CA: LA Police Chief Scraps Muslim Mapping
Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton said Thursday a plan to map out where Muslims lived had been scrapped, saying strong reaction from Muslim communities forced the department to change course. “The proposal will not be moving forward,” Bratton said, standing with several Muslim leaders after a closed-door meeting. “It’s dead on arrival.” Muslim groups […]
CAIR-CA Rep Discusses Dropped ‘Mapping’ Plan
Munira Syeda, Communications Coordinator for the Greater Los Angeles Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, discusses the LAPD’s decision to drop its controversial Muslim “mapping” program.VIDEO [click on “Muslim Mapping” under “Top Stories”]
CAIR: Rhetoric Undermines the War on Terror
Given their divergent views from abortion to same-sex unions, Christian televangelist Pat Robertson’s endorsement of Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani makes them an odd couple. Their alliance is the result of a convergence of their interest in fighting ‘Islamic terrorism.’ This echoes Giuliani’s longstanding description of the war on terror as a war on ‘radical […]
CAIR-FL: School Report Differs from Muslim Student’s Claim
The Pinellas County School District has released its report on a classroom incident involving an 11-year-old Muslim girl who claims a classmate threatened and humiliated.Hannah Chehab told the school board that a male classmate at Azalea Middle School harassed her, pulling off her head scarf, questioned her sexual orientation and threatening to shoot her with […]
MN: Jewish Group Condemns Hateful Faxes to Muslim School
A leading Jewish organization has condemned the “hateful messages” that were sent in about 100 faxes over the course of a year to the Al-Amal School in Fridley. A leading Jewish organization has condemned the “hateful messages” that were sent in about 100 faxes over the course of a year to the Al-Amal School in […]
MN Man Agrees to Stop Sending Hate Mail to Islamic School
A man who says the Quran is a “terrorist manual” has agreed to stop sending offensive faxes to Minnesota’s only full-time Islamic school. Police said Steven Harhaj, 61, of Plymouth, sent anti-Islamic faxes to the Al-Amal in Fridley, as well as the Islamic Center of Minnesota, where the school is housed, and some Fridley city […]
MI: Muslim Americans Establish Own Schools in US
There are some six to eight million Muslims living in the United States and many Muslim children attend public schools. For decades, Muslim families relied on Islamic Sunday schools to teach their children about Islam and Arabic, the language of the holy Koran. But now some Muslim Americans are establishing their own Islamic academies, combining […]
FL: Guantanamo Prison Manual Released on Web
Some Guantanamo detainees were denied Red Cross visits and mail, had criticism of the U.S. government or leaders censored from their letters and were at first isolated without Korans, according to a once-secret prison camps manual that suddenly appeared on the Internet. Military spokesmen confirmed the March 2003 policy manual was authentic, but they sent […]
CAIR-CA: LAPD Abandons Plan to Map Muslims
Police in Los Angeles have abandoned a controversial anti-terrorism plan that would have created a compute database of the city’s Muslim population, media here reported Thursday.Officials with the Los Angeles police department said they had planned to launch the mapping effort to better understand the Muslim community, rather than as a form of profiling or […]
IN: Janitor Firms to Negotiate Citing Islamic Law
Several janitorial firms operating in the Indianapolis area have agreed to negotiate a contract with the Service Employees International Union, which has been holding protests and other events downtown for two years to try to force the talks. Meanwhile, a clergy group that backs the union is taking its campaign against Indianapolis-based HDG Mansur Group […]