TX: Injunction Granted Against Muslim Day Protester
A state district judge granted a temporary injunction Wednesday against a Florida man who organized a protest of a Six Flags Over Texas Muslim Family Day. The injunction forbids Joe Kaufman, president of Americans Against Hate, from threatening the plaintiffs or causing them bodily injury. The plaintiffs, which include several local Muslim groups, previously had […]
TX: Judge Rules Against Muslim Day Protester
A Florida man who protested Muslim Family Day at Six Flags over Texas last month is prohibited from threatening or harming event participants, a district judge ruled late Wednesday. Several local Muslim organizations, including the DFW Islamic Educational Center, on Monday asked state District Judge Ken Curry to bar Joe Kaufman, co-founder of Americans Against […]
MI: Ignoring Arab-Americans in ’08?
In 2003, Arab-Americans believed they were at a positive turning point. Most of the presidential candidates appeared in person or via satellite before that year’s Arab-American Institute’s National Leadership Conference. It was a far cry from two decades earlier, when a major candidate, Walter Mondale, very publicly returned donations from a group of Arab-American businessmen, […]
Rumsfeld Memo Laments Lazy Muslims
Ah, Rummy. We’ve missed him. Really, we have. Nobody else in the Bush administration has his way with words. Current Defense Secretary Robert Gates can toss out a quote, sure, but he’s just not capable of mindbenders of his predecessor’s “unknown unknowns” variety. So we were excited to see that the Washington Post had swiped […]
Video: CAIR-OK Joins Interfaith Press Conference on Quran Flap
The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) recently co-sponsored a news conference with the Islamic Society of Tulsa and interfaith leaders in reaction to Islamophobic remarks by lawmakers in that state who rejected Qurans sent as gifts from an ethnic advisory council.In rejecting the Qurans, Islam’s revealed text, some lawmakers made stereotypical […]
FL: Muslim Protester Spat on Outside Daniel Pipes Lecture
A young protester stood outside a crowded auditorium Tuesday night and watched a scowling older woman approach her. Sana Akhtar, a 23-year-old psychology and biology student at Florida Atlantic University, gripped a stack of fliers that decried Daniel Pipes, the controversial speaker scheduled to take the stage in 30 minutes. Like many of the 40 […]
NY: Spotlight on FBI in False Confession Case
This month, Abdallah Higazy managed to crawl from the landslide of forgotten history on a slow-motion journey toward the truth. Mr. Higazy, now 36, was briefly — and wrongly — known as a mysterious figure who fled a hotel room directly across Church Street from the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, […]
TX: US Needs to Start a Discussion with the Muslim World
As a carefree teenager working behind a fast-food register, I was excited to open my first account with $50. As I sat with a friend at the Richardson Mosque, a man came up and engaged us in conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away and explained how it was our responsibility to stand up […]
DC: AG Nominee Unsure if Waterboarding is Torture
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey told Senate Democrats yesterday that a kind of simulated drowning known as waterboarding is “repugnant to me,” but he said he does not know whether the interrogation tactic violates U.S. laws against torture. Mukasey’s uncertainty about the method’s legality has raised new questions about the success of his nomination. […]
CA: LAPD Launches Muslim ‘Community Mapping’ Initiative
Downing said the LAPD had launched a “community mapping” initiative to plot the locations of Muslim populations around Los Angeles and examine their histories, demographics and socioeconomic standing. The department hopes to identify communities susceptible to extremism and prevent violent ideologies from taking root, he said. (MORE)