Capitalizing on the holy fasting month’s spirit of sharing and seeking to enhance understanding of their faith, American Muslims in South Jersey region organized a collective iftar that joined them with their non-Muslim neighbors.
Archive for August, 2009
The plans for the Muslim Youth and Recreation Center call for separate swimming pools for men and women. A Somali group wants to help quell youth violence by building a recreation center that’s culturally sensitive to Muslims.
United States Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations
Friday 28th August, 2009
Ramzy Baoud
Gaza’s troubles have somehow been relegated, if not completely dropped from the mainstream media’s radar, and subsequently the world’s conscience and consciousness.
Weaning the public from the sadness conveys the false impression that things are improving and that people are starting to move on and rebuild their lives. But nothing could be further from the truth. Since the conclusion of Israel’s war this year, the Palestinian Ministry of Health declared that 344 Gaza patients have reportedly been added to the swelling number ?of casualties.
Mark Lawrence thinks it’s “absolutely ridiculous” that his daughter Heather has been suspended after telling another student wearing a Muslim head covering to “Take that thing off your head and act like you’re proud to be an American” for refusing to stand or recite the Pledge of Allegiance in class.
ANKARA — Eyeing better ties with the Islamic world after the Prophet cartoon crisis, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen joined Turkish leaders at a Ramadan iftar on Thursday, August 27.
Continue reading ‘NATO Chief Courts Muslims on Ramadan Iftar’
A Muslim woman and an American Muslim advocacy group are suing a Michigan judge for forcing the woman to remove her hijab in court, the Detroit Free Press reported on Thursday, August 27.
“I felt very discriminated [against] and humiliated,” Raneen Albaghdady, 32, told a press conference at the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit.
‘Liberal Lion’ of the Senate Led Storied Political Family After Deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
Aug. 26, 2009—
Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.
The man known as the “liberal lion of the Senate” had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son had lived longer with the disease than his doctors expected him to.
Continue reading ‘Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer at Age 77′
Amid shocking revelations about the Bush-era war on terror’s brutal techniques, the US Attorney General has named a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA abuses against terror suspects, reported the New York Times on Tuesday, August 25.
Mosque officials in Selangor, Malaysia’s most populated and richest state, have been authorized to arrest Muslims drinking alcohol in public, a move likely to court controversy in the multi-ethnic Asian Muslim heavyweight, the daily Star reported on Tuesday, August 25.
Continue reading ‘Malaysia Mosques Get Alcohol Arrest Powers’
Famed British novelist Sebastian Faulks apologized on Monday, August 24, for any offence he has caused Muslims with his remarks about the Noble Qur’an, insisting he was misquoted.
“Jawad was released and returned to Afghanistan today, ending nearly seven years of illegal detention by the United States,” Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said.
A diplomatic row between Sweden and Israel has intensified, with Israeli politicians urging Stockholm to condemn a newspaper article they have described as “blood libel”.“The statements in the Swedish press were outrageous,” Benyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was quoted as telling his cabinet on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday cast U.S. military efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as part of his drive to forge a new relationship between America and the Muslim world.
Aug 21, 2009
A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency’s post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned.
By Andrew Wander
It is a US-run prison built from scratch on an US military base to hold “enemy combatants” captured in the so-called “war on terror”.
Those imprisoned there have never been charged with a crime, nor do they have any meaningful way of challenging their detention.
