UT: Utahns Open New Mosque
UT: UTAHNS OPEN NEW MOSQUE Tucked in the corner of a strip mall, right beside a closed-down Lowe’s home improvement store, Utah Muslims have a new place to pray and gather. At the spiritual helm of the Utah Islamic Center is Imam Shuaib-ud Din, the longtime religious leader of the Islamic Society of Greater Salt […]
CAIR: Image of US Muslims Distorted
CAIR: MEDIA LENS DISTORTS IMAGE OF MUSLIM AMERICANS A friend recently asked me a question familiar to many Muslim Americans: “Why don’t I hear anything from American Muslims denouncing terrorism?” Muslim Americans are, in fact, constantly condemning terrorism. Muslim leaders and groups throughout the country, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, have repeatedly and unequivocally […]
CAIR-PA: Another Face of Islam
CAIR-PA: ANOTHER FACE OF ISLAM Imam Nathaniel Hasan leads the storefront mosque on Harrisburg’s Allison Hill. A soft-spoken son of a North Carolina preacher, he has an accent that makes “imam” rhyme with “ma’am.” Hasan was attracted to Islam during his college years in the heyday of the black power movement.As he puts it, “Islam […]
UK: Manuscripts a Reminder of Religious Unity
THE SACRED HISTORY September 11 made Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” thesis a fashionable map for the 21st century. Right-wing pundits and religious zealots alike used it to argue that Islamic and Western societies have always been incompatible. Now “Sacred,” on view at London’s British Library (through Sept. 23), provides an elegant riposte to clash-mongers. […]
MA: Canopy’s Rise Signals End of Mosque’s Plight
MA: CANOPY’S RISE SIGNALS END OF MOSQUE’S PLIGHT As a crane hoisted a 5,000-pound, copper canopy toward the top of a red brick tower in Roxbury yesterday afternoon, thousands of area Muslims looked upward, some with tears running down their cheeks. “This is the moment we have been waiting for for two decades,” yelled Yousef […]
CAIR-CA Letter to the Editor on Pew Poll
CAIR-CA LETTER TO THE EDITOR: POLL VS. POLL Editor — Carson Watson (Letters, June 3) needs to remove his blinders to see the reality of Muslims. Considering that he has a “serious problem” with the revelations of the Pew study, I’m sure he would be much more concerned that 51 percent of all Americans believe […]
Iraq: Sudan is Secret Partner of U.S.
IRAQ: SUDAN IS SECRET PARTNER OF U.S. Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq – an example of how the United States has continued to cooperate with the Sudanese regime even while condemning its role in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur. President Bush […]
CA: UCI Deals with Claims of Anti-Semitism
CA: UCI DEALS WITH CLAIMS OF ANTI-SEMITISM A young man in a turban, his face covered, marches around UC Irvine with signs saying “Death to Infidels. Death to Israel” during a week of campus demonstrations by Muslim students. Here’s the catch: He’s not Muslim. In fact, he’s not even a student at UCI. Instead, he’s […]
CAIR-AZ: Do Muslim Names Lead to Immigration Delays?
CAIR-AZ: RED TAPE SNAGS ID CHECKS It was springtime when Asad Khan and his wife, Uzma, drove from their Gilbert home to Phoenix to be interviewed by government officials as part of their quest to become U.S. citizens. On the same day, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services checked off “box A” on Uzma Khan’s application. […]
Iraq: Allies Have Become the Vandals
IN IRAQ’S FOUR-YEAR LOOTING FRENZY, THE ALLIES HAVE BECOME THE VANDALS Fly into the American air base of Tallil outside Nasiriya in central Iraq and the flight path is over the great ziggurat of Ur, reputedly the earliest city on earth. Seen from the base in the desert haze or the sand-filled gloom of dusk, […]