DC: Speakers Urge Gender Equality in Muslim World
DC: SPEAKERS AT CONFERENCE URGE GENDER EQUALITY IN MUSLIM WORLD Women took center stage at the 8th annual conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), presenting their views on women’s rights in Islam and Muslim societies. Most of the audience at the April 27 conference was made up of women; […]
PA: ‘Islamaphobia’ Is on the Rise
PA: ‘ISLAMAPHOBIA’ IS ON THE RISE, GROUP SAYS The leader of a major Arab-American advocacy group said yesterday that there was a “rising tide of Islamaphobia” in America and that more Muslim-Americans are being targeted and threatened now than immediately after 9/11. Salam Al-Marayati and FBI officials here spoke with reporters yesterday after a federal […]
CAIR-MI: Muslims Go About Lives After Deadly Threat
CAIR-MI: LOCAL MUSLIMS GO ABOUT NORMAL LIVES AFTER DEADLY THREAT Two days after an advocacy group received a letter that threatened the lives of all Muslims in the Detroit area, small children shuffled into a straight line outside of Crescent Academy International and giggled with each other. According to the academy’s principal, life is normal […]
CAIR-FL: Muslim Leader Gets Mailed Death Threat (Sun-Sent)
CAIR-FL: MUSLIM LEADER IN FLORIDA GETS MAILED DEATH THREAT The head of Florida’s most prominent Muslim group told the FBI on Wednesday that he had received a death threat. Altaf Ali, executive director of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said he received the threat calling Islam “the religion of Satan” in […]
MI: U.S. Muslims Big Players in Economy
MI: MUSLIMS ARE BIG PLAYERS IN ECONOMY Arab Americans account for nearly 6% of the workforce and earn between $5.4 billion and $7.7 billion a year in southeast Michigan, according to a Wayne State University report released Wednesday. Still, businesses often fail to recognize their economic power. The 28-page WSU study titled “Arab American Economic […]
ME: No Charges in School Ham Incident
ME: NO CHARGES IN HAM INCIDENT A student who tossed ham on a school table occupied by Somali students last month will not be prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office. But that decision, announced on Wednesday, will not have any bearing the school’s handling of the incident. The Lewiston Middle School student who placed the […]
CAIR-IL: Freedom is Not Spelled ‘Feardom’
CAIR-CHICAGO: FREEDOM IS NOT SPELLED ‘FEARDOM’ [Ahmed Rehab is executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations] Is it possible for Muslim Americans to criticize our administration’s neoconservative foreign policies, our government’s complicit role in Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, or our domestic breaches of civil liberties, and not […]
CAIR-LA: Muslims Regret Bush’s Decision to Veto Bill
CAIR-LA: AREA MUSLIM LEADERS REGRET PRESIDENT’S DECISION TO VETO BILL Muslims around the region Tuesday lamented President Bush’s veto of a bill that set a timeline for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. “There is no military solution,” said Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council. “Right now the military operations are […]
U.S. May Single Out Britons of Pakistani Origin
U.S. SEEKS CLOSING OF VISA LOOPHOLE FOR BRITONS Omar Khyam, the ringleader of the thwarted London bomb plot who was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday, showed the potential for disaffected young men to be lured as terrorists, a threat that British officials said they would have to contend with for a generation.But the 25-year-old […]
CAIR: Airport Wash Area Not Just for Muslims
CAIR: KCI OFFICIALS DISPUTE WEB REPORT A wash area at Kansas City International Airport’s taxi center was not built for any specific religious use, despite a widely distributed Web report, an airport spokesman said Tuesday. “As constructed, nothing was built for the exclusive use of any ethnic group or culture,” said Joe McBride, KCI’s spokesman. […]