MN Man Agrees to Stop Sending Hate Mail to Islamic School
A man who says the Quran is a “terrorist manual” has agreed to stop sending offensive faxes to Minnesota’s only full-time Islamic school. Police said Steven Harhaj, 61, of Plymouth, sent anti-Islamic faxes to the Al-Amal in Fridley, as well as the Islamic Center of Minnesota, where the school is housed, and some Fridley city […]
MI: Muslim Americans Establish Own Schools in US
There are some six to eight million Muslims living in the United States and many Muslim children attend public schools. For decades, Muslim families relied on Islamic Sunday schools to teach their children about Islam and Arabic, the language of the holy Koran. But now some Muslim Americans are establishing their own Islamic academies, combining […]
OfficeMax Drops Michael Savage Ads Over Anti-Islam Bias
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/15/2007) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today announced that OfficeMax, a leading office products retailer, has joined a growing list of companies that have stopped advertising on Michael Savage’s nationally-syndicated radio program because of the host’s anti-Muslim views.CAIR recently reported that Savage, whose “The Savage Nation” airs on more than 300 […]
FL: Guantanamo Prison Manual Released on Web
Some Guantanamo detainees were denied Red Cross visits and mail, had criticism of the U.S. government or leaders censored from their letters and were at first isolated without Korans, according to a once-secret prison camps manual that suddenly appeared on the Internet. Military spokesmen confirmed the March 2003 policy manual was authentic, but they sent […]
CAIR-CA: LAPD Abandons Plan to Map Muslims
Police in Los Angeles have abandoned a controversial anti-terrorism plan that would have created a compute database of the city’s Muslim population, media here reported Thursday.Officials with the Los Angeles police department said they had planned to launch the mapping effort to better understand the Muslim community, rather than as a form of profiling or […]
IN: Janitor Firms to Negotiate Citing Islamic Law
Several janitorial firms operating in the Indianapolis area have agreed to negotiate a contract with the Service Employees International Union, which has been holding protests and other events downtown for two years to try to force the talks. Meanwhile, a clergy group that backs the union is taking its campaign against Indianapolis-based HDG Mansur Group […]
CA: LAPD’s Muslim Mapping Plan Killed
The LAPD on Wednesday abruptly scrapped a program to map the city’s Muslim population, a major retreat for a department that said the system was needed to identify potential hotbeds of extremism. The reversal comes after a week of protests from Muslim groups and civil libertarians, who equated the mapping with religious profiling. Others questioned […]
Richard Posner Favors Surveillance of All US Muslims
I guess we should be grateful that Richard Posner is airing the kind of theories that we may see turned into practice under a potential Giuliani presidency: Judge Richard Posner, a supposedly liberal-leaning jurist regarded by many as a future US Supreme Court candidate, said traditional concepts of criminal justice were inadequate to deal with […]
FL: Students Want Stronger Stand on Spitting Incident
A student group has started a petition demanding Florida Atlantic University take a stronger stand in denouncing an incident in which a school employee spat on a student protester. The incident happened Oct. 30 when some Muslims and their allies protested a speech given by Middle East historian Daniel Pipes, whom they view as anti-Islamic. […]
ME: Muslim Runner Claims Sand Thrown in Eyes
A police investigation into a claim that someone threw a substance in the face of a Somali runner during a regional cross-country race has raised fears of another racially charged incident targeting Lewiston Somalis. Mohamed Noor, Maine’s previously unbeaten Class A cross-country champ, fell from second place to finish 124th and reported afterward that someone […]