MI: Focusing on Humility, Spirituality
Asad Hayat called it the experience of a lifetime. He was full of emotion Thursday in the Kalamazoo Islamic Center as he tried to explain his feelings, three days after returning from a spiritual journey he says has changed him forever. Hayat, a 24-year-old man born in Kalamazoo and raised in Portage, joined two other […]
Immigration Issue Fizzles Again
[Joshua Hoyt is Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights] One of the rituals of going after that elusive big-game target, the “Middle-America White Male Voter,” is the hunting trip. The day after Christmas, Mike Huckabee tromped through the Iowa fields with a contingent of newspeople. Huckabee’s hunting party bagged three […]
LA: Jewish-Muslim Alternative Spring Break
Never could I have possibly imagined a trip that would end with Jews and Muslims sharing their meals in the kosher cafeteria. Or with Muslims asking me if I am coming to Shabbat dinner on Friday night. Or with Jewish students sitting around a bonfire shouting “Takbir,” an exclamation Muslims use to proclaim the greatness […]
Tariq Ramadan: On Reading the Quran
For Muslims the Koran stands as the Text of reference, the source and the essence of the message transmitted to humanity by the creator. It is the last of a lengthy series of revelations addressed to humans down through history. It is the Word of God – but it is not God. The Koran makes […]
CAIR-NY: Muslim Groups Honor Subway ‘Good Samaritan’
A Muslim student who helped stop a Hanukkah attack on four Jewish subway riders is being honored for his actions.Several Muslim organizations, including the Council on American Islamic Relations, are presenting Hassan Askari with a Good Samaritan Award. One of the victims in the attack, Walter Adler, will receive an Interfaith Commitment Award.Adler has called […]
CAIR-CA: Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
Cinnamon Stillwell’s recent column in SF Gate, “Savage vs. CAIR: The battle over free speech” on Dec. 19 offers a holiday assortment of misleading truths and omissions of facts. In her misguided defense of the “Savage Nation” radio show, Stillwell essentially defends anarchistic hate against minority groups including African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, Catholics, Jews, […]
Islam Op-Ed: American Muslims Boost Political Activism
ISLAM-OPED: AMERICAN MUSLIMS BOOST POLITICAL ACTIVISMISLAM-OPED is a syndication service of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) designed to offer an American Muslim perspective on current political, social and religious issues. ISLAM-OPED commentaries are offered free-of-charge to one media outlet in each market area. Permission for publication will be granted on a first-come-first-served basis.Please consider […]
Muslim Group Launches 2008 Election Effort
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/02/2008) – A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today launched an effort designed to increase Muslim participation in this year’s state and national elections.The initiative by the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) includes a website and handbook intended to encourage civic participation and empower Muslims to play a more […]
GA: Fire Destroys Home on Mosque Property
Fire officials are investigating a “suspicious” Christmas morning blaze that destroyed a vacant home on the property of a mosque in Dalton. Whitfield County Fire Chief Carl Collins says graffiti with expletives was found inside the burned out three-bedroom brick house that sits on the same land as the future home of the Dalton Islamic […]
GA: Islamic Center Offers Reward after Suspicious Fire
A fire at a house owned by the Dalton Islamic Center is being called suspicious. The blaze broke out Christmas morning. Leaders of the Islamic Center are offering a $2,000 reward for any information that leading to the cause of the blaze. Fire officials say no power was connected to the house at the time […]