CAIR: Death Threat Against Lawyer
CAIR: DEATH THREAT AGAINST JOHN DOE CASE LAWYER A member of the city’s human rights commission, Omar Mohammedi, received a death threat by mail last week, demanding that he withdraw a lawsuit he filed on behalf of six imams, identified in the case as John Does, who were removed from a USAirways flight in November. […]
Muslim Scholars to Look at Employment Issues
ISLAMIC TENETS, JOB DUTIES SPARK DEBATE When the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America convenes later this year, the few dozen Islamic scholars will try to hammer out an answer to a question vexing the North American Muslim community: How do Muslims reconcile the mandates of their faith with jobs that may require actions prohibited […]
CAIR: U.S. Muslims Tackle Sectarian Divisions
CAIR: U.S. MUSLIMS TACKLE SECTARIAN DIVISIONS Muslim leaders are trying to strengthen Sunni-Shiite ties in the United States, hoping to head off conflicts between the faith’s two major sects and get American Muslims to focus on common problems. With sectarian divisions fueling violence in Iraq, Sunnis and Shiites in the U.S. are increasingly wary of […]
Jews, Muslims Find Common Ground in Food
JEWS, MUSLIMS FIND COMMON GROUND IN FOOD NEW YORK — Determining the exact contents of a meal at a restaurant can be stressful for Jews and Muslims who choose to follow their faiths’ dietary restrictions. Dinner at a friend’s house can be a balancing act between trying to be polite and keeping true to your […]
CAIR-FL: Islamic Event Serves Up Charity
CAIR-FL: ISLAMIC EVENT SERVES UP CHARITY If your neighbor goes to bed hungry, you should not sleep. That’s what the Prophet Mohammed tells followers of Islam. And that’s why hundreds of Muslims gathered in Riverfront Park on Sunday afternoon to grill hamburgers, dish out plates of vegetable biryani and give clothes and health screenings to […]
NY: Independent Film Focuses on Halal Butcher
FOR A SMALL SLAUGHTERHOUSE, A DASH OF LOCAL GLORY About a dozen speckled Plymouth Rock hens sat at the front of the poultry section. They and their neighbors hundreds of Rhode Island hens, Muscovy drakes and other fowl warbled quietly in their pens. Lambs and goats munched alfalfa grass in a roomier wing […]
CAIR-FL: US Muslims Increasingly Targets of Hate
CAIR-FL: YEARS AFTER 9-11, AMERICAN MUSLIMS INCREASINGLY TARGETS OF HATE Sometimes it takes a real yahoo to wake up a village. So, just wanted to say thanks to the person who sent Altaf Ali, executive director of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a death threat last week. It carried the usual […]
CAIR: Female Muslim Tennis Player Challenges Stereotypes
MEETING CHALLENGES, CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES Playing tennis makes no sense to most of Raheela Fazal’s Muslim friends. Is it for grades, they ask? No. Does the Potomac senior do it because of a punishment? No. “I tell them it makes me happy, and it’s fun,” Fazal said. “It’s not just standing around. It makes me feel […]
CAIR: Nothing in Islam Says It’s Okay to Kill
BEDIER: MEDIA DISTORT ISLAM TAMPA – Ahmed Bedier called the horrific acts carried out by the Virginia Tech shooter terroristic. Yet nothing in the mainstream media described them as such or said Seung-Hui Cho was a terrorist, he said. Had the shooter been Muslim, Bedier said, news reports would have highlighted his faith. “If he […]
ISLAM-OPED: Administration’s War Rhetoric Obfuscates Real Challenge
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful ISLAM-OPED is a national syndication service of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) designed to offer an American Muslim perspective on current political, social and religious issues. ISLAM-OPED commentaries are offered free-of-charge to one media outlet in each market area. Permission for publication will be granted […]