CAIR-FL: Citizenship Applicants Sue Over Delays
Akram Jawad and Iman Kadom, a professional couple from Iraq, have been legal residents of the United States for more than 11 years, but have been unable to obtain citizenship.They blame bureaucratic delays that have left some citizenship applications on ice for more than three years, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.Jawad, […]
CAIR: For ‘Ex-Muslims,’ Terrorism Pays
For some time now a trio of self-proclaimed ex-terrorists has been making the rounds of the lecture circuit, charging thousands of dollars for their fantastical tales of life as murderous Muslim extremists. Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem – both US citizens – and Zacharia Anani, a Canadian national, all claim to have been members of the […]
MI: Imam Translates Quran Into African Language
Born into a devout Muslim family in west Africa, Imam Momodou Ceesay studied Arabic and the Quran at an early age. He learned quickly under the tutelage of a Gambian sheikh and graduated from Al Azhar in Egypt, considered the top university in the world for Islamic studies. But it concerned him that millions of […]
CAIR-Orlando: 14 Sue Government Over Citizenship Delays
Fourteen Muslims are suing the U.S. Attorney General and heads of the FBI, Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, alleging the government has stalled their citizenship applications with indefinite background checks.Each plaintiff is in the country legally as a permanent resident and has been waiting 2 to 5 years for their applications to […]
Emerging Worldview: Kill Muslims to Purify the Earth
Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are the three stooges of the Christian right. These self-described former Muslim terrorists are regularly trotted out — a few days ago they were at the Air Force Academy– to spew racist filth about Islam on behalf of groups such as Focus on the Family. It is a […]
Medved: Is Islam Itself the Enemy?
Is America’s “war on terror” in reality a war on Islam itself? Most Muslim radicals insist that it is – as do many patriotic conservatives in this country who believe that any attempts to woo Islamic moderates, or to whitewash the violent and menacing essence of the Koran, distort the true nature of the current […]
Daniel Pipes: The 21st Century’s Joseph McCarthy
Have you ever suspected that your campus may be little more than the intellectual equivalent of an Al Qaeda training camp, dutifully churning out youthful armies of Osama Bin Laden-hugging, America-hating traitors? Well, fear not. Pundit and right-wing crusader Daniel Pipes is keeping an eye on your university and the treasonous activity percolating therein…
CAIR: Obama’s Tribal Garb Photo Stirs Up Outrage
A furor erupted yesterday as a photo of Barack Obama in a white turban spread across the Web, drawing accusations of fearmongering and racism from the Obama campaign and Muslim groups.“It seems that the intention is to imply that the traditional garb of a certain culture is evil,” said Ahmed Rehab, from the Council on […]
CAIR: Common Misunderstandings About Muslims
Muslim culture often isn’t very well understood in America. To help sort out fact from fiction, ABC News addresses several common ways Muslims are misunderstood.Misconception: The terms “Muslim” and “Arab” are synonymous.Truth:Only between 18 and 20 percent of Muslims worldwide are Arab (source: the Council on American-Islamic Relations).The largest Muslim population in the world is […]
Tonight: ABC Tests Public Reactions to Anti-Muslim Bias
When network newsmagazines use hidden cameras, they are usually pursuing child predators, as the “To Catch A Predator” series on “Dateline NBC” has demonstrated. But for the next several weeks, ABC is introducing a new twist on the genre — a social psychology experiment called “What Would You Do?” The segments, on ABC’s “Primetime,” will […]