent alleging a textbook used in Sullivan County promotes Islam, county school board member Mark Ireson set the wheels in motion for possibly removal of that Pearson seventh grade social studies and history textbook.

Rasa - California’s legislature has moved to protect students from bullying based on religion, responding to what the new law’s author says is an increase in Islamophobia.

Rasa - Muslims are questioning their freedom in Germany after a mosque under construction was vandalized late Wednesday by assailants writing racist-Islamophobic slogans on its walls. This is the third attack targeting mosques since late September.

Rasa – Two French officials from Louvre Museum paid a visit to the Museum of the Holy Shrine of Lady Fatimah al-Ma’sumah in Qom.

RNA - The OIC is organizing a workshop on “The role of women in the development of OIC member states” in collaboration with the Statistical, Economic, Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries (SESRIC).

Rasa - US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says many of his past remarks against women were made “for the purpose of entertainment.”

Rasa - Pakistan’s parliament has passed legislation which hands down life sentences to those behind the so-called honor killings even if they obtain the pardon of the victim’s relatives.

Rasa - The full-face Islamic veil may be banned in Norwegian schools and universities soon, the government announced on Wednesday, amid a wave of increasing Islamophobia in Europe.