Online Program Promotes Cultural Exchange
It’s been almost seven years since 9/11 — half a lifetime for 14-year-old Amelia Flynn. And for half of her life, the news has been filled with stories linking war and terrorism and Muslim countries. So it was a pleasant surprise when over the course of her ninth-grade school year, Amelia learned that students in […]
CAIR Calls on MD BoE Candidate to Explain His Anti-Muslim Bigotry
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/11/2008) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on a candidate for the Board of Education of Frederick County, Md. to explain to students in that county how his anti-Muslim views will serve their educational needs. According to the Fredrick News-Post, Joe Chmelik recently said, “(Muslims) are the masters of the […]
Catholics, Muslims Amass Funds for Myanmar Relief
Catholics and Muslims have donated $23,700 thus far in a collection for the relief effort in cyclone-stricken Myanmar, South Florida leaders of the two faiths announced Wednesday.The aid is for victims in the southeast Asian nation who were hit May 3. The appeal, announced on May 14, is the first joint relief campaign of the […]
High Court Sides with Guantanamo Detainees
Rights groups lauded a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday that reinstated the principle of habeas corpus for detainees at the prison for terrorism suspects in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba.The latest in a series of setbacks to Pres. George W. Bush administration’s policies on terrorism suspects asserted that prisoners at Guantanamo can […]
NC: Muslim Women Take to the Court
This is a story about Muslim women. It’s a completely happy story. Except for when they lost the big game. “All right, let’s play,” says Hebah Sadek, coach of the Carolina Cyclones, at the start of a recent Wednesday night practice at the Islamic Society of Greater Charlotte. That weekend, the Cyclones — 10 young […]
New Mosque Marks a First in Spokane
On Fridays 200 Muslims squeeze into a converted North Spokane home to pray. It also serves as a place for young Muslims to attend Sunday school. But soon that will change. A parcel of land off Interstate 90 in the Spokane Valley is home to Spokane’s first Mosque. Nasreen Shah, a South Hill native, says […]
The Fallacy of Islamic ‘National Suicide’
A new buzzword is arising from the network of Israeli think tanks and security-oriented academic departments bent on instigating a U.S. attack on Iran: “national suicide.” The term describes a supposed Arab Muslim tradition of politically motivated suicide at the national, not just individual, level. Arab Muslim regimes have purportedly launched ruinous wars they could […]
TX: Protest Religious Persecution, Not Tolerance
Friendswood Junior High School Principal Robin Lowe, upon being told that a Muslim student had been harassed and possibly assaulted because of his religion, allowed representatives from a Muslim organization to make a presentation to an assembly of students. After parents bitterly complained, Friendswood Superintendent Trish Hanks reassigned Lowe. One of these two dedicated administrators […]
MN: Threats Continue at Charter School
Officials at a charter school that caters to Muslim students say the hate mail keeps coming despite the end of a state investigation. The Minnesota Department of Education found last month that Tarek ibn Ziyad (TUH’-reek IH’-bin ZEE’-ahd) Academy hasn’t broken any laws.
MI: School Staff Face Anti-Muslim Allegations
Public school officials moved close to appointing an independent investigator to probe allegations by students and parents that a small number of the staff at Fordson High School has engaged in hostile and discriminatory behavior toward Muslim students of Arab descent. Two weeks after hearing from the students at a public meeting of the city […]