Muslims in the Military
While serving their country, they find time to pray to Allah at least five times a day. On Fridays, they recite their Jumah prayers in community worship, whether at the Camp Foster Chapel masjid on Okinawa or at a room set aside for them in the base chapel at Misawa Air Base, Japan. Like other […]
IL: Muslim Cabbies Get Tickets While Praying
Faisal, a taxicab driver who works at O’Hare Airport, wants to be a good cabbie while staying true to his Muslim faith. But Muslim cabdrivers are finding the latter difficult lately, as they’ve been hit with a rash of tickets for parking in access lanes leading to the airport terminals near where the city helped […]
DC Discussion: Media’s Role in West-Islam Relations
SPONSOR: The Center for Study of Islam and Democracy TOPIC/SUBJECT: holds a discussion on “The Role of the Media in West-Islam Relations” with Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. DATE: 9 a.., September 21, 2007 LOCATION: Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. CONTACT: 202-687-4328 [Note: RSVP to Brian […]
Inflating the Threat of Radical Islam
Most Muslims are not terrorist sympathizers. A recent Gallup poll found that only 7 percent of the world’s Muslims regard “the 9/11 attacks as completely justifiable and have an unfavorable view of the United States.” Nor do many of them yearn to stamp out our freedoms. “When asked what they admire most about the West,” […]
Neocon Hawks Go All-Out for Giuliani
They are officially known as Rudy Giuliani’s senior foreign policy advisory board, but they also could be dubbed something else: Neocons For Rudy. As in neoconservatives, the Republican faction that many see as among the most potent forces of Bush-era Washington – a well-funded, sharply analytical bunch that provided the ideological basis for invading Iraq […]
Democrat Rep: Pro-Israel Lobby Promoted Iraq War
Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) has again come under fire from local Jewish organizations for remarking in a magazine interview that the “extraordinarily powerful” pro-Israel lobby played a strong role promoting the war in Iraq. In an interview with Tikkun, a California-based Jewish magazine, Moran said the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is […]
Paper Profiles CAIR-MI Rep
He first felt the urge to convert religions when listening to the rhetoric of hip-hop lyricists such as south Bronx native KRS-One and the fiery-tongued Chuck D of Public Enemy.The rhythmic Islamic references in those seminal raps, mostly asides, caught his attention, he says, and inspired him to dig further. And so the black kid […]
CAIR-IL Rep Responds to Offhand Slur with Lunch
Mocking Chicago’s Unity Month should not be construed as mocking unity itself, however. One glance at Iraq is enough to remind us that sectarianism is one of society’s great malign forces, and we need to do all we can to make sure that it never takes root here. To do that, we need to talk […]
CAIR: Cartoon Poked Fun at Characters, Not Islam
Readers were confused and angry that “Opus” comic strips with a Muslim theme did not appear in the Aug. 26 and Sept. 2 Sunday print editions. The strips, created by Berkeley Breathed, were distributed by the Washington Post Writers Group and published on washingtonpost.com.Most of the controversy involved the Aug. 26 strip, which showed regular […]
CAIR: Airport’s Sinks to Help Muslims Carry Out Rituals
Three times a day during their shifts at the Indianapolis International Airport, more than 100 Muslim cab drivers wash their feet.In the parking lot where they wait to be dispatched, some fill plastic bottles with water and pour it over the right foot, then the left. Others clean their feet in the restroom sink.The practice […]