OH: ‘Israel Lobby’ Authors to Speak Despite Protests
Despite pressure to cancel the speaking engagements today by two controversial scholars, their hosts at Case Western Reserve University and the City Club of Cleveland promise that John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt will have their say. The pair are the authors of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” a new book arguing that the […]
CAIR-SFBA: Knowledge Lacking of Islam
Most Americans say they know little to nothing about the practices of Islam and Mormonism but say their own religious beliefs have little in common with either of these faiths, according to a national survey released Tuesday.Forty-five percent of those polled said Islam was more likely than other religions to encourage violence among its believers. […]
CAIR Rep Discusses ‘Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism’ on C-SPAN
Mohamed Nimer discusses, and looks at the links between, the rise of “Islamophobia” in the West and the rise of “anti-Americanism” in Muslim countries. He also talks about efforts to reverse these trends. The talk was hosted by Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC.Mohamed Nimer is research director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). […]
CA: Investigators Closer to Solving Mosque Arson Case
Police in Antioch say they are focusing on some “persons of interest” to solve last month’s arson at a local mosque, which is being investigated as a hate crime. While local Muslims are using a temporary mosque to pray, investigators told KCBS they are zoning in on who they believe started the fire at the […]
MA Imam an ‘Ambassador to the Islamic World’
There he was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at a lavish reception marking the nation’s 50th anniversary of independence. Britain’s Prince Andrew was seated to his right, Australia’s ambassador to his left, and Brunei’s foreign minister across the table. “And they were asking me about Muslims in America,” said Imam Talal Eid, recalling the event a […]
CAIR: U.S. Muslims Work to Prevent Sunni, Shia Tension
When Muslim journalist S. Hussain Zaidi toured the USA recently, he was stunned by what he saw: Shiite and Sunni Muslims, whose conflicts have fueled the war in Iraq and tension in the Middle East and beyond, were praying together in U.S. mosques.“It is something we never see at home,” says Zaidi, of India. “They […]
KS: Don’t Lose Sleep over Plot to Take Over U.S.
For one who in print has blasted the overreaching authoritarian rhetoric associated with the words “war on terror,” the Dallas Morning News last week delivered some “eat your words” words, I guess. Memo to copy desk: Scratch that column on civil liberties. Let’s come out for martial law. Maybe facetiousness is uncouth when we’re told […]
IN: Frequent Foot-Washing Offers Health Benefits
I write to express my medical opinion that washing our feet five times a day if we can is a health-promoting habit irrespective of the faith of the person (“Sinks for Muslims at airport are up in air,” Sept. 22). For last 35 years, I have treated more than 30,000 diabetic patients. Due to poor […]
Lawsuit: Scholar Kept From US Over Views
A well-known South African scholar and political commentator is being kept out of the United States because he has been a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court […]
Iraq: U.S. Snipers Baited and Killed Iraqis, Soldiers Testify
Under a program developed by a Defense Department warfare unit, Army snipers have begun using a new method to kill Iraqis suspected of being insurgents, using fake weapons and bomb-making material as bait and then killing anyone who picks them up, according to testimony presented in a military court. The existence of the classified “baiting […]