MN: Somali Students Celebrate Culture
Traveling abroad isn’t always necessary to gain cultural experience. The Somali Student Association is trying to help students realize there are many cultures to celebrate on campus. Northrop Plaza was filled with sunshine and people Friday to celebrate Somali Awareness Day. The Somali Student Association, which hosted the event, provided food, showed cultural art, traditional […]
CA: Through a Muslim Child’s Eyes
Tricia Brown saw him at the mosque, playing with other Muslim children after Sunday prayers. The little boy in the festive clothing was laughing and running with a red balloon. Later, he told her his name was Imran Azam. She asked the boy, then 6, several questions, including what he wanted to be when he […]
Torture: ‘People Were Begging For Mercy’
To stave off madness, Maajid Nawaz organised daily races between two pebbles flicked haphazardly across the floor of his solitary confinement cell. By night, he studied the stars through a skylight in the roof of his Egyptian prison. He had no lights, no toilet and no sheets. For months he talked to himself; his only […]
CAIR-FL: Al-Arian Deal
Details of Sami Al-Arian’s plea agreement emerged Monday after a federal judge unsealed documents related to hearings held last week out of public view. In it, the fired University of South Florida professor admits being a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and helping others associated with the terrorist group — including his deported brother-in-law […]
CAIR-Cleveland: General to Discuss Abu Ghraib at Banquet
Janis Karpinski, a former Army general at the Abu Ghraib prison, will speak April 30 at the Cleveland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ annual banquet and fund raiser. Karpinski has written a book about her experience at Abu Ghraib and how events there shaped the war in Iraq. Also addressing the Muslim civil-liberties […]
CAIR-Sacramento: Muslims to Rally in Support of Teen
(DAVIS, CA, 4/18/2006) – The Sacramento Valley office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) has announced that members of the local Muslim community and others will rally later today in support of Halema Buzayan, a Davis teenager whose family claims was the target of police discrimination. A Yolo County judge yesterday dismissed a hit-and-run […]
NPR: Diane Rehm Show Seeks Questions About Quran
NPR: Diane Rehm Show Seeks Questions About Quran National Public Radiohttp://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/specials/special_series_the_koran.php Just what does Islam’s holy book have to say about the nature of faith?. . .about Christians and Jews?. . .women?. . .jihad? In two previous shows, Diane put these and other questions to an Islamic scholar and a religious leader. On April 21st, […]
Italian Editor Apologizes to Muslims
ROME – The editor of an Italian monthly has apologized for any offense to Muslims over a humorous caption for a drawing showing the Prophet Muhammad in hell, Italian news reports said Sunday. The journal Studi Cattolici (Catholic Studies), which offers a variety of opinions on cultural issues, ran the caption and drawing in its […]
CAIR Welcomes Resolution of Al-Arian Case
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAIR WELCOMES RESOLUTION OF AL-ARIAN CASEGovernment decides not to retry Florida Muslim professor (WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/14/06) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed the government’s decision not to retry Sami Al-Arian, a Florida Muslim professor who remained in jail despite being […]
CAIR: FBI Clears Air at Town Hall Meeting
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The question came from a 19-year-old audience member: How does the FBI view the use of torture in conducting investigations? It was just the kind of thing Paul Moskal wanted to clear the air about when he agreed to field questions at a Town Hall-style meeting arranged by a Muslim-American television […]