CAIR-OH: Vigil for Gas Station Shooting Victim
When FOX 8 aired video this week of a man being shot as he pumped gas at an east side gas station, many Clevelanders were outraged.49-year-old Fazlidden Yakubov, an immigrant from Uzbekistan, had called out to his son in their native language, when a group of men began taunting him.A short time later, someone unleashed […]
MO: Mosque Robbed Five Times This Year
A mosque just outside of Overland has been burglarized five times since the beginning of the year. Syed Hussain prays at the Northwest Islamic Center. He told Fox 2 that members are tired of it. He said, “Upset, upset way upset I just hope hopefully these guys can get caught quickly and dealt with.” The […]
OH: Students Teach and Learn Peace
As an exchange student, it’s bubbly Kartika Nurahayati’s job to indroduce herself and her culture to Americans – and to bring home to Indonesia an understanding of the United States. Sometimes that’s a little tricky. Like what exactly does her American sister eat for breakfast? Kartika Nurahayti : “We usually have a lot of fruits […]
Don’t Run from Muslims
I am a Jewish American and an enthusiastic Barack Obama supporter. I can’t tell you how much I hope he’ll be our next president. But for all my longing for change and insistence that “yes we can,” there’s a bee in my bonnet, a sense of real dissonance between the Obama rhetoric and the reality: […]
TX: Sheriff Apologizes to Muslims for Offensive E-Mail
Reacting to the latest controversy about his office in recent months, Sheriff Tommy Thomas on Monday apologized in person to a local Muslim group for insensitive e-mails sent by members of his staff. Monday’s appearance before the Islamic Society of Greater Houston was Thomas’ second apology in recent days over staff e-mails that surfaced in […]
IA: Salvaging Hope at Iowa Mosque
The tiny white mosque in a working-class neighborhood on this city’s west side is a muddy shell with a sewage-stained stack of Korans and prayer beads piled nearly 5 feet high out back. For more than seven decades, Muslim immigrants searching for solace and strength have gathered at the Mother Mosque of America, the oldest […]
UK: Magazine Apologizes to Yusuf Islam for False Report
On 26th March 2007 we published an article headlined “YUSUF ISLAM IGNORES BARE-HEADED WOMEN” which had been circulated to us by World Entertainment News Network. The article suggested, entirely falsely, that the singer Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) was so sexist and bigoted that he refused at an awards ceremony to talk to […]
VA: New Indictment Could Result in Al-Arian’s Release
The Justice Department’s decision to indict a Palestinian Arab activist, Sami Al-Arian, on criminal contempt charges may have the perverse effect of giving the former college professor the best chance he has had in years to get out of jail, at least for a while. At an arraignment before Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Va., […]
Video: CAIR Rep Discusses Islamophobia on Al-Jazeera
CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper discusses Islamophobia and the recent controversy over a CAIR-Houston presentation offered to students at a local junior high school.Click to see the video: Part 1 and Part 2To view the CAIR-Houston presentation, click here.
MI: Iraqi Abuse Suit Filed in Detroit
Four Iraqi men who say they were tortured in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq filed federal lawsuits Monday in four cities, including Detroit, against U.S. military contractors and their employees. The Detroit suit was filed on behalf of Mohammed Abdwaihed Towfek Al-Taee, 39, an Iraqi taxi driver who says he was wrongly imprisoned, tortured by […]