MA: Jews, Muslims at Yale Start Blog for Dialogue
Yale students with opinions about the relationship between Jews and Muslims now have an online forum in which to air their thoughts. On Sunday night, Jews and Muslims at Yale (JAM) launched a new blog called “Jews, Muslims and Dialogue” that members said they hope will be a vehicle for discussion about issues ranging from […]
CO: ‘Bomb-Mecca’ Congressman to Retire
The immigration debates aren’t nearly settled, but Tom Tancredo has decided to leave Congress before it writes the next major chapter in national policy – presumably after next fall’s presidential contest. Odd? Not really. Tancredo’s reasons for stepping down at the end of his current term ring true. He’s tired of the incessant travel – […]
CA Muslim Sues Employer for Discrimination
In the beginning, 9/11 was a local story — it was the intimate grief and shock and incomprehension that so profoundly shook us those first days and weeks. Over time it morphed into something political, and we came to see the tragedy through the wide-angle lenses of foreign policy and law and the other spasms […]
VA: Candidate Targeted ‘For Being a Muslim’
Republican delegate nominee Faisal Gill said a voter recently asked him about his Muslim faith, saying, “At the end of the day, you are going to vote for your people?” “Which people?” Gill responded, saying that many Northern Virginia Muslims are Democrats and that he is often on the other side of issues. During a […]
DC: Religious Leaders Support Animal Protection
Religious leaders from many diverse faith traditions will carry a single message to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 7: Be kind to animals. . . Imam Qasim Ahmed, founder and director of the Islamic Learning Institute in Tampa, Fla., said: “Animals are beautiful creations from Allah and should be treated as such. As Prophet Muhammad (peace […]
TX: Restraining Order Extended Against Islamophobe
A judge extended a temporary restraining order against the organizer of a protest at the Six Flags Over Texas Muslim Family Day while he considers a request for a temporary injunction. Both sides made their cases in state District Judge Ken Curry’s court Monday afternoon as supporters of the injunction, most of them Muslim, watched. […]
Muslims Take Pride in Oklahoma’s Rich History
Alongside Oklahomans of all faiths and traditions, Muslims in Oklahoma take pride in the rich history of our state and the many accomplishments of its citizens. To honor the historic milestone of Oklahoma’s 100th year of statehood, the Governor’s Ethnic American Advisory Council of Oklahoma commissioned the printing of special edition Qurans inscribed with the […]
OK: Governor Won’t Disband Advisory Council
Gov. Brad Henry does not plan to disband his Ethnic American Advisory Council despite a lawmaker’s call for him to either abolish or overhaul the group. “The council should either be reformed to reflect its apparent mission or preferably disbanded,” said Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, in a prepared statement. Reynolds and several other law […]
Secret History of the Impending War with Iran
In the years after 9/11, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann worked at the highest levels of the Bush administration as Middle East policy experts for the National Security Council. Mann conducted secret negotiations with Iran. Leverett traveled with Colin Powell and advised Condoleezza Rice. They each played crucial roles in formulating policy for the region […]
The Cost of American Bellicosity Toward Iran
The Bush administration last week proceeded with its controversial decision to brand a branch of Iran’s armed forces – the Quds unit of the Revolutionary Guards – as a terrorist organization and impose new sanctions on Iran. Israeli officials have welcomed this American escalation of pressures on Iran, apparently considering it a foreign-policy achievement for […]