RI: CAIR Rep Joins Panel on Islamophobia, Anti-Americanism
In a lecture sponsored by the University of Rhode Island’s Muslim Student Association, a panel of speakers said that poor relations between Americans and Muslims are due to faults from both sides.Bill Bartels, a philosophy professor at the University of Rhode Island, Omer Bajwa, a Muslim Chaplain at Cornell University, and Dr. Mohamed Nimer, a […]
CAIR: US a Model of Islam for the World
I wrote an essay printed in this column last May in which I asked the question: “Where are the moderate Muslims?” My point was since only Muslim terrorists are mentioned in the daily news and in the absence of moderate Muslims stepping up and distancing themselves from these terrorists, it is possible that all Muslims […]
CAIR-FL: Pipes a Middle East Expert or Islamophobe?
A controversial Middle East historian is expected to generate protests today when he speaks at Florida Atlantic University about vanquishing “the Islamist enemy.”Daniel Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, will speak at 7 p.m. at the Live Oak Pavilion, adjacent to the Student Union at FAU’s Boca Raton campus. The Middle East & […]
MA: Jews, Muslims at Yale Start Blog for Dialogue
Yale students with opinions about the relationship between Jews and Muslims now have an online forum in which to air their thoughts. On Sunday night, Jews and Muslims at Yale (JAM) launched a new blog called “Jews, Muslims and Dialogue” that members said they hope will be a vehicle for discussion about issues ranging from […]
CO: ‘Bomb-Mecca’ Congressman to Retire
The immigration debates aren’t nearly settled, but Tom Tancredo has decided to leave Congress before it writes the next major chapter in national policy – presumably after next fall’s presidential contest. Odd? Not really. Tancredo’s reasons for stepping down at the end of his current term ring true. He’s tired of the incessant travel – […]
CA Muslim Sues Employer for Discrimination
In the beginning, 9/11 was a local story — it was the intimate grief and shock and incomprehension that so profoundly shook us those first days and weeks. Over time it morphed into something political, and we came to see the tragedy through the wide-angle lenses of foreign policy and law and the other spasms […]
VA: Candidate Targeted ‘For Being a Muslim’
Republican delegate nominee Faisal Gill said a voter recently asked him about his Muslim faith, saying, “At the end of the day, you are going to vote for your people?” “Which people?” Gill responded, saying that many Northern Virginia Muslims are Democrats and that he is often on the other side of issues. During a […]
DC: Religious Leaders Support Animal Protection
Religious leaders from many diverse faith traditions will carry a single message to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 7: Be kind to animals. . . Imam Qasim Ahmed, founder and director of the Islamic Learning Institute in Tampa, Fla., said: “Animals are beautiful creations from Allah and should be treated as such. As Prophet Muhammad (peace […]
TX: Restraining Order Extended Against Islamophobe
A judge extended a temporary restraining order against the organizer of a protest at the Six Flags Over Texas Muslim Family Day while he considers a request for a temporary injunction. Both sides made their cases in state District Judge Ken Curry’s court Monday afternoon as supporters of the injunction, most of them Muslim, watched. […]
Muslims Take Pride in Oklahoma’s Rich History
Alongside Oklahomans of all faiths and traditions, Muslims in Oklahoma take pride in the rich history of our state and the many accomplishments of its citizens. To honor the historic milestone of Oklahoma’s 100th year of statehood, the Governor’s Ethnic American Advisory Council of Oklahoma commissioned the printing of special edition Qurans inscribed with the […]