Video: Catholics, Muslims Decry Violence
CAIR-FL: RELIGIOUS LEADERS WANT HOUSES OF WORSHIP OFF LIMITS FROM VIOLENCE Fried fans and broiled books. Muslim leaders still don’t know who fueled the fire that turned their house of worship into an overheated oven two weeks April 12. “Houses of worship should be off limits, should be off limits for violence,” the Council on […]
CAIR-Tampa: Catholic Leader Visits Burned FL Mosque
CAIR-FL: MUSLIM COMMUNITY GETS SUPPORT FROM CATHOLIC CHURCH Tampa – The Muslim community of Tampa is getting support from the Catholic Church. Almost 2-weeks ago, someone set fire to the Islamic Education Center of Tampa on Rockpointe Drive. The fire caused more than $100,000 in damage. The FBI is investigating the case as a possible […]
Muslims in Quandary Over State Food Law
IL: MUSLIMS IN QUANDARY OVER STATE FOOD LAW As a Muslim mom and teacher, Dilara Sayeed struggles to find the best food to nourish her family and feed their devout faith. She wants beef and chicken that are healthy as well as halal: slaughtered and blessed according to Islamic law. Yet often she finds there […]
Israeli Operatives, Missionaries Lobby for Kurdistan
ISRAELI OPERATIVES, MISSIONARIES LOBBY FOR IRAQI ‘KURDISTAN’ The 30-second television commercial features stirring scenes of a young Iraqi boy high-fiving a U.S. soldier, a Westerner dining alfresco, and men and women dancing together. “Have you seen the other Iraq?” the narrator asks. “It’s spectacular. It’s joyful.” “Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan!” the narrator continues. “It’s not […]
U.S. to Control Iraqis with Eye Scans, Fingerprints
U.S. TO CONTROL IRAQIS USING EYE SCANS, FINGERPRINTS The U.S. military is walling off at least 10 of Baghdad’s most violent neighborhoods and using biometric technology to track some of their residents, creating what officers call “gated communities” in an attempt to carve out oases of safety in this war-ravaged city. The plan drew widespread […]
Video: CAIR-FL Rep Discusses Impact of 9/11
VIDEO: CAIR-FL REP DISCUSSES IMPACT OF 9/11 CAIR-Tampa’s Ahmed Bedier joins other Tampa Muslims and the group Women of Faith to speak about the impact of 9/11 on their community in a special program on Tampa’s Public television station WEDU.
MSA: Donate to Support Family of Slain VA Tech Student
DONATE TO SUPPORT DECEASED VA TECH MSA STUDENT’S FAMILY Waleed Shaalan, 32 years old, first stepped onto the Virginia Tech campus in August 2006. An international student originally from Zagazig, Egypt, with no family members in the United States, Waleed quickly became an essential member of the Blacksburg Muslim community. Among those mourning his death […]
Egyptian Among Virginia Shooting Victims
EGYPTIAN AMONG VIRGINIA SHOOTING VICTIMS Graduate student Waleed Mohammed Shaalan was planning on bringing his Egyptian family back to Virginia Tech but a rampaging gunman prevented that. The young man lost his life but was credited Thursday with acting to save a fellow student. The day before Monday’s massacre, Shaalan called home and said he […]
NY: Court Weighs Border Stops of U.S. Muslims
NY: COURT WEIGHS BORDER STOPS OF U.S. MUSLIMS WHO ATTENDED CONFERENCE IN CANADA A federal appeals court in Manhattan is considering whether authorities went too far in instructing border agents to detain and search American Muslims returning from an Islamic religious conference in Toronto. In late 2004, U.S. law enforcement agents became concerned that supporters […]
Iraq: U.S. Building Wall Separating Sunnis, Shiites
IRAQ: SOLDIERS BUILDING WALL SEPARATING SUNNIS, SHIITES BAGHDAD – U.S. soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division in a Baghdad district are “building a three-mile protective wall on the dividing line between a Sunni enclave and the surrounding Shiite neighborhood,” according to a U.S. military press release issued Wednesday. Troops with the 407th Brigade Support Battalion […]