CAIR: How has Muslim-American Life Changed?
Five years ago Monday, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington changed the country forever. Those attacks also changed attitudes and actions toward Muslim-Americans, says Parvez Ahmed, national chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Ahmed, an assistant professor of finance at the University of North Florida, speaks across the country and will address […]
CAIR-Chicago: Muslim Charities Struggle to Stay Open
In the years since 9/11, the government has continued to shut down local Muslim aid organizations that have never been convicted of a crime. Is this Bush’s idea of a ‘faith-based initiative’? Tools Last year, workers at a small Muslim social service agency in Virginia received a disturbing letter from their bank. After six years, […]
Save the Date: CAIR DC Banquet November 18
CAIR’s 12th annual banquet will be held on Saturday, November 18, 2006, in Arlington, Va. This year’s theme will be “American Muslims: Connecting and Sharing.”
The Post-9/11 Muslim Plight
THE POST-9/11 MUSLIM PLIGHT http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/10/sunday/main1990766.shtml
America’s Muslims After 9/11
AMERICA’S MUSLIMS AFTER 9/11 http://www.voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/Muslims2006-09-10-voa17.cfm
Media Coverage of US Muslims and 9/11
MA: MUSLIMS, OTHER FAITHS UNITE TO REFLECT, HEAL Adrienne P. Samuels, Boson Globe, 9/11/06 http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/11/muslims_other_faiths_unite_to_reflect_heal/ —DC: 9/11/06: MUSLIM STUDENTS REFLECT THE FALLOUT John Carlos Estrada, Daily Colonial, 9/11/06 http://www.dailycolonial.com/go.dc?p=3&s=2927—FL: LEST WE FORGET, MUSLIM CLERICS CONDEMNED ATTACKS Terrorists who killed thousands violated religious laws and received condemnationfrom scholars and religious leaders. News Press, 9/11/06 http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060911/OPINION/609110319/1015 —IL: […]
MA: Islamic Society Subpoenas Writer, TV Co.
A group building an Islamic center in Roxbury has subpoenaed a freelance writer and a Christian broadcasting company who have reported on the project, documents show. The Islamic Society of Boston issued subpoenas to Tamar Morad, a Waltham-based writer for The New Republic, and the Cambridge-based Christian Broadcasting Corp. as a part of its defamation […]
CA: ‘I Will Help You Because I am Muslim’
It was a Tuesday morning like any other. While I waited for my cousin to take me to Crafton Hills College, I flipped through the TV channels. Every station was airing the news and horrific images of two high towers falling down, fires raging, people running, screaming and crying. Five years ago, my English wasn’t […]
IN: Police Seek Motive in Slaying of Muslim
Northwest Indiana restaurant owner Naseeb Mohammed attended prayer services at his mosque on Friday, where local and federal law enforcement officers assured Muslims that they would be on guard against hate crimes as the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approached. Mohammed, 60, of Munster, Ind., was killed the next morning as he prepared […]
CAIR-OH: Jordanian is Building Cultural Bridges
Omar Alomari has experienced oppression firsthand. Born in Jerusalem, he grew up in Jordan when that country’s monarchy was decidedly more dictatorial. “It was absolutely brutal,” Alomari said. “There is no freedom whatsoever.” His father worked in the oil business, then the army. His mother was a homemaker. He had three sisters and two brothers. […]