MO: Writer Took a Shameful Swipe at CAIR
CAIR: WHOM TO CONDEMN? It’s a shame that Mr. Greaney chose to take a swipe at CAIR for standing up for the constitutionally protected rights of American Muslims, much in the same way as ADL and the NAACP are looking out for the rights of Jewish Americans and African Americans, respectively. Instead of admitting that […]
KS: Arabic Teacher Reaches Out
KS: TEACHER OF ARABIC CONNECTS WICHITANS Teaching Arabic is Yassin Shourbaji’s method of building bridges between communities. Shourbaji, a retired engineer and member of the Islamic Society of Wichita and the Islamic Association of Mid-Kansas, has been teaching Arabic to English-speakers for four years.He expanded his course offerings in March to include an introductory course […]
MA: Woman Seeks Equity for Her Muslim Kin
MA: WOMAN SEEKS EQUITY FOR HER MUSLIM KIN Khedeja Al-Iman, a family advocate and outreach worker in the Muslim community, spent the day cooking and baking Friday. It was her day off, but she volunteered to cook and bake for some of the clients she served as a caseworker for the Lutheran Community Services of […]
MT: Former U.S. Diplomat Interprets Islam
MT: FORMER U.S. DIPLOMAT INTERPRETS ISLAM Dave Grimland spent nearly 30 years as a foreign service officer – “telling the U.S. side of the story,” he says – in Bangladesh, India, Cyprus, Turkey and other nations with large Muslim populations. He wrote ambassadors’ speeches, arranged cultural gatherings, and more than once hunkered down as angry […]
CA: Man Convicted in Terror Case Seeks New Trial
CA: LODI MAN CONVICTED IN TERROR CASE BEGINS QUEST FOR A NEW TRIAL The jury foreman in last year’s trial of a Lodi man convicted of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan will be the one on the witness stand Friday in a Sacramento courtroom, this time to face questions by defense attorneys seeking […]
NJ: Interfaith Seder Builds Understanding
NJ: AT INTERFAITH SEDER, ONLY THE HERBS WERE BITTER Jews, Muslims and Christians joined together Sunday in an interfaith Passover seder rarely attempted in North Jersey. “Let us help one another overcome hardness of heart, opening minds to the challenges of faith,” the crowd of about 120 people recited during an opening prayer at Congregation […]
Steven Emerson’s Disturbing Track Record
STEVEN EMERSON’S DISTURBING TRACK RECORD In his latest anti-CAIR attack, Steven Emerson once again unleashes one of his trademark tirades designed to stifle free and open debate (The New Republic Online, 03/28/2008). This time, his wrath is focused against The New York Times. Its crime? Offering two sides of the story in its recent coverage […]
NY: THE REPUBLIC OF BEAUTY, MELDING WEST AND EAST
Told often enough that the West and Islam are natural enemies, we start to believe it, and assume it has always been so. But the Metropolitan Museum of Art argues otherwise in ”Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797,” a show that, with classic Met largesse, recreates the spectacle of two different cultures meeting in one […]
IL: ART OFFERS WINDOW INTO ISLAM
In the early 1970s, the game of table tennis led to a thawing in U.S.-Chinese relations. Curators of an Islamic art exhibit at Chicago’s Smart Museum hope art can work the same magic, opening doors to greater understanding between the U.S. and the Muslim world. “If you say Islam to most Americans, they say terrorist,” […]
AL: Rabbi, Imam Discuss Similarities, Friendship
AL: ‘BROTHERS FROM TWO MOTHERS’ BRIDGE GAP Muslims. Jews. What’s the next word you think of? Two religious leaders in Huntsville are among those working to make “friendship” the word associated with their faith groups’ relationship. “We know what we have to do. We have to cross the street,” said Rabbi Jeffrey Ballon Monday as […]