WA: Muslim Former Army Chaplain is Obama Delegate
A former Army chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was cleared of spy accusations will be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Former Capt. James J. Yee, a Muslim, was among the delegates pledged to Sen. Barack Obama who were elected by precinct representatives Saturday. He’s representing the state’s 9th Congressional District at the […]
TX: Muslim Chaplain Offers American Brand of Islam
There are about 1,300 chaplains in the U.S. Army, and of those, only five are Muslim. One of them, Maj. Khalid Shabazz, serves at Fort Hood in Texas and is getting ready to retire from his post to study ethics. For three years, Shabazz has been the Muslim chaplain for the 1-227 Aviation Attack Battalion […]
CAIR-MN: Muslim Group Supports Student’s Right to Service Dog
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today is clarifying Muslim beliefs about dogs and expressing support for a St. Cloud State University student who felt his service dog was threatened. CAIR-MN issued a statement following a May 12 article in the St. Cloud Times, which said that graduate student Tyler Hurd left the university because […]
CAIR: Interfaith Group Wants Savage’s Program Dropped
Bearing petitions and prayers, about 70 people gathered Sunday to protest the “hateful utterances” of national radio personality Michael Savage, whose talk show is carried locally by KCMO 710-AM.Representatives from several faiths, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Sikhism, were meeting for the first time as the Interfaith Coalition Against Bigotry at the University of […]
CAIR-San Diego: What’s It Like, Being Muslim in San Diego?
[NOTE: Edgar Hopida, quoted below, is public relations director for the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego)].But one thing has changed for American Muslims: From being self-contained communities, “kind of like with the early Jewish communities [in the U.S.], keeping to themselves, very isolated,” post-9/11 Muslim America has started reaching […]
Justice: FBI Flagged Mistreatment of Detainees
FBI agents raised concerns about U.S. interrogators mistreating terror detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay during the three years after Sept. 11 but in some cases were slow to report it, an upcoming Justice Department report concludes. Additionally, in a few isolated cases, FBI agents did not immediately withdraw when they witnessed […]
Report: FBI Slow in Reporting Detainee Abuse
FBI officials should have moved more quickly to sound alarms about abusive interrogation practices its agents witnessed in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report by an agency watchdog released this morning. The lengthy study by the Justice Department’s inspector general clears the FBI of engaging in coercive questioning of terrorism suspects, concluding that […]
IL: Qurans Given Out for Free
As Marcia Macy chatted with her dog walker in the driveway of her Wheaton home Thursday, a young Muslim man passed her and hooked a plastic bag containing a Quran on her doorknob. Unlike most religious solicitors, the man didn’t try to speak with her or engage her in debate. He simply left her a […]
NY Imam Forges Close Ties with City’s Jews
New York’s largest mosque, the Islamic Cultural Center (ICC) on East 96th Street in Manhattan, is getting applause from an unexpected quarter — the city’s influential Jewish community. Rabbis who’ve spoken there call it an open and welcoming community. The Jewish Theological Seminary and the ICC are planning a joint soup kitchen for the homeless. […]
IL: Muslim, Jewish Women Earn Advanced Seminary Degrees
As a teen, Sarah Bier traveled from Chicago to Israel to learn more about Judaism. But her journey to the Holy Land, marred by religious violence from beginning to end, ultimately led her to explore other faiths as well. Syafa Almirzanah chose to pursue similar studies after growing tensions among Muslims in her native Indonesia […]