IL: Islamic Center Refutes Claims by Wash. Post Reporter
When members of the Islamic Center of Macomb read an article by a Washington Post reporter and after it was printed in the Macomb Journal on Tuesday, July 24 they were outraged and shocked. The article about Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who spent time in Macomb and has alleged ties to the Sept. 11 terrorist […]
CAIR-MI: Agents Target Charity Offices
Federal agents were looking for information on terrorist operations and Hizballah activity when they raided two Muslim charities last month, court records show. The agents hauled away computers, files, money and other items from the Dearborn offices of Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization and Goodwill Charitable Organization, two Shi’ite Muslim groups that raised money in metro Detroit. […]
CAIR-MI: Charity Probes Worry South Asians
There is concern in the large South Asian community in Metro Detroit that efforts to provide relief for flood-ravaged Bangladesh and India will be discouraged by recent federal investigations of Muslim charities. “People are concerned about doing fund-raising and relief work amid some of these statements that, for example, contributing to orphans is used as […]
Video: CAIR-FL News Conference Reacting to SC Arrests
CAIR-FL: Muslim Community Reacts to Students’ Arrest
Friends and others in the Muslim community said Yousef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed were arrested because of their race and faith. Deputies in Berkeley County, South Carolina, denied their background factored into their arrest for carrying what police claim are explosive devices. “They were stopped because they were speeding,” Lt. Vince Lombard of the Berkley […]
CA: Is Big Brother at Your Mosque?
CA: IS BIG BROTHER AT YOUR MOSQUE? On the first Friday of each month, Mohammed Elsisy, an Egyptian-born software engineer, usually drives from his home in Irvine, Calif., to the King Fahad mosque in Culver City, Calif., to deliver the khutba, or sermon. Elsisy thought the first Friday of this past June would be no […]
OH Muslim Cleared After Internet ‘Witch Hunt’
CAIR: INVESTIGATION CLEARS HILLIARD MAN Abukar Arman of Hilliard had a busy July: He cared for his four children, chaperoned Habitat for Humanity volunteers, lost his job and resigned from a Franklin County board. He has spent most recent days denying that he is an Islamic extremist and terrorist sympathizer, and contending that fair-minded people […]
Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Remove Hebron Settlers
ISRAELI SOLDIERS REFUSE TO REMOVE HEBRON SETTLERS Backed by rabbis and far-right MPs, about one-dozen Israeli soldiers are refusing to take part in a forced removal of settlers from two houses in the West Bank flashpoint town of Hebron, the army said Monday. The soldiers are among some 3,000 troops and border police due Tuesday […]
UT: Immigrant Admits Link to Anti-Muslim Genocide Group
UT: IMMIGRANT ADMITS LINK TO GENOCIDE GROUP A 56-year-old resident alien from Bosnia who has been living in the Salt Lake City area admitted in federal court Tuesday to failing to mention in immigration documents his involvement with a military group accused of genocide in the massacre of Bosnian Muslims. Federal immigration laws forbid the […]
MN: Photo Club Lets Muslim Children Explore Their World
MN: A LENS ON AMERICA As a lens zooms in on Hodan Ashkir, the girl in the royal blue hijab and long floral skirt flashes a bright smile, then turns her head, shying away faster than a camera set on auto-focus. “No, don’t take my picture,” she says, giggling. Twelve-year-old Hodan would much rather peer […]