VT: Coffee in Burlington Honors Victims of Bosnian Violence
Enver Sehovic watched Sunday from the steps of Burlington’s City Hall as passers-by poured coffee into hundreds of white, porcelain cups arranged on the brick promenade. His daughter conceived the memorial to honor the 8,000 Muslim men and boys systematically killed 16 years ago in Srebrenica, a city in Sehovic’s native Bosnia and Herzegovina. … […]
Ex-Firefighter Can’t Sue to Bar Mosque Near Ground Zero
A Manhattan judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a former New York City firefighter who is trying to stop the construction of an Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan. The former firefighter, Timothy Brown, sought to overturn a decision by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to deny landmark status for a 150-year-old building […]
Post-9/11, Sikhs Say They Are Mistaken Targets
Kamaljit Atwal’s neighborhood seems like an unlikely place for a hate crime. His street in this Sacramento suburb seems a model of diversity. Atwal and his family are one of two Sikh families on the block from India. On Atwal’s street alone, there’s a Vietnamese family, a Mexican family, a black woman and a white […]
CAIR-CA: Muslim Students Visit Japanese-American Internment Camp
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Bridging Communities program of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) recently took high school students on a three-day trek to Tule Lake, where 18,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were unjustly incarcerated during World War II. This site, the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, Tule Lake […]
European Human Rights Court Tosses Out Challenge to Swiss Minarets Ban
GENEVA — The European Court of Human Rights on Friday dismissed a challenge by Muslim groups to Switzerland’s minaret building ban. A panel of seven judges with the Strasbourg, France-based, court ruled that the people filing the lawsuits couldn’t claim to be victims. The ruling’s timing coincided with the Muslim day of prayer. Swiss voters […]
Ind. Islamic School Experiment Aboard Last Space Shuttle
CROWN POINT,IND. — When Atlantis takes off on the last U.S. space shuttle mission Friday, there will be a few local paramecium on board, thanks to students at tiny Avicenna Academy. “It’s a wonderful experience,” Principal Amanda Arceo said as she headed to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to witness the launch along with four […]
Muslims in America: On radicalization
Last week, we shared a few responses from Muslim readers discussing the place of Islam in America. This week, four Muslim women share their thoughts as part of our ongoing Washington Post series. Sarah Kajani, 23, a social media consultant from Atlanta, said radicalization seems “so far away” to American Muslims. “When it becomes part […]
Muslim Women Can Decide What to Wear on the Soccer Field
Just over a kilometre from where a monument stands honouring Canada’s “Famous Five” — activists from the 1920s who succeeded in getting women recognized as legal persons — a soccer game is scheduled to symbolize a similar struggle. To onlookers, the women gathering at Major’s Hill Park Thursday afternoon will appear to be playing a […]
Islam Has No Room for Terrorism
There are two groups promoting the concept that Islam is tolerant of terrorism. The first is those wishing to hijack Islam for their political purposes and have distorted and misquoted religious text to justify their abhorrent actions. The second are those who wish to spread fear and hatred of Muslims to suit their political or […]
Montana Muslim Students Coordinate Donation Drive to Aid Crow Reservation
Faisal AlSaad has been in the United States for less than a year, but he was profoundly moved when he saw news clips about the victims of the recent American disasters. “In Saudi Arabia we have the same disaster,” said the incoming Montana State University freshman from Saudi Arabia. “It is called masanada and everyone […]