CAIR: Prosecutors Should Stop Wasting Money on Witch Hunts
After years of investigations and wiretaps, after three months of court arguments and a record 19 straight days of jury deliberations, the jury could not return a single guilty verdict on the nearly 200 charges in a case against the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation (HLF) an American-Muslim charity.The prosecution asked the jury for justice and […]
OK: New Page Turns in Quran Flap
Gov. Brad Henry and leaders in both the House and Senate said Wednesday they intend to accept a copy of the centennial Quran following a number of refusals by other lawmakers this week. House Speaker Lance Cargill said Wednesday he would keep his copy but also said he would give a centennial Bible to the […]
OK: Quran Fuss Reflection of Times
If this were 10 or 15 years ago and a Muslim sought to gift legislators with a copy of the Quran, our guess is most would have accepted and that would have been that. But 9/11 changed everything, as we’ve seen demonstrated vividly in Oklahoma this week. State Rep. Rex Duncan, a Republican from Sand […]
CAIR-OK: Groups Stand with Muslims in Quran Flap
In a show of solidarity with the Muslim community, representatives of the Tulsa Jewish Federation and several interfaith organizations held a press conference Friday condemning Oklahoma lawmakers who turned down a copy of the Quran.Rep. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, refused a gift of Islam’s holy book earlier this week, saying, “Most Oklahomans do not endorse […]
PA: Expert Presents Islam as Tolerant
The Western world may not hear this too often, but nothing in Islam justifies terrorism, a scholar on the Middle East said Thursday night. “The root of terrorism — it doesn’t have anything to do with Islam,” Medhi Noorbaksh told a gathering of about 60 people in the Forest Resources Building. “ … Terrorism in […]
Attacking Islam Undermines Religious Freedom
Halloween arrived early this year in the guise of “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” held Oct. 22-26 on hundreds of college and university campuses across the nation. Scary speakers like Ann Coulter fanned out to warn students about the lies organizers say are being taught about the war on terrorism in institutions of higher learning. The “protest […]
PA: Woman Sentenced for Hate Note to Arab-American Boss
A Philadelphia hotel supervisor who sent a threatening note to her Arab American boss, citing the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was sentenced today to eight months in a halfway house. It was a rare case of a federal prosecution of a hate crime, and the U.S. Justice Department had sought the maximum penalty: a year-long […]
CA: Anti-Islam Film Sparks Campus Protest
About 40 protesters gathered Wednesday night at Cal Poly to oppose a controversial documentary film and speaker who claims the Islamic religion is rooted in violence. The film “Islam: What the West Needs to Know,” directed by Greg Davis, claims that Islam uses violence to try to quash “other faiths, cultures and systems of government,” […]
MA: Neo-Fascism Awareness Week
This week, student organizations at nearly 150 American colleges and universities will be organizing events for “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” a national right-wing exercise in irrationality orchestrated by The David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Terrorism Awareness Project. The mission of the campaign, according to their Web site, is “to confront the two Big Lies of […]
MD: Muslims Experience Difficulty Buying Land
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s difficulty in buying land in Walkersville is giving déjà vu to a Frederick Muslim who experienced similar trouble seven years ago. When 400 Muslim families in Frederick County wanted to buy 100 acres near Buckeystown for a mosque in 2000, the Frederick Board of County Commissioners blocked the move, saying the […]