MI: Dearborn Christians Reach Out to Muslims
DEARBORN — Don Storteboom drives past a $14 million mosque topped by a golden dome, stores with Arabic signs and tidy brick homes where Muslim women in head scarves congregate on porches. “God put these people in our back yard,” says Storteboom, a Grand Rapids native and member of the Christian Reformed Church of Dearborn. […]
Lebanese Baby’s Body Parts Hung from Trees After Attack
TYRE – A baby was sliced into three and body parts hung from olive trees as the full force of Israeli military might hit rural southern Lebanon Thursday.In the deadliest Israeli strikes in a decade, at least 39 people were killed. As the south came under a relentless air assault that destroyed vital bridges linking […]
Children Die as Israel Widens Lebanon Assault
Israel steeply escalated its military campaign against Hizbollah in Lebanon yesterday with a series of air strikes that left more than 35 civilians dead, including a single strike on a convoy of families fleeing the fighting in a village near Tyre in the south of the country that killed more than 20 people, most of […]
CAIR-MI: For Michigan, Middle East Conflict is Local
NEW YORK With a high concentration of Lebanese-Americans, Detroit and other Michigan cities are experiencing the current conflict in the Middle East as a kind of local issue. Protests and citizen gatherings have been held throughout the area. Not just Muslim but Christian groups have become involved, as there are many Christians in Lebanon. . […]
Israeli Air Strike Kills 8 Canadians in Lebanon
Eight Canadians were killed and six others seriously wounded in an Israeli air raid that hit a Lebanese town on the border with Israel on Sunday, Ottawa says. (MORE) CONTACT: CAIR-CAN Communications Director Halima Mautbur, 613-254-9704 or 613-795-2012; CAIR-CAN Executive Director Karl Nickner, 613-254-9704 or 613-853-4111
The Truth About the Israel Lobby’s Influence
Thanks to the work of the lobby and its allies, Israel gets more direct foreign aid — about $3 billion a year — than any other nation. There’s a file cabinet somewhere in the State Department full of memoranda of understanding on military, diplomatic and economic affairs. Israel gets treated like a NATO member when […]
Muslims, Mosques in ME, TN, IN Targets of Hate
DEARBORN – American Muslims go to their places of worship increasingly under the fear of intimidation and violence. Bigots are launching hate attacks on Muslims at their places of worship with seeming impunity; their onslaught ranges from the frightening to the bizarre. The Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR) said that the attacks are “increasing,” but […]
ACTION: Contact Congress to Condemn Israeli Attacks
ACTION: Contact Congress to Condemn Israeli Attacks ACTION: URGE CONGRESS, PRESIDENT TO CONDEMN ISRAELI ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS http://www.cair.com/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=436&theType=AA
U.S. Muslims Condemn Israeli ‘Massacre’ of Lebanese Civilians
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful BREAKING NEWS IMPORTANT NOTE: Urge your friends, relatives and colleagues to sign up to receive CAIR-NET updates by going to: http://cair.biglist.com/cair-net/ —– U.S. MUSLIMS CONDEMN ISRAELI ‘MASSACRE’ OF LEBANESE CIVILIANS At least 12 Lebanese civilians killed in convoy fleeing Israeli threats (WASHINGTON, DC, 7/15/06) – A […]
Canada: Islamic Values and Capitalism Find Common Ground
In a forum on muslim-investor.com, a Muslim investor asks an Islamic scholar if it is halal, or permissible, to profit from an investment that nearly doubled in a short period of time after the company was acquired by a Japanese firm. It’s an easy call for most investors but the scholar weighs the issue and […]