CAIR-Chicago: Candidate’s Profiling Stand Angers Muslims
It started as a simple campaign tour to commemorate Sept. 11 and distribute more than 1,000 American flag yard signs in a western Illinois congressional district where the incumbent has been sidelined by Parkinson’s disease. But Republican candidate Andrea Zinga’s comments earlier this week about airport profiling and Middle Eastern men has set off a […]
CAIR-MI: New Site Proposed for Muslim Cemetery
CLAYTON TWP. – Local Muslims are hoping a tree-dotted field here will become a final resting place for their loved ones. Three years after Flint Township officials rejected Dr. Khaled Shukairy’s proposal to build an Islamic cemetery there, he has plans for a similar project north of Corunna Road that could potentially hold 2,453 gravesites. […]
CAIR-CT: Muslim Group Reports Threat
The Connecticut office of a Muslim civil rights group has told the FBI it received two phone calls Wednesday threatening retaliation against Muslims “if anything happens again in this country.” Hamza Ismail Collins, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the calls were made to a cellphone used by the group’s New London […]
CAIR-San Diego 1st Annual Banquet 9/17
CONNECTING AND SHARING BANQUET: 6 p.m., Sunday, September 17, at the Holiday Inn on the Bay, 1355 N. Harbor Drive. Sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations-San Diego. Keynote speaker will be Imam Siraj Wahhaj. Adults, $25; Under 12 yrs old, $5. CONTACT: (858) 278-4547
U.S. Muslims Call for Dialogue Over Pope’s Comments on Islam
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U.S. MUSLIMS CALL FOR DIALOGUE OVER POPE’S COMMENTS ON ISLAMCAIR seeks meeting with Vatican representative in Washington, D.C. (WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/15/2006) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called for increased dialogue between Muslims and Catholics over the controversy sparked by remarks […]
Israeli Expert: No Peace with Muslims, Ever
EXPERT: NO PEACE WITH MUSLIMS, EVER The Iranian government is seeking nuclear weapons in order to bring about an apocalypse, Professor Moshe Sharon, a professor of Islamic studies from the Hebrew University, told the annual conference at the Counter-Terrorism Institute in Herzliya Thursday. Sharon said there was “no possibility of peace between Israel and the […]
PA: Islamic Dress Goes High-Fashion
PA: ISLAMIC DRESS GOES HIGH-FASHION Muslim fashion is more than burkas and chadors. It’s a hot industry that is heating up in the United States, especially among African-American Muslims. Sakina Uqdah shops at the Al-Furqan Bazaar on the outskirts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at least once a week. “The skirts…I love the skirts and the pants […]
MD: Teacher Arrested, Accused of Anti-Islam Tirade
MD: TEACHER ARRESTED, ACCUSED OF ANTI-ISLAM TIRADEWoman Escorted From Maryland High School A Maryland substitute teacher was arrested after an alleged anti-Islamic tirade in front of high school students. Carol Joan McVey, 49, was charged with resisting arrest, trespassing, disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. Police said McVey became upset when she heard some students […]
CA: Jewish Leader Defends Award for Muslim
LOOKING FOR EXTREMISM IN THE WRONG PLACESEfforts to discredit two prominent Muslim activists are misplaced. [DANIEL SOKATCH is executive director of the Los Angeles-based Progressive Jewish Alliance.] Moments after I heard about the shootings at the Seattle Jewish Federation building earlier this summer, my phone rang. It was Salam Al-Marayati, the executive director of the […]
DC: Muslim Prayer in Pentagon Chapel
IN A PLACE ONCE SHATTERED, SERENITY A little before 1400 hours on Friday, Faisal Rana and Umar Abdul Wahhab prepared the Pentagon chapel for worship. Fridays are always busy at the chapel, on the Pentagon’s first level, E-ring, fourth corridor, about where American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the building that awful morning five years […]