U.S. Muslims Increasing Their Political Involvement
U.S. MUSLIMS INCREASING THEIR POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT Washington – Houston City Councilman M.J. Khan, a Muslim American originally from Pakistan, answered questions sent from journalists and students in Morocco, India, Sri Lanka and Liberia about his political career and about Muslims’ growing political involvement in the United States. “My election was significant in the fact that […]
MA: Muslims Share Experiences With Racism
MA: MUSLIMS SHARE EXPERIENCES WITH RACISM “After 9/11, I knew I would be a target, but it never crossed my mind to take off my headscarf,” said Yasmin Hosein, a School of Education freshman, at a discussion part of Boston University’s Islamic Awareness Week last night. “Someone yelled at me to go back to Palestine, […]
CAIR-CAN: Groups Call for Re-Think of Canada-U.S. Policy
CAIR-CAN: CANADIAN GROUPS CALL FOR URGENT RE-THINK OF CURRENT CANADA-U.S. POLICY On March 30, 2007, the Council of Canadians, the Canadian Labour Congress, the Council on American Islamic Relations Canada and the Parkland Institute will call on the Canadian government to change the course of Canada’s relationship with the United States. The groups will outline […]
CAIR-MN: Muslim Cabbies Offer Free Rides for the Blind
CAIR-MN: MUSLIM CABBIES OFFER FREE RIDES FOR THE BLIND Free rides for the blind? Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, with hundreds of waiting taxi drivers behind a nearby SuperAmerica station, has become a focal point of the angst. Nearly 75 percent of the 900 licensed cabbies are Muslim, mostly Somali. And six prayer-leading imams are suing […]
CAIR: False Reporting is Wrong
CAIR: FALSE REPORTING IS WRONG The fact that we have to coin the new phrase “flying while Muslim” is indicative of the unraveling of our national social fabric. Many Americans are aware of the case of six American Muslim imams (prayer leaders) who were removed from a US Airways flight. Notwithstanding the fact that the […]
CAIR-CAN: Youngsters’ Defiance a Lesson in Acceptance
CAIR-CAN: YOUNGSTERS’ DEFIANCE IS A LESSON IN ACCEPTANCE A soccer team of Canadian girls recently applied sandbox mores when they decided that the report-card virtue of ”plays well with others” was meant to include everyone — including those in Muslim headscarves. The red hijab worn by Asmahan Mansour, an 11-year-old player for the Nepean Hotspurs […]
CAIR Says Egypt ‘Backsliding’ on Reforms
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U.S. MUSLIM GROUP SAYS EGYPT ‘BACKSLIDING’ ON REFORMSCAIR: No ‘business as usual’ in dealing with undemocratic regimes (WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/28/07) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today criticized the Egyptian government for “backsliding” on democratic reforms. The Washington-based Council […]
NY/NJ: Islamic Society Introduces Latin Muslims
NY/NJ: BC ISLAMIC SOCIETY INTRODUCES LATIN MUSLIMS Last week, the Islamic Society and Latin Women hosted an event on Latin American Muslims. The event featured two Ecuadorian Americans who converted to Islam from Catholicism. The event, entitled “Latin Muslims: the Sons and Daughters of Golden Spain,” focused on two seemingly different cultural groups, Muslims and […]
CA Muslim Students: Fight Fear of Other Faiths
CA: FIGHT FEAR OF OTHER FAITHS It is hard to ignore the growing fear and mistrust directed at Muslims in America. We see it in movies and on popular television series. We read about it in The Tribune’s letters to the editor and front page articles. We hear it on popular talk radio shows. And […]
CAIR-Philly: Conversation with Muslim Leaders
CAIR-PHILLY: COMMUNITY FORUM ON ISLAM GENERATES DISCUSSION WITH DELAWARE VALLEY MUSLIM LEADERS WILMINGTON, Del., March 26 — The Widener University School of Law issued the following news release: More than 100 people gathered in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom on the Delaware campus during a recent Sunday afternoon to learn about Islam through the […]