CAIR-CAN: Canadian Mosque Firebombed
Shock and anger is spreading among Hamilton’s 20,000 Muslims after the city’s largest mosque was firebombed. “They tried to burn the mosque down,” said Zakir Patel, 42, principal of the Islamic School of Hamilton, which is part of the mosque.Patel discovered the firebombing around 8 a.m. yesterday when he opened his office door. Attackers had […]
ACLU Calls College Veil Ban ‘Possibly Illegal’ (Globe)
The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has established a policy banning people from covering their faces on its three campuses, in an effort to ensure public safety, a college spokesman said today. But the new policy has drawn flak from a Muslim civil rights advocacy group, which wants the school to exempt Muslim […]
CAIR-MI: Inquiry Into Imam’s Shooting by FBI Ready Jan. 31
DEARBORN — A local police chief is defending his decision to withhold the release of an autopsy report on Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was killed Oct. 28 in a gunfight with the FBI at a Dearborn warehouse. “While I understand the emotions surrounding the case and the sensitivity of the information, I’m standing […]
Was Store Owner’s Death Hate Crime?
LIBERTY, Texas — The motive behind the Christmas Day killing of a grocery store owner is being questioned, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday. Liberty police said Stevie Walder, 31, fatally shot Naushad I. Virani, 51, during a robbery at the Ridgewood Grocery Store in the 4300 block of North Main.“There is video surveillance from the […]
CAIR-MI: Nigerians, Yemenis Condemn Detroit Flight Attack
Southfield — Area Muslims, representing the local Nigerian and Yemeni communities, gathered to condemn the failed terrorist attack aboard a flight headed to Detroit on Christmas Day and send a message to al-Qaida supporters that their actions are not condoned by Islam. “Killing and targeting civilians is unacceptable in Islam,” said Dawud Walid, executive director […]
Video: CAIR Blasts Metro Airport Terror Attack
Nigerian-American and other Michigan Muslim leaders have condemned al-Qaida and its claim of responsibility for the Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound plane.
Failed Attack Reignites Profiling Debate (AFP)
A foiled bid by a Nigerian to blow up a U.S. airliner is reframing the delicate debate about racial profiling in the United States, where men from the Middle East have been foremost under the scanner. U.S. government guidelines prohibit authorities from singling out people on the basis of race or ethnicity. But with airports […]
CAIR-CA Video: Questions Raised Over Airport Profiling
View the video. The director of the Bay Area Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, Zahra Billoo, tells ABC7 when airport screeners focus on anyone who looks Middle Eastern or Muslim, the screeners may miss more important indicators. “If someone is in line and they look shifty, if they look like they have […]
Video: CAIR Rep Debates Airport Profiling on ‘O’Reilly Factor’
CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper debates the issue of airport profiling on Fox’s “O’Reilly Factor.”
CA: Mosque Informant Tells of Role in FBI Investigations
Since he was a teen, Craig Monteilh has pretended to be someone he wasn’t – Russian, Muslim, a white supremacist… His role as an informant in state prison provided early training, says Monteilh, who is African-American, but light skinned. After being arrested for grand theft in 2002, he was sentenced to state prisons in Tehachapi […]