CA: Antioch Mosque Remembers Arson Attack
(ANTIOCH, CA, 8/6/2008) – The Islamic Center of the East Bay (ICEB) will hold a candlelight vigil to commemorate the first anniversary of the devastating arson attack on their mosque in Antioch on August 12, 2008. Even after 12 months, the culprits have not been caught and remain at large in the community. The fire […]
NV: Judge Says Detective’s Beard OK
The First Amendment gives a Las Vegas police detective the right to wear a beard for religious reasons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, but a jury must decide whether he has the right to wear a yarmulke on the job. Detective Steve Riback, an observant Orthodox Jew whose position in the office of quality assurance […]
Finding Common Ground by Dispelling Stereotypes
THE CROWDS were gathered outside waiting to be allowed in, and the press had arrived early to conduct interviews. On the other side of the world, the United States was beginning its “shock and awe” military campaign in Iraq that same weekend of March 2003. But at the sold-out Regal Cinemas in North Brunswick, the […]
Allah Made Me Funny Premieres October 3
(Washington, D.C., 8/3/2008) – Constructed around the standup routines of three of the nation’s most celebrated Muslim comedians, Allah Made Me Funny spearheads the newest generation of comedy that is quintessentially American. Whether it’s inviting the audience to write the joke on airport security themselves, or sheepishly admitting that four wives would be three too […]
Muslim Female Joins IOC Board
BEIJING (AP) — Former hurdles champion Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco was elected to the IOC executive board Thursday, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the Olympic movement and first female from a Muslim nation on the rule-making body. The 46-year-old El Moutawakel was unopposed for a seat on the powerful 15-member International Olympic Committee board. […]
U.S. Shifts ‘Hearts and Minds’ Fight
Nearly seven years after the 9/11 attacks spawned the question, “Why do they hate us?” and made the repair of America’s poor international image a top foreign-policy pursuit, the Bush administration is taking a new tack in the “war of ideas.” Out, or at least de-emphasized, is the effort to explain America and its widely […]
US Congressman Urges Entry Ban on Narendra Modi
Bhopal: The Coalition Against Genocide, (CAG), added one more US Congressman to its growing list of supporters for a visa ban on the genocide tainted Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. In a letter to United States’ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Congressman Joe Sestak, a democrat from Pennsylvania, outlined the complicity of Modi’s administration in […]
CAIR-MI: Obama’s Muslim Outreach Director Resigns
WASHINGTON: An attorney who volunteered to help Barack Obama improve his relationship with Muslim and Arab-Americans has resigned from the campaign amid questions about his connection to a fundamentalist imam.Mazen Asbahi started as the campaign’s outreach coordinator on July 26, and he resigned in a letter to the campaign Monday. He said he was stepping […]
IL: First Mosque to Have Solar Water System
The Mosque Foundation, 7360 W. 93rd St., in Bridgeview, is the first mosque in the nation to have a solar hot water system. The solar water system preheats the water with sunlight instead of natural gas. It is used to heat water for congregants as they wash before prayers. Faith in Place, an organization that […]
WA Muslim Electors Could Help Make History
Lost in the unquestioned negativity surrounding false allegations that Obama is a Muslim – the persistence of the lies and the passion of the denials – is how true Muslims must feel, seeing their religion treated as political poison. But if change must happen from the bottom up, Washington state has at least two pioneers […]