As details emerge of the murder of 59 people with over 500 injured in Las Vegas, the worst gun crime incident in American history to date, all of our thoughts and prayers are with the victims who have died, those who are injured and those around them. Our thanks and gratitude go to the emergency services and passersby who lent a hand.

As Americans remain shocked of the recent neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia, members of the Muslim community were among the early responders, participating in interfaith vigils and promoting a message of unity.

What he failed to do however was to clearly acknowledge this as a terrorist incident, instead he referred to ‘hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.’

Muslims in Portland, Oregon, thanked the community for its support and said they were raising money for the families of two men who were killed when they came to the defense of two young women, one of them is a Muslim, who were targeted by an anti-Muslim rant.