CAIR-CA: LAPD Under Fire Over ‘Mapping’ Plan
Amid growing nationwide controversy, Islamic leaders called on the Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday to abandon plans by its counterterrorism bureau to create a map detailing Muslim communities across the city.The plan, revealed earlier this week, has drawn accusations of racial profiling and concern that it could be used with other communities, even as […]
CAIR: Journalists’ Guides to Understanding Islam, Muslims
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said today the centerpiece of its “Beyond Stereotypes” campaign will be distribution of the newly-published “American Muslims: A Journalist’s Guide to Understanding Islam and Muslims” to some 40,000 media professionals nationwide.CAIR’s guide offers journalists the tools needed to gain a better understanding of Islam and to write accurate and […]
CAIR: Tancredo’s Anti-Terror Ad Exploits Anti-Muslim Bias
Rep. Tom Tancredo defended a controversial TV ad Tuesday that depicted a hooded terrorist blowing up a shopping mall, despite allegations by some that the congressman was engaging in fear-mongering.The 30-second spot, which has started running in Iowa, links a potential terrorist attack to U.S. immigration policy, with a voice condemning porous borders and “spineless […]
Tancredo’s Politics of Fear
It is a terrifying image stalking the subconscious of many Americans in the post-Sept. 11 world. And thanks to Tom Tancredo, the congressman from Colorado, Republican presidential candidate and anti-immigration crusader, it is now appearing on television sets across Iowa, with promises to expand to other states soon: A man in a hooded sweat shirt […]
TX: Muslim Prayer Time New Legal Issue at Swift Plant
The dispute over prayer breaks for Muslim employees at the Swift & Co. plant in Cactus is a two-sided legal issue, an Amarillo attorney said this week. At least 54 plant employees, all Muslims of African descent, walked off the job last week, citing the company’s refusal to allow them two prayer breaks and female […]
MD: Students Find the Way to Persian
Allison White began studying Persian because of a chance meeting: Before she started her freshman year at the University of Maryland, she wandered into an office and a friendly professor talked her into taking a class. But by now, she feels lucky that she got lost that day. “I’m really glad that I took Persian,” […]
FL: FAU Group Protests Spitting at Speech
A student group has started a petition demanding Florida Atlantic University take a stronger stance denouncing an incident where a school employee spat on a student protester. The incident happened Oct. 30, when some Muslims and their allies protested a speech given by Middle East historian Daniel Pipes, who they view as anti-Islamic. FAU student […]
Students of Arabic Learn at a Syrian Crossroads
This sleepy capital has long been a popular destination for foreigners who want to learn Arabic. Drawn by the charmingly well-preserved old city, an easily understood Arabic dialect and dirt cheap tuition prices subsidized by the government, thousands of foreign students enroll in language institutes here every year. Some students are not Muslim; others are […]
DC: US Muslim Veterans Lay Wreath at National WWII Memorial
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/14/2007) – Members of the Muslim American Veterans Association (MAVA) placed a wreath at the National WWII Memorial this past Sunday to honor all Americans who served in that conflict. This was the tenth year that MAVA conducted its Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony. American Muslim Veterans of WWII, Korea, Vietnam and other conflicts […]
Giuliani Advisor Advocates War Crimes Against Palestinians
Daniel Pipes loves Arab cuisine, Arab literature and the Arabic language. When working in his Philadelphia office, he often plays Arab music in the background. That’s about as far as he goes. . . What would a new deterrence look like? For one thing, no more parleys with Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers shaking hands […]