NPR Series Guides Listeners Through Shia-Sunni Split
NPR SERIES ON ISLAM GUIDES LISTENERS THROUGH PRIMER ON SHIA-SUNNI SPLIT If you want proof that NPR is a rare outpost of real news outlet on broadcast radio, check out the series running this week on the split between the Shias and the Sunnis. The five-part “Partisans of Ali,” airing on “Morning Edition,” which airs […]
NY Univ Group Meets with Muslims Over Video
NY: POST GROUP MEETS WITH MUSLIMS For one of the students from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University involved in the mock hostage video that some Muslims found offensive, visiting the Islamic Center of Long Island on Sunday opened his eyes to a culture he knew little about. And members of the Islamic […]
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 […]
FL: Muslim Chaplain Tells of Gitmo Duty and Ordeal
FL: AT UF, MUSLIM CHAPLAIN TELLS OF GITMO DUTY AND ORDEAL James “Yusuf” Yee is optimistic about the Muslim community’s progress in America, despite what he calls the widespread erosion of civil liberties in the nation. Yee spoke to an audience of about 250 Tuesday night at the University of Florida. He told the story […]
TX: Young Muslims Look to New Careers
TX: YOUNG MUSLIMS LOOK TO NEW CAREERS TO GAIN GROUND IN PUBLIC DEBATES Ali Jafri made some changes when he enrolled at the University of Texas School of Law last year. First, he let his beard grow. Then, he helped create a Middle East Law Students Association. In class, he regularly sports T-shirts with Arabic […]
TX: School Open to Muslim Cultural Program
TX: PRINCIPAL OPEN TO MUSLIM GROUP’S IDEA Dulles High School’s principal says he is receptive to a local Muslim organization’s proposal to start a program to promote cultural understanding at the campus. Principal Lance Hindt said Dulles would embrace beginning a program with the Islamic Society of Houston South Zone to supplement what is already […]
MD: Speaking the Word of God: Illuminated Korans
MD: SPEAKING THE WORD OF GOD: ILLUMINATED KORANS BALTIMORE, MD – The Walters Art Museum presents Speaking the Word of God: Illuminated Korans from the Walters Art Museum, on view through April 29, 2007. The Koran is considered by Muslims to be an exact record of the words that God spoke to the prophet Muhammad […]
FL: Muslim Cemetery Blocked
FL: GREEN BURIALS VOTED DOWN BROOKSVILLE – In a cemetery planned for a 5-acre tract near Istachatta, the markers would have been wooden slabs or crosses. The bodies would have been buried without embalming; the caskets were to be wooden boxes meant to decompose quickly. That is Bosnian tradition, said Vedad Sakovic, president of the […]
MO: Muslims Battle Prejudice for Their Beliefs
MO: METRO MUSLIMS BATTLE PREJUDICE FOR THEIR BELIEFS Tensions between Christianity and Islam have never been higher in the United State. Still, in this primarily Judeo-Christian nation, some statistics suggest Islam is the fastest growing religion in the country and the world. Hard and fast numbers are hard to come by but some statistics suggest […]