The Arab American News, 5/9/2013

DEARBORN HEIGHTS -- Local civil rights groups have welcomed the Dearborn Heights Police Department's recent decision to provide halal food to Muslims who are detained in their custody.

In recent months, members of the Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan has held meetings with the Dearborn Heights mayor and police chief to discuss the need for the City's police force to better accommodate the community. These meetings have led to the recent halal food accommodation.

Max Blumenthal, The Electronic Intifada, 7 May 2013

On 18 April, three days after a bombing killed three and left many more wounded at the Boston marathon, a figure unknown to most Americans stepped suddenly into the national spotlight. At a nationally broadcast interfaith service addressed by President Barack Obama, a Mauritanian-born social media activist named Nasser Weddady appeared on stage as the designated representative of Boston's Muslim community. Introduced as the chairman of the New England Interfaith Council and the civil rights outreach director for the American Islamic Congress (AIC), Weddady delivered a well-received sermon referencing Jewish and Islamic scripture on non-violence.