MN: Muslims Deserve a Welcoming Campus
MN: EDITORIAL: MUSLIMS DESERVE A WELCOMING CAMPUS Minneapolis Community and Technical College has been bombarded with letters and e-mails — most of them hostile, some of them hateful — since disclosing that it is considering the installation of a foot bath for some Muslim students to use before prayer. This reaction is out of proportion […]
CAIR Commentary: Democracy, Sure – But on Whose Terms?
DEMOCRACY SURE, BUT ON WHOSE TERMS? I am writing this from my hotel room in Doha, Qatar where I have been invited to speak at the 7th Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade. Back home this event has perhaps not received any public attention. While the smallest of violent event from the Muslim […]
Poll: Muslims Believe Goal to Weaken Islam
MUSLIMS BELIEVE GOAL TO WEAKEN ISLAM – POLL More than 70 per cent of Egyptians, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Moroccans believe the United States is trying to weaken and divide the Islamic world, a new poll showed. The survey by www.WorldPublicOpinion.org also showed more than 40 per cent thought that was the primary goal of the […]
CAIR-IL: Sides Recharge on Immigration Issues
CAIR-CHICAGO: SIDES RECHARGE ON IMMIGRATION ISSUES On the eve of a critical month for immigration issues, activists plan a wave of marches, unity vigils and lobbying to try to sway Congressional support for reform this year. The string of citizenship workshops and church basement gatherings across Chicago and the suburbs will mirror mobilizations planned nationwide, […]
CAIR-FL: Mosque Vandalism Must be Condemned
CAIR-FL: PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE MUST CONDEMN MOSQUE VANDALISM [Altaf Ali is Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Pembroke Pines] A desecration of a place of worship is an attack against all faiths and warrants repudiation from people of conscience and from our elected officials. Over the course of years, many mosques and […]
CAIR Chairman Discusses Muslim Public Opinion of U.S.
CAIR Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed appears on the English channel of Al-Jazeera to discuss a recent poll on Muslim public opinion about the United States.
ME: Reflections on High-Tension Week in Community
ME: SOMALIS, OTHERS REFLECT ON HIGH-TENSION WEEK IN COMMUNITY RELATIONS The past week has been tough for the community, Somali and Franco-Americans attending a community dialogue at the Franco American Heritage Center agreed Monday. “A lot of anger and hate has been flying around,” said Steve Wessler of the Center for the Prevention of Hate […]
CT: ‘The Muslim Trainer’ Offers Weight-Loss Tips
CT: ‘THE MUSLIM TRAINER’ SIGNS BOOKS, OFFERS WEIGHT-LOSS TIPS In the past two years, when Mubarakah Ibrahim wasn’t leading a fitness boot camp, tending to her four children, teaching yoga at her fitness studio, or chatting with Oprah, she was writing a book. The Ten Commandments, actually. Of weight loss. Ibrahim’s book, Fat Loss 10, […]
CA: Muslim Students Prayed at School Lawfully
CA: MUSLIM MIDDLE SCHOOLERS WHO PRAYED AT SCHOOL DID SO LAWFULLY An investigation has found San Diego school district officials did not violate any laws by allowing a group of Muslim students to pray at school. Earlier this month, a substitute teacher alleged a school employee at Carver Middle School leads a group of Somali […]
NY: Lawyers to Probe Anti-Islam Tracts at Jail
NY: OUTSIDE LAWYERS HIRED FOR PROBE OF ANTI-ISLAMIC TRACTS AT JAIL Rockland jail officials will meet again with members of the Islamic Center of Rockland to update them on the investigation into whether the jail chaplain distributed anti-Islamic tracts. The meeting will be next week, Jail Chief William Clark said yesterday. Local Muslims called for […]