CAIR-MN: Muslim Civil Rights Group Backs Student Teacher
A Muslim civil rights group today said it supports a St. Cloud State University student’s right to use a service dog while teaching at a high school with a growing Muslim population.The statement comes after 23-year-old Tyler Hurd of Mahtomedi left a teacher-training assignment before its completion at Technical High School in April.Hurd left because […]
FL: Miami’s Muslims, Catholics to Donate to Myanmar
Despite the country’s refusal of U.S. aid and slow response to get help to its citizens, Catholics and Muslims in Miami Gardens have joined efforts to collect donations for cyclone ravaged Myanmar. Islamic centers throughout South Florida will be taking up collection during their Friday services, and Catholic parishes have been asked to do the […]
FL: Catholics, Muslims to Aid Cyclone Victims
Catholics and Muslims united to help Buddhists on Wednesday, as South Florida religious leaders announced a joint collection to benefit cyclone victims in Myanmar. The collection is set to start this weekend at 18 mosques in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, plus the 120 parishes and missions in the Archdiocese of Miami. Their goal […]
CAIR-FL: Muslims, Catholics Seek Help for Myanmar
A coalition of Catholic and Muslim religious leaders called for the South Florida community to join in a relief effort to raise funds for victims in storm ravaged Myanmar.”I’m standing on holy ground with my Muslim brothers and sisters urge the South Florida community to join in the relief effort,” Father Roger Holoubek of St. […]
DC: Ellison, Carson Urge US to Take Action in Darfur
Congress’ two Muslim members urged the U.S. government on Wednesday to lead efforts to end the violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced. Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Andre Carson of Indiana joined other black Democratic lawmakers making that call at a “Muslim […]
TX: Muslim Clinics Fill Health Care Needs
Elena Lopez needed diabetes medication and was due for a medical exam, but the 64-year-old had no health insurance. So her daughter, Rosa Ramirez, took Lopez to the Ibn Sina Foundation community clinic in southwest Houston, where she paid a small fee to see a doctor on a walk-in basis. “Otherwise, I couldn’t afford to […]
VA: Business Up at Islamic Finance Firms
The mortgage industry may be in meltdown, but at least one class of lender appears to be flourishing: Islamic finance companies that offer Muslim home buyers alternative arrangements such as lease-to-own deals so they can avoid making the sort of interest payments that many believe their religion forbids. Officials at Guidance Residential, a Reston company […]
Why Candidates Won’t Talk about Israel
Israel, celebrating its 60th birthday last week, has proved to be an expensive ally for the United States. Since its birth, Israel has received at least $114 billion from the US in direct foreign economic and military aid, says Shirl McArthur, a retired US diplomat who periodically updates his Israel cost estimates for the Washington […]
McCain’s War on ‘Islamic Terror’ and the Chicago Iran Hearings
With Senator Obama the presumptive Democratic nominee, the question facing America, increasingly, boils down to this: intensify the “clash of civilizations,” at the continued expense of domestic needs, or turn to diplomacy to resolve international conflict, so we can re-orient our national priorities to health care, education, economic recovery, and protecting the environment. With President […]
NJ: Influential Muslim Cleric Fights Deportation
An influential Muslim cleric, instrumental in reaching out to law enforcement after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, arrived at a federal immigration courthouse in Newark, N.J., Thursday to fight deportation. Imam Mohammad Qatanani, accompanied by his wife and six children, had little to say as he walked past several hundred supporters holding signs and American […]