KY: Bosnian Center Opens Mosque
Since moving to Louisville seven years ago, Zenita Bekric has visited many of her friends’ places of worship. But until yesterday, Bekric, a 20-year-old Bosnia native, was never able to repay the favor. When friends asked where she worships, she would reply, “Well, there’s this place and that place.” Now there is Kevser, a house […]
Demonizing: Terms Such as ‘Islamo Fascists’ Reflect Misunderstanding
The penchant for preparing to fight the last war is well noted. We’ve seen it in recent days in remarks by President Bush, a speech by U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum here in Harrisburg and, most notably, in a speech by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at an American Legion convention. As if reading from the same […]
VA: Muslims Say They Have Been Unfairly Targeted Since 9/11
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, law enforcement officials pledged an aggressive effort to choke off future plots. People identified as security threats would be charged as soon as a crime could be proven, even if it was well short of a terrorist strike. The Washington area, where seven of the 19 al-Qaeda hijackers spent […]
NY Panel: Protecting Civil Liberties and Security After 9/11
Muslim Bar Association of New York WHO: Two Panels of Civil Liberties AttorneysWHEN: Saturday, September 16, 1-6 p.m.WHERE: Pope Auditorium, Fordham Law School, 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NYCONTACT: eventinfo@muslimbarny.orgCOST: Free
American and Muslim: 6 Million People in Search of an Identity
A guy with brown eyes and dark skin and a thick American accent walks up to talk to me. I guess he’s an Iranian, possibly a Pakistani. Where’re you from, I ask? “Austin, Texas,” he replies. Fisk foiled again. But where do you originally come from I ask him? “I was born in Newark, New […]
U.S. Muslims Insist They’re American Too
Ihsan Saadeddin is proud to be an American. But he’s tired of having to prove it just because he’s a Muslim too. The Palestinian grocery store owner in Phoenix has called the United States home for 25 years and feels as American as the next guy. He met his wife in Arizona, sent his three […]
5 Years After 9/11: Typecasting Muslims as a Race
As the war on terror heads into its sixth year, a new racial stereotype is emerging in America. Brown-skinned men with beards and women with head scarves are seen as “Muslims” — regardless of their actual faith or nationality. Law enforcement measures, politicians, religious leaders and the media have contributed to stereotyping Muslims as a […]
CAIR-MI: US Muslims Plagued by Discrimination After 9/11
DEARBORN, Michigan — Discrimination and harassment by law enforcement have come to plague American Muslims in the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11. There have been suspicious looks, slurs, physical attacks, extra screening at airports and arrests on groundless charges. And it seems to be getting worse. A recent Gallup poll showed that […]
Encyclopedia of Quran Explores Concepts, People, Places
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE QURAN EXPLORES QURANIC CONCEPTS, PEOPLE, PLACES Washington – With the publication of the fifth and final volume of the Encyclopedia of the Quran, Georgetown University professor Jane McAuliffe believes she and her editorial contributors have filled an important gap in Western reference material on the text that more than a billion Muslims […]
MA: Exquisite Works of Islamic Art Come to Boston
EXQUISITE WORKS OF ISLAMIC ART COME TO BC The art of Islam dances with scripts, arabesques, and intricate patterns that unfold like blossoms. Perhaps because of the Koran’s edict against idolatry, many Muslim artists through the ages have invested their energy not in representational work, but in covering ceramics, glass, architecture, and textiles with magnificent […]