IL: Muslims in Quandary Over State Food Law
IL: MUSLIMS IN QUANDARY OVER STATE FOOD LAW As a Muslim mom and teacher, Dilara Sayeed struggles to find the best food to nourish her family and feed their devout faith. She wants beef and chicken that are healthy as well as halal: slaughtered and blessed according to Islamic law. Yet often she finds there […]
CA Muslim Clinic Rep to Testify at Congressional Hearing
CA MUSLIM CLINIC REP TO TESTIFY AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING As the nationwide debate about comprehensive healthcare reform continues, the University Muslim Medical Association (UMMA) Community Clinic has been asked to appear before an ad-hoc Congressional hearing on Tuesday April 24, 2007 chaired by House Judiciary Chairman Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D, MI-14). This is the […]
CA: Muslims Promote Code of Sunni-Shia Unity
CA: SOUTHLAND MUSLIMS PROMOTE CODE OF UNITY As the conflict deepens between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq, Muslim leaders in Southern California have launched what they hope will be a nationwide movement to promote unity among different branches of the faith in this country and help prevent acts of violence here. In a ceremony […]
UK: Why I Am Not a Moderate Muslim
WHY I AM NOT A MODERATE MUSLIM Last month, three Muslim men were arrested in Britain in connection with the London bombings of July 2005. In light of such situations, a number of non-Muslims and Muslims alike yearn for “moderate,” peace-loving Muslims to speak out against the violent acts sometimes perpetrated in the name of […]
Muslim Woman Makes it to the North Pole
SHARIFAH MAZLINA MAKES IT TO TOP OF NORTH POLE SVALBARD (Norway): Polar explorer Datin Paduka Sharifah Mazlina Syed Abdul Kadir has made it to the “top of the world.” She reached her destination at 90 degrees North at 2.45pm (8.25pm Malaysian time) in a day of clear sunny skies, according to a report posted on […]
MN: Somalis Protest Violence in Mogadishu
MINN. SOMALIS PROTEST VIOLENCE IN MOGADISHU (AP) Minneapolis About 100 Somali refugees gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Saturday to protest the escalating violence in their homeland. In the past week, at least 165 civilians have been killed in Mogadishu in fighting between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian soldiers, including at least 52 on Saturday, […]
WA: First Muslim High School in NW to Open
WA: FIRST MUSLIM-ORIENTED HIGH SCHOOL IN NW TO OPEN PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Mounting pressures from Muslim parents in the region have prompted the Muslim Educational Trust to open the new coeducational Oregon Islamic Academy – the first high school in the Northwest geared to Muslim students.
ME: Man in Mosque Controversy Dies By Own Hand
ME: POLICE SAY MAN IN MOSQUE CONTROVERSY DIES BY OWN HAND LEWISTON, Maine — A Lewiston man who rolled a pig’s head into a local mosque last summer, touching off tensions in minority communities in the city and beyond, shot and killed himself in a parking lot after a brief standoff with police, authorities said. […]
MD: Unwavering Push for Muslim School Holidays
MD: AN UNWAVERING PUSH FOR MUSLIM SCHOOL HOLIDAYS Bash Pharoan sees his long-running campaign to close Baltimore County’s schools on Muslim holidays as a demand for fairness: If schools are shut down on Yom Kippur and Christmas Day, they also should be closed on Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. He first advanced this idea a […]
CAIR-FL: Priest Visits Burned Mosque
CAIR-TAMPA: STANDING AGAINST EVIL The Muslim leader and the Catholic priest stood together Sunday amid the ashes of a mosque destroyed by arson. “This type of act isn’t going to frighten us off,” said Ahmed Bedier, executive director of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Worshippers, he said, have pledged to build […]