CAIR-CA: Mosque Unfairly Monitored by Fed. Surveillance
Members of San Diego’s Muslim community have called for congressional hearings into whether local mosques are being unfairly monitored by federal surveillance, it was reported Thursday.The San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations recently filed the request for hearings with the U.S. House and Senate judiciary committees and the House Committee on Oversight […]
CAIR-LA: Activists Seeking Probe of Reported Surveillance
A civil-rights group and a coalition of Muslim activists headed by a Corona man called on Congress this week to investigate a report that surveillance records of Southland Muslims were stolen from Camp Pendleton by military and law enforcement officials.The request stems from a news report that military officials and law enforcement members of the […]
Boortz: ‘Muslims, making tortillas? …We can’t find some Mexicans?’
Summary: While discussing reports that six Muslim women were fired from a Minnesota tortilla factory because of dress code violations, Neal Boortz asked: “Muslims, making tortillas? You know, this world is really screwed up when Muslims are making our tortillas, folks.” He added: “I mean, with all of the illegal Mexicans in this country, we […]
The Watch List Through the Prism of the Global War on Terrorism
[Dr. Ahmad Al-Akhras is the vice chair of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).]Like racial profiling, the so-called Watch List hinges on a false premise that people commit crimes because of their racial, ethnic or religious background. This false premise caused huge suffering to African America, Japanese Americans and now Arab and American Muslims. The […]
Analysis: US Terrorism List Also a Political Tool
North Korea has not been linked to a terrorist attack in more than two decades, but it is still on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. Now, it may be on the verge of its coveted goal of getting removed — for reasons having little to do with terrorism. Meanwhile, Washington has what […]
3 Major Presidential Candidates to Attend AIPAC Conference
If there’s any doubt about AIPAC being the belle of Washington, check out next week’s ball. The lobbying powerhouse’s conference, to be held June 2-4, is the only policy event since the presidential election campaign was launched that has attracted all three major candidates: U.S. Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and John […]
Gaza Fulbright Scholars Allowed to Leave for US
Students from Gaza who were awarded scholarships to study in the US but prevented from travelling by Israeli authorities, have now been allowed to leave Gaza to begin their study programme. The US consulate in Jerusalem said on Monday that the scholarships – earlier “redirected” by the Fulbright student programme – will be reinstated. Fulbright […]
TX: Muslim Speakers Outrage Parents
A presentation to Friendswood junior high students about Islam has ignited a furor among some parents. Parents of Friendswood Junior High School students started a letter campaign to school officials in protest of a presentation meant to combat hate and bullying. On May 22, two Muslim women gave a 30-minute presentation about Islamic culture as […]
CAIR: FL Mosque Closed by Arson Reopens with Celebration
More than a year after an arsonist severely damaged their mosque, members of the Islamic Education Center of Tampa celebrated its reopening to worshippers Saturday.About 25 people, both Muslims and non-Muslims, gathered for the observance, held in the room where someone splashed a flammable liquid through a broken window on the east end of the […]
Editor: Luttwak’s ‘Interpretation of Islamic Law Was Wrong’
On May 12, The Times published an Op-Ed article by Edward N. Luttwak, a military historian, who argued that any hopes that a President Barack Obama might improve relations with the Muslim world were unrealistic because Muslims would be “horrified” once they learned that Obama had abandoned the Islam of his father and embraced Christianity […]