CAIR: Houston Sunnis, Shias Focus on Common Ground
CAIR: TWO FACES OF ISLAM Ask Rodwan Saleh if he is a Sunni or a Shia and his reply comes quickly. “I am a Muslim,” says Saleh, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, an umbrella organization that includes both groups. “Muslims should always identify themselves that way.” Other Houston Muslims respond similarly. Business […]
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, […]
CA: Israeli Apartheid Lobby is Silencing Dissent
PRO-ISRAELI LOBBY IS SILENCING DISSENT One day in 1981, my late father, Maurice Hanna Bisharat, returned from a long day at his Sacramento medical office with an extra bounce in his step, his eyes dancing with excitement. His friend, Michael Himovitz, the young owner of a local art gallery, had called, offering to hold a […]
US Funds Terror Groups to Sow Chaos in Iran
US FUNDS TERROR GROUPS TO SOW CHAOS IN IRAN America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme. In a move that reflects Washington’s growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be […]
Iraq: Americans Underestimate Iraqi Death Toll
AMERICANS UNDERESTIMATE IRAQI DEATH TOLL WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans are keenly aware of how many U.S. forces have lost their lives in Iraq, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll. But they woefully underestimate the number of Iraqi civilians who have been killed. When the poll was conducted earlier this month, a little more than 3,100 […]
NY: Muslim Call to Prayer Gets Complaints
NY: CALLING THE FAITHFUL AND GETTING COMPLAINTS The Masjid Nur al-Islam mosque, on Church Avenue in Kensington, Brooklyn, is a humble two-story brick structure with a green and white sign in Arabic and English. Amid the auto body shops and the Mexican and Middle Eastern restaurants that populate its low-slung corner of the neighborhood, the […]
CA: Interfaith Group Takes on Islamophobia
CA: INTERFAITH GROUP TAKES ON ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA’ When U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison was sworn in as the first Muslim member of Congress in January, the Minnesota Democrat took his oath of office on a copy of the Quran that had belonged to the author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, […]
IN: Arab Muslims Inmates Gathered at One Prison
IN: FACILITY HOLDING TERRORISM INMATES LIMITS COMMUNICATION The Justice Department has quietly opened a new prison unit in Indiana that houses a hodgepodge of second-tier terrorism inmates, most of them Arab Muslims, whose ability to communicate with the outside world has been tightly restricted. At the Communications Management Unit, or CMU, in Terre Haute, Ind., […]