CAIR: ’24’ Foments Anti-Arab Hatred
CAIR: ’24’ FOMENTS ANTI-ARAB HATRED The Fox-TV show “24” is giving a new twist to its old standby: anti-Arab and anti-Muslim themes. This time around, dark-complexioned Americans are the villains. Even the U.S. military is criticizing the show’s producers for the dangerous message it is sending to our troops. Now in its sixth season, “24” […]
CAIR: Faith Leaders Asked to Help Revitalize New Orleans
CAIR: AMBASSADOR ANDREW YOUNG ASKS FAITH LEADERS TO ANSWER ‘MACEDONIAN CALL’ TO REVITALIZE NEW ORLEANS CONGREGATIONS POST KATRINA Religious leaders come together to meet and strategize long-term support for houses of worship LOS ANGELES, CA – February 15, 2007 – Bishop Charles Blake and Reverend Dr. Cecil “Chip” Murray were joined by civil rights icon, […]
CAIR-MI Rep Discusses Education, Islam with Students
CAIR-MI: VISITING IMAM DISCUSSES EDUCATION, ISLAM WITH STUDENTS ST. THOMAS – In a talk that referenced hip-hop culture and African history, Islamic civil rights advocate Dawud Walid told hundreds of Charlotte Amalie High School students Friday that they owe it to their ancestors who endured slavery to take advantage of the chances before them. “They […]
CAIR-MI Rep Speaks at University of Virgin Islands
CAIR-MI: IMAM TELLS UVI AUDIENCE HOW TO LEARN ABOUT ISLAM “Go to the source: If you want to know about Islam, talk to a Muslim,” said Imam Dawud Walid Friday evening, speaking at the University of the Virgin Islands. The Islamic cleric spoke for more than 90 minutes in a wide-ranging discussion and question-and-answer session […]
CAIR: Support for Al-Arian Hunger Strike Growing
CAIR: SUPPORT FOR HUNGER STRIKE GROWING A former Florida professor has not eaten for more than a month to protest prosecutors’ efforts to make him cooperate with their investigation into whether a network of Herndon-based Muslim charities financed terrorist organizations. Sami al-Arian, 49, who has twice refused to testify before a federal grand jury in […]
Canada: Jewish Defense League Targets Mosque
CANADA: ‘TOWN HALL’ TARGETS NEWMARKET MOSQUE A mosque planned for the Toronto-area suburb of Newmarket was labelled a potential “house of terror” yesterday at a meeting partly spearheaded by the Jewish Defence League, whose members in other countries have themselves committed terrorist acts. Meir Weinstein, the militant league’s Canadian head, helped put on the “town […]
Clash of Civilizations’ View of Islam, Christianity Simplistic
WFU PROFESSOR: ‘CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS’ VIEW OF ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY SIMPLISTIC AUSTIN, Texas – The characterization of Muslim and Christian conflict as a “clash of civilizations” only prolongs problems and encourages dangerous forms of fundamentalism, one prominent scholar told listeners at an ethics conference Feb. 19. Charles Kimball, who has visited the Middle East 40 times […]
MN: More Muslims are Suing Employers
MN: FREEDOM OF FAITH ON COMPANY TIME? School bus driver Seham Nabry says her boss confiscated her prayer mats and complained that her ritual hand and feet washing messed up the office bathroom. She also says he blared Christian music and taunted Muslim workers as they prayed. Nabry said giving up her daily prayers – […]
NJ: Synagogue Hosts Event to Sell West Bank Land
NJ: SYNAGOGUE TO HOST EVENT TO AID WEST BANK SETTLERS TEANECK, N.J. — American Jews on Sunday were given information on how to buy homes on the West Bank, an event the organizer promoted as a way to help Jewish settlers. The effort has drawn rebukes from an Israeli group as well as pro-Palestinian organizations, […]
Occupied Territories: Apartheid Looks Like This
APARTHEID LOOKS LIKE THIS The scene: a military checkpoint deep in Palestinian territory in the West Bank. A tall, thin elderly man, walking stick in hand, makes a detour past the line of Palestinians, many of them young men, waiting obediently behind concrete barriers for permission from an Israeli soldier to leave one Palestinian area, […]