Film: Being Arab in Post 9/11 America
After the Sept. 11 attacks, actor Sayed Badreya and director Hesham Isaawi, Egyptian-born Muslims living and working in the United States, were inspired to make a film to help to illuminate their culture to their fellow American citizens and help curb prejudices that were intensifying during that time. The result, AmericanEast, is a comic drama […]
NJ: Supporters Raise $100K for Imam in Deportation Fight
Followers of a prominent imam have raised nearly $100,000 to help him fight deportation, according to a published report. Mohammad Qatanani has been refused a green card by immigration authorities who said he did not disclose on a previous application that he was arrested in Israel in 1993 and convicted of assisting Hamas militants. Most […]
Obama’s Middle Name — My Last Name — is ‘Hussein.’ So?
Who says someone named “Hussein” can’t be president of the United States? I was. Granted, it was only a school play, and I spell my name “Hussain.” But I thought I did a pretty good job as the commander in chief, even if my wardrobe consisted of an old tweed jacket from Sears. As a […]
McCain Faces Firestorm on Anti-Catholic Preacher’s Endorsement
Many conservatives, not to mention Clinton supporters, were smiling wide last week during the Democratic debate in Ohio when MSNBC’s Tim Russert asked Barack Obama about being praised by Louis Farrakhan. But the controversy faded almost before it started after Obama denounced the Nation of Islam leader’s anti-Jewish remarks and, with a little prodding from […]
Bush Administration Backed Palestinian Strongman
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security […]
CAIR-OH Rep Discusses Harvard Women-Only Workouts
Julia Shearson, Harvard alumna and executive director of the Cleveland office of theCouncil on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Cleveland), discusses a recent move to allotsix hours per week for women-only workouts at one of Harvard’s campus gyms.Click here to view the video.
New Immigration Screening Targets Muslims
In the six and a half years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, federal law-enforcement agencies have secretly established profiling techniques to screen immigrants based on their nationalities, protocols that critics charge encourage the unjustified targeting of Muslims. The profiling, described in a February 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by McClatchy Newspapers, shows […]
NY Student Who Dumped Qurans in Toilet Sentenced
A former Pace University student who twice threw copies of the Quran into a toilet at the school after disputes with Muslims pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct in connection with the incidents. Stanislav Shmulevich, 24, pleaded guilty as part of a deal in which he must do 300 hours of community service. He has […]
Free Speech and Islam: Questioning Assumptions
In “Free Speech and Radical Islam” (Feb. 15), Flemming Rose unwittingly assumed the role of the German officer he mentioned when he allowed the malicious cartoons to be published. This obviously and predictably would enrage millions of Muslims around the world. His concern about free speech is disingenuous. He clearly gives a free hand to […]
VA: Justice Department Taking Steps to Charge Al-Arian
The Justice Department is taking the first steps toward what could be another criminal prosecution of a former Florida college professor and prominent Palestinian Arab activist, Sami Al-Arian. One of Al-Arian’s attorneys, Jonathan Turley, said a hearing was held in federal court yesterday in Alexandria, Va., after prosecutors summoned Al-Arian before a grand jury there. […]