NE: Somali Workers Quit Over Prayer Dispute
NE: SOMALI WORKERS IN GRAND ISLAND QUIT OVER PRAYER DISPUTE Nearly 100 Somali immigrants have quit their jobs at a meatpacking plant here because their prayer times weren’t accommodated. “They kind of issued the company an ultimatum,” said Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. “They went in […]
CAIR-FL: Al-Arian Film Takes Family’s Perspective
CAIR-FL: AL-ARIAN FILM TAKES FAMILY’S PERSPECTIVE For Norwegian filmmaker Line Halvorsen, the case of Sami Al-Arian is about freedom of speech and about the U.S. government’s efforts to silence a tireless voice for human rights. It is about post-Sept. 11 hysteria and the persecution of a Muslim, as well as the emotionally grinding devastation the […]
CAIR: Muslim Reporter Discusses ‘Fear-Mongering’
CAIR: DODGING SLURS SHOULD NO LONGER BE A WAY OF LIFE Aisha Sultan, an American Muslim reared in Houston, had grown tired of a fellow middle school student who teased her about her mother’s traditional Muslim hair covering. The boy called her mother “raghead” or “diaperhead,” and insisted her family “go back where they came […]
CAIR-LA: Muslim Police Officer Establishes Trust
CAIR-LA: LITTLE ARABIA’S ‘MAYOR’ EASES TENSIONS He wears a uniform and drives a car that has traditionally evoked fear and anger in Anaheim’s Arab American community. But the moment Omar Adham’s black and white cruiser pulls into a strip mall on Brookhurst Street, it’s clear that that sentiment is melting in Little Arabia. “How you […]
CAIR: First Muslim Cleric Named to U.S. Commission
CAIR: QUINCY IMAM MAKES HISTORY: FIRST MUSLIM CLERIC NAMED TO U.S. COMMISSION Imam Talal Eid of Quincy will soon take on a wider national role: He’s the first Muslim cleric to be appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The 54-year-old Lebanon native has been picked for a two-year term on the independent, […]
CAIR: Top U.S. Muslim Leader, D.C. Area Jews Share Seder
CAIR: TOP U.S. MUSLIM LEADER, D.C. AREA JEWS SHARE SEDER When Nihad Awad, the son of Palestinian refugees from Lydda – now the Israeli city of Lod – was growing up in the Wahdat refugee camp in Amman, Jordan, he never imagined that one day he would be sitting down with American Jews at a […]
CAIR: CA Commissioners Condemn Bigoted E-Mail
CAIR: COMMISSIONERS CONDEMN BIGOTED E-MAIL A few weeks ago members of the southeast Berkeley community found newspapers and hate-filled flyers on their sidewalks and front porches targeting Jews, blacks, Hispanics and immigrants. Last week, members of the Peace and Justice Commission received in their e-mail in boxes another sample of what many are calling “hate […]
Study: Palestinians Forced to Leave Homes in Central Hebron
PALESTINIANS FORCED TO LEAVE HOMES IN CENTRAL HEBRON: STUDY More than 40 percent of Palestinians living in the center of the West Bank city of Hebron, under Israeli control, have been forced to leave their homes, and more than 75 percent of their shops have shut down, according to a survey released Monday by two […]
Canada: Taekwondo Championship to Allow Hijab
CANADA: TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIP TO ALLOW HIJAB The Muslim hijab, banned at a taekwondo tournament in Quebec last month, will be allowed at the 2007 World Championship in Quebec City later this month, the International Taekwon-Do Federation announced on Friday. The decision by a Quebec federation last month to bar a team of Muslim girls from […]
CAIR-FL: Film on Al-Arian Opens Next Week
CAIR-FL: FILM ON AL-ARIAN OPENS NEXT WEEK A documentary that tells the story of the Sami Al-Arian prosecution from his family’s point of view is going to be shown Wednesday night at the Tampa Theatre. Made by Norwegian filmmaker Line Halvorsen, “USA vs Al-Arian” doesn’t have a U.S. distributor, said Ahmed Bedier, executive director of […]