A Black Muslim’s Perspective on the War on Terror
News & Notes with Ed Gordon, May 24, 2006 · Christopher Johnson reports on Yusuf Muhajir, a 58-year-old African-American Muslim — and a veteran of the first Gulf War — who has recently had some run-ins with Homeland Security enforcement.
CAIR-Chicago: Understanding Islam in the Modern World
CAIR-Chicago: Understanding Islam in the Modern World The goal of the event is to provide a forum for education and discussion around complex cultural issues that have strong implications in the lives of individuals and communities on campus and beyond. Speakers: Aminah Beverly McCloud, Ph.DProfessor of Religious Studies & Director, Islamic World Studies, DePaul University […]
U.S. Muslims Launch Volunteerism Campaign
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U.S. MUSLIMS LAUNCH ANNUAL VOLUNTEERISM CAMPAIGNCAIR effort focused on health, helping the needy, youth activities (WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/25/06) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on American Muslims to support its second annual campaign, called “Muslims Care,” designed […]
CAIR Launches ‘Muslims Care’ Volunteerism Campaign
CAIR Launches ‘Muslims Care’ Volunteerism Campaign In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful CAIR ACTION ALERT #492 CAIR LAUNCHES ‘MUSLIMS CARE’ VOLUNTEERISM CAMPAIGNSummer-long effort focused on health, helping the needy, youth activities (WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/25/06) – CAIR today called on American Muslims to support its second annual campaign, called “Muslims Care,” designed to […]
Distorted Images of Islam
Modern Europeans and Americans assume that Muslim women are invariable oppressed, it is by no means clear that Muslim women have always suffered from disadvantages in comparison with Christians or others. This is an instance in which very recent advances in Europe and America are somehow assumed to be an essential part of the West. […]
Conference Develops Islam Image, Integration
CAIRO – London will play host to a three-day conference to be attended by 140 Muslim academics and community leaders from 25 European countries to develop a moderate image of Islam in the West and improve integration of Muslim minorities. “We believe that Islam can contribute in a very positive way to European society to […]
IL: Special Meals for Muslim Military Personnel
Dietary requirements of Muslim and Jewish military personnel were long overlooked by the armed forces, leaving many strict followers to survive on peanut butter, fruits and vegetables, and cereal. Thanks in large part to two Chicago companies, these troops now have everything from lamb and lentil stew, and cheese tortellini, without feeling a burden on […]
CAIR-FL: Seminar on “Security vs. Liberty”
WHAT: The Council on American-Islamic Relations will present “Security vs. Liberty,” a civil-rights community forum. Guest speaker and author David Cole from Georgetown University and a panel of local law professors and civil-rights activists will discuss topics such as executive power in the war on terror and immigration and border security. Free. WHEN: Noon-2 p.m. […]
CAIR: Muslims Will Worship in New Mosques
As the sun beats down through the trees, the adhan, or Muslim call to prayer, wafts through the nondescript house on Centerville Highway in Snellville. Upstairs, about 18 men and women, Bosnians who resettled in metro Atlanta after the Balkan Wars, begin the Friday prayers and weekly congregational service. Their first place of worship was […]
Civilians Die in Raid on Taliban
AMERICAN-LED forces in southern Afghanistan claimed to have killed up to 80 fighters yesterday in a night-time airstrike on a Taleban stronghold as violence continued to spread in the region. However, the operation, about 30 miles from the second city of Kandahar, left dozens of civilian casualties. Local authorities said that 16 people had been […]