CAIR-NY: Muslim Groups Honor Subway ‘Good Samaritan’
A Muslim student who helped stop a Hanukkah attack on four Jewish subway riders is being honored for his actions.Several Muslim organizations, including the Council on American Islamic Relations, are presenting Hassan Askari with a Good Samaritan Award. One of the victims in the attack, Walter Adler, will receive an Interfaith Commitment Award.Adler has called […]
CAIR-CA: Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
Cinnamon Stillwell’s recent column in SF Gate, “Savage vs. CAIR: The battle over free speech” on Dec. 19 offers a holiday assortment of misleading truths and omissions of facts. In her misguided defense of the “Savage Nation” radio show, Stillwell essentially defends anarchistic hate against minority groups including African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, Catholics, Jews, […]
GA: Fire Destroys Home on Mosque Property
Fire officials are investigating a “suspicious” Christmas morning blaze that destroyed a vacant home on the property of a mosque in Dalton. Whitfield County Fire Chief Carl Collins says graffiti with expletives was found inside the burned out three-bedroom brick house that sits on the same land as the future home of the Dalton Islamic […]
GA: Islamic Center Offers Reward after Suspicious Fire
A fire at a house owned by the Dalton Islamic Center is being called suspicious. The blaze broke out Christmas morning. Leaders of the Islamic Center are offering a $2,000 reward for any information that leading to the cause of the blaze. Fire officials say no power was connected to the house at the time […]
IN: Muslim Leader Affirms Religious Unity
Iman W.D. Mohammed, a leader in the African-American Muslim community, offered a message of unity among Christians, Jews and Muslims at the 47th annual Emancipation Proclamation Program of Freedom on Tuesday at Western Christian Community Church. The Interfaith Clergy Council of Gary and Vicinity’s program was held to mark the 145th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s […]
VA: Diocese Liaison Seeks to Link Catholics, Jews, Muslims
Barbara Hughes has spent years gathering Hampton Roads faith leaders to discuss their similarities and plot ways to mend differences. Hughes will spread the concept of unity among these divergent faiths as the new liaison to the Jewish and Muslim communities, under the Catholic Diocese of Richmond. She was named to the post in October. […]
CA: Young Imam Takes First Spiritual Journey to Mecca
Swathed in two white sheets, Imam Abdurrahman Anwar supplicated to God on holy ground. The 23-year-old Belmont resident asked for blessings and forgiveness of his sins as he slowly circled the Kaa’ba, a black cube, at the Al-Haram Mosque. It is believed to be the holiest place in Islam. “I basically asked for everything,” said […]
CAIR-FL: False Perceptions Can Be Dangerous
Does the author of Monday’s letter, “Eid lesson,” even know anything about Islam when she says that Islamic theology teaches Muslims to sacrifice their children or murder their daughters? These are the same types of comments that Nazis used to justify the murder of Jews.Demonizing another faith in order to score some cheap political points […]
AZ: A Handbook for Muslim Teens
Growing up in today’s culture can be exciting, confusing, and chock-full of challenges. For young American Muslims, navigating adolescence has proven especially daunting since the events of Sept. 11, 2001. They must sort out not only who they are individually but also how they fit into a society that knows little about them but holds […]
MI: Muslim Cleric Writes Book on Islam
Born into a prestigious Iraqi family descended from Islam’s prophet, Imam Hassan Qazwini started life anew when he moved to the United States in 1992. He knew little English, was unfamiliar with American culture and uncertain about his future. But now, Qazwini of Dearborn heads one the largest U.S. mosques — the Islamic Center of […]