CAIR-SC: Area Muslims See Prejudice
The message Imam Mohamed Melhem delivered during the Friday afternoon prayer service at the Central Mosque of Charleston emphasized the unity of Islam and its universal message of peace. But in the wake of the recent arrests of two Egyptian students driving through Goose Creek, he also expressed the collective frustration of local Muslims, many […]
Video: Friends Remember Bridge Victim
CNN’s Jeff Flock looks at the lives of a Somali woman and her young daughter, victims of the bridge collapse VIDEO: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/08/13/flock.somali.victim.cnn
CAIR: Are U.S. Muslims Second-Class Citizens?
[Dr. Parvez Ahmed is Board Chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)] In December 2001, the U.S. Treasury Department named the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation (HLF), at that time the nation’s largest Muslim charity, as a terrorist organization. The government seized HLF’s assets and shut it down, effectively freezing millions of dollars in religiously […]
MN: Muslims Say Goodbye to Bridge Collapse Victims
On a sweltering Saturday afternoon, about 100 men gathered in an open field to bury the remains of Sadiya Sahal, of St. Paul, and her 22-month-old daughter, Hana, who were both killed in the Interstate 35W bridge collapse. “We need as a community to learn from this event,” said Imam Abdisalam Adam of Dar Al-Hijrah […]
MI: Program Teaches Muslim Kids About Religion
At Camp Taha in Lapeer County this week, hundreds of children will hike, kayak and gather nightly around a fire. Sounds like your typical summer camp. But at this spot, about an hour north of Troy, the campers also will recite verses from the Quran and listen to Shi’ite Muslim scholars while maintaining Islamic rules […]
WA: Mosque’s Barbecue Calls Faiths Together
They sat next to each other in the Sunday sunshine chatting. Smiling and gesturing, they looked like familiar friends sharing familiar stories. But the two women — one with her head and body wrapped in cloth, the other blond and wearing a floral dress — were strangers until that afternoon. They met at the annual […]
NY: Mortgages Test Muslim Faith
Most New Yorkers leave their finances in the hands of brokers, bankers and planners, but Muslims often turn to their religious leaders. Soulemaine Konate knows: As imam of the 1,500-member Masji Aqsa Mosque in Harlem, he said he gets money questions daily. For strict Muslims, financial decisions must adhere to Sharia, or Islamic law, as […]
NY: Of Islam and Inventions
The story of aviation often begins with Leonardo da Vinci’s designs for flying machines, which would later inspire the Wright brothers and their famous sustained flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Yet centuries before Leonardo, in A.D. 875, Abbas bin Firnas, a Muslim inventor in Spain, cloaked himself in bird feathers, strapped himself to a […]
FL: Hebrew Charter School Draws Critics
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) – A school opening this month is named for a Jewish high priest, is directed by a rabbi, will have kosher food and will teach Hebrew. It’s also a public school, funded by public tax dollars and following state curriculum guidelines. Ben Gamla Charter School, billed as the nation’s first publicly funded […]
NY: Mosque to Hold Town Hall Mtg on Arabic Academy Controversy
[CONTACT: CAIR-NY Civil Rights Coordinator Aliya Latif, Tel: 212-870-2002 or 732-429-4268, E-Mail: alatif@cair.com] (Special thanks to Ms. Almontaser and Ms. Alhusseini for their transparency in providing us with the correct information so as to leave no room for speculation.) In response to the resignation of Debbie Almontaser as principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, […]