Archive for October, 2011
By Samer al-Atrush (AFP) – Oct 22, 2011
CAIRO — An Egyptian court sentenced a man to three years in jail with hard labour on Saturday for insulting Islam in postings on Facebook, the official MENA news agency reported.
Continue reading ‘Egyptian jailed for Facebook Islam insult’
NEW YORK — Muslims who change their names to sound more traditionally American, as immigrants have done for generations, or who adopt Arabic names as a sign of their faith are often investigated and catalogued in secret New York Police Department intelligence files, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Continue reading ‘Injustice? NYPD Shadows Muslims Who Change Names’
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/102411-man-gets-14-months-for-mosque-vandalism
October 24, 2011
Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas – A 34-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 months in federal prison after confessing to vandalizing a suburban Dallas-Fort Worth mosque last year.
Group claims free speech is threatened after Nashville hotel cancels contract
Continue reading ‘Anti-Shariah conference loses Nashville hotel home’
Teacher resigned from Berkeley school district so she could make pilgrimage to Mecca
By Manya A. Brachear, Tribune reporter
October 19, 2011
Safoorah Khan hoped 2008 would be a turning point in her spiritual life.
Continue reading ‘Settlement reached in Muslim’s suit over denial of time off for hajj’
October 22, 2011
(CBS/AP) SEATTLE – A Hertz spokesman says the rental car company is disappointed 26 Muslim transport drivers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport chose to be fired rather than agree to clock out for prayer breaks.
Continue reading ‘Hertz fires Muslims for not clocking out to pray’
October 21, 2011
Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday that the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.
By Maria Giordano, The Tennessean
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – A high school freshman said her Muslim beliefs were put to the test when commanding officers in her school’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program told her she couldn’t both wear a head scarf and march in the homecoming parade.
Continue reading ‘JROTC’s head scarf rule keeps Tenn. girl from parade’
Chad Groening – OneNewsNow – 10/18/2011
The head of a Minnesota-based messianic Jewish ministry is pleased that a publicly funded Twin Cities charter school will no longer be able to promote Islam.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit against the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy more than two years ago, claiming the Islamic school was in violation of the Establishment Clause because it was promoting Islam. (See earlier story) The suit cited various incidents in which public funds or the school’s operations were used to further Islam or Muslim religious organizations.
By Nancy Montgomery
Stars and Stripes
Published: October 10, 2011
MANNHEIM, Germany — They’d both been reared Roman Catholic, she in Mannheim, Germany, he in Kissimmee, Fla.
Continue reading ‘Raised Catholic, soldier and wife convert to Islam’
By Christopher M. Schroeder, Published: October 11
Naif Al-Mutawa, a psychologist from Kuwait, was riding in a London taxi not long after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when he had an idea. To counter the terrorists’ message, he wanted to create a children’s television series about superheroes who embody the values, culture and history of Islam and the Middle East.
Continue reading ‘Naif Al-Mutawa fights to bring ‘THE 99’ and its message to wide U.S. audience’
Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to the bomb and shooting attacks that killed 77 people in Norway in July, says there are up to 80 cells in Europe with militant anti-Islamic ideals like his own, Norwegian investigators said on Thursday.
Continue reading ‘Anders Behring Breivik claims there are 80 militant anti-Islamic cells in Europe’
Friday, October 14, 2011
An Egyptian lifts the Muslim holy book , the Quran, as others light candles at Talat Harb square in down town Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, to mourn more than two dozen who were killed when Christians, angered by a recent church attack, clashed Sunday night with Muslims and security forces outside the state television building in central Cairo. Photo: Amr Nabil / AP
Continue reading ‘Protesters in Egypt urge Muslim-Christian unity’
http://www.onislam.net/english/news/global/454267-un-invites-dar-al-ifta-on-faith-dialogue.html
By Soby Mujahed
OnIslam CorrespondentTuesday, 11 October 2011 14:24
Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta has been invited to the United Nations to expound its efforts in building bridges between different cultures and faiths CAIRO – Following its win of an international media award for its role in developing a better image of Islam, Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta (Fatwa House) has been invited to the United Nations to expound its efforts in building bridges between different cultures and faiths.
U.S. citizen Irum Abbassi now suing Southwest Airlines over incident
By Lee Moran
11th October 2011
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, AP Legal Affairs Writer – 22 hours ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Muslim death row inmate says the Ohio prison system is denying him meals prepared according to Islamic law while at the same time providing kosher meals to Jewish prisoners, according to a federal lawsuit that alleges a civil rights violation.
Continue reading ‘Ohio Muslim inmates sue over meal preparation’
By IINA– September 28, 2011
Posted in: News
BERLIN, Dhul Qa’adah 1/Sept 28 (IINA)- Imam Dr Abduljalil Sajid, one of the members of the Runnymede Trust’s Commission on British Muslims and Islamphobia argues in his report on Islamphobia that: “Hostility towards Islam and Muslims has been a feature of European societies since the eighth century of the Common Era. It has taken different forms, however, at different times and has fulfilled a variety of functions”.
Continue reading ‘Germany/Islamophobia: Germany brings out the intelligence against “Islamophobia”’
By ARAB NEWS
Published: Sep 30, 2011 22:33 Updated: Sep 30, 2011 22:33
NAJRAN: About five percent of the married Saudi women regularly beat their husbands, according to a study conducted by Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Muqbil, a staff member of Al-Qassim University who is also a social and a family consultant.
Continue reading ‘Domestic violence redefined: 5 percent of Saudi women beat up their husbands’
