MN: Photo Club Lets Muslim Children Explore Their World
MN: A LENS ON AMERICA As a lens zooms in on Hodan Ashkir, the girl in the royal blue hijab and long floral skirt flashes a bright smile, then turns her head, shying away faster than a camera set on auto-focus. “No, don’t take my picture,” she says, giggling. Twelve-year-old Hodan would much rather peer […]
CO: Muslims Reach Out to Demystify Their Faith
CO: MUSLIMS REACH OUT TO DEMYSTIFY THEIR FAITH When you think of the word Muslim you may not immediately think of inflatable kiddie castles and egg rolls sold under blue tents. But that may have changed if you visited the open house held Saturday and Sunday at Colorado’s largest mosque, 2071 S. Parker Road. The […]
Muslim Women Find Their Own Glossy New Image
MUSLIM WOMEN FIND THEIR OWN GLOSSY NEW IMAGE On just about every cover of Azizah, the first of a recent crop of American Muslim women’s magazines, is a woman who wears the hijab, or head scarf. The practice has drawn criticisms that Tayyibah Taylor, Azizah’s publisher and editor, is perpetuating stereotypes that she herself wants […]
IL: Islamic Group Provides Medical Understanding
IL: ISLAMIC GROUP PROVIDES MEDICAL UNDERSTANDING Can a Muslim ever use medicine containing pork products? Terminate a pregnancy? Use fertility drugs? For American Muslims, there isn’t anything like a Catholic magisterium issuing definitive policies. So who decides? “Some patients turn to Muslim doctors; others turn to imams,” said Shiraz Malik of the Islamic Medical Association […]
Threatening Holy Cities Is What Terrorists Do
A MECCA MISTAKE We expect the Muslim world to leap up as one and denounce its violent extremists and hold it against them when they do not. But do we do the same? How many of us even know who Rep. Tom Tancredo is, never mind that the Colorado Republican congressman and presidential candidate is […]
CA: Is Big Brother at Your Mosque?
CA: IS BIG BROTHER AT YOUR MOSQUE? On the first Friday of each month, Mohammed Elsisy, an Egyptian-born software engineer, usually drives from his home in Irvine, Calif., to the King Fahad mosque in Culver City, Calif., to deliver the khutba, or sermon. Elsisy thought the first Friday of this past June would be no […]
OH Muslim Cleared After Internet ‘Witch Hunt’
CAIR: INVESTIGATION CLEARS HILLIARD MAN Abukar Arman of Hilliard had a busy July: He cared for his four children, chaperoned Habitat for Humanity volunteers, lost his job and resigned from a Franklin County board. He has spent most recent days denying that he is an Islamic extremist and terrorist sympathizer, and contending that fair-minded people […]
DC: CAIR to Launch ‘Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism’ Book
REMINDER: CAIR TO LAUNCH ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA AND ANTI-AMERICANISM’ BOOK AT DC EVENT (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – On Tuesday, August 14, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will host a reading at a Washington, D.C., bookstore to launch “Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies,” a new book by Amana Publications. WHAT: Launch of “Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and […]
CAIR: Muslims Welcome GOP Rejection of Threat to Attack Mecca
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/6/2007) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed remarks by several Republican presidential candidates repudiating threats made by fellow White House hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) to attack Islamic holy sites. The Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group […]
At U.S. Base, Iraqis Must Use Separate Latrine
FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq The sign taped to the men’s latrine is just five lines: “US MILITARY CONTRACTORS CIVILIANS ONLY!!!!!” It needed only one: “NO IRAQIS.” Here at this searing, dusty U.S. military base about four miles west of Baqouba, Iraqis including interpreters who walk the same foot patrols and sleep in […]