Obama Approval High Among U.S. Muslims
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking during President Obama’s first 100 days in office finds broad support for him among Americans affiliated with most major U.S. religions. U.S. Muslims and Jews give Obama his highest job approval ratings, at 85% and 79%, respectively. He also receives solid majority support from Roman Catholics (67%) and […]
CAIR: The FBI, the Mosque and the Informant: Who Was Conning Whom?
If there’s a precise moment when the FBI first began to have a sinking feeling about Craig Monteilh, it likely occurred sometime in the spring of 2007, when his handlers read a small detail buried in one of his surveillance reports. Monteilh had been spying on the Islamic Center of Irvine and other mosques for […]
CAIR: Worship Sites Seek to Keep the Faithful Flu-Free
[…] The communal Friday noon prayer for Muslims also could be affected if the flu worsens, said Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Islamic scholars consulted by CAIR said that the prayer time, when worshippers are often packed shoulder to shoulder, toe to toe, can be canceled, and done privately, in regions where […]
CAIR-LA: History Connects Muslims, Japanese-Americans
MANZANAR, Calif. — For 14-year-old Sarah Rafiqi, a freshman at Valencia High School in Placentia, Calif., taking part in the Bridging Communities program was a way to learn about others in neighboring communities. “I wanted to join because I think it is a good idea for kids of different ethnicities and races to come together […]
Michael Wolfe: New Media Give New Voice to Muslims
Editor’s note: Michael Wolfe is co-founder of Unity Productions Foundation, a nonprofit organization that has produced six documentary films for national broadcast. He edited the Wilbur-award-winning book “Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim their Faith,” and his television work has been nominated for Peabody and Emmy awards. (CNN) — “The media is dying.” It’s the […]
MA: Radio Host Who Said ‘Kill Muslims’ Pulled Off Air
It is not the first time Severin has faced criticism for derogatory comments about minorities on his weekday program. On a 2004 broadcast, he compared US Muslims to a fifth column, and when a caller suggested that the United States should befriend Muslims, Severin responded: “You think we should befriend them; I think we should […]
NM: Billboards Criticizing US Aid to Israel Taken Down Under Pressure
A few week ago we posted about ten billboards going up around Albuquerque, NM calling for congress to cut off aid to Israel. They were put up by The Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel, a multi-ethnic, multi-religious coalition working to “end to the ten year commitment of $30 billion in U.S. taxpayer-funded military […]
NY Letter: Rep. King Mischaracterizes Muslim Constituents
Muslims on LI serve society In response to Peter King’s recent statements about American Muslims [“King won’t temper remarks,” News, April 20]: Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey met with the Islamic Center of Long Island about two weeks ago and told us that law enforcement agencies do not have any Long Island mosques under […]
CAIR: Speaker’s Anti-Muslim Propaganda Only Spreads Hate
When a student organization invites a speaker, you would expect that the speaker represents and promotes the ideas, beliefs and core values of the organization. With this in mind, the UConn College Republicans’ choice of Jesse Peterson to speak for them last night was appalling, to say the least. The speaker didn’t spare any efforts […]
Court Orders Review of FBI Records on Calif. Muslims
Responding to claims that Muslim organizations have been illegally spied upon in southern California, a federal judge said on April 20, 2009 he will conduct a review of the FBI records. The decision comes after nearly three years of legal efforts by the ACLU and American Muslim groups to obtain information that they say would […]