CAIR Co-Sponsors Appreciation Dinner for Muslim ‘Hero’
(NEW YORK, NY, 1/09/2008) – Some 150 people recently attended a dinner co-sponsored by the New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey chapters of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Tri-State Muslim Media and other Muslim organizations, in honor of a Muslim college student who had intervened on behalf of four Jewish subway passengers during […]
CAIR: US Muslims Put Political Activism in Overdrive
Those seeking the White House in 2008 may want to take note of an increasingly active and growing group of voters – American Muslims. Muslims are now viewed as potential swing-voters in key battleground states such as Florida, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. For example, more than 60 Muslim get-out-the-vote volunteers in an Ohio […]
NY: Look Beyond News to Learn Islam’s Teachings
With the assassination of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, and the unremitting bloodshed in Iraq and elsewhere, we experience what can only be called violent expediency in the name of religion. It is known that Islam forbids suicide, and the most conservative Muslim scholars, including Sheikhs Ibn Baz, Albaani and Uthaymeen, issued […]
NY: New Principal for English-Arabic School
On Tuesday, the New York City Education Department named an educator who has a “working knowledge” of Arabic as principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the embattled Brooklyn school whose founding principal resigned under pressure after being quoted as defending the word “intifada” as a T-shirt slogan. The new principal, Holly Anne Reichert, 42, […]
NY: Passengers Report Muslim Men ‘Counting’ on Trains
After 9/11, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority coined the slogan, “If you see something, say something,” and put it on posters encouraging subway and bus riders to call a police counterterrorism hot line if they encountered anything suspicious. Then, last July, the authority trumpeted results on new posters and in television ads: “Last year, 1,944 New […]
CAIR: Who Shapes Candidates’ Foreign Policy Opinions?
Lawrence Korb, now working for Sen. Barack Obama, doesn’t like the way American foreign policy has been conducted by George W. Bush.In an interview last fall, Rep. Peter King complained that “we have too many mosques in this country.” That caused a stir, especially since the New York Republican is among those advising presidential candidate […]
New Jersey Weighs Tougher Hate-Crime Law
The state Assembly on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill to toughen the state’s hate crime and bullying laws. The bill, which had passed in the state Senate unanimously, now heads to desk of Gov. Jon S. Corzine. He is expected to sign it into law. The measure amends an existing bias intimidation law by adding […]
CAIR: Why US Muslims Live in Peace
Wherever you have a Muslim community, you’ll find trouble, you’ll find friction, you’ll find national-religious demands, and you’ll find terror. Isn’t that so? No, it isn’t, at least not where the Muslim community in the United States is concerned.At a time when European countries are debating among themselves about how to deal with the burgeoning […]
‘Organized Islamophobia’ in the West
The Swedish far-Left, anti-racist organization Expo recently released a publication ( pdf, in Swedish) entitled “Kriget mot islam,” “The war against Islam,” in which they worried about an increasing trend towards “organized Islamophobia” in the West. According to them, “Parallel with the growth of SIOE, a new anti-Islamic network of academics, bloggers and politicians is […]
Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy
In their new book, Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy, coauthors Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg explore a largely unexamined phenomenon – the “deeply ingrained anxiety” some Westerners, and especially Americans, experience when considering Islam and Muslim cultures. Peter Gottschalk, professor of religion at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and the author of Beyond Hindu and Muslim, […]