NY: City Honors Muslim ‘Good Samaritan’
A Muslim Bangladeshi student is to be honoured by the mayor of New York on Wednesday for helping three Jewish people who were being beaten up. Hassan Askari has been described as a “latter-day Good Samaritan” for coming to the aid of the three, who were attacked earlier this month. A gang yelling anti-Semitic slogans […]
MI: Kids Learn Hajj by Doing
Dressed in white flowing robes, hundreds of young Muslims praised God as they walked through a Dearborn mosque in a simulation of the Islamic pilgrimage under way in Saudi Arabia. “It makes you want to cry,” Tamara Fiema of Dearborn said Tuesday after her 7-year-old daughter encircled a replication of the Kaaba — the black […]
CAIR: Advertisers Quickly Pulling Out of Michael Savage’s Show
Though Michael Savage didn’t suffer the same remarks as Don Imus when he made his ill-fated remark about the Rutgers girl’s basketball team, he is facing a large enough challenge in light of his unfortunate…slip of tongue.Over the summer, Savage made a comment about the San Francisco college student who had been protesting by fasting […]
CAIR-MI: Prayer Is a Key Player for Pro Athletes
Nazr Mohammed, traded from the Pistons to the Bobcats last week, is a practicing Muslim, something that causes an interesting situation during Ramadan — mid-September through mid-October.Per Islamic law, Mohammed fasts during daylight hours of the entire ninth month of the religious calendar. The purpose is to help attain taqwa, or a heightened consciousness of […]
MI: More Muslim Girls Wear Scarf in Games
Dewnya Bakri loves her faith — and the feeling of sinking a three-pointer. For much of her life, the 20-year-old Muslim has found a way to balance practicing Islam and playing basketball, including wearing a head scarf and long pants on the hardcourt, even if it’s meant taunts as she blazed trails on her middle […]
IL: Last Teen Sentenced in Mosque Break-In
The final of four teens was sentenced Monday for burglarizing the Islamic Center of Naperville. Mark Domingo was sentenced to serve 21 days in DuPage County jail and three years’ probation, similar to his three co-defendants, for felony burglary. The 19-year-old Naperville man also agreed to pay $2,000 in restitution. Police installed a surveillance camera […]
CA Muslims Embark on Odyssey of Faith, Peril
The students stared at the overhead screen and read the words in unison: Labbaik. Allah humma labbaik. The Southern California Muslims repeated those words — “Here I am, Lord. I am here to serve you” — as they donned pilgrims’ robes last week in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina, a key step on their […]
Video: CAIR Rep Condemns Domestic Violence Incident
CAIR Media Relations Director Ahmed Rehab discusses an incident of domestic violence in Canada on FOX’s “American Newsroom.” To view the video, click here.TRANSCRIPT:MEGYN KELLY: Well and now to a tragedy, over religion. A 16 year old Muslim girl murdered allegedly by her own father. This is Aqsa Parvez, her father told authorities that he […]
CAIR: Boycotted Radio Host Remains Unbowed
The humbling of Don Imus last spring over his remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team has done nothing to quiet Michael Savage, a radio host with a far bigger following and far more checkered track record.Mr. Savage, whose program reaches an estimated eight million listeners a week on nearly 400 stations, suggested over the […]
CAIR-OH: Author Fosters Understanding of Islam
The biggest holiday of the Muslim year, Eid al-Adha, begins on Thursday, Dec. 20, this year. Because it follows the Islamic lunar calendar, it will move 11 days earlier next year and every succeeding year on the Gregorian calendar. Its timing within a week of Christmas happens only once every three decades.For Ohio author Asma […]