MO: Interfaith Advocates Win Mosque Site Permission
St. Louis Muslims will be able to build a new mosque in St. Louis County, thanks in part to advocacy by Jews and local religious leaders. Last week, the St. Louis County Council reversed a previous decision, and voted unanimously in favor of a zoning change that will allow a mosque to be built in […]
CAIR-MD/VA Presents to Rights Commission
Prince William County’s Human Rights Commission will hear presentations from groups opposed to a recently adopted resolution limiting services to illegal aliens, despite a warning from the Board of County Supervisors that the commission not critique its policies.“This thing will have consequences for years to come,” commission member Carlos Labiosa said yesterday. “We want to […]
CAIR-IL: Muslim Professionals Find Ways to Practice Faith
When asked about the challenges of finding time at work to pray, Jamil Khourshad is dismissive of the difficulties created by the Muslim religion’s daily prayer times.“If you have time to smoke a cigarette, if you have time to go the bathroom, you have time to pray,” said the downtown Chicago restaurateur. Praying takes only […]
CAIR-NY Rep a ‘Civil-Rights Action Hero’
“Am I speaking too fast? I have a tendency to do that,” says Aliya Latif from CAIR’s uptown office. It’s no wonder the civil-rights lawyer is in a rush: She fields complaints and asserts the rights of Muslim New Yorkers who have experienced discrimination. CAIR’s 33 national chapters processed exactly 2,467 incidents last year—“a 25.1 […]
CAIR-IL: Speaking Arabic Leads to Flight Delay
A woman who complained that some fellow passengers spoke Arabic and “had odd behavior” prevented a Chicago-bound American Airlines flight from departing San Diego, police said Wednesday.Flight 590, scheduled to depart at 11 p.m. Tuesday, left its gate about 11:15 but returned to the boarding area after the woman, who was traveling with at least […]
IN: Muslim Girls Discuss Lives, Aspirations
In terms of academics, Serene Ibrahim, 20, resembles other college students. She has set her sights on a major, nursing, taking inspiration from her aunt, a nurse, and her favorite TV shows, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “ER.” She also plans on graduating after finishing four years of studies, in 2009, from Indiana University South Bend. Serene, […]
NY: Critics Ignored Record of a Muslim Principal
Last Feb. 12, you may recall, New York education officials announced plans to open a minischool in September that would teach half its classes in Arabic and include study of Arab culture. The principal was to be a veteran teacher who was also a Muslim immigrant from Yemen, Debbie Almontaser. The critical response began pouring […]
CAIR: Hats, Turbans Part of New Airport
Was it the monkey smuggled under a man’s hat on a flight into LaGuardia Airport earlier this month? Or does the new hat screening policy reflect concerns that terrorists will find novel means to bring explosives onto airliners?The Transportation Security Administration won’t say.But an Aug. 4 directive advising the nation’s 43,000 airport screeners to scrutinize […]
CAIR-FL: Public Responsibility the Real Issue
In an official meeting, Sanford Commissioner Randy Jones stated, “I mean it might be un-politically correct, but I don’t care. The fact of the matter is, I don’t think you will get a lot of takers on residential [development] next to a mosque just because of what’s going on worldwide.”American-Muslims in Jones’ district voiced the […]
CAIR-Chicago: Is Faith Fair Fodder for Cartoons?
Some newspaper editors think a satirical political cartoonist who often tackles taboo topics might have crossed a line when he incorporated a sexual innuendo into a comic strip about a character’s conversion to radical Islam. But it’s not the first strip by the artist to poke fun at religion. The controversial “Opus” comic strip this […]