NY: Arab Boy Bound, Beaten in Class
NY: ARAB BOY BOUND & BEATEN IN CLASS, SUIT SAYS Two Brooklyn schoolgirls allegedly bound a boy of Arab descent with tape, locked him in a classroom closet and bombarded him for eight minutes with ethnic slurs before their substitute fourth-grade teacher did anything. The shocking charges are laid out in a lawsuit filed in […]
U.S. Christians Voice Support for Palestinian State
U.S. CHRISTIANS VOICE SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIAN STATE In recent years, conservative evangelicals who claimed a biblical mandate to protect Israel have built a bulwark of support for the Jewish state – sending donations, denouncing its critics and urging it not to evacuate settlements or forfeit territory. Now more than 30 evangelical leaders have stepped forward […]
Tariq Ramadan: Muslims and Anti-Semitism
TARIQ RAMADAN: MUSLIMS AND ANTI-SEMITISM The responsibility of the Muslims and the Jews in the West is tremendous: living together, both citizens of the same countries, they should raise their voices in the name of justice and mutual respect. In France, for example, one finds a unique situation; namely, the largest Jewish and Muslim communities […]
Hamza Yusuf: Holocaust Denial Undermines Islam
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature and basis of knowledge. How do we know things? It also studies the veracity of “truth.” How do we know the difference between belief, knowledge, opinion, fact, reality and fantasy? The Greek philosopher, Carneades, believed that knowledge of reality, of what is true or false, […]
WI: Somalis Go Small Town, USA
Immigrants to rural Wisconsin find an uneasy welcome in ‘the land of opportunity A postcard of small-town Wisconsin from any time in the last 100 years could look a lot like this place: lush fields on the outskirts dotted with barns, silos and dairy cows; a well-kept main street with one of those old-fashioned variety […]
MN: More Muslim Girls Playing Soccer in Hijab
DRESSED IN HIJAB: MORE MUSLIM GIRLS PLAYING SOCCER For a couple hours every morning, Muna Sanyare steps away from her duties as baby sitter, caretaker and student. On a St. Paul practice field, she becomes a soccer star. Never mind that Muna, 15, plays in bare feet under a flowery red skirt. She can kick […]
VA: Muslim Community Stands Up for Peace
VA: MUSLIM COMMUNITY STANDS UP FOR PEACE It was the promise of food, not drugs, that brought neighborhood residents out to a recent murder scene on Worsham Street. More than 50 people stood in line for a free fried fish dinner at the Quick Check and Deli-Café on Saturday. The occasion: Muslims cooking out in […]
IN: Feds Segregate Muslim Prisoners, Restrict Calls, Visits
GOVERNMENT SEGREGATES MUSLIM PRISONERS, RESTRICTS PHONE CALLS AND VISITS Legal authorities are charging that racial profiling is responsible for low-risk Muslim prisoners convicted for crimes the Justice Department intimates are terror-related being held in a segregated unit where their communications are more severely restricted than high-profile inmates such as al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui and Unabomber […]
MI: School to Install Foot Baths for Muslims
MI: SCHOOL TO INSTALL FOOT BATHS FOR MUSLIMS When Majed Afana needs to pray while attending classes at the University of Michigan in Dearborn, the 19-year-old Muslim usually will duck into the campus library’s bathroom, strip off his shoes and awkwardly strain to wash his feet in the sink. Water often pools at his feet, […]
NY: Ex-Student in Koran Flush Freed
A former Pace University student accused of flushing two Korans down a campus toilet was freed without bail after being arraigned on criminal mischief charges yesterday. “Get that camera out of my face!” Stanislav Shmulevich, 23, screamed, making an obscene gesture at a photographer outside Manhattan Criminal Court. Shmulevich was a student at Pace when […]