INCITEMENT: Cartoon Shows Bombs Given to Kids at Mosque
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WA: Muslim Magazine Treads Carefully
By 5:30 on a recent Sunday morning, when most people in his suburban Issaquah neighborhood were still asleep, the unpaid publisher of Washington’s largest Muslim magazine was already hard at work in his tidy den. After morning prayers, Nazeer Ahmed Basheer, who on weekdays works for a cellphone company, sat at the computer doing his […]
DC: Judge to Resolve Debate Over Muslim Firefighters’ Beard
To D.C. fire officials, beards are a safety hazard — interfering with the seal between the firefighter’s skin and oxygen mask. The department wants to bar firefighters from growing any facial hair that affects the fit of the protective gear. To firefighter Calvert Potter and others on the force, beards are an expression of their […]
You Can’t Fight Terrorism With Racism
During my day job I work under the title of deputy editorial page editor. That entails paying more than passing attention to articles that appear on the op-ed page. Opinion writers, in my view, should have a wide range in which to roam, especially when it comes to edgy, thought-provoking pieces. Still, I wasn’t quite […]
MN: Those Who Accuse Muslims of Silence Aren’t Listening
Where are the moderate Muslims? And why aren’t they condemning the terrorist attacks in London and the Middle East? Is their silence a sign of tacit or even overt support for the killings? Or is it that they’re afraid of retaliation? In short, why aren’t Muslims speaking out against terrorism? Since 9/11, this question in […]
Being Muslim in a Mad, Sad World
Since I began working as an editor in The Post’s foreign section a year ago, I have come into the office every day hoping only one thing: Please do not let there be another story about a bloody attack perpetrated by extremist Muslims. Not in Iraq, Britain, Egypt, not anywhere. I’m often disappointed. Raised in […]
FL: Muslim-Jewish Wedding Has Lessons for Today
In the car on the way to my daughter’s wedding I realized I had forgotten a scarf. I was sitting in the back seat between the bride and the groom. My husband was driving, and my ex-husband, father of the bride, was in the passenger seat. My daughter immediately picked up her cell phone. “Sarah?” […]
Bangladeshis Protest Tancredo’s Mecca Remark
DHAKA (Reuters) – Thousands of Bangladeshi Islamic activists staged a noisy protest in the capital Dhaka on Friday after a U.S. congressman suggested the United States might consider bombing holy sites, including Mecca. “Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest)”, “Be Aware Bush-Blair”, “World Muslims Unite to Fight U.S.-British Aggressions,” protesters chanted. U.S. Republican Tom Tancredo […]
CA: Muslims Feel Targeted at Mosque
As members of a Pomona mosque gathered for prayers Friday, they tried to make sense of vandalism at their religious center this week. Some Muslims suspect the incident was a hate crime, although police said it was too soon in the investigation to declare it so. Imam Ridha Hajjar told about 50 people gathered for […]
CAIR-FL: Muslim Campaign Rejects Terror, Extremism
PEMBROKE PINES ”” Florida’s Muslim community on Friday launched a public relations campaign designed to deliver a unified message condemning terrorism and extremism. Nearly a dozen South Florida Muslim leaders flanked Altaf Ali, Florida’s executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, during a news conference to declare that there is no justification for violence […]