CAIR/Savage: Freedom of Speech Tested on Airwaves, in Court
The nature of free speech is that its boundaries will always be tested. Michael Savage–the nation’s No. 3 “conservative” radio-talk-show host behind Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity–is in business to test those boundaries. Hardly any group outside the Savage-defined mainstream is safe from his venom–not liberals, not gays, and, especially, not Muslims.On his radio show, […]
DE: Panel Probes Teacher’s ‘Muslim’ Obama Remark
A Delaware state human relations commission is investigating allegations that a fifth-grade teacher told her class she wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama because he is “scary” and a Muslim. The mother of a 10-year-old student complained, saying her daughter’s teacher made the comments during a mock primary on Super Tuesday last month at a southeastern […]
MN: Loan Programs Give Muslim Buyers Opportunities
It took more than two years, but Hassan Shire finally got a loan to start his business. He hopes to get a permit soon to build his cafe — Kushite Gourmet Coffee — on West St. Germain Street. “It was a happy ending,” he said through interpreter Mohamoud Mohamed, founder and director of the St. […]
VA: Class Teaches New Muslims About Faith
It may be one of the fastest growing religions in the world, but in the U.S., it’s a challenge for converts to Islam to learn about their new faith. Muslims are a minority here, with estimates of the population ranging from 2 million to 6 million, and they often come together in small groups to […]
Hijabs at a Harvard Gym
It’s a measure of America’s multicultural journey over the past half-century that we’ve gone from “God and Man at Yale” to Allah and Woman at Harvard. In a contretemps scarcely imaginable in William F. Buckley’s day, Harvard has closed one of its gyms to men for six hours a week so that Muslim women can […]
Doubt Cast on ‘Ex-Terrorist’ Claims
Zachariah Anani, a self-proclaimed former terrorist who now warns against Islam’s so-called teachings of terror against Canada and the West, is imagining his past exploits as a mass murderer, according to a top jihad expert. Tom Quiggin, Canada’s only court-qualified expert on global jihadism and a former RCMP intelligence and national security expert, said Anani’s […]
CAIR-CAN Challenges Legality of Case Against Gitmo Detainee
While Canada’s top court heard arguments Wednesday challenging the legality of the case against Omar Khadr, the Canadian terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, representatives from several non-governmental organizations renewed calls for the immediate repatriation of Khadr and the release of documents related to his case.“The full information is not being divulged, and […]
Canada: Muslim Driver Who Wouldn’t Remove Kufi Gets Job Back
McGregory Jackman, a newly hired bus driver for York Region’s VIVA transit system, said he was humiliated when an inspector with his contractor, Veolia Transportation Inc., sent him home for donning the kufi at work. “Just having to walk off the bus by someone telling you you can’t work because of your religious conviction, that […]
CAIR-LA Holds Forum on Japanese-American Internment
(ANAHEIM, CA, 3/25/08) – On March 21, the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA), in cooperation with the Orange County Islamic Foundation (OCIF), held the first of five community forums on “Manzanar Revisited: Civil Rights and Liberties in America.” The community forum sought to educate and energize Southland Muslims […]
MN: Suggestion that Academy is an Islamic School is False
The kind of responsibility, tolerance and accuracy that Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) works to promote among students was missing in Katherine Kersten’s March 9 column attacking our school. We agree with her assertions that our academic achievement is high and that more than 1,000 students are on our waiting list. However, most of her […]