CA: Homeland Security Sued for Policy Information
Nabila Mango, a therapist who works in San Francisco, flew home in December after a trip to the Middle East and says customs agents detained her and asked her to identify everyone she had met and all the places she’d slept. Amir Khan, a tech consultant from Fremont, says he’s questioned for hours each time […]
NJ: Professor Honored for Book on Islamic Thought
Michael Cook, Princeton’s Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, has been awarded a Farabi International Award by Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology for his book “Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought.” Cook received the award, which recognizes achievement in the humanities, at a ceremony in Tehran in January. […]
PA: New Class Examines Islamic Extremism
A new topics class being offered by the PSU History Department this semester is giving students insight into extremist Islam. Steve Harmon teaches the class, called World Radical Islam, to about 20 students, most of them American. Part of the reason Harmon wanted to teach this class is to show students how radical Islam differs […]
NY: Police Analyst Alleges Anti-Muslim Bias
A Muslim analyst for the New York City Police Department Intelligence Division can push forward with his lawsuit against a former CIA official who is accused of denigrating Islam in e-mails sent around the police department. A federal judge, Barbara Jones of U.S. District Court in Manhattan, declined to dismiss the employment discrimination lawsuit yesterday. […]
CT: Islamic School is Growing
Uzair Mudaqi gripped his No. 2 pencil and practiced writing his letters on the wide, horizontal lines that stretched across the white paper in front of him. And although a primary-colored ABC’s carpet lay across the floor, Uzair, 5, wasn’t working on the English alphabet. Instead, he focused on forming Arabic characters. The kindergartner is […]
Mukasey: Justice Dept. ‘Cannot’ Probe Waterboarding
The attorney general yesterday rejected growing congressional calls for a criminal investigation of the CIA’s use of simulated drownings to extract information from its detainees, as Vice President Cheney called it a “good thing” that the CIA was able to learn what it did from those subjected to the practice. The remarks reflected a renewed […]
America’s Single Issue ‘Pro-Israel’ Crowd
On Tuesday, millions of voters in 21 states made their choice for president. Super Tuesday marked the end of the preliminary stage of “The Making of the President 2008” and will move us very close to the main event. From a roster of more than a dozen potential presidents, we are now down to just […]
American Jewish Congress Repudiates Obama Letter
The American Jewish Congress repudiated a letter from one of its officers raising questions about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy.In a letter appearing Thursday in The New York Jewish Week, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, identifying himself as the AJCongress’ Metropolitan Region’s co-president, attacks the Illinois Democrat for his “comfort with anti-Israel advocates,” citing Obama’s pastor and billionaire […]
NJ: Jewish Center Seeks to Mend Ties with Muslims
Jewish congregations don’t routinely devote a Sabbath to studying Islam. But come sundown Friday, the Glen Rock Jewish Center will begin an unusual and possibly pioneering two-day program aimed at understanding Islamic history and beliefs. And despite longstanding tensions between Jews and Muslims over the Middle East, the scholar delivering the program said the threat […]
CAIR: Anti-Islam Academy Speakers Make False Claims
The Air Force Academy was criticized by Muslim and religious freedom organizations for playing host on Wednesday to three speakers who critics say are evangelical Christians falsely claiming to be former Muslim terrorists. The three men were invited as part of a weeklong conference on terrorism organized by cadets at the academy’s Colorado Springs campus […]