AZ: Islam, Christianity Discussion Set
The best way to understand religious differences of neighbors and colleagues is to explore those differences together, say the people who run Scottsdale’s diversity program. Scottsdale is hosting a discussion about similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam at noon today at the Granite Reef Senior Center, Room 8, 1700 N. Granite Reef Road, and […]
Documentary on Rumi Inspires Interfaith Dialogue
A new documentary tells the inspiring story of the life of Jalaluddin Rumi, a 13th century mystic who has become a best selling poet in 21st century America. As Faiza Elmasry tells us, Rumi Returning connects the founder of Sufism to his Islamic roots while celebrating his universal message of tolerance and peace. The documentary […]
CO: Paid Bigots Teach Religious War
The U.S. Air Force Academy just can’t seem to get it right. Six major cheating scandals in four decades. Endemic sexual harassment against female cadets. Christian evangelical officers proselytizing non-Christian cadets. But in February 2008, on the occasion of their fiftieth annual assembly, the Academy brass outdid themselves. They presented three discredited Islamophobes who spewed […]
CAIR-MI: Hate Group Hosts Anti-Muslim Speaker
Walid Shoebat grew up near Bethlehem, living what he calls “basically a very violent life.”As a teenager affiliated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, he says he tossed a bomb onto the roof of a bank and, with friends, nearly lynched an Israeli soldier.“The whole notion of destroying Israel was part of our goal,” said Shoebat, […]
CAIR-FL: Al-Arian Documentary Tours Country
Sami Al-Arian, a former professor in USF’s College of Engineering who was arrested in 2003 on charges of supporting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, will face a grand jury either today or Tuesday for refusing to testify in a hearing that took place Thursday.His case has received renewed national and international attention, partly thanks to a […]
CAIR-PA Chairman Honored with Interfaith Leaders
The Shalom Center in Mount Airy will host its Prophetic Voices celebration will Sunday April 6, 2008 at Congregation Mishkan Shalom, 1401Freeland Avenue, Roxborough.This year three national religious leaders along with three local leaders are being honored. National honorees are Ruth Messinger, head of the Jewish World Service who built a multi-religious campaign to end […]
Utah Muslims Honor Muhammad’s Birth
More than 1,400 years after he came into this world, Utah Muslims came together Sunday afternoon to honor the birth of the prophet Muhammad. Tins of homemade food – including chicken curry, kebabs and traditional desserts – lined tables and counters in Sandy’s Utah Islamic Center as about 300 people gathered to praise the founder […]
NJ: Muslim Activist Builds Tolerance, Understanding
It was some 40 years ago that Aref Assaf was a skinny boy living with his family in a Palestinian refugee camp. He saw something no boy should see — his 11-year-old brother shot to death, a few days after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War ended. Now, living a comfortable life in the suburbs, married and […]
NY: Jail Reaches Deal on Meals for Muslim Inmates
A county jail has agreed to provide Muslim inmates with meats prepared according to Islamic law, ending a three-year-long legal fight. Under a settlement approved by a federal judge in Manhattan on March 12, the Westchester County jail is serving four halal meat dishes a week for Muslim inmates who request them, the Journal News […]
NC: Defender of the Muslim Faith
Standing 5-foot-2 and wearing a Muslim head scarf, Khalilah Sabra doesn’t look like a firebrand. But the diminutive woman has become the voice for Muslims in the Raleigh area, and over the past few years has shown she will not be cowed. She recently took on a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security […]