MI: Team to Review FBI Shooting of Imam
Ron Scott, head of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, called Monday for an independent investigation into the killing of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a Muslim leader who headed the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit. (More)
CAIR-NY: NY Muslims Allege FBI Harassment
Many Flushing residents object to their treatment in the wake of a terrorism investigation, and they’re doing something about it. Almost two months after a suspected terrorist visited New York, setting off a chain of law enforcement activities including police raids of homes in Queens, activists are methodically collecting and recording complaints from Queens residents […]
MD: Politicians Turn Out for Muslim Food Drive
Sometimes, politics is so entwined with community-based good works and elected officials’ public service that it can be hard to separate them. The eighth annual Howard County Muslim Council food drive and picnic last week is a good example. The event, conceived after the Sept. 11 attacks to help combat stereotypes, combined the local Muslim […]
IL: Mystery Surrounds FBI Raid of Halal Slaughterhouse
Most days, not much happens in this sleepy farming community, population: 100. Yet for a few short, dramatic hours last week, Kinsman doubled in size as scores of armed and armoured federal agents swept in. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents – some carrying assault rifles – raided an Islamic slaughterhouse, which opened in the […]
CA: After FBI Terror Probe, Imams Charged with Tax Evasion
The Islamic Center of Stockton’s imam and three of his associates may have been the subject of an FBI terrorism probe that netted little more than tax evasion charges, attorneys for the men said Wednesday. Saeed Ur Rahman, 44, has been indicted on three counts of tax evasion, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento announced […]
Georgia Mosque Opponent: ‘I Don’t Like Muslims’
LILBURN, Ga — The Dar-E-Abbas Islamic center currently sits on a small plot of land on Highway 29 and Hood Road. They want to raze the current building and build a two-story mosque. It’s that expansion that has residents living in the area up in arms. “I am prejudice, I just don’t like Muslims and […]
Video: Al-Jazeera English Examines Claims of Muslim ‘Spies’ in Congress
CAIR-OK: Sprint Employee Fired After Receiving Hate Call
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma man complains about losing his job after allegedly receiving a hateful phone call at work. A former Sprint worker says he was let go from Oklahoma City’s call center after he hung up on a customer who told him he ‘could go to hell’ because he’s Muslim. Click here to […]
CAIR-OK: Muslim Former Sprint Worker Seeks Policy Change
A former Oklahoma City Sprint employee who is Muslim is asking for an apology and a policy revision from Sprint after a claim of being fired for hanging up the phone on an abusive caller.The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said the employee wants Sprint to change its policy that states employees […]
Minn. Reporter Debunks Claims Against Six Imams
As you have probably heard, the case of the “flying imams” has been settled. The six Muslim clerics who were pulled off a U.S. Airways flight at the Twin Cities airport on Nov. 20, 2006 by Metro Airport Commission police will be paid an undisclosed sum by some combination of the MAC, U.S. Air and […]