U.S. Muslims Look to Athletes as Faith Ambassadors
U.S. MUSLIMS LOOK TO ATHLETES AS FAITH AMBASSADORS Farrukh Saleem acknowledges he has a problem. “I’m beyond a sports fanatic. I need help,” said Saleem, who will hunker down in his Potomac, Md., home this Super Bowl Sunday with his six-year-old son and root for his beloved Chicago Bears. Saleem, 36, attributes at least some […]
Canadian Mayor: Women May Not Work in Hijab at City Hall
IL NE FAUT PAS “RAMPER” DIT LA MAIRESSE DE QUÉBEC [“People can put a handkerchief on their head. I do not have a problem with that. But women will not work veiled at the city hall of Quebec (City) as long as I am there,” said Andrée Boucher.] Mme Andrée Boucher, la mairesse de Québec, […]
NC: Non-Muslim Students Experience a Day in Hijab
NC: NON-MUSLIM STUDENTS EXPERIENCE A DAY ‘BEHIND THE VEIL’ As participants in “Behind the Veil,” 28 non-Muslim female students learned about life as Muslim women as they wore head dresses, or hijabs, on Wednesday. “Behind the Veil,” an event Sara Yasin, a junior in textile and apparel management, said she thought up last summer, invited […]
VA: Goode Says He Would Go to Muslim Gathering
VA: GOODE SAYS HE WOULD GO TO MUSLIM GATHERING WASHINGTON — Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., after meeting with an interfaith group, has indicated he would accept an invitation to attend a Muslim gathering. “I said I would go to a gathering sometime if we could work out the time. That’s nothing new. I’ve been […]
Iraq: Official Lies over Najaf Battle Exposed
IRAQ: OFFICIAL LIES OVER NAJAF BATTLE EXPOSED NAJAF, Jan 31 (IPS) – Iraqi government lies over the killing of hundreds of Shias in an attack on Sunday stand exposed by independent investigations carried out by IPS in Iraq. Conflicting reports had arisen earlier on how and why a huge battle broke out around the small […]
VA: Al-Arian on 11th Day of Hunger Strike
SOURCE: TAMPA BAY COALITION FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Feb. 1, 2007 TAMPA — Dr. Sami Al-Arian is now on his 11th day of a hunger strike to protest his continued mistreatment by our government. During this time, he has already lost 15 pounds. The Tampa-based Friends of Human Rights began a rolling hunger strike on […]
CAIR: U.S. Muslims Urged to Back Anti-War Move
CAIR: U.S. MUSLIMS URGED TO BACK ANTI-WAR MOVE WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) — U.S. Muslims were urged Monday to take action in support of a Senate resolution opposing the Iraq military build up. The Council on American-Islamic Relations urged “members of the American Muslim community and other people of conscience to urge their senators to […]
CAIR-FL: Man: I Was Hate Crime Victim
CAIR-FL: MAN: I WAS HATE CRIME VICTIM A Muslim civil rights organization is asking for an investigation into what they said was a hate crime at Sam’s Club last week. Ahmed Bedier, executive director of the Tampa Bay chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Derar Ahmad, 30, a Largo resident of Palestinian descent, […]
CAIR-MI: Mosque Attacks ‘Scary’ for Muslims
CAIR-MI: LOCAL MOSQUE ATTACKS ‘SCARY FOR US’ DETROIT — Alice Alaouie is quite frightened by the fact that most people seem to know little about her faith, Islam. The spray painting of hateful graffiti on the side of the old site of her mosque, the Islamic Center of America, and a spike of similar incidents […]
CAIR-CAN: Town Asked to Retract Xenophobic ‘Standards’
RETRACT XENOPHOBIC ‘STANDARDS,’ QUEBEC TOWN ASKED Organizations representing minorities are outraged by a Quebec town’s “standards” for newcomers, calling them insulting and xenophobic. The town council of Hérouxville issued a set of wide-ranging rules for immigrants considering moving there, including bans on beating or burning women alive, veiling one’s face and children carrying symbolic weapons […]