MN: Police Investigate Incidents at Islamic Center
Rochester police plan to file a bias crime report with state officials after a pair of incidents at the Rochester Islamic Center. The two crimes, part of a string of incidents at the Islamic Center during the past year, happened Sept. 8 and 9. On Sept. 8, six or seven teenagers on bicycles approached a […]
MN Muslims Spit on While Outside Mosque
Two disgusting hate crimes at the Islamic Center in just as many days, but as NewsCenter’s Jenna Gordon explains those at Rochester mosque just want to forgive and forget. A disgusting act and it’s not the first time it’s happened; teens spitting on Muslims who attend the Islamic Center. “All we can do is tell […]
CAIR-CA Rep Reflects on Effects of 9/11
Scurrying about my Berkeley apartment six years ago, I was preparing to leave for a journalism conference in Lake Tahoe. I turned on the TV, and noticed morning news programs running footage of the collapsing Twin Towers. On first impulse, I dismissed the coverage as a faraway international disaster.Soon, reality hit me. Grief over loss […]
CAIR: Muslim American Reflects on Sept. 11
The events of Sept. 11 changed the lives of many Americans, including American Muslims. Arsalan Iftikhar, a regular contributor, and former representative to the Council on American Islamic Relations, explains how the attacks impacted his work as a spokesman for Muslim Americans in the national media. LISTEN: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14318955
Obama Pulls Campaign Ad from ‘Israel Lobby’
Wary of alienating Jewish voters, the campaign of Senator Obama has moved swiftly to remove an ad for its Web site that appeared on the Amazon.com page of a book critical of the Israel lobby. A small ad for barackobama.com was one of a group of advertisements that rotated as “sponsored links” on the page […]
CAIR: Education Key in Understanding Muslims
Omar Conteh was a 15-year-old student at Bangor High School six years ago.Now a student at University College in Bangor studying mental health and human services, he said Monday that his relationships in the community haven’t changed since Sept. 11, 2001.Conteh, who has lived in Bangor for a decade and played soccer in high school, […]
CAIR: Amr Khaled, Islam’s Up-to-Date Televangelist
The rhythmic clapping began the minute Amr Khaled stepped through the door of the packed Crystal City ballroom. Surrounded by security guards, the Egyptian preacher had to weave his way through the crowd — men both cleanshaven and bearded, women both fashionably coifed and dressed in conservative Islamic dress — that had come from up […]
CAIR Slams ADL for ‘Smear Tactics’
In an open letter addressed to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a leading Jewish advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group accused the ADL of contributing to growing Islamophobia in American society by using “smears and exclusionary tactics” in its latest attack on the due process of […]
OH: High Holy Days for Jews, Muslims
In an unusual convergence of liturgical calendars, Jews and Muslims will enter their holiest periods of the year within a day of each other. Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year that begins a 10-day period of High Holy Days culminating with Yom Kippur, begins at sundown Wednesday. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins Thursday. […]
CAIR-WA: Muslim Holiday Lasts All Month
Every year, just before the ninth lunar month begins, Muslims wait until dusk, then look up.If they see a hint of the new moon, they know the time has come for praying, for giving, for fasting.The monthlong holiday of Ramadan begins with charity and ends with feasting. It is an annual reminder that earthly deeds […]