AL: Feds Hold Imam Over Visa Snafu
AL: FEDS STILL HOLD IMAM WHO OVERSTAYED HIS VISA Huntsville leader ‘paying terrible price,’ attorney says The religious leader of the Alabama Islamic Education Center in Huntsville, arrested April 19 for a visa overstay, is still in federal custody in Louisiana in what his attorney calls an injustice. “He just wants to go back to […]
Israel Bars Burials in Old City Cemetery
ISRAEL BARS BURIALS IN OLD CITY CEMETERY The Israeli government is preventing burials in an ancient Muslim cemetery in the Old City of Jerusalem, a move that could inflame fresh tensions in the city’s Muslim community, an Islamic official said Wednesday. Sheik Azzam al-Khatib, head of Jerusalem’s Council for Waqf and Islamic Affairs, said the […]
Israel Permits Torture of Palestinians
ISRAELI HIGH COURT PERMITS TORTURE OF PALESTINIANS The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) yesterday slammed the Israeli High Court’s approval of the use of controversial methods to interrogate Palestinians deemed as “ticking bombs,” saying the ruling was interpreted by the Shin Bet as a green light to torture almost every Palestinian detainee. The […]
Rice to Israel: Don’t Push Syria Peace
RICE TO ISRAEL: DON’T PUSH SYRIA PEACE US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied that America has nixed Israeli talks with Syria, but still appeared to throw cold water on the idea when questioned about it Tuesday. “My understanding is that it’s the view of the Israelis and certainly our view that the Syrians are […]
CAIR-AZ: Muslim Teen Falsely Implicated in Bomb Scare
CAIR-AZ: POLICE FIND GILBERT TEEN INNOCENT IN BOMB SCARE Ban Abdulghafoor did not expect to hear the voice of a Gilbert police officer on the line when she answered the phone last Thursday. It was the final day of school at Mesquite Junior High School, and her 13-year-old son, Mustafa Abdul Razzaq, decided to stay […]
CA: ACLU Targets CIA Torture Flights
CA: ACLU TARGETS PLANNER OF SO-CALLED CIA TORTURE FLIGHTS The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday charged that a company with offices in downtown San Jose helped the CIA transport three men who were blindfolded, housed in small quarters, beaten until their bones broke and left with mutilated genitals during brutal interrogations. Using flight documents […]
White House: U.S. Could Be in Iraq for 50 Years
KOREA ‘MAY HAVE LESSONS FOR U.S.’ The half-century US military presence in South Korea may be a model for a future in which US forces play a support role in Iraq rather than a frontline combat role, the White House said. “The Korean model is one in which the United States provides a security presence, […]
MD: Mosque Open House Offers Chance to Meet Muslims
MD: OPEN HOUSE OFFERS CHANCE TO MEET MUSLIM NEIGHBORS On Sept. 12, 2001, the day after Islamic terrorists struck New York and Washington, someone left a bouquet of roses at the gate leading to a farmhouse on Route 108, in Ellicott City. The anonymous act was heartening, according to the leader of Dar Al-Taqwa, the […]
CA: Swimming No Longer a Struggle for Muslim Woman
CA: SWIMMING NO LONGER A STRUGGLE FOR MUSLIM WOMAN AT UCSC It took Tahrier Sub Laden more than a year to work up the courage to ask Julie Kimball if she could join Kimball’s beginning swim class at UC Santa Cruz. Sub Laden didn’t fear drowning, even though she planned to swim in long pants, […]
Hatred of Islam Will Not Aid Reform
A HATRED OF ISLAM WILL NOT AID REFORM I have always admired disobedient women, especially dissenting women who speak their minds. I’d like to think that I, too, belong to the tribe of rebellious females, something that I remember my devout Muslim father complaining about to my mother as he rolled his eyes, waved his […]