CAIR-FL: Al-Arian Documentary Tours Country
Sami Al-Arian, a former professor in USF’s College of Engineering who was arrested in 2003 on charges of supporting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, will face a grand jury either today or Tuesday for refusing to testify in a hearing that took place Thursday.His case has received renewed national and international attention, partly thanks to a […]
CAIR-FL Panel to Discuss Security, Civil Liberties
(JACKSONVILLE, FL, 3/24/2008) – On Wednesday, April 30, the Jacksonville chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Jacksonville), in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the University of North Florida (UNF), will hold a panel discussion on national security and civil liberties on the UNF campus in Jacksonville, Fla.The panel will feature David […]
CAIR-MI Rep Speaks on Muslim Civil Rights
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 3/24/08) – A representative of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) addressed some 300 people yesterday at the American Moslem Society in Dearborn, Mich. on the history of civil rights issues in the Muslim community.CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid gave a talk titled “Muslims and Civil Rights: Our Past […]
CAIR-PA Chairman Honored with Interfaith Leaders
The Shalom Center in Mount Airy will host its Prophetic Voices celebration will Sunday April 6, 2008 at Congregation Mishkan Shalom, 1401Freeland Avenue, Roxborough.This year three national religious leaders along with three local leaders are being honored. National honorees are Ruth Messinger, head of the Jewish World Service who built a multi-religious campaign to end […]
Utah Muslims Honor Muhammad’s Birth
More than 1,400 years after he came into this world, Utah Muslims came together Sunday afternoon to honor the birth of the prophet Muhammad. Tins of homemade food – including chicken curry, kebabs and traditional desserts – lined tables and counters in Sandy’s Utah Islamic Center as about 300 people gathered to praise the founder […]
NJ: Muslim Activist Builds Tolerance, Understanding
It was some 40 years ago that Aref Assaf was a skinny boy living with his family in a Palestinian refugee camp. He saw something no boy should see — his 11-year-old brother shot to death, a few days after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War ended. Now, living a comfortable life in the suburbs, married and […]
NY: Jail Reaches Deal on Meals for Muslim Inmates
A county jail has agreed to provide Muslim inmates with meats prepared according to Islamic law, ending a three-year-long legal fight. Under a settlement approved by a federal judge in Manhattan on March 12, the Westchester County jail is serving four halal meat dishes a week for Muslim inmates who request them, the Journal News […]
NC: Defender of the Muslim Faith
Standing 5-foot-2 and wearing a Muslim head scarf, Khalilah Sabra doesn’t look like a firebrand. But the diminutive woman has become the voice for Muslims in the Raleigh area, and over the past few years has shown she will not be cowed. She recently took on a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security […]
FL: Muslim Students Balance College, Religion, Prejudice
Seema Karim and her mother were once stopped on the street by a woman who, upon seeing that the two were wearing headscarves, or hijabs, asked them: “Why are you still wearing that? It’s a free country!” Karim and Muslims across the nation have become the targets of prejudice following the events of Sept. 11, […]
Iraq: Security Flows from Hussein-Era Tactics
The city’s police chief, Col. Faisal Ismail al-Zobaie, a husky man with a leathered face and a firm voice that resonates with authority, ordered an aide to shut his office door. He turned to his computer. Across the screen flashed a video, purportedly made by the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the video, […]