CAIR-MI: Muslim Leader Pushes Education
CAIR-MI: MUSLIM LEADER PUSHES EDUCATION AND DISCOURAGES VIOLENCE It isn’t often that you see a speaker receive a standing ovation before he addresses an audience, but that’s what happened to Imam W. Deen Mohammad in the auditorium of Wayne Community College Saturday afternoon. Imam Mohammed, the son of Elijah Muhammad who founded the Nation of […]
CAIR: Muslim Rep Builds Understanding with Mideast
CAIR: ELLISON IS PART OF IRAQ TRIP ARRANGED BY DEFENSE CHIEF Rep. Keith Ellison, a rising figure in U.S. public diplomacy in the Mideast, made his first trip to Iraq over the weekend at the behest of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Ellison, a first-term Minneapolis Democrat and a longtime critic of the war, is part […]
CAIR-NY Says Hate Vandalism Is Not Free Speech
CAIR-NY SAYS HATE VANDALISM IS NOT FREE SPEECH – TOP (NEW YORK, NY, 7/30/07) – The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today applauded the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) Hate Crimes Task Force for working to charge a Brooklyn resident who allegedly desecrated Qurans, Islam’s revealed text, at Manhattan’s […]
NY: Student Nabbed in Koran Dunk
The 10-month-old mystery of who threw the Koran into the toilets at Pace University’s Manhattan campus was solved yesterday with the arrest of a student, cops said. Stanislav Shmulevich, 23, was confronted by detectives with a surveillance photo of himself leaving a Pace meditation room where the Muslim holy books were stored, police sources said. […]
Verse: Consult the Quran
VERSE OF THE DAY: CONSULT THE KORAN I do not know if the letter writer was misinformed herself or is trying to misinform the public. I disagreed with her on everything she said about how Islam teaches Muslims to deal with non-Muslims. The only thing I agreed with her on was when she said “read […]
CAIR: Hate-Crime Arrest in NY Quran Desecrations
CAIR: HATE-CRIME ARREST IN QURAN DESECRATIONS AT PACE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK (AP) – A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, police said. Stanislav Shmulevich of Brooklyn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, both hate […]
CAIR-Chicago Volunteers at Local Food Drive
(CHICAGO, IL, 7/28/07) – CAIR-Chicago volunteers recently helped at the Kenwood Food Pantry by preparing bags of groceries later collected by several low-income or homeless families and individuals in the area. Located at the Hyde Park Union Church, the food pantry is able to serve emergency food to about 500 in-need residents of Hyde Park-Kenwood […]
CAIR: Newsday Corrects Reference to Plaintiffs in Imams’ Suit
A story in Wednesday’s edition incorrectly stated the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against US Airways. Six Imams thrown off a flight in November filed suit against the airline and passengers on the flight. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is not listed as a plaintiff.
Muslim Societies Rediscover Spirit of Scientific Inquiry
In a Commentary, Ziauddin Sardar poses a question: can Muslim societies rediscover the spirit of scientific inquiry that prevailed during the classical period, when Islamic science enjoyed a golden era? The answer, he says, is yes. But it is not just the approach to science that has changed for the worse, so has the practice […]
Azizah Magazine a Voice of Muslim Women in US
AZIZAH – VOICE OF MUSLIM WOMEN IN US Bandar Seri Begawan – Responsibility to the truth is the epitome of Islam and journalism. This principle was recently the foundation of a roundtable discussion amongst members of the print media. The roundtable discussion on ‘Islam and Responsible Journalism: The US Perspective’ was lead by Tayyibah Taylor, […]