MA: Spreading Awareness, or Attacking a Religion?
With much fanfare, the “Terrorism Awareness Project,” funded by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, has proclaimed an “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” on college campuses beginning Oct. 22. It is a calculated effort to vilify Islam in general, place Muslim Student Associations on the defensive, and generate support for further U.S. military action in the Islamic world. […]
GA: Muslim Mayor Sponsors Ramadan Forum
Macon Mayor Jack Ellis has reserved the City Council chambers today to mark the end of Ramadan, an Islamic holiday that observes the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, during which God is said to have revealed the Quran to the prophet Muhammad. Ramadan encourages abstinence from earthly pleasures and requires fasting during daylight hours. […]
NY: Non-Muslims Fast with Their Pals
Maia Macleod knew when she sat down for breakfast that she had just one hour before sunrise, one hour before giving up food until the evening. So as she shoveled eggs, fried potatoes and fruit into a tall pile on her plate that recent morning, her friend Saira Farooqui told her to slow down. “You’re […]
Canadian Group: Ban Teachers from Wearing Religious Attire
The group that 12 years ago fought vehemently for the rights of students who wore a hijab in Quebec’s public schools is now trying to ban their teachers from wearing the Islamic headscarf and other “ostentatious” religious symbols while at work. The Quebec Council on the Status of Women, a 20-member body that advises the […]
CAIR-FL: Islamic Women Allowed to Think Freely
To the editor,In response to Sgt. Smith’s comment, “why would any free-thinking woman accept to be treated as chattel?,” no free-thinking woman would. That is a no-brainer. A free-thinking woman would investigate Islam as it was revealed to all of the prophets in Islam from Adam to Mohammed to discover whether Sgt. Smith’s accusations are […]
CAIR-CA: Entertainment Industry Urged to Hire More Muslims
An Islamic advocacy group wants the entertainment industry to present a more positive image of Muslims and Arabs, who often play terrorists on television and in the movies — especially after 9/11, when Arab Muslims attacked the United States.The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles office (CAIR-LA) and FOX Television recently co-hosted a “Hollywood 101” […]
CAIR-IL: Editorial Backs Ramadan Displays in Schools
I guess when you don’t have the guts to call someone a terrorist, anti-American grinch will do.Elizabeth Zahdan might as well have been burning the flag or an effigy of President Bush when she hung up Ramadan lights at an Oak Lawn elementary school a few days back, prompting outrage from other parents and subsequently […]
AR: Jew, Muslim Build Temple, Bridges for Peace
Just before the school year started in August 1971, Bill Feldman steered his Volvo amid the pickup trucks and horse trailers of small-town Arkansas, bound for his first job as a math professor. He was coming to the Bible Belt as a Jew reared in a Boston suburb, a scholar educated in Canada and Europe. […]
FL: Muslim Women Aim to Dispel Stereotypes
With the venerated, month-long Islamic holiday of Ramadan set to conclude Friday a group of local Muslim women are hoping to put some things right with the world. Sarah Zaouzal of Sarasota is one of the leaders of the new Women’s Committee at the Islamic Society of Sarasota & Bradenton, whose stated goal is, among […]
CA: Guided by Faith, Muslims Going Green
Every morning, Wasi Ahmed Yousaf, 37, of Manhattan Beach, Calif., puts on his sneakers and helmet and commutes to work on his bicycle. Yousaf ditched his car two months ago in favor of a more eco-friendly mode of transportation. Across the nation, Americans are replacing their gas-guzzling SUVs for fuel-efficient hybrids, recycling, conserving water, saving […]