NJ: Let the Islamic Games Begin
NJ: LET THE ISLAMIC GAMES BEGIN SOUTH BRUNSWICK – More than 600 Muslim student-athletes from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania will play and pray at Saturday’s 2007 Islamic Games. Held at Crossroads South Middle School, the event will feature competitions in basketball, soccer, volleyball, cricket and various track and field events, with about […]
Rejected by PBS, Film on Islam Revived by CPB
REJECTED BY PBS, FILM ON ISLAM REVIVED BY CPB In an unprecedented move, the agency that oversees public broadcasting has stepped in to arrange distribution for a TV documentary on Islam that PBS had rejected as unworthy. The federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting helped find a new distributor for “Islam vs. Islamists: Voices From […]
AL: Muslim Leads Prayer in Alabama House
AL: MUSLIM MINISTER LEADS PRAYER IN ALABAMA HOUSE MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A Muslim minister gave the opening prayer Thursday in the Alabama House. Kareem Abdullah, imam of the Birmingham Islamic Center, prayed for Alabama to prosper as the House was coming into session. Ministers from across the state, mostly from Christian churches, come to […]
Amnesty International: ‘War on terror’ Dividing World
WAR ON TERROR’ DIVIDING WORLD, WARNS AMNESTY LONDON (AFP) – Fears stoked by the post-9/11 “war on terror” are increasingly dividing the world, Amnesty International said Wednesday, while rapping rights abuses from China to Darfur and Russia to the Middle East. The gap between Muslims and non-Muslims notably deepened, fuelled by discriminatory counter-terrorism strategies in […]
NC: WCPSS Completes Review of Controversial Guest Speaker
WCPSS COMPLETES REVIEW OF CONTROVERSIAL GUEST SPEAKER May 23, 2007 – The Wake County Public School System today completed its investigation into the controversial guest speaker who spoke to Enloe High School classes at the invitation of an Enloe history teacher earlier this semester. As part of this process the district interviewed students and staff […]
NC: Teacher Transferred After Anti-Islam Incident
NC: SCHOOLS FORBID SELLING RELIGION From now on, guest speakers in the Wake County School System must sign a document agreeing not to denigrate any culture, race, gender, national origin or religion. That new rule was made in response to an incident earlier this year in which a guest speaker at Enloe High School denigrated […]
CAIR: Religious Accommodation in the Workplace
CAIR: THE MERGER OF FAITH AND WORK One of the biggest issues is religious accommodation. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals because of their religion, employers are required to accommodate employees’ religious needs, as long as it doesn’t cause “undue hardship” to the company […]
CAIR: NY Rabbis Protest Appearance of Palestinian Author
NY: VISITING ‘SCAR OF DAVID’ AUTHOR IS CRITICIZED An author scheduled for two local appearances today – including one at a city college – has outraged some members of the city’s Jewish community, who say her book misrepresents Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs. Susan Abulhawa, author of “The Scar of David” (Journey Publications, 2006), is […]
CAIR-NY: Editorial Attack on Arabic School Misleading
CAIR-NY: ‘BROOKLYN ARABIC SCHOOL’ While the issue of school vouchers remains unsettled; the option of studying at a private school wherein there is some level of taxpayer subsidization is not a novel idea nor is it isolated to the Khalil Gibran International Academy [Editorial, “Brooklyn Arabic School,” May 8, 2007]. All private and parochial schools […]
CAIR: U.S. Muslims Well Assimilated
CAIR: U.S. MUSLIMS WELL ASSIMILATED, CONTENT WITH LIFE, POLL FINDS Muslims in the United States are better assimilated and more concerned about religious extremism than their counterparts in Western Europe and elsewhere in the world, according to a poll released yesterday by the Pew Research Center. The survey, covering the views of 1,050 Muslims out […]