FL: Muslim Students Balance College, Religion, Prejudice
Seema Karim and her mother were once stopped on the street by a woman who, upon seeing that the two were wearing headscarves, or hijabs, asked them: “Why are you still wearing that? It’s a free country!” Karim and Muslims across the nation have become the targets of prejudice following the events of Sept. 11, […]
Iraq: Security Flows from Hussein-Era Tactics
The city’s police chief, Col. Faisal Ismail al-Zobaie, a husky man with a leathered face and a firm voice that resonates with authority, ordered an aide to shut his office door. He turned to his computer. Across the screen flashed a video, purportedly made by the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the video, […]
CAIR: All Candidates Must Renounce Extremists
There are so many important issues for the American people and politicians to pay attention to this election season. Sadly, many people are avoiding productive debate of those issues and are instead seeking to divide our nation along racial and religious lines. As soon as Sen. Barack Obama announced his presidential candidacy, there were those […]
CAIR: Speaker Discusses Politics, Islam
A lecture giving Muslim voters the tools to get active in American politics dispelled common stereotypes surrounding Muslims, like the idea that Islamic political issues differ greatly from those of the general public.Many of Islam’s core principles support democratic ideals, said Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national nonprofit civil rights […]
CAIR-OH: Groups Differ on Library Canceling Mideast Forum
Calling the film biased against Israel and one-sided, a number of Jewish residents attending a library board meeting this week applauded The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library Board of Trustees’ decision to cancel the March 12 screening of the documentary “Searching for Peace in the Middle East” and two related spring programs.However, many at the meeting […]
MA: Harvard Students’ Muslim Traditions Debated
Two issues of Muslim practice – whether the call to prayer should ring out across Harvard Yard and whether the university should grant women separate gym hours – have unleashed small waves of controversy over how Harvard practices tolerance. Heated discussions have erupted on dormitory chat rooms, students said, while various opinion articles in the […]
PA: Jews, Muslims Work to Heal New Orleans
A year ago, an alternative spring-break trip afforded University of Pennsylvania student Sam Adelsberg the opportunity to witness firsthand the many, still-difficult, even grim realities of life in post-Katrina New Orleans, an experience that both haunted him and fermented a desire to return to the Crescent City and do more. At the same time, the […]
NY: Officer Adds Charges to Lawsuit Against City
When an Egyptian-born correction officer working in an elite antiterrorism unit of the New York Police Department sued the city in 2006, he said that although members of the unit had been subjected to hundreds of virulent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim e-mail messages by a city contractor, the police had done too little to stop the […]
TX: Army Vet Speaks Against Mistreatment of Detainees
James Yee went from being a decorated U.S. Army soldier serving in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to being accused of espionage, spying and aiding the facility’s detainees. He spoke to students about his experiences Thursday night at the UT Law School Auditorium. When returning to the U.S. for vacation after serving 10 months as chaplain, Yee […]
MI: U.S. Army Combats Arab-American Suspicions
The billboard displays a phone number and only two English words: “Call Mona.” The rest is in Arabic. But if you can read it, the Army wants you. The sign, erected to help recruit translators from Detroit’s large Middle Eastern population, urges Arabic speakers to consider joining the military. “In the land of different opportunities,” […]