DC: Interfaith Dialogue Helps Promote Tolerance
People from different religious backgrounds can achieve a better understanding of one another’s beliefs and cultural traditions through interfaith dialogue, says U.S. State Department official Kareema Daoud. “Talking to other faiths makes us stronger in our convictions and helps us to understand our neighbors better,” Daoud said during an August 4 USINFO Webchat. “It is […]
Australia: Muslims Likened to Bird Flu
A NSW Senate candidate has compared the immigration of Muslims to Australia to the bird flu and says it should stop. Christian Democratic Party (CDP) Senate candidate Paul Green called today for a moratorium on Muslim immigration while a study on its social impacts was carried out. He said it would be easier to carry […]
Canada: Third Attack on Mosque Alarms Muslims
Minutes before prayers were set to begin on Sunday, a foot-wide slab of concrete came crashing through a window of a Mississauga mosque. It was the second time in less than a month that the mosque has been targeted by vandals, and Muslim groups are asking police to treat the incident as a hate crime. […]
Poll: 47% of Americans Say Anti-Muslim Prejudice Unjustified
A new Financial Times/Harris Poll of cross sections of adults in the five largest European countries and the United States looks at attitudes toward Muslims and finds differing opinions on Muslims as a threat to national security, prejudice towards Muslims and whether parents would object to a child marrying a Muslim. When it comes to […]
CAIR-MI: Muslim Charity Seeks Files
When FBI agents raided the Muslim charity Life for Relief and Development last September, they carted away computers and records but charged nobody and allowed the agency to continue operating. Nearly one year later, the charity is today asking U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds to order the return of nearly 200 boxes of paperwork […]
CAIR-WA: Release of Ferry Photos Resented
For Arabs and Muslims across the Puget Sound area, a rise in the nation’s threat level or a bombing halfway around the world often can mark a period of unease. In the years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, leaders in that community say incidents of profiling and harassment have ebbed and flowed – increasing […]
CAIR-FL: Prisons Suspend Special Meals for Jews, Muslims
MIAMI — Jewish inmates who follow strict religious diets at state prisons are no longer provided meals in line with their beliefs. Muslims must now eat vegan food to satisfy their religious requirements. The Corrections Department has ended the Jewish Dietary Accommodation Program, which provided kosher meals to not only Jews, but to Muslims as […]
CAIR: TN, AZ Muslim Families Finally Evacuated From Gaza
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/23/2007) – The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said today that two Muslim families, one from Tennessee and the other from Arizona, have finally been evacuated from the Gaza Strip with the assistance of the U.S. Department of State. The families joined two busloads of Americans who had been blocked by Israeli […]
Analysts: Israel Does Not Serve US Interests
A survey by a respected journal showing that 15 of 108 foreign policy elites in the US believe Israel does not serve US national security interests has raised eyebrows in Jerusalem. It precedes the publication in early September of a book by two US professors slamming the Israel-US alliance. The journal, Foreign Policy, on Monday […]
Incitement: ‘The Utter Hopelessness of Islam’
The first part of this sentence is correct, but the second part is not – the result of Muslims recognizing the “utter hopelessness of Islam” will not be a Kemalism with Arab characteristics (i.e., a suppression of Islam by a secular state) but rather a fundamental change in the Islamic faith itself. The reason Kemalism […]