US Prison Program Isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern Prisoners
DOCUMENTS SHOW NEW SECRETIVE US PRISON PROGRAM ISOLATING MUSLIM, MIDDLE EASTERN PRISONERS The US Department of Justice has implemented a secretive new prison program segregating “high-security-risk” Muslim and Middle Eastern prisoners and tightly restricting their communications with the outside world in apparent violation of federal law, according to documents obtained by RAW STORY. Quietly implemented […]
UT: Rightwing Bloggers are Attempting to Smear Islam
PLAYING WITH FIRE “Salt Lake Jihad?” asks David Horowitz’s conservative Frontpagemag.com. The question refers not to some Latter Day Saints-Osama Bin Laden merger but rather to speculation about the shootings at the Trolley Square shopping mall in Salt Lake City on Monday. While much has emerged about the shootings, and about the shooter’s family background […]
CAIR-LA: Muslim Women Keep Faith with Special Swimsuits
CAIR-LA: MUSLIM WOMEN KEEP FAITH WITH SPECIAL SWIMSUITS Amana Siddiqi loved swimming as a child but gave it up as a teenager because her Muslim faith required she fully cover her body in public. “At age 15, I started to cover, so I stopped going to public pools,” said Siddiqi, now 27, whose parents come […]
CAIR-FL: Muslim Group Wants Mentoring Center
CAIR-FL: MUSLIM GROUP WANTS MENTORING CENTER ST. PETERSBURG – The Tampa Bay Area Muslim Association wants to establish a mentoring center in Childs Park and is sponsoring a luncheon Thursday to begin its campaign. “We want to really introduce the idea to the St. Pete community,” said Abdul Karim Ali, the association’s board chair. The […]
CAIR-LA Supports Muslim-Jewish Partnership
CAIR-LA: A GROUNDBREAKING MUSLIM-JEWISH PARTNERSHIP Los Angeles – The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) have recently launched NewGround, a bold new program that aims to jumpstart dialogue and community building between American Muslims and Jews. The program intends to put forth a new initiative for creating a dynamic and […]
CAIR Opposes Univ of Illinois Indian Mascot
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS’ 81-YEAR-OLD TRADITION WILL COME TO AN END WEDNESDAY CHAMPAIGN – Chief Illiniwek, the revered and reviled symbol of the University of Illinois for more than 80 years, will dance for the last time next week. Larry Eppley, chairman of the U of I’s board of trustees, said Friday that the Chief’s last […]
CAIR-CAN Rep to Speak at Forum on Security, Human Rights
CAIR-CAN TO SPEAK AT TORONTO ‘AFTER ARAR’ EVENT (Ottawa, Canada Feb. 17, 2007) CAIR-CAN Board member and Vice-Chair, Faisal Kutty, will be a panelist at the February 21 event, “After Arar: A Workshop Series on Security Intelligence and Human Rights,” taking place at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. The event is […]
Muslim Coalition Calls for Fasting in Solidarity with Al-Arian
U.S. MUSLIM COALITION CALLS FOR FASTING IN SOLIDARITY WITH DETAINED FLA. PROF WASHINGTON, DC – Feb. 18, 2007: The American Muslim Taskforce for Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major Muslim organizations, today called for a worldwide “rolling fast” in support of Dr. Sami Al-Arian. Al-Arian is the former Florida professor who has […]
Australian Jews Upset at Israeli’s Muslim Comments
JEWS UPSET AT ACADEMIC’S MUSLIM COMMENTS The Jewish Board of Deputies has distanced itself from comments by an Israeli academic who says Australia should limit its number of Muslim immigrants. Professor Raphael Israeli is quoted in the Australian Jewish News as saying that without such a migration cap Australia risks being swamped by Indonesians. But […]
IL: Islamic Art at the Smart Museum
IL: ‘COSMOPHILIA’ BRINGS ISLAMIC ART TO THE SMART MUSEUM An exhibit of secular and religious Islamic art has opened at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago on the South Side. Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen, running through May 20, illustrates a millennium of Islamic history in regions extending […]