PA: Muslim Leader Battling to Remain in U.S.
One of the leaders of the Pittsburgh Muslim community is being detained by U.S. customs and immigration officials who are preparing to deport him to Turkey, though he has lived in Pittsburgh since 1988 and raised three children here. Unless a pending appeal is successful, Imam Kadir Gunduz, 48, and his wife, Saime, of Texdale […]
Mosque Leaders Offer Hajj Travel
If you undertake the hajj, you pray for a reliable guide in Saudia Arabia. You make a pilgrimage half way around the world to walk reverently in the footsteps of Abraham and Muhammad. And while you are in Mecca, more than two million Muslims have many of the same needs. They’re on pilgrimage, too. In […]
CAIR: Hajj Exemplifies Equality
Muslims from all over the world are taking part in the largest gathering on Earth, the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca. The Hajj is a religious obligation that every Muslim must fulfill, if financially and physically able, at least once in his or her lifetime. During these historic days, white, brown and black people, rich […]
CAIR-FL: Balancing Muslim Causes, Effects
Some people liken Ahmed Bedier to the Rev. Al Sharpton: A rabble rouser, controversy seeker and media magnet.Bedier, head of the leading Muslim advocacy group in Tampa, shrugs off the comparison. After all, his is not a national platform and, so far, he’s avoided a political albatross like the 1987 Tawana Brawley incident that haunts […]
NY: Muslim Subway Hero Honored
It’s turning into a very happy Hanukkah for the Muslim good Samaritan who is credited with saving a Brooklyn college student from a gang of alleged Jew-bashing goons. A stunned Hassan Askari, 20, was handed a check for $5,000 by legal eagle Benjamin Brafman, who was touched by Askari’s subway heroics. “Wow. That’s amazing. Oh, […]
NY Muslim Helps Jews Attacked on Subway
A Muslim man jumped to the aid of three Jewish subway riders after they were attacked by a group of young people who objected to one of the Jews saying “Happy Hanukkah,” a spokeswoman for the three said Wednesday. The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating Friday’s incident on the Q […]
MS: Muslims Offer Public Meal to Mark Holiday
The Coast’s Muslim community, specifically those members of the Biloxi Islamic Center, will be celebrating a couple of holidays – the center’s president Sabree Rashid said both are “happy celebrations with prayer and food” – beginning Sunday with a public meal to mark Eid al-Adha. Special guests will be the city’s first responders, and the […]
CAIR-NV: Different Religions Have Own Seasons of Giving
Traditionally, people are more likely to think about giving to others during the holiday season, from the fall until when they ring in the new year. But many Las Vegans who follow the Islamic, Jewish, and Buddhist religions have their own seasons to give. “Most Muslims have a big emphasis on giving and charity in […]
CAIR-CA Welcomes Report on UCI, Muslim Students
(ANAHEIM, CA, 12/13/07) – The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today welcomed a report issued this week by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that cleared the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and a campus Muslim student group of anti-Semitism charges.The Department of Education […]
CAIR: What Would the Prophet Do in Teddy Bear-Case?
During last year’s protests over publication of the Danish cartoons designed to insult the Prophet Muhammad, I wrote a commentary called “What would Muhammad do?”Given the recent controversy over the jailing (she has since been released and is back in Britain) of British teacher Gillian Gibbons in Sudan for “insulting Islam” when her class of […]