CO: Ads Pulled After Radio Host’s Anti-Muslim Comments
CO: ADS PULLED AFTER KOA HOST MAKES ANTI-MUSLIM COMMENTS Peggy Beck’s tradition of trading catering services for advertising on Clear Channel Communication’s radio shows shifted a bit this week. Beck, co-owner of Three Tomatoes Catering in Denver for almost 30 years, said her deal with the media company’s stations goes back almost as long as […]
MI: FBI Probes Mosque Vandalism
MI: FBI PROBES MOSQUE VANDALISM Police began special law enforcement procedures in the area of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center on Thursday to discourage acts of vandalism, after a fourth incident since late last year occurred at the mosque Wednesday morning. The FBI is investigating the latest event, in which the words “center of the […]
OH: Al Jazeera English Comes to Toledo TV
OH: AL JAZEERA ENGLISH COMES TO TOLEDO TV Al Jazeera is one of the most popular networks in the globe, but you can only see it in a few American cities, including Toledo. Viewers from around the world can question newsmakers, and so can you, if you subscribe to Buckeye Cable’s digital service. That’s because […]
Amr Khaled ‘Made It on Time’
HE MADE IT ON TIME The skyrocketing popularity of young preacher Amr Khaled has ranked him among the world’s top 100 most influential people — and, ironically, the most controversial back home. “When you look at the reach of what he is doing, and when you look at the millions he is touching, I don’t […]
Transcript: CAIR/ISNA – ‘An Evening with Amr Khaled’
On Saturday, May 12, the Maryland and Virginia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MD/VA), in cooperation with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), co-hosted an evening with world-renowned Muslim television personality Amr Khaled. The following is a rough transcript of his speech. He spoke in Arabic, and the major points were interpreted […]
FL: Tampa Trib Owes Readers an Exam of Fechter’s Work
FL: SILLY ME, BUT I THINK TAMPA TRIBUNE OWES READERS AN EXAMINATION OF FECHTER’S WORK John Sugg is “silly,” pouts Michael Fechter, who has worked an overlapping 17 years for the Tampa Tribune and 13 years for Steve Emerson, a propagandist for extremist, no-peace-at-any-price Likudniks and neocons in Israel and America. Fechter gave up the […]
FL: Film Documents Al-Arian’s Trial
FL: FILM DOCUMENTS AL-ARIAN’S TRIAL The drama of Sami Al-Arian’s federal trial played out on the big screen Wednesday night in a packed theater in Tampa. A documentary filmmaker premiered the film “U.S.A. vs. Al-Arian” in Tampa. It’s the first dramatization of the terror trial that dragged on for six months. If the crowd at […]
CO: Ads Pulled from Anti-Muslim Radio Program
CO: 3 FIRMS PULL ADS ON KOA PROGRAM At least three metro-area businesses have asked radio station KOA-850 AM to pull their advertisements from the “Gunny Bob” Newman show following remarks about Muslims made last week by the conservative talk-show host. The companies, Excel Roofing, Ralph Schomp Automotive and Three Tomatoes Catering, asked that the […]
CAIR-FL: 1,200 Turn Out for Al-Arian Doc Premier
CAIR-FL: AL-ARIAN DOCUMENTARY STIRS LINGERING EMOTIONS More than a year after the terrorism trial of Sami Al-Arian, the case still stirs strong emotions. Those feelings bubbled up again Wednesday with the showing of a new documentary about the case, USA vs. Al-Arian. Just one block from the federal courthouse where the controversial case unfolded, Al-Arian’s […]
VA: FBI Official, Imam Discuss Homegrown Terror
FBI OFFICIAL, IMAM DISCUSS HOMEGROWN TERRORISM The FBI is forming relationships within the Muslim American community. New focus on these relationships comes after last week’s arrest of six men thought to be a part of a terrorism support network in Miami. The FBI remains interested in Muslims living in America who would want to attack […]