MO: Holocaust Museum Gives Voice to Muslim Victims of Genocide
Fear? I get it. I’ve been afraid for my physical safety and my psychological well-being and for that of people close to me. I know that fear can warp people’s judgment and lead them to do stupid, even terrible, things. But closely aligned with fear, yet actually its opposite, is something I do not get […]
NC: City Reaches Out to Islamic Community
Mousa Shehadeh is a good-natured fellow. But in recent years, world events have hit home in his daily life in Rocky Mount. Terrorist attacks, war in the Middle East and suicide bombing abroad has left him feeling stereotyped locally. “I am a human just like you,” Shehadeh said. “When we die, we both go underground […]
AM Radio Promoting Hatred, Narrowing Discourse
During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, the Hutu-power genocidaires were mobilized by radio extremists. One station in particular had a long history of hate-mongering, and its on-air personalities had previously organized outbreaks of mass murder against Tutsis. But educated Tutsis generally paid little attention to them. They were so gauche, so lacking in subtlety, so […]
AL: Church Hosts Sessions on Islam
TUSCALOOSA | A Methodist church isn’t typically the place to learn about Hinduism or Islam, but Forest Lake United Methodist is opening its doors and taking a chance on faith. Every Tuesday night, church members and people of varying beliefs meet to take part in a religious studies series on some of the world’s great […]
W.H.O. Says Iraq Civilian Death Toll Higher than Cited
The World Health Organization on Wednesday waded into the controversial subject of Iraqi civilian deaths, publishing a study that estimated that the number of deaths from the start of the war through June 2006 was at least twice as high as the oft-cited Iraq Body Count. The study is the latest in a long series […]
CAIR-CA: Probe Clears Muslim Group and UCI of Anti-Semitism
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a report early December exonerating UC Irvine and a campus Muslim student group of anti-Semitism charges. The investigation was launched in 2004 following complaints from the Zionist Organization of America and other pro-Israel right wing groups who repeatedly accused UCI officials of failing to […]
CAIR-CA: Muslim Woman Sues for Being Forced to Remove Headscarf
A Muslim woman arrested for riding a commuter train without a valid ticket has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States, claiming her religious freedom was violated when she was forced to remove her headscarf when she was taken to jail. The suit, filed Dec. 5 in U.S. District Court by the American Civil […]
CAIR: US Muslims Put Political Activism in Overdrive
Those seeking the White House in 2008 may want to take note of an increasingly active and growing group of voters – American Muslims. Muslims are now viewed as potential swing-voters in key battleground states such as Florida, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. For example, more than 60 Muslim get-out-the-vote volunteers in an Ohio […]
NY: Look Beyond News to Learn Islam’s Teachings
With the assassination of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, and the unremitting bloodshed in Iraq and elsewhere, we experience what can only be called violent expediency in the name of religion. It is known that Islam forbids suicide, and the most conservative Muslim scholars, including Sheikhs Ibn Baz, Albaani and Uthaymeen, issued […]
NY: New Principal for English-Arabic School
On Tuesday, the New York City Education Department named an educator who has a “working knowledge” of Arabic as principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the embattled Brooklyn school whose founding principal resigned under pressure after being quoted as defending the word “intifada” as a T-shirt slogan. The new principal, Holly Anne Reichert, 42, […]