CAIR-MO: Citizenship Candidates Sue over Delays
A class-action lawsuit filed Friday alleges many immigrants who have met the requirements to become U.S. citizens are left in limbo for months or years because of slow processing of FBI name checks.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in St. Louis, says some immigrants have had to wait more than four years to be cleared […]
OK: Ex-Army Chaplain Tells of Abuse
Former U.S. Army Chaplain James Yee is an unlikely person to be charged with espionage by the military. A third-generation Chinese American, he is a graduate of West Point. His father fought for the U.S. in World War II, one brother is a West Point graduate and another brother will leave this month for Iraq […]
CA: Muslim Exchange Student Excels Despite Cultural Divide
In her room, Palo Alto High School junior Aqsa Siddiqui sits on her bed with her light yellow embodied hijab covering her head. The iPod earphones in her ears stream music of a Pakistani singer as she finishes her English homework. Siddiqui was sitting in her classroom in Pakistan one day when the principal approached […]
Amy Goodman: America’s War on Journalists
The Bush administration has engaged in assault, intimidation, and imprisonment to limit the ability of journalists to do their jobs. Sami al-Haj is a free man today, after having been imprisoned by the U.S. military for more than six years. His crime: journalism. Targeting journalists, the Bush administration has engaged in direct assault, intimidation, imprisonment […]
NY Muslim’s Struggle for Justice in America
Yassin Aref is a 37 year old Albany, New York resident and one of many Muslim victims of police state justice in post-9/11 America. They’ve been hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied bail, restricted in their right to counsel, tried on secret evidence and trumped-up charges, then incarcerated as political […]
Congressmen Criticize Government for Detaining Chinese Muslims
A California Republican and a Massachusetts Democrat say the government should apologize to Chinese Muslims who have been held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher and Bill Delahunt also say the Chinese detainees should be freed and compensated and allowed to live in the U.S.
FL: Muslim Rap Duo Spread ‘Morality, Peace and Unity’
Jawad Fayiz and Akbar Qayum, both 18, go to college, work in sales for a telecommunications company and recite their Islamic prayers five times a day. And in their spare time? These Muslim teens rap. “Positive hip hop,” Fayiz says quickly. “Not the bad stuff.” They say their inspiration comes from their Islamic faith. Of […]
NJ: Growth of Muslim Population Spurs Expansions
Muslim congregations in Central Jersey are busy improving and expanding existing facilities or planning new ones to keep up with the current demand and prepare for growth. Although a mosque was a rarity in the area only two decades ago, the Muslim population has grown by 500 percent since 1990, and that growth is fueling […]
CAIR-NJ: Jobs, Diversity, Schools Attract Muslims
As Central Jersey counties grow, so does the Muslim community.Yaser ElMenshawy, president of the Islamic Center of Hunterdon County, is witnessing that, even away from the population centers of the state.Since its formation in 2005, his small congregation, based in Flemington, has grown from seven to 30 members, ElMenshawy said. Faster-growing counties, especially Middlesex, have […]
McCloud: Don’t Forget African American Muslims
That there needs to be a conduit between America and the Muslim world for better communication is an understatement given the tensions between the two cultures. The American Muslim community is composed of two distinct groups – indigenous Americans and their children, and immigrants and their children. There is a feeling among the indigenous Muslims […]