CAIR-CA: Business Leaders Asked to Embrace Diversity
Halfway through his yearlong term as chairman of Riverside’s Human Relations Commission, Omar Zaki made a pitch to business leaders.Embrace diversity — it can be good for your bottom line, he told the audience at August’s Good Morning Riverside, a monthly gathering organized by the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce and held at the Mission […]
CAIR-FL to Take Part in Interfaith Celebration
Fourth annual Interfaith Celebration, 10:45 a.m. Sept. 9 at Amaturo Theater, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Speaking: Pastor Tita Calzada, Unity of Fort Lauderdale; Rabbi Chaim Solomon, Kabbalah Center of Aventura; Altaf Ali, Florida Director for Council on American-Islamic Relations. Admission free, offering collected.
Lawmakers Describe ‘Being Slimed in the Green Zone’
The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) asked a soldier last weekend just what he was holding, the congressman was taken aback to find out. In […]
Why U.S. is Fairer to Muslims than Europe
In Pittsburgh, a Turkish group, pious but peaceful, decides to rethink its plans for an Islamic centre after an angry public hearing. In Clitheroe, a town in northern England, a plan to turn an ex-church into a mosque wins planning approval after seven failed bids. In Austria a far-rightist, Jörg Haider, grabs headlines by proposing […]
CAIR-FL: Leaders Seek Right to Build Mosque
Islamic leaders resurrected an ongoing court battle Thursday to protect their right to build a mosque in Pompano Beach’s predominantly black northwest area.The Islamic Center of South Florida went to Broward County Circuit Court to respond to allegations made by Rodney Wright and ask that they be dismissed. Wright, a Pompano Beach resident, filed suit […]
CAIR: Muslims Melding National, Religious Identity
Beefed-up airport screens target anyone with a head covering — cowboy hats, turbans, hijabs and all.A Chicago-bound flight is grounded because six men speaking Arabic concerned a passenger.Such realities confront more than 400,000 Muslim-Americans in the Chicago region alone who struggle to meld their faith and nationality. They are among more than 6 million and […]
CAIR-MI: Airport Screenings Affect Muslims, Sikhs
A local Muslim advocacy group is putting air travelers on notice about a new airport screening policy.The Transportation Security Administration is subjecting anyone wearing a head covering to the possibility of a search of the hat, turban, or head scarf.“We are advising that Muslims and Sikhs who are wearing head scarves or turbans should go […]
Muslim-Basher Joins Giuliani Campaign
Add another neoconservative adviser on the Middle East to an already impressive roster–Daniel Pipes signed on with Rudy Giuliani’s campaign today. I’d heard Pipes was advising Giuliani and asked him about it yesterday. He told me by e-mail that he had “close relations with several people in the campaign,” but said that he did not […]
Incitement: Horowitz ‘Declares’ Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week
“This October 22-26, I am declaring Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” declared David Horowitz Tuesday in a friendly interview on FrontpageMag.com, one of Horowitz’s many front groups. “I will hold demonstrations and protests, teach-ins and sit-ins on more than 100 college campuses. Our theme will be the Oppression of Women in Islam and the threat posed by […]
CA: Islamic Center Celebrates 25 Years
Twenty-five years ago, a small group of local families began meeting in a San Dimas garage for prayers. Today the Islamic Center of the San Gabriel Valley serves more than 500 families from its sprawling complex in Rowland Heights. And the local mosque is looking forward to an exciting future as it raises money for […]