Video: Penn. Muslim Sues McDonald’s for Discrimination
Their motto is more than 99 billion served…but right now, they’re down at least one customer. A Whitehall woman says a local McDonald’s wouldn’t serve her because she is Muslim. So now, she’s serving McDonald’s with a religious discrimination suit. WFMZ’s Stephanie Esposito has the story. Click here to view the video. >>About this time […]
CAIR-TX: Church Plans to Build 150-Foot Tall Crosses
Grace Community church’s Tim Dillard says the idea is to change our moral compass. “What the crosses are there to do is shock people’s paradigm and get people to start thinking about doing something a little bit differently, I think.”But Humanists of Houston president Daniel Strain says the church’s money could be better spent. “I […]
1000s of Calif. Muslims Offer Prayers to Put Out Wildfires
(SACRAMENTO, CA, 7/11/2008) – The Council on Sacramento Valley Islamic Organizations (COSVIO) and the Sacramento chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Sacramento) today called on mosques and other houses of worship across the nation to offer prayers for rain to help put out wildfires currently raging in California. Thousands of Sacramento Valley Muslims participated […]
DC: Young Muslims Gather for Leadership Summit
Dr. Naba Sharif, a former pediatric resident at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, in Providence, was one of 25 Muslim Americans selected to speak with national political leaders and public officials shaping national policy during last week’s Young Muslim American Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. For Sharif, 28, a new graduate of Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical […]
CAIR: Young Muslim-Americans Gather to Network
It was a packed room Thursday on the first floor of the building that houses the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and even though the air conditioner was running full blast, it hardly made a dent in the conversational heat generated by the 50 up-and-coming Muslim-American leaders gathered to network with Hill staffers and snack on […]
MN: New Story Emerging About Imams Kicked Off Flight
Moments after boarding US Airways Flight 300 for Phoenix, Michael McCombie, a 3M sales rep from Santa Clara, Calif., jotted a note and handed it to flight attendant Terri Boatner: “6 suspicious Arabic men on plane, spaced out in their seats. All were together, saying ‘… Allah … Allah …’ cursing U.S. involvement w/Saddaam before […]
CAIR Calls New Yorker Obama Cartoon ‘Inflammatory’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/14/08) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy organization today called a satirical cartoon on the front cover of the New Yorker magazine “inflammatory” for its depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama intended to portray them as Muslim, militant, pro-terrorist, and anti-American.SEE: ‘Scare Tactic’ – Obama Slams Muslim Portrayal (Politico) SEE […]
NJ: Spanish-Speaking Muslims Find a Home
A common misconception about Islam is that all Muslims come from the Middle East. In fact, there are an estimated 6 million Muslims living in America. Not only do they come from all corners of the world, but many are born and raised in the United States. Here is one Spanish-speaking family’s story. These days, […]
Religion Can Help End Wars, Too
Karl Marx famously called religion the opiate of the masses. My political philosopher friend says Marx was wrong. Religion isn’t like heroin so much as meth, my friend says — something that can whip us into a jagged frenzy, put our teeth on edge, make us agitated, even violent. The specter of violent religion certainly […]
Former CIA Officer: Overstating Our Fears
Sen. John McCain has repeatedly characterized the threat of “radical Islamic extremism” as “the absolute gravest threat . . . that we’re in against.” Before we simply accept this, we need to examine the nature of the terrorist threat facing our country. If we do so, we will see how we have allowed the specter […]