Announcement on plans to rebuild Joplin mosque closer
By Roger McKinney, The Joplin Globe There will be an announcement in a month or so about plans to rebuild the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque, according to a member of the mosque. Mateen Nagaria made the remarks Saturday during an interfaith panel discussion at First Community Church. He is a member of the team […]
Mosque-building rises as Muslim American clout grows
By Angel Jennings and Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times, 6/23/13 The opening this weekend of a new mosque in Rowland Heights is powerful evidence of a building boom of such facilities in Southern California and around the nation. Over the last several years, new mosques have risen in Mission Viejo, Irvine, Anaheim, Reseda, Rancho […]
Government Domestic Spying Unsettling News for Campuses
by Maria Eugenia Miranda, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education In light of recent news on the federal government spying on Americans via phone records and electronic correspondence and the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union in response, the question of students’ rights and academic freedoms on […]
Delta Air Lines Refused to Transport Body of Muslim Shot by FBI
By Wesley Lowery, Boston Globe Almost a month after he was shot and killed by a Boston FBI agent, Ibragim Todashev’s body was loaded on a 5:40 p.m. flight to Russia on Tuesday, concluding his family’s nearly monthlong process of getting his body home. Todashev’s family has attempted to ship the body back to Russia […]
Religious leaders, followers call for immigration reform
By Francine Knowles, Chicago Sun-Times Inside a government building in Broadview, Elena Segura was focused on comforting and counseling people. Within the hour, their loved ones — illegal immigrants — were going to be shackled and deported. Outside, dozens of religious leaders and congregants from various faiths called on a higher power for change. From […]
Pompeo’s claim about Muslim leaders was ‘irresponsible’
By Phillip Brownlee, Wichita Eagle What possessed Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, to give a speech on the House floor last week claiming that Islamic religious leaders across America don’t publicly and frequently condemn acts of terrorism? What’s more, he said their “silence” makes them “potentially complicit in these acts, and more importantly still, in those […]
Video: CAIR-MI Asks Feds to Investigate Closing of Muslims’ Bank Accounts
A Muslim civil rights organization has asked the U.S. Treasury Department to investigate JPMorgan Chase & Co. for closing bank accounts of U.S. Arabs and Muslims. The Southfield-based Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter sent a letter Wednesday to the Treasury Department’s Office of the Currency. The letter says CAIR and others have received […]
A Meeting on Tolerance Turns into a Shouting Match
by Blake Farmer, NPR The public meeting in Manchester, Tenn., about 70 miles from Nashville, was supposed to address and tamp down discrimination toward Muslims there. But instead it turned into a shouting match. Bill Killian, the local U.S. attorney who organized the meeting, told the people in attendance that hate speech was not protected […]
NSA snooping erodes American values
By Dawud Walid, The Detroit News, 6/11/13 Recent revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI have been involved in widespread collection of Verizon customers phone records — as well as communications from nine internet providers — has sent shockwaves across the country.Programs which started under the guise of counterterrorism during the Bush administration […]
Middle Tennessee Muslims Vow To Keep Talking After Shout-Down In Manchester
Nashville Public Radio After being jeered by hundreds of conservative activists this week, Middle Tennessee Muslims say they will keep up their outreach efforts in Coffee County. “The comments, the rhetoric, the yells, we’ve heard all of those,” says Remziya Suleyman of the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee. “If it was to scare us […]