IL: Muslim Cabbie Does the Right Thing
IL: DECENCY DRIVES CABBIE TO DO RIGHT THING Dave and Marge–they asked that I not use their last names in this column–are usually suspicious of strangers, with good reason. They live out in the sticks, in the country, just on the far edge of suburban sprawl. And, though they visit Chicago often, Marge always keeps […]
CAIR-OH Lecture: ‘Forgiveness Teachings, Practices in Islam’
CAIR-OH LECTURE: ‘FORGIVENESS TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES IN ISLAM’ ASHLAND — The Ashland Center for Nonviolence will host a discussion of the Amish response of forgiveness to the murder of five young girls last fall in West Nickle Mines, Pa. The free program will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Myers Convocation Center at Ashland University. […]
Incitement: Islam is ‘a Developing Threat to Our Country’
IA: INCITEMENT: ‘A DEVELOPING THREAT TO OUR COUNTRY’ There is a developing threat to our country that we need to understand. People are planning to take over the United States and our way of life from the inside out. That threat is the Muslim religion. Their goal-stated over and over again-for centuries-is to take over […]
CAIR: Vitriolic E-Mails Zero in on ‘Muslim’
CAIR: VITRIOLIC E-MAILS ZERO IN ON ‘MUSLIM’ On ultraconservative Web sites like littlegreenfootballs.com, the story of Monday’s shooting rampage at Trolley Square has been reduced to one fact: “Salt Lake City Killer Was a Muslim.” “The media did everything they could to avoid mentioning it, but it’s confirmed today that the mass murderer who terrorized […]
UT: Anti-Bosnian Backlash Feared
UT: ANTI-BOSNIAN BACKLASH IS FEARED IN UTAH Most of the thousands of Bosnians living in the Salt Lake City area are refugees of war, and all of them are toughened by the experience of making new lives in a new country. Now, state and local officials say that the rage and grief after the multiple […]
UT: Shooter ‘Not Motivated by Islamic Belief’
UT: SEARCH STILL ON FOR ANSWERS TO SHOOTER’S MOTIVES The profile of the Bosnian immigrant who gunned down five people at a shopping mall is filled with uncertainty. Neighbors say they rarely saw the lanky teenager, whose mother removed him from school at 16 to work. But authorities and family members agree on what Sulejman […]
CA: FBI Probes Vandalism of Muslim Website
CA: FBI LAUNCHES PROBE OF ONLINE VANDALISM The FBI launched an investigation Wednesday after a hacker broke into the website of a Southern California organization of Islamic religious leaders, leaving an expletive-laced message against Muslims. The person attacked the website of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California late Tuesday, said the group’s executive director, […]
Video: VA Rep Warns of ‘In Muhammad We Trust’
VIDEO: VA REP WARNS OF ‘IN MUHAMMAD WE TRUST’ Goode: Iraq Critics Are Helping ‘Jihadists Who Want The Crescent And Star To Wave Over The Capitol’ During today’s House debate on Iraq, virulently anti-Muslim Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) said supporting the anti-escalation resolution would “aid and assist the Islamic jihadists who want the crescent and […]
Bill Would Give Detainees Some Legal Rights
DEMOCRATS’ BILL WOULD GIVE DETAINEES SOME LEGAL RIGHTS Senate Democrats Tuesday unveiled proposed legislation to restore some legal rights to suspected terrorists, but distanced themselves from calls to close the detention camp at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., filed a bill that […]
Tariq Ramadan: What the West Can Learn from Islam
TARIQ RAMADAN: WHAT THE WEST CAN LEARN FROM ISLAM In late September, I finally received a response to the question I had been asking the Bush administration for more than two years: Why was my work visa revoked in late July 2004, just days before I was to take up a position as a professor […]