Time for the Truth About the Liberty
TIME FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIBERTY Forty years ago this week, I was asked to investigate the heaviest attack on an American ship since World War II. As senior legal counsel to the Navy Court of Inquiry, it was my job to help uncover the truth regarding Israel’s June 8, 1967, bombing of the […]
CAIR-CA: New Immigration Reform Group Forms
CAIR-CA: NEW IMMIGRATION REFORM GROUP FORMS A diverse group of religious leaders, labor unions, legal advocates and community leaders joined Thursday to call on Congress to pass immigration reform that would help legalize illegal immigrants, keep migrant families together and protect immigrants’ rights. The group, called the Immigrant Rights Consortium of San Diego County, is […]
USS Liberty’ Veterans Demand Investigation
USS LIBERTY’ VETERANS DEMAND INVESTIGATION Conclusions submitted in October 2003 to the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense by the USS Liberty Veterans Association, Inc., in demanding a congressional investigation into the aborted rescue during the attack of the USS Liberty and subsequent alleged cover-up. The group also calls for a new Naval Court […]
CAIR: New York is Hell for Young ‘Osama’
CAIR: NEW YORK IS HELL FOR YOUNG OSAMA After years of being taunted as “bin Laden” and “terrorist” at school, Osama Al-Najjar attempted suicide last July at the age of 15. Now 16, he is an extreme example of the difficulties facing some Arabs in New York, the city hit hardest by the attacks of […]
Muslims Look Online for Spiritual Guidance
MUSLIMS LOOK ONLINE FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE A young Muslim from the United States earnestly asks, “I have been wanting to get a tattoo of the crescent moon and star, then found out it is against Islam to get a tattoo. But what if the tattoo is religious?” “Is it permissible for a Muslim to play […]
Report: 39 Secretly Imprisoned by U.S.
REPORT: 39 SECRETLY IMPRISONED BY U.S. A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39 terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by U.S. authorities and published their names in a report released Thursday. Information about the so-called “ghost detainees” was gleaned from interviews with former prisoners and officials in […]
VA: Muslim Community Aids in Plans for Flu Pandemic
VA: FAITH TAKES A FRONT SEAT IN PLANNING FOR FLU PANDEMIC Fairfax County houses of worship are starting to plan for the unthinkable but possible: a pandemic flu that could sweep the country, sickening and killing millions. More than 125 leaders from churches, synagogues, temples and mosques met recently at the Fairfax County Government Center […]
CA: Muslim Movie Explores Religious Strength
CA: MUSLIM MOVIE EXPLORES RELIGIOUS STRENGTH, HUMAN WEAKNESS Be it as indulgent harem-masters, wealthy oil sheikhs or bomb-plotting religious extremists, most dramatizations of Muslims on the big screen have done little in the way of presenting the realities of the faith or three dimensional human characters with whom audiences could identify. But a new independent […]
MI: Letter Writer Critical of Steven Emerson’s Anti-Muslim Bias
MI: MORE CONTROVERSIAL SPEAKERS IN COUNTY It’s bad enough that the Livingston Economic Club, sponsored by this paper and Cleary University, has hired Ann Coulter, an insulting, hateful political pundit to speak in October, but the last speaker, Steven Emerson, proved also to be controversial. According to the Daily Press & Argus, Emerson said mainstream […]
VA: Faith, Service Fuse for Muslim Teen
VA: FAITH AND SERVICE FUSE FOR MUSLIM TEEN The day Zishan Hameed found out he had been accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy was among the best of his 17 years. After spending days checking the mail and nights praying for a letter, he was called into the office of a Norview High School guidance […]