Did U.S. Have American Muslim Teen Beaten in Kuwait?
Gulet Mohamed, an American teenager detained in Kuwait who claims to have been brutally interrogated there, was arrested and questioned by Kuwaiti security on behalf of the US government, his lawyer and family members charged on Thursday.Mohamed, a 19-year-old from Alexandria, Virginia, called the New York Times’ Mark Mazzetti and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald this week […]
Groups Say U.S. Muslims’ Rights Violated at Border
If any U.S. citizen knows his legal rights, Hassan Shibly does. A law student at the University of Buffalo in New York, he has also clerked for a judge at New York’s State Supreme Court. Last summer he took his wife and son on a pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi […]
Fla. Imam’s Interfaith Work Hooks Gov.-Elect Rick Scott
Jacksonville Imam Enrique Rasheed sees no spiritual or political contradictions in praying for and with conservative Christians and Republicans, many of whom are openly distrustful of Muslims these days. And it’s a good thing, since Rasheed has been invited to participate in a prayer breakfast that kicks off Gov.-elect Rick Scott’s inauguration day on Tuesday […]
Community Heroes: Muslim Couple Spent Decades as Foster Parents
RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio — The call from the county can come day or night. Sometimes it’s urgent. Always, it presents a challenge. Abbas Ahmad and his wife of 31 years, Eva Jean Wilson, are typically asked to take the hard-to-place children. Volatile teens. Children who have been abused. Their answer, usually yes, begins another emotional […]
Working to Boost Social Activism Among Muslims (LA Times)
For the first 15 years of his working life, Naim Shah Jr. was the personal assistant to the imam at Masjid Ibadallah, a mosque in Los Angeles. He helped with Friday sermons and religious classes and dealt primarily with his Muslim congregants. But for the last six months, Shah has worked with Christian and Jewish […]
Muslims Saving Jews During World War II
For Norman H. Gershman, it seemed like an unimaginable story. Which was why he had to see it for himself. “Muslims that saved Jews during World War II?” Gershman said in a recent interview from his home in Basalt, Colo., just south of Aspen. “Whoever heard of that?” Decades as a portrait photographer has taken […]
CAIR-MI Rep to Take Part in Forum on Islam in America
Despite being a majority religion in about 50 countries, the Islamic faith remains a mystery to many Americans.A group of local residents hopes to change that by hosting a forum, “Differences Without Divisions: Islam in America,” set for 7 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Chelsea District Library, 221 S. Main St,. in Chelsea. The event […]
NY Times: Rep. King’s Investigation ‘Disturbing’
It is disturbing to listen to Representative Peter King, the incoming chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. He has announced plans to hold a hearing next month into what he calls the “radicalization of the American Muslim community.” Mr. King, a New York Republican, is no stranger to bluster, but his sweeping slur on Muslim […]
King’s Plan Can Only Inflame Fears
Rep. Peter King’s plan to investigate the “radicalization of the American Muslim community and homegrown terrorism” is the knee-jerk reflex of a demagogue who has made a career out of inflaming people’s fears. In his previous stint as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, he latched onto, among others, the proposed sale (supported by […]
CAIR Rep Discusses Planned Anti-Muslim ‘Witch Hunt’ in Congress
CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper joins the Sunday Show with Philip Maldari to discuss Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) plans to investigate what he calls the “radicalization of the American Muslim community.”Listen to the show here.