Muslims Balance Traditions, U.S. Culture on Path to Marriage
MUSLIMS TRY TO BALANCE TRADITIONS, U.S. CULTURE ON PATH TO MARRIAGE – TOP Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5/27/08 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052602150.html As imam of one of the Washington region’s largest mosques, Mohamed Magid counsels married couples, including those with a problem he sees among Muslim Americans: husbands and wives who were virtual strangers before they wedded. Islamic […]
Joe Lieberman to Headline Pastor Hagee’s Upcoming Summit
Senator Joseph Lieberman is scheduled to headline Pastor John Hagee’s 2008 Christians United For Israel Washington-Israel Summit this July 22. In accepting Hagee’s invitation, Lieberman became the most senior elected representative confirmed to appear at the annual gala. Last year, when Lieberman spoke at Hagee’s summit, he compared the Texas televangelist to the biblical prophet […]
CAIR: Israelis and Arabs Walk Into a Film …
Adam Sandler’s comedies can usually be distinguished — if that’s the right word — by setups so improbable that they border on the ridiculous, from the re-education of a man forced to complete grades 1 through 12 (“Billy Madison”) to the sham gay marriage of two heterosexual firefighters (“I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”). […]
First Muslim US Army Chaplains Leaving Europe to Teach in States
SCHWETZINGEN, Germany — The preacher in the pulpit is talking about justice and truth and an all-knowing God while a barefoot little girl clad in bright yellow and green gleefully gallops across a prayer rug. It’s a Friday afternoon at Tompkins Barracks in Schwetzingen, and the longest-serving imam in the U.S. military is addressing a […]
FBI Counterterrorism Division ‘Inexcusably Understaffed’
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is battling a real “good news — bad news” situation within their ranks. Bad news first: The FBI’s highest-ranking Arab-American agent told a congressional panel this week that he is not being allowed to work on important counterterrorism assignments, despite a shortage of agents who speak Arabic. The good […]
NJ: New Student Magazine Celebrates Muslim Culture
Muslim culture features many prominent achievements in architecture, literature and science. Yet awareness of these accomplishments, according to a group of Princeton University students, is low. So to highlight the achievements, 12 of the students have created a magazine called Misbah. It means “lamp” in Arabic, to illuminate the study of the Muslim world and […]
CA: Muslims Reach Out on Health Care
The Islamic star and crescent moon adorn the sign at the UMMA Medical Clinic, and quotations from the Quran are written in Arabic on the walls. But inside the South Los Angeles clinic, it would be unusual to find a Muslim patient – or staff member, for that matter. A few miles away, in Harbor […]
CA: Mayor Attends Mosque Ground-Breaking
Political and religious leaders gathered Friday to celebrate the coming of a new worship center in the north end of town. Imam Faiz Shah and about 200 others gathered with Mayor Mark Nuaimi and members of the City Council to break ground on land at Sierra and Miller avenues where the Building of the Masjid […]
FL: Interfaith Meeting Celebrates Unity
They arrived as strangers filled with questions and perhaps a bit of fear, but they left smiling with vows to meet again. About 70 people gathered in late April at the Islamic Center of South Florida in Pompano Beach for an interfaith event that was designed to bring together Jews, Christians and Muslims — and […]
Lawyer of Accused Ex-Aipac Official Says Community Forsaking Its Own
More than three years after the American Israel Public Affairs Committee fired two senior staffers who were targets of a federal investigation, a lawyer for one of the men is accusing the pro-Israel lobbying organization and the broader American Jewish community of mistreating and abandoning the defendants. The charge was made by Washington power-attorney Abbe […]