CAIR-CA: Immigration Issues Keep Boy from Family
A teenage boy, separated from his parents and trapped in a one-bedroom apartment for four years.It sounded terrible.Yet that was what seemed to have happened to Muhamed Kamal, a 15-year-old boy who fled Iraq’s violence only to be separated from his family in Jordan and then left behind.Four years on, in another small apartment, in […]
CAIR-MN: Town Hall Meeting Addresses Suspected Arson
If you saw a person in your neighborhood yelling racial insults at a woman, what would you do?What would you do if you saw someone trying to run another car, driven by a woman of a different ethnicity and carrying three young children, off the road?How would you feel if you were out for a […]
CAIR-OH: School’s Cultural Fair Goes Global
The annual International Day Cultural Fair this weekend will explore locations around the globe.The four-hour event, sponsored by the International Academy of Cincinnati, will be from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the school, 8092 Plantation Drive, West Chester Township.“Our school has a very diversified student population, coming from many different countries,” said Samina […]
CAIR-OH: Christians, Muslims Seek Common Ground
At first glance, Northern Kentucky doesn’t appear religiously diverse, with most of the area’s non-Christian residents attending worship at synagogues, Hindu temples, Buddhist adherents and other houses of worship on the Ohio side of the river.But some Northern Kentucky residents want to make talking about Islam and Christianity a regular activity, with a five-part Islam […]
CAIR: Al-Arian Gets Visitors During Hunger Strike
Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor who remained in a Virginia prison on contempt of court charges despite his acquittal on serious terrorist charges, has lost 32 pounds in a month-long hunger strike, according to an Islamic group’s executive director who visited Al-Arian on Monday.Al-Arian is on his second hunger strike to […]
CAIR-MN: Hate Crime Sparks Meeting Focused on Unity, Answers
On the night of January 27, three men entered Mohammad Ismail’s Blaine Dairy store as he was closing shop and threw flaming glass bottles at the walls, destroying everything in the store. Ismail escaped through the smoke-filled store with minor cuts and burns. A strong expletive directed at the word “Arab” was founded spray painted […]
NJ: Muslim Volunteers to Serve at Soup Kitchen
A “Muslims Serve Day” will take place at the Community Soup Kitchen next month. Serving at the soup kitchen gives the Muslim community an opportunity to participate in an “act of righteousness” and show the community at large the true and compassionate face of Muslims and Islam, said Zamir Hassan, a coordinator with Muslims Against […]
Ex-Detainee Says U.S. Tortured Him
At the age of 19, Murat Kurnaz vanished into America’s shadow prison system in the war on terror. He was from Germany, traveling in Pakistan, and was picked up three months after 9/11. But there seemed to be ample evidence that Kurnaz was an innocent man with no connection to terrorism. The FBI thought so, […]
MI: Muslim, Jewish Women Find Understanding
Beheejah Shakoor learned from a rabbi that the yarmulke is worn as a reminder of a higher power, something she said she also believes. “You realize we have more in common than differences,” Shakoor, a Muslim nurse from South Lyon, said. Shakoor was among about 100 women of various faiths who attended Sunday’s “A Day […]
TN: Muslim Store Owner Struggles to Recover from Shooting
Nearly two years later, Zakaria Ibrahim still cannot walk alone. The owner of the Z-mart on North Highland Avenue, Ibrahim still spends most days lying in a hospital bed in his home, after being shot in the stomach during a July 3, 2006, armed robbery of his convenience store. Ibrahim was shot about 11:15 p.m. […]