VA: Muslims Talk About Living the American Dream
VA: LOCAL MUSLIMS TALK ABOUT LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM Watch the Video: http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6109828 With well over a billion followers across the globe, Islam is the world’s second largest religion. The number of Muslims in this country is somewhat unclear. Studies place it anywhere from one to six million. Whatever the figure, a growing number live […]
NC: Mosque Request Sparks Debate
NC: MOSQUE REQUEST SPARKS DEBATE Dr. Waheed Akhtar has to go to Raleigh to pray. There just are not any suitable places in Goldsboro for a Muslim to worship in, he said. So he bought some land at the corner of Wayne Memorial Drive and Best Avenue and, along with several who share his faith, […]
CAIR-CAN: Maher Arar Saga Not Over Yet
CAIR-CAN: MAHER ARAR SAGA NOT OVER YET “My priority right now is to clear my name,” said Maher Arar during his first public appearance in 2003 upon his return to Canada after being tortured for over a year in Syria. The Arar Commission findings which cleared him and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apology last month […]
IL: Muslim Students’ Request for Space Rejected
IL: MUSLIMS’ REQUEST FOR SPACE REJECTED Athletic officials will not establish a designated prayer space for Muslim students at sporting events held at Ryan Field and Welsh-Ryan Arena, said John Mack, Northwestern’s associate athletic director of external affairs. Instead, officials will grant certain concessions, such as allowing prayer rugs into the stadiums and letting students […]
CAIR: Fear and Ignorance Feed Christian-Muslim Divide
CAIR: IN US, FEAR AND IGNORANCE FEED CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM DIVIDE Fear and ignorance about each other are the two factors that prevent the Muslim and Christian communities in the US from getting closer, says Joel C Hunter, an American Christian leader representing the Evangelical Church. Hunter, who represents the National Association of Evangelicals, was in Doha […]
AK: First Muslim Cemetery Opens in Alaska
AK: FIRST MUSLIM CEMETERY OPENS IN ALASKA ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A 1998 newspaper story about two Muslim children mistakenly buried on top of each other in Palmer left Ake Dobrova weak with outrage. One of the children had to be exhumed and reburied, a violation of Muslim beliefs. The cemetery mix-up caused anguish all […]
CAIR-OH: Governor Regrets Iraq Refugee Remarks
CAIR-OH: STRICKLAND WISHES HE COULD TAKE BACK REFUGEE REMARKS Gov. Ted Strickland says he has learned an early lesson in office the hard way: When the chief executive of a large state speaks, people listen. Strickland, on the job for six weeks, is being slammed nationwide in newspaper editorials and Internet blogs for supposedly being […]
CAIR-CT: Muslim Community Growing in CT
CAIR-CT: ISLAM GAINING GROUND IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT Sami Ahmed, who left Pakistan for the United States in 1983, began a Friday night Muslim prayer meeting at his house in Greeneville five years ago. At the time, three or four people attended the meetings. Now, between 30 and 40 Muslims meet weekly at his house. “It […]
Israel Hid discovery of Old City Islamic Site
ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY HID DISCOVERY OF ISLAMIC SITE AT MUGRABI The Israel Antiquities Authority said that what could be an Islamic prayer room was found at the site of the Mugrabi ramp in the Old City of Jerusalem, where excavation work has sparked angry protests by Muslims who say the work endangers the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Muslim […]
CAIR-LA: Muslim Women Keep Faith with Special Swimsuits
CAIR-LA: MUSLIM WOMEN KEEP FAITH WITH SPECIAL SWIMSUITS Amana Siddiqi loved swimming as a child but gave it up as a teenager because her Muslim faith required she fully cover her body in public. “At age 15, I started to cover, so I stopped going to public pools,” said Siddiqi, now 27, whose parents come […]