OH: Flying While Muslim – Is Racial Profiling Real?
OH: FLYING WHILE MUSLIM Muslims say when booking a flight, they feel everyone is watching them. Recently six Muslim Imams were removed from a flight in Minneapolis, sparking the national debate: is there such an issue as “flying while Muslim”, racially profiling Muslims after 9-11, or is it just prudent? Toledo area Muslims are aware […]
MA: Students Look for Arabic Classes
MA: JOBS IN MIND, STUDENTS LOOK FOR CLASSES IN ARABIC Anna Brewer, 19, sits in the front of the classroom, watching closely as professor Atallah Alroud writes a new letter of the Arabic alphabet on the white board. She is the first to raise her hand and repeat after Alroud as he introduces students to […]
Pro-Israel Groups Force UConn to Drop Dubai Campus Plan
US UNIVERSITY SHELVES UAE CAMPUS PLAN Dubai: Ignorance about the UAE and anti-Arab racism are behind efforts to stop an American university from opening a campus in Dubai, say UAE academics. The University of Connecticut has notified the Dubai Education Council (DEC) that it has halted plans to establish a satellite campus in Dubai following […]
Muslim Scholars to Look at Employment Issues
ISLAMIC TENETS, JOB DUTIES SPARK DEBATE When the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America convenes later this year, the few dozen Islamic scholars will try to hammer out an answer to a question vexing the North American Muslim community: How do Muslims reconcile the mandates of their faith with jobs that may require actions prohibited […]
Jews, Muslims Find Common Ground in Food
JEWS, MUSLIMS FIND COMMON GROUND IN FOOD NEW YORK — Determining the exact contents of a meal at a restaurant can be stressful for Jews and Muslims who choose to follow their faiths’ dietary restrictions. Dinner at a friend’s house can be a balancing act between trying to be polite and keeping true to your […]
NY: Independent Film Focuses on Halal Butcher
FOR A SMALL SLAUGHTERHOUSE, A DASH OF LOCAL GLORY About a dozen speckled Plymouth Rock hens sat at the front of the poultry section. They and their neighbors hundreds of Rhode Island hens, Muscovy drakes and other fowl warbled quietly in their pens. Lambs and goats munched alfalfa grass in a roomier wing […]
CAIR: Imams’ Attorney Receives a Death Threat
CAIR: IMAMS’ ATTORNEY RECEIVES A DEATH THREAT The attorney for the six Muslim Imams who were removed from a Minneapolis flight in November has received a letter threatening to kill him, according to a press release by CAIR, a civil rights organization. The New York lawyer, Omar Mohammedi, who filed a discrimination lawsuit in the […]
CAIR: Death Threat Against Lawyer
CAIR: DEATH THREAT AGAINST JOHN DOE CASE LAWYER A member of the city’s human rights commission, Omar Mohammedi, received a death threat by mail last week, demanding that he withdraw a lawsuit he filed on behalf of six imams, identified in the case as John Does, who were removed from a USAirways flight in November. […]
CAIR: U.S. Muslims Tackle Sectarian Divisions
CAIR: U.S. MUSLIMS TACKLE SECTARIAN DIVISIONS Muslim leaders are trying to strengthen Sunni-Shiite ties in the United States, hoping to head off conflicts between the faith’s two major sects and get American Muslims to focus on common problems. With sectarian divisions fueling violence in Iraq, Sunnis and Shiites in the U.S. are increasingly wary of […]
CAIR-FL: Islamic Event Serves Up Charity
CAIR-FL: ISLAMIC EVENT SERVES UP CHARITY If your neighbor goes to bed hungry, you should not sleep. That’s what the Prophet Mohammed tells followers of Islam. And that’s why hundreds of Muslims gathered in Riverfront Park on Sunday afternoon to grill hamburgers, dish out plates of vegetable biryani and give clothes and health screenings to […]