MI: Convert Calls Islam Beautiful
MI: CONVERT CALLS ISLAM BEAUTIFUL Shomori Wade says extremists have given Muslims a bad name. “They have hijacked our religion,” said Wade, 27, of Flint. “It’s not a bad religion like a lot of people make it out to be. There is a lot of good that comes from Islam.” Wade, who converted to Islam […]
MD: Candidates Address Muslim Session
MD: CANDIDATES ADDRESS MUSLIM SESSION Three Baltimore mayoral candidates told the city’s Muslim community yesterday that residents are experiencing increased violence and failing schools because of a lack of leadership at City Hall. At a candidates’ forum organized by the Baltimore Muslim Council, school administrator Andrey Bundley, Del. Jill P. Carter and City Councilman Keiffer […]
MO: Jews Help Muslims Fight County Council
MO: JEWS HELP MUSLIMS FIGHT COUNTY COUNCIL When Rick Isserman found out last month that St. Louis County wouldn’t allow a group of Muslims to build a new mosque in south St. Louis County, the story sounded too familiar. Forty-eight years earlier, Isserman’s grandfather, Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman, fought to move his congregation, Temple Israel, from […]
CAIR-OH: Wrong to Ask Muslim Women to Remove Hijab
CAIR-OH: STATE SAYS IT WAS WRONG ASK MUSLIM WOMEN TO REMOVE HEAD SCARVES Two Muslim women had the right to continue wearing their head scarves when sitting for a driver’s license photo, the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles said. Clerks at separate bureau offices in southwest Ohio were wrong to insist that the women remove […]
Commentary ‘Slandering Islam’
SLANDERING ISLAM The column “The path to …?” (Commentary, July 3) by Frank Gaffney Jr. contained a message full of hate against Muslims and Islam. He called Shariah a fascist legal code, the Islamic Center/Mosque in Washington a place for disseminating intolerant Islamofascist ideology and the Organization of the Islamic Conference an organization sympathetic to […]
FL: Anti-Muslim Slogans Painted on Home
FL: ANTI-MUSLIM SLOGANS PAINTED ON FLA. HOME Authorities are investigating a blaze at the home of a Bosnian family, where vandals sprayed anti-Muslim slogans in red paint. Sheriff’s detectives and authorities from the state Fire Marshal’s Office are investigating the arson and vandalism as a hate crime. Sheriff’s spokesman Lieutenant Chuck Lesaltato said the sheriff’s […]
CAIR: How Muslim Doctors Save Lives
CAIR: HOW MUSLIM DOCTORS SAVE LIVES [Asma Mobin-Uddin is a pediatrician from Columbus, Ohio, and the board chairwoman for the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Her parents came to Jacksonville from Pakistan to continue their training in their physician specialties. She was born in Miami, but moved to Ohio while still a […]
CAIR: Doctors in Plot Betrayed Faith
CAIR: DOCTORS IN PLOT BETRAYED FAITH, PROFESSION The thought of physicians treating sick patients by the light of day while plotting to kill innocent people under the cover of darkness sickens and angers me on a very personal level. If the United Kingdom terror plot accusations are true, they are the ultimate betrayal of the […]
CAIR: Cartoonist Unfair to Muslim Community
CAIR: CARTOONIST UNFAIR TO MUSLIM COMMUNITY The July 9 Forum cartoon by Michael Ramirez, suggesting that the Muslim community condemned the Salman Rushdie knighthood but remained silent on the British terror attacks, should be seen more as a critique of Ramirez than of the Muslim community. He hears what he wants or expects to hear. […]
CAIR: Muslim Charity Leaders on Trial
CAIR: MUSLIM CHARITY LEADERS ON TRIAL FOR ALLEGEDLY AIDING TERRORISTS One of the most prominent anti-terror prosecutions of the past decade opened Monday as government lawyers and those representing leaders of a Muslim charity began quizzing potential jurors. The men on trial in federal district court aren’t accused of being terrorists. Rather, they are charged […]