CAIR: Lawsuit Seeks Search Clarity
Nabila Mango, a therapist and a U.S. citizen who has lived in the country since 1965, had just flown in from Jordan last December when, she said, she was detained at Customs and her cell phone was taken from her purse.After her phone was returned, Mango noticed records of calls had been erased.Maria Udy, a […]
CAIR-CA: Esposito Seeks to Redefine ‘Jihad’
John Esposito took the podium at Cubberley Auditorium last night, kicking off the second installment in the Islamic Awareness Series “Jihad to Reform.” Targeting the issues of America’s perception of Islam, the Georgetown professor of religion and international affairs aimed to complicate rather than simplify the definition of Islam.“Dying for God? Suicide Terrorism and Militant […]
FL: We Turn Away the ‘Muslim Martin Luther’
A Muslim scholar trying to shape a theologically honest means for Muslims to live at peace in the West can’t get a visa to visit the United States. The State Department may be its own worst enemy. Tariq Ramadan was one of four prominent scholars to address a January conference “Religion and Violence: Untangling the […]
CA: Homeland Security Sued for Policy Information
Nabila Mango, a therapist who works in San Francisco, flew home in December after a trip to the Middle East and says customs agents detained her and asked her to identify everyone she had met and all the places she’d slept. Amir Khan, a tech consultant from Fremont, says he’s questioned for hours each time […]
NJ: Professor Honored for Book on Islamic Thought
Michael Cook, Princeton’s Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, has been awarded a Farabi International Award by Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology for his book “Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought.” Cook received the award, which recognizes achievement in the humanities, at a ceremony in Tehran in January. […]
PA: New Class Examines Islamic Extremism
A new topics class being offered by the PSU History Department this semester is giving students insight into extremist Islam. Steve Harmon teaches the class, called World Radical Islam, to about 20 students, most of them American. Part of the reason Harmon wanted to teach this class is to show students how radical Islam differs […]
NY: Police Analyst Alleges Anti-Muslim Bias
A Muslim analyst for the New York City Police Department Intelligence Division can push forward with his lawsuit against a former CIA official who is accused of denigrating Islam in e-mails sent around the police department. A federal judge, Barbara Jones of U.S. District Court in Manhattan, declined to dismiss the employment discrimination lawsuit yesterday. […]
CT: Islamic School is Growing
Uzair Mudaqi gripped his No. 2 pencil and practiced writing his letters on the wide, horizontal lines that stretched across the white paper in front of him. And although a primary-colored ABC’s carpet lay across the floor, Uzair, 5, wasn’t working on the English alphabet. Instead, he focused on forming Arabic characters. The kindergartner is […]
Mukasey: Justice Dept. ‘Cannot’ Probe Waterboarding
The attorney general yesterday rejected growing congressional calls for a criminal investigation of the CIA’s use of simulated drownings to extract information from its detainees, as Vice President Cheney called it a “good thing” that the CIA was able to learn what it did from those subjected to the practice. The remarks reflected a renewed […]
America’s Single Issue ‘Pro-Israel’ Crowd
On Tuesday, millions of voters in 21 states made their choice for president. Super Tuesday marked the end of the preliminary stage of “The Making of the President 2008” and will move us very close to the main event. From a roster of more than a dozen potential presidents, we are now down to just […]