Muslim Families First Line of Terror Defense (Boston Globe)
There is a heartening aspect to the otherwise unnerving story of five young American Muslims who flew to Pakistan Dec. 1 with the apparent intention of enrolling in a jihadist group. Law enforcement officials received crucial cooperation from anxious relatives of the five young men. The family members told imams and the Council on American-Islamic […]
Hollywood’s ‘Sinister Muslim’ Stereotype Fades (USA Today)
Muslim voices are finally being heard by and from Hollywood, and it’s in Tinseltown’s best interest to listen. Negative stereotypes of Muslim characters date to at least the black-and-white era, but by the 1990s and the end of the Cold War, one-dimensional Muslim terrorist characters were the generic “bad guy” in countless movies and television […]
Muslim Prayers and Renewal Near Ground Zero
On that still-quiet Tuesday morning, the sales staff was in a basement room eating breakfast, waiting to open the doors to the first shoppers at 10 a.m. There was no immediate sign of the fiery cataclysm that erupted overhead starting at 8:46. But out of a baby-blue sky suddenly stained with smoke, a plane’s landing-gear […]
CA: Local Muslims Upset Over La Mesa Church Event
SAN DIEGO — Several Muslim families invited to a service at Skyline Church in La Mesa said they received the insult of their lives, 10News reported. Muslim churchgoer Omar said he expected the sounds of the season at the church, but that is not what he got. Outside an El Cajon market, Omar told 10News […]
Video: CAIR Rep Discusses Missing Youth with Larry King
CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad appeared last night on CNN’s “Larry King Live” to discuss the Muslim community’s assistance to the FBI in locating five Virginia Muslims missing under mysterious circumstances.
CO Sheriff Calls Marines ‘Travel Agents to Allah’
A volunteer for the nonprofit Muslims Against Hunger group is not upset Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden plans to hold a Christmas tree-trimming party – an event Alderden proudly calls politically incorrect. But the woman, a Muslim who lives in Northern Colorado, is concerned about a comment Alderden made while giving a speech at a […]
Passenger Makes Up Islamic Terror Fantasy
True story. A right-winger who obviously reads too many of those really hard-core Islamophobic blogs emailed around a detailed account of how he had heroically thwarted a terrorist attack on a flight from Atlanta to Houston. According to the story, which proliferated on conservative blogs and rose as high up the wingnut food chain as […]
Holder Targets Racial Profiling (Detroit News)
Detroit — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a crowd of law enforcement, and community and Muslim leaders Thursday the U.S. Justice Department “is again open for business.” “I can assure you under my leadership the Department of Justice will enforce all of our nation’s laws with equal conviction,” Holder declared, saying that under the […]
Holder: Protect Rights of Muslims (Free Press)
Reaching out to Arab Americans and Muslims, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a Detroit speech Thursday night that their full rights must be protected as the country battles security threats. “This is not blind adherence to political correctness,” Holder told hundreds at the Detroit Marriott in the Renaissance Center. “It is devotion to […]
CAIR-GA: Does Religion Play Role in Mosque Controversy? (AJC)
Some neighborhood residents say religion has nothing to do with their vocal fight against rezoning plans to put a 20,000-square-foot mosque, cemetery and gymnasium at U.S. 29 and Hood Road. But some members of the local Muslim congregation of Dar-E-Abbas aren’t so sure. They say religion plays a part, evidenced by comments they’ve read on […]