Rabbi Testifies in Deportation Trial of Muslim Cleric
A voluntary disclosure from a respected Muslim religious leader is being used by immigration authorities seeking to deport him, according to testimony at his deportation trial Friday from a federal agent. Mohammad Qatanani is the imam of a Paterson mosque, the Islamic Center of Passaic County. Immigration officials assert he should be deported, claiming he […]
Ohio’s Largest Mosque Names New Imam
Ohio’s largest mosque has named an Egyptian-born cleric from Michigan as its new imam, filling a position mostly vacant for more than a year after one imam was deported and another resigned amid accusations of anti-Semitism. Sayed Abouabdalla, 43, was announced to the congregation during Friday prayers at the 350-member Islamic Center of Cleveland in […]
PA: Mosque’s Burial Refusal Stirs Global Controversy
Turning down a request last week to bury alleged cop-killer Howard Cain at the Germantown Masjid has sparked an international controversy about the burial of Muslims. And locally, during Jumah, or Friday prayer services, several imams denounced the May 4 killing of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski and the bank robbery by a trio, two of whom […]
MN Rep Calls Islamophobic Columnist a ‘Thug’
When Minnesota Rep. Mindy Greiling, a Roseville DFLer who chairs the House K-12 Finance Division, recently went to Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), the majority-Muslim elementary school in Inver Grove Heights made infamous by a March Star Tribune column, what she discovered was entirely different from what writer Katherine Kersten had reported. In fact, what […]
MN Rep Lauds Charter School’s ‘High Standards’
In response to questions prompted by Katherine Kersen’s recent columns on Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), I decided to visit the school myself. What I learned during a tour late last month is that none of Kersten’s concerns that the charter school is promoting religion in violation of a state law that prohibits public schools […]
MO: Mother’s Day, Parents in Islam
[Khaled Hamid, 48, is an American Muslim. He was born in Egypt but has lived in Canada and the United States for nearly 20 years. Since 2000 he has worked as a physician in St. Louis where he lives with his wife and two sons. He is especially interested in civil rights issues and inter-faith […]
McCain’s ‘Spiritual Guide’ Wants to Destroy Islam
You may have heard of Rev. John Hagee, the McCain supporter who said God created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its homosexual “sins.” Well now meet Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist megachurch pastor from Ohio who hates Islam. According to David Corn of Mother Jones, Parsley has called on Christians to wage war […]
Video: McCain’s Pastor Problem
During a 2005 sermon, a fundamentalist pastor whom Senator John McCain has praised and campaigned with called Islam “the greatest religious enemy of our civilization and the world,” claiming that the historic mission of America is to see “this false religion destroyed.” In this taped sermon, currently sold by his megachurch, the Reverend Rod Parsley […]
CAIR: Preparedness Drill Sparks Controversy
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is crying foul over an emergency preparedness drill targeting a simulated mosque in the central Illinois community of Irving.Ahmed Rehab of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says the exercise wrongly typecast Islamic houses of worship as security threats. Rehab says he has no reason to believe […]
CAIR: Islamic Group Finds IL ‘Mosque’ Drill Offensive
A national Islamic advocacy group says an emergency preparedness drill targeting a simulated mosque in this small community wrongly typecast Islamic houses of worship as security threats.“It really was in poor taste, probably as a result of a lack of cultural prowess on the part of the person who made that choice,” Ahmed Rehab, executive […]