Muslim ‘Eid’ Stamp Reissued at New Rate
The Eid stamp commemorating Muslim holy days was reissued Friday, the Postal Service said. The stamp, first issued in 2001, was released at the new 41-cent first class rate that took effect in May. The stamp observes the two most important festivals in the Islamic calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha… The image on the […]
MA: University has Female Muslim Chaplain
After three decades in the military, the ivory tower is a new deployment for Shareda Hosein, Tufts University’s first female Muslim chaplain. Yet the campus culture wars, while nonlethal, can be nasty. Interning as an adviser to the university’s Muslim Student Association before her appointment as chaplain last month, Hosein was present for the ruckus […]
McCain Casts Muslims as Less Fit to Lead
Senator John McCain said in an interview posted on the Internet on Saturday that the Constitution established the United States as a Christian nation and that his faith is probably of better spiritual guidance than that of a Muslim candidate for president. “I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was […]
MD: Muslims Provide Food, Clothing, Health Screenings
Mallory Terry, who lives on a Northwest Baltimore block in Upton where half the rowhouses are vacant, wasn’t expecting to see a throng of people collecting food and clothing outside the Ul-Haqq mosque when she took her two sons for a walk yesterday. After pausing briefly to ask if the bonanza was open to anyone, […]
DC: Judge Rules for Bearded Firefighters
A federal judge on Friday struck down a requirement that firefighters in the District of Columbia be clean-shaven. A group of firefighters who wear beards for religious reasons first sued in 2001 to challenge the fire department’s “grooming policy.” That policy was replaced with a safety policy in 2005 that held that beards are not […]
CAIR: McCain Doesn’t Want Muslim as President
GOP presidential candidate John McCain says America is better off with a Christian President and he doesn’t want a Muslim in the Oval Office…McCain later clarified his remarks, saying, “I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the candidate best able to lead the country and to defend our political values.”A Muslim […]
CAIR-FL: Panel Debates Role Prayer Plays
When we come together as a nation in times of crisis and pray, what is it that we are praying for?That question was posed during a recent panel discussion at Nova Southeastern University’s Alvin Sherman Library in Davie.The group met to review the public television miniseries Prayer in America, which addresses the question of how […]
CAIR-LA: Imam Devotes Sermon to Message of Peace
Imam Muzammil Siddiqi thought it would be a good time to reiterate his message of peace and tolerance. As hundreds gathered Friday at the Islamic Center of Orange County in observance of the holy month of Ramadan, Siddiqi devoted his sermon to taking a stand against violence and promoting human values.“My message is that Islam […]
CAIR-PA: Mosque Signals Diversity
Asra Husain’s life at Pennsbury High School was about sticking close to the only other Muslim girl in the school.The two students received special permission to pray in a quiet place during the day, and to be excused from the cafeteria during religious fasts. In middle school, classmates yanked the scarves off their heads.“It was […]
CAIR Supports VA Muslim Leader Smeared by ‘Islamophobes’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/28/07) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today offered moral support to a Virginia physician who is under attack from “Islamophobes who seek to demonize and marginalize the mainstream Muslim community and its leaders.&rdquo Dr. Esam Omeish, national leader of the Muslim American Society (MAS), was forced to resign from a Virginia […]