Christian Leaders Praise Muslim Letter’s Interfaith Goodwill
Perhaps it says something about the complexities of Christian/Muslim relations that a recent letter from 138 senior Islamic clerics and scholars to Christian leaders has drawn Catholic reactions ranging from cautious optimism to almost breathless enthusiasm, yet no one seems ready to predict that it will actually make any difference. Addressed to Pope Benedict XVI […]
Prof: Arab Americans Face Racial Tension Post-9/11
Not surprisingly, Arab Americans do not form their opinions on foreign policy issues in conformity with general patterns, but neither are they entirely different. To emphasize the similarities would deny the uniqueness of the group just as emphasizing the differences would take the group out of history and out of the country, as if nothing […]
NJ: Wife of Fort Dix Plot Lawyer Smeared by Political Opponent
A court-appointed lawyer for a defendant accused of plotting an attack on Fort Dix said Tuesday that a campaign mailer suggesting that his wife, a political candidate, might be sympathetic to terrorists could taint the jury pool. Attorney Michael Riley said told U.S. District Court Judge Robert Kugler that the ad could sway potential jurors […]
NJ: Judge Calls Campaign Flyer ‘Despicable’
The straight-and-narrow proceedings of federal court took a striking political detour yesterday during a hearing in Camden for six men accused in a terror plot against Fort Dix. The U.S. district judge presiding over a pretrial hearing for the group known as the “Fort Dix Six” threw sharp words from the bench when shown a […]
African Fishermen Find Conservation in Quran
For years, Salim Haji was told by government officials and international groups that his methods of fishing were destroying the coral and weren’t sustainable. But few fishermen on this small island off Tanzania’s coast paid much heed. Then, the local imam told him that using dragnets to fish and spears to catch octopuses was wrong. […]
DC: Hughes, Loyal Bush Adviser, Leaving State Dept.
Karen P. Hughes, one of the few remaining members of President Bush’s circle of longtime Texas advisers, said today that she will return to private life, stepping down as the head of public diplomacy at the State Department sometime in December. Karen P. Hughes, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, announced her decision to resign […]
CAIR: Fear Used Against Muslim Charity
Against heavy odds, the American justice system has prevailed once again.After 19 days of deliberation, a jury in Dallas did not return even one guilty verdict on almost 200 charges brought against officials of the Holy Land Foundation Muslim charity.This marked the third time that government prosecutors failed to win a conviction in a high- […]
RI: CAIR Rep Joins Panel on Islamophobia, Anti-Americanism
In a lecture sponsored by the University of Rhode Island’s Muslim Student Association, a panel of speakers said that poor relations between Americans and Muslims are due to faults from both sides.Bill Bartels, a philosophy professor at the University of Rhode Island, Omer Bajwa, a Muslim Chaplain at Cornell University, and Dr. Mohamed Nimer, a […]
CAIR: US a Model of Islam for the World
I wrote an essay printed in this column last May in which I asked the question: “Where are the moderate Muslims?” My point was since only Muslim terrorists are mentioned in the daily news and in the absence of moderate Muslims stepping up and distancing themselves from these terrorists, it is possible that all Muslims […]
CAIR-FL: Pipes a Middle East Expert or Islamophobe?
A controversial Middle East historian is expected to generate protests today when he speaks at Florida Atlantic University about vanquishing “the Islamist enemy.”Daniel Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, will speak at 7 p.m. at the Live Oak Pavilion, adjacent to the Student Union at FAU’s Boca Raton campus. The Middle East & […]