TN: Muslim’s Religious Discrimination Case Settled with Hospital
Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville has agreed to pay a former employee $70,000 in damages after denying him time off to make a pilgrimage to Mecca but admitted no wrongdoing when it settled the religious discrimination case on Monday. In late 2007, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit on behalf of Wali […]
MN: TSA Will Not Release ‘Sensitive’ Info in Imams Case
St. Paul, Minn. — The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it doesn’t have to release sensitive information for a federal case in Minnesota — at least not yet. The case concerns six Islamic leaders who sued U.S. Airways for discrimination after being removed from a flight at the Twin Cities airport in 2006. The Imams’ […]
FL: GA Lawyer to Represent Acquitted Muslim
TAMPA – The family of Youssef Megahed has hired an Atlanta lawyer to represent him in his fight against deportation on terrorism charges. “I believe they’re railroading this guy,” said Charles H. Kuck, who said he is taking the case for free. “He’s innocent. It’s not just that he’s not guilty. This kid is innocent.” […]
CAIR-CAN: Mosque President Forgives Vandalism
A national lobby group called Tuesday for a swift police probe of a second spray-paint incident that defaced a wall at a Dorval mosque, after initial such vandalism last June. But Mehmet Deger, president of the 1,500-member mosque, had a much different reaction.Deger said he just wants to put the incident behind him and his […]
CAIR-LA: FBI Monitored Calif. Muslims at Gyms (LA Times)
As part of their anti-terrorism efforts, FBI agents monitored popular gyms throughout Orange County to gather intelligence on members of several local mosques, according to a man who claims to have been a key informant in the operation.Sal Hernandez, director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, declined comment on the matter Monday. Another law enforcement […]
CAIR-CA: Man ID’d Middle Easterners at Gym for FBI (OC Reg)
An Irvine man who claims to have worked as an FBI informant said he was asked by agents to identify photos of Middle Eastern men who worked out at Orange County gyms as part of an effort to identify terrorist cells in the U.S.Craig Monteilh said he worked as an informant from July 2006 to […]
CAIR-MI: Obama’s Outreach to Muslims Should Begin at Home
[Dawud Walid is the executive director of CAIR’s Michigan chapter.]The Obama administration’s efforts to improve America’s image with the Muslim world cannot be successful without healthy engagement of the American Muslim community, which includes investigating and curtailing abuses against American Muslims that started under the Bush administration.Since taking office, President Obama has made several positive […]
CAIR-LA: ‘Islamic Teachings Call for the Right to Free Worship’
Nadia Aghdasi sifts through stacks of photographs of old friends and family members. In many cases, the pictures are the only remnants she has of relatives either still living in her native Iran or those who have been killed because of religious persecution.“He was never the same,” she says, looking at a small picture of […]
CAIR: American Muslims Mourn ‘Visionary’ Hathout
American Muslims are mourning Dr. Hassan Hathout, a renowned leader who passed away this weekend after a long life in serving the Islamic faith.“We have lost today a luminary of Islam in North America,” Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, Chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America, told IslamOnline.net.“He has been a voice of wisdom, clarity and […]
CA Muslim Leader Fostered Interfaith Relations (LA Times)
Dr. Hassan Hathout, a physician, medical ethicist and leader of the Southern California Islamic community who was at the forefront of efforts to demystify American Muslims and build interfaith bonds, has died. He was 84.Hathout died of natural causes Saturday at his Pasadena home, said a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council, […]