CAIR-CA: Pilgrimage to WWII Internment Camp
Every year, hundreds of people make the four-hour drive from downtown Los Angeles to the desolate, sun-scorched location of Manzanar, California, in order to pay tribute to the over 10,000 Japanese-Americans who were interned there during World War II.Since 1969, the Manzanar Committee has been organizing these annual pilgrimages, and this year’s program drew people […]
OR: Lawyers Fear Monitoring in Cases on Terrorism
Thomas Nelson, an Oregon lawyer, has lived in a state of perpetual jet lag for the last two years. Every few weeks, he boards a plane in Portland and flies to the Middle East to meet with a high-profile Saudi client who cannot enter the United States because he faces charges here of financing terrorism. […]
MI: American Muslims Pioneer a New Dating Game
It was an all-American college moment on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing: Tosif Khatri was laughing and chatting with two fellow students – both women – as they walked to a local cafe. But the buzz of Mr. Khatri’s cellphone popped the bubble. It was his cousin calling to invoke a bit […]
NJ: Muslim Cabbie Gets Medal for Returning $4M Violin
In the pre-dawn darkness, cabbie Mohamed Khalil drove away, unaware that his fares had not yet taken the third piece of their luggage from his minivan. He was also unaware that the case left on the seat contained a violin worth about $4 million, an irreplaceable 1723 Antonio Stradivari “Ex-Keisewetter” that was on loan to […]
IL: Legal Victory in Fight Over Terror List
For software exec Akif Rahman of Wheaton and Bridgeview filmmaker Oussama Jammal, international travel carries more than just the usual hassles. Rahman, who was born in Springfield, and Jammal, a U.S. citizen since 2001, have been stopped separately by U.S. authorities more than a dozen times. In one instance, Rahman says, he was shackled to […]
CA: Looking at People’s Phobia of Muslims
Does the fact that Barack Hussein Obama’s last name rhymes with that of the al Qaeda leader mean that he loves terrorists? Or how about that dangerous middle name? Should all women who wear head scarves be searched for weapons by airport security? Do we “know,” as some allege, what terrorists look like? The fear […]
NY Festival Showcases Films on Muslim World
Seven years after New York’s Tribeca neighborhood was shaken by the attacks on the city’s World Trade Center, the area has become a bazaar for movies about and from the Muslim world. The Tribeca Film Festival, started after the September 11 attacks in 2001 to try to rejuvenate lower Manhattan, has become the key destination […]
NY: Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School
Debbie Almontaser dreamed of starting a public school like no other in New York City. Children of Arab descent would join students of other ethnicities, learning Arabic together. By graduation, they would be fluent in the language and groomed for the country’s elite colleges. They would be ready, in Ms. Almontaser’s words, to become “ambassadors […]
CAIR/Video: Muslim First-Time Voters in the U.S.
CNN’s Rick Sanchez talks to first-time voters who are also Muslim about their perspectives on the issues.[NOTE: The voters in this segment are volunteers at CAIR’s Michigan chapter.]Click here to watch the video.
CAIR: CO Campus GOP Speaker Says Muslims Want to Kill You
When he was young, Walid Shoebat hated Jews. He had survived 1967’s Six Day War and was filled with vengeful malice after Israel defeated Arab allies and occupied, among other areas, the Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem.So, his hard-to-verify story goes, he joined the Palestine Liberation Organization, which vowed to take up arms […]