MI: Calls to Prayer Signal Change
Call to Prayer Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is messenger of Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is messenger of Allah. Come to prayer. Come to prayer. […]
MN: Muslim to Keynote Event at Capitol
A Muslim for the first time will be the keynote speaker at Tuesday’s annual Day on the Hill, when members of religious congregations learn how to become citizen-lobbyists. This is the first year that the Islamic Center of Minnesota has been a full member of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, which has sponsored Day on […]
Some Feds Think Govt Won’t Win Abu Ali Case
Newsweek March 7 issue – The confession came quickly, and it sounded damning. After a few days of allegedly rough interrogation, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali-a soft-spoken high-school valedictorian from the Washington, D.C., suburbs-either cracked or simply told his questioners what they wanted to hear. While studying in the holy city of Medina, Saudi Arabia, Abu […]
CAIR-CAN: Distrust Divides Canadians, Muslims
A controversial Muslim scholar who has been barred from entering the United States and France says Muslims and mainstream Canadians have a kind of “binary vision” that fosters mutual distrust and fear. “We live together, but we don’t know each other,” Tariq Ramadan said yesterday in a lecture at the University of Ottawa. “There is […]
Protests Planned for Iraq War Anniversary
NEW YORK – At Fort Bragg, the largest U.S. army installation in the world and home to the famed 82nd Airborne Division, the mood is not exactly buoyant. ”There are people here who are being deployed for the third time,” said Lou Plummer, a veteran with a son on active duty. ”At least 50 people […]
AZ: What Next…Internment Camps?
Regarding “Asleep about terror cells” (Opinions, Tuesday): I have known for years that Cal Thomas was somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan politically, but I was still shocked when I read his proposal to close “the mosques and radical Islamic schools that foment terrorism.” Perhaps Thomas would have us round up all Muslims and […]
CA: Muslims Realize Dream of Islamic Loans
PASADENA, Calif. – On a sunny afternoon, Yahia Abdul-Rahman ignores the broken air conditioner in his mortgage-finance company’s cramped Southern California office. Around him, three-dozen employees, some of them Muslim women veiled in scarves, toil amid the rising heat and stacks of paper clutter. Chief lending officer Syed Rehman, 64, his crumpled white shirt rolled […]
Con Artist Targets Muslims in Belgium
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is warning Muslims in Europe and elsewhere about a con artist who seeks money by impersonating well-known personalities in the Muslim world. (Muslims in the United States and Canada have also been targeted recently.) The con artist calls Muslim individuals and groups pretending to be with […]
CAIR-NJ Leadership Training Workshop
WHAT: Are Leaders Born or Made? Management vs. Leadership, which is more important? How to influence People? Please attend CAIR’s Leadership Factory workshop for answers that are both Islamic and beneficial. WHEN: 7 pm, Sunday, 3/5/05 WHERE: Islamic Center Of Passaic County, 152 Derrom Avenue, Paterson, NJ, (973) 278-7070 X 15 For more information, visit: […]
CAIR-NY to Hold Annual Banquet
On Saturday, April 16, the New York office of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) will hold its annual fundraising banquet and awards ceremony. WHEN: Saturday, April 16th, 6:30 p.m.WHERE: LaGuardia Marriott, 102-05 Ditmars Boulevard, East Elmhurst, New YorkCONTACT: CAIR-NY Executive Director Wissam Nasr, (212) 870.2002, E-Mail: CAIRNYbanquet@aol.com