CAIR-CAN: Ejection of Girl from Game Violates Rights
Alberta Liberals accused the provincial government Tuesday of ignoring basic human rights after a 14-year-old girl was forced to leave a Calgary soccer game for wearing a Muslim headscarf.“This incident is the latest in a long line of needless controversies that should be behind us, including the wearing of turbans, religious symbols and the like,” […]
NJ: Two Traditions Inspire Faithful Scouts
As Boy Scout Troop 114 cooked lunch during the recent Highland Games near their tents in a Middlesex County park, a senior Scout summoned his fellow members. The Scouts huddled around tree trunks in Thompson Park and stroked the bark with their palms before rubbing their arms and faces in a ritual cleansing. Then they […]
TX: Judge Declines to Block Autopsies of Muslim Men
A Tarrant County judge declined Tuesday to stop the autopsies of two men killed in a traffic collision late Sunday night. The men’s families had objected, saying autopsies violated their Muslim faith. Abdel Rahman Joudeh, 23, of Arlington and Mohammad Khan, 18, of Grand Prairie were killed when their car veered into the path of […]
IL: Muslim Barbers Make Time for Brotherhood, Prayer
Click here to view the video. Inside Hyde Park Barber Studio, Abdul Karim Shakir usually greets every customer with his friendly street-style embrace. “What’s up, brother? Come on, I got you right here,” he says, slapping a black leather chair as a welcome. As he turns on his electric clippers and tends to the cut, […]
MN: To Muslim Girls, Scouts Offer a Chance to Fit In
Sometimes when Asma Haidara, a 12-year-old Somali immigrant, wants to shop at Target or ride the Minneapolis light-rail system, she puts her Girl Scout sash over her everyday clothes, which usually include a long skirt worn over pants as well as a swirling head scarf. She has discovered that the trademark green sash — with […]
NY: Court Says US Border Inspections of Muslims Were Allowed
U.S. immigration authorities acted constitutionally when they subjected dozens of people returning from an Islamic convention in Canada to screening tactics usually reserved for people suspected of being terrorists, an appeals court said Monday. The court upheld the conclusion of a federal judge that the 2004 inspections, which involved frisking and fingerprinting, did not violate […]
Canadian Muslim Barred from Flight Files Complaint
A Canadian Muslim who says he was blocked from a domestic Air Canada flight because of racial profiling has filed a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. While attempting to purchase a ticket in Vancouver to fly to Victoria in May 2004, Shahid Mahmood said he was flagged as a security threat. Mahmood’s Chilean-born […]
Vatican to Accept Muslim Dialogue Call Soon
The Vatican plans to respond positively and very soon to an appeal by Muslim scholars for an unprecedented dialogue between Christianity and Islam, Roman Catholic cardinals and Islam experts say. The Catholic Church, representing more than half the world’s two billion Christians, has not yet officially answered the call made last month and hailed by […]
CAIR-FL: Little Expected from Mideast Summit
South Floridians who watch the Israeli/Palestinian situation closely aren’t expecting history to be made at Tuesday’s international peace conference in Annapolis, Md., but most are trying to be optimistic.”We see it as a very significant step by the United States in order to contribute to the peace process, but I don’t think there will be […]
NJ: Arabs Here Doubt Israel Will Budge
Many Muslims and Arab-Americans in North Jersey say they doubt that today’s summit on the Mideast will lead to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. They do not believe that Israel is ready to make concessions on a Palestinian state, borders and sovereignty over Jerusalem. And without those concessions, they say, hopes to end the bloody […]