CAIR: Muslims Fear ’24’ Nuke-Plot Fallout
CAIR: MUSLIMS FEAR ’24’ NUKE-PLOT FALLOUT Muslim groups are concerned the fictional dark hero of Fox television’s “24” will jeopardize their civil liberties by branding them as sleeper-cell agents waiting for orders to strike. The pulse-pounding drama starring Kiefer Sutherland as counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer featured a group of Muslim terrorists this week successfully detonating […]
CAIR-IL: Muslim Students Support Native-Americans
CAIR-IL: SIOUX COMMITTEE ASKS FOR RETURN OF REGALIA The painted turkey feathers that adorn the headdress of Chief Illiniwek were at one time eagle feathers. Now they, and the rest of the beaded buckskin regalia, are the center of a new controversy surrounding the University symbol. The Executive Committee of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Nation […]
CAIR-Chicago: Muslim Students Seek Prayer Space
CAIR-CHICAGO: SEEKING TIMEOUT FOR PRAYER As the Ohio State Buckeyes pummeled the Northwestern Wildcats on Ryan Field last November, senior Amir Siddiqui and his friends slipped below the bleachers, removed their shoes and knelt on pieces of poster board to pray. As the sea of purple cheered and jeered above, Siddiqui tuned out the world […]
CAIR Rep Discusses Impact of Muslim Sitcom
CAIR REP DISCUSSES IMPACT OF MUSLIM SITCOM
Jews, Muslims Shared a ‘Fertile Relationship’
A LOOK AT WHEN JEWS AND MUSLIMS SHARED A ‘FERTILE RELATIONSHIP’ As the Muslim world, and now Iran, make increasingly hostile overtures toward Israel, it’s hard to imagine that relations between Jews and Arabs were ever harmonious. But as biblical scholar Elsie Stern pointed out, during the pinnacle of Islamic power, Jews and Muslims often […]
CA: Jewish, Muslim Groups Encourage Dialogue
JEWISH, MUSLIM GROUPS’ PROGRAM ENCOURAGES LEADERS TO SEE THE ‘OTHER’ AS FRIEND Is it possible for Los Angeles Jews and Muslims to talk to one another, to share peacefully at the table? This is the question that some leaders of both groups locally are asking themselves. These are the ones who are willing to keep […]
Muslim Representation Vital for Congress
MUSLIM REPRESENTATION VITAL FOR CONGRESS When commenting on the use of Jefferson’s Quran, Ellison accurately relayed a fundamental truth — not a fundamentalist truth — that has so often eluded a conservative faction of this country for far too long. When swearing in with Jefferson’s copy he said, “It demonstrates that from the very beginning […]
MA: Imam May Be Forced Out of Home
MA: IMAM MAY BE FORCED OUT OF HOME With his visa status already in question, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of New England’s mosque in Sharon may soon be a man without a home. The directors of the Islamic Center have given the Imam Muhammed Masood and his family notice to leave their […]
Canada: Anti-Islamic Lecture Cancelled By Church
CANADA: ANTI-ISLAMIC LECTURE CANCELLED BY CHURCH A Windsor church that drew heated criticism last week for hosting the anti-Islamic lecture of a purported former Muslim terrorist cancelled his second speech Thursday night to give the church’s embattled leader a chance to defend himself.
Canada: Anti-Muslim Incidents On the Rise
CANADA: ANTI-MUSLIM INCIDENTS ON THE RISE McMaster University’s director of human rights and equity services is worried that racism and Islamophobia are growing on campus. Mark Walma said it is often subtle but it is affecting the environment for the school’s minorities, which include 1,500 students who are Muslim. He organized a seminar on campus […]