Muslims Are as American as Apple Pie (Newsweek)
Last month, as I was watching the news coverage of President Obama’s visit to Turkey, I thought back to an awkward experience I had as an undergraduate student applying for a job at my university. When I handed the receptionist at the student union my Social Security card, a required form of identification, she told […]
MPAC: Justice For All? Or Only Non-Muslims?
Lawyers are generally taught that deliberately using race, religion or ethnicity in prosecuting a defendant violates Equal Protection rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. In light of his repeated anti-Arab and anti-Muslim statements, it seems that Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg needs to be reminded of this fundamental principle.Gordon Kromberg, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the […]
NY: Imam, Rabbi to Remember Holocaust at Public Event
Queens is so diverse, there is nothing unusual about an imam giving a talk on “The Essence of Islam.” Unless it’s in a Synagogue, at a Holocaust memorial service, that is. Rabbi Michael Weisser of the Free Synagogue of Flushing likes making the unusual commonplace, so he has invited his “friend and partner in interfaith […]
Judge Says Integrity of DOJ at Issue in Al-Arian Case
On Friday, a U.S. Circuit Court judge in Virginia will either dismiss the criminal contempt case against former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian or set a trial date. If the judge’s comments in court are any indication of how she’s leaning, Al-Arian’s business with the U.S. government is about to end and he […]
No Warm Welcome for Muslim American Travelers
A Muslim legal advocacy group Tuesday charged that federal agents routinely target Muslim American travelers – or simply those perceived to be Muslim – for “deeply intrusive, personal questions and searches about their politics, faith, finances, charitable giving and associations with lawful organisations, all without any evidence or even suspicion of wrongdoing.” In a new […]
CAIR: New FBI Guidelines Used to Target U.S. Muslims
[Julia A. Shearson is executive director of Council on American Islamic Relations – Cleveland (CAIR).]On March 17, 2009, the American Muslim Task Force (AMT) announced that it was considering suspending outreach ties with the FBI. The announcement came after continued civil rights abuses perpetrated by the bureau, abuses that have gone largely unchecked by Congress […]
Civil War Raging in Anti-Muslim Blogosphere
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, jazz musician and Web designer Charles Johnson has devoted his blog, Little Green Footballs, to exposing Muslim extremism in and outside the United States. His targets have included the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filmmaker Michael Moore, Reuters, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Dan Rather, and the late pro-Palestinian […]
VA Panel: ‘Islam, the Obama Administration, and the Muslims’
WHAT: Panel Discussion WHEN: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 8 p.m. WHERE: Al-Hewar Center, 124 Park Street SE, Vienna, Va. SUBJECT: The Al-Hewar Center holds a discussion on “Islam, the Obama Administration, and the Muslims” with Yvonne Haddad, professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. CONTACT: 703-281-6277, alhewar@alhewar.com; http://www.alhewar.com
Harman, AIPAC, NSA: What did I Know, and When Did I Know It? (CQ)
The tremendous interest in my story yesterday about a 2005 NSA wiretap picking up California Democratic Rep. Jane Harman conversing with a suspected Israeli agent took me by surprise, frankly. It’s always gratifying to find so many people paying attention to things like this when Carrie Prejean is only a click away. The first thing […]
CAIR: Court Asks FBI for Muslim Surveillance Files (OC Register)
The widening rift between the FBI and the Islamic community has drawn the American Civil Liberties Union into the fray, with the organization’s lawyers declaring victory in their efforts to force the release of government surveillance records on Southern California Muslims. A federal district court judge Monday gave the FBI 30 days to make available […]