How to Use Muslim in a Sentence
Muslim
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Later, Christian crusaders built citadels along the coast that went on to be repurposed by Muslim Ottoman rulers.
— Daniele Hamamdjian, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2024 -
When the Muslim call to prayer sounds in Tuqu, the Jews in Tekoa hear it, too.
— Ben Hubbard Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 June 2024 -
The Muslim maghrib prayer began soon after on the same blue tarp.
— Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2024 -
His team plans to craft executive orders designed to avoid the legal pitfalls that undermined his first-term policies, such as the Muslim ban, Politico reported.
— Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024 -
Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024 -
Aqsa was raised in Kuwait by South Asian Muslim migrant worker parents.
— Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024 -
Which is how Sadiq Khan—liberal, left-wing, Muslim—got sucked into the vortex.
— Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024 -
Not only are people scared, Rehab says, but now, no one seems to want to hear from Muslim Americans.
— Mark Morales, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023 -
He'd been born in Sierra Leone, was a practicing Muslim and came to Michigan to attend college.
— Monica Potts, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023 -
The Muslim Progressive Society helped raise enough money to send him to London to study.
— Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023 -
Ghalib, an immigrant from Yemen who is Muslim, leads a city that is believed to be roughly half Muslim.
— Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2024 -
And the Jewish community has been impacted, but the Muslim and people of Arab origin as well.
— ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023 -
For the past five years, a group of 10 women – three Jewish, three Muslim, three Christian, and one Baháʼí – has been meeting monthly to listen to one another.
— Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2024 -
Yassin, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was a figure of unlikely charisma.
— David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024 -
The Muslim Student Assn. had set up a table to pass out fliers and brochures, while a large white board displaying the demands of a coalition of dozens of student groups behind the protest stood prominently next to the tents.
— Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024 -
In videos shared online, soldiers can be seen singing in Hebrew using a mosque's loudspeaker system, usually used for the Muslim call to prayer.
— Hala Gorani, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023 -
But there are also Christian and Sunni Muslim enclaves.
— Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2024 -
Hamoudi’s sister is a devout Muslim and a supporter of Hezbollah.
— Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024 -
Starmer has also taken some criticism from Muslim Labour supporters over being slow to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
— Joshua Keating, Vox, 2 July 2024 -
As Sawyer enters the assembly hall with hundreds of period panties in hand, Muslim, Christian and secular girls cheer for her.
— Diane Farr, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024 -
This exchange has been adapted by several rap artists – including Rick Ross, who does not identify as Muslim, and turns the phrase’s meaning on its head.
— Jeta Luboteni, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023 -
On the one hand, she’s been part of the same administration that’s been involved in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and as a Muslim American, that’s an important issue to me.
— Morgan Smith,jennifer Liu, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024 -
Tensions had built up during the holy month, and in its final days, Israeli security forces confronted Muslim worshipers in a raid on al-Aqsa.
— Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024 -
According to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, the five pillars are the primary obligations a Muslim must fulfill in his or her lifetime.
— Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024 -
Carson was the second practicing Muslim to be elected to the House of Representatives and has long voiced support for Palestinians.
— Tyler Spence, The Indianapolis Star, 24 July 2024 -
And then, of course, the huge moments, like the Muslim ban, family separation—many of those children were lost in the foster-care system and never reunited with their families.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024 -
She was born a Muslim and became an atheist — as anyone might do after living under a perversion of religion.
— Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 20 Nov. 2023 -
Modi’s new cabinet, for instance, does not contain a single Muslim.
— Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2024 -
However, Palestinians in Bethlehem — Christian and Muslim — are in the depths of unending grief.
— Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023 -
Jewish, Muslim, pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian students have been forced to confront violent threats.
— Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
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