CAIRO – Muslims are expected to be friendly towards Christian and Jewish minorities in their countries, reciprocating any goodwill and festival greetings, and treating them on equal terms as citizens, prominent scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has said.
Archive for December, 2007
By Rukshana Choudhury
The Saudi Government is encouraging Saudi students not to join the University of East Anglia after a spate of racist attacks.
The University of East Anglia’s Saudi society is trying to respond to the alleged attacks in a positive manner. They intend to write to the Saudi education minister because they feel unsafe and have lost faith in Norfolk police.
The claim was made by President of the UEA’s Islamic Society, Kaleem Ullah, who allegedly witnessed a racially motivated assault at the Norwich campus involving 12 young students.
Continue reading ‘Attacks on Saudis at UK university increase’
By EILEEN SULLIVANAssociated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) More than $24 million was sent out Friday to mostly Jewish nonprofit organizations in major cities nationwide because the federal government considers them to be at high risk of a terrorist attack. The Homeland Security Department decided which nonprofits would receive these 308 grants based on threat and risk information. Organizations in
Is there room at the inn for a Muslim holiday in America?
Ever since I was young, the holiday season has been my favorite time of year — despite the fact that I am a Muslim.
, Staff Writer
The hefty baskets filled with chocolate, nuts and munchies and delivered Tuesday to 20 Wake County schools were not Christmas or New Year’s gifts.The local chapter of the Muslim American Society raised more than $2,000 to prepare the baskets, given to teachers and school administrators to celebrate Islam’s holiday of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, which begins today.
The goody baskets are part of a project to build bridges and foster understanding between Muslims and the public schools, said leaders of the local chapter of the Muslim American Society, which sponsored the basket drive. They said they hope to counter the fear and misunderstanding Muslims often experience.
Continue reading ‘Schools get taste of Islamic holiday spirit’
The Associated Press
SMITHFIELD, N.C. – Hundreds of Muslim families don’t have a place to perform a religious ceremony to start the three-day Islamic holiday, Eid al-Adha.A Johnston County judge refused Tuesday to lift a ban on a farmer to host a mass slaughter of lambs on Wednesday, the first day of a holiday also known as the Festival of Sacrifice.
Judge Tom Lock barred the slaughter at a farm owned by Eddie Rowe at the request of state agriculture officials who said the farm does not have proper sanitary facilities.
Continue reading ‘Judge bans mass lamb slaughter on first day of Islamic holiday’
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SMITHFIELD – A tangle between a farmer and the state has left hundreds of Muslim families without a place to perform the ritual slaughter of lambs today at the start of the three-day Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha.Late Tuesday, several Muslim families from Wake and Johnston counties asked a Johnston County judge to lift the ban he put on Princeton farmer Eddie Rowe to host a mass slaughter today. They urged Johnston County Superior Court Judge Tom Lock to turn to the highest law of the land — the U.S. Constitution — to eliminate what they consider a hindrance on their religious practice.
I am not a terrorist” written in Arabic T-shirt
Smart-alecky T-shirts are the newest trend
Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers
CAIRO, Egypt – The Christmas and Eid holidays run back-to-back this year, and it’s hard to shop for people who straddle Western and Middle Eastern cultures. While surfing the Web in hopes of finding unique gifts, I was surprised to stumble across an array of PSP themes T-shirts whose slogans illustrate how bold Muslims have become in speaking out about their post-9/11 experience.
Once described as an “invisible minority,” Muslims in the United States and abroad can now express themselves with in-your-face T-shirts that strike at U.S. foreign policy, racial profiling, cultural stereotypes and Islamist extremism.
Continue reading ‘Muslims make a statement without saying a word’
Article published Wednesday, December 19, 2007
ISLAMIC CELEBRATION OF HAJJ
Sylvania pupils mark pilgrimage to Mecca
Teacher Mervat Ballut with Lila Mahmoud, 7, observe Hajj Day at Toledo Islamic Academy.
Sylvania celebrated Hajj Day yesterday, imitating the rituals conducted each year during hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
More than 2 million Muslims, including an estimated 10,000 from the United States, participated in the hajj this year. Among the pilgrims was Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Continue reading ‘ISLAMIC CELEBRATION OF HAJJ, Sylvania pupils mark pilgrimage to Mecca’
EID AL-ADHA South Florida Muslims celebrate start of Eid al-Adha Eid al-Adha, the Islamic holiday of sacrifice, began Wednesday, and Sunday more than a dozen South Florida mosques will host a daylong Eid festival in Hollywood’s Topeekeegee Yugnee Park.
BY JAWEED KALEEM
Continue reading ‘South Florida Muslims celebrate start of Eid al-Adha’
Imam Foad Farahi, at the Shamsuddin Islamic Center, says he was pressured to agree to be deported to Iran.
Immigration officials deny using coercion.A South Florida imam says U.S. officials pressured him to give up his immigration appeals and leave the country voluntarily. A Muslim group says the imam’s case is part of a troubling trend in which religious leaders are compelled to become informants or risk being deported. Foad Farahi, 33, of the Shamsuddin Islamic Center in North Miami Beach, says a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor offered him a deal: leave the country within 30 days, or face arrest for ‘’support of terrorist groups,” he said. Three years ago, he said, the FBI sought him out to be an informant and he refused. ICE officials said there was no coercion. ”These claims have no basis in fact,” said Sean Teeling, ICE assistant field office director for detention and removal. “Mr. Farahi was represented by an attorney when he requested and was granted the benefit of voluntary departure.” Farahi, an Iranian national, wants political asylum. He was born in Kuwait, but has an Iranian passport, based on his father’s birthplace.
Continue reading ‘IMMIGRATION : Cleric claims he was pressured to leave’
By EILEEN SULLIVANAssociated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) More than $24 million was sent out Friday to mostly Jewish nonprofit organizations in major cities nationwide because the federal government considers them to be at high risk of a terrorist attack. The Homeland Security Department decided which nonprofits would receive these 308 grants based on threat and risk information. Organizations in
