By Matthew HendleyFri., Dec. 30 2011
Producing an attack ad against Rep. Allen West probably isn’t the hardest thing to do, considering the amount of controversial material the congressman likes to put out on a regular basis.
Democrat Patrick Murphy has taken advantage of some of that, releasing an online video titled “Allen West’s 2011 Year in Review,” mostly highlighting the occasions in which West talked crap about Democrats.
Sapa-dpa | 29 December, 2011
An offshoot of Egypt’s top religious institution, Al Azhar, has called on the government to take a Christian television station off the air, allegedly for offending Muslims, the semi-official Al-Ahram newspaper reported Thursday.
The Islamic Research Centre, which made the demand, is headed by Ahmed al-Tayeb, the sheikh of Al Azhar, which is the Sunni Muslim world’s oldest seat of religious learning.
Several prominent figures refuse to attend multi-faith gathering with mayor after reports the NYPD spied on Muslim communities
Paul Harris in New York
www.guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 December 2011
A group of prominent Muslim figures in New York City have said they will boycott an annual meeting on Friday with Mayor Michael Bloomberg in order to protest against police surveillance of their communities.
December 27, 2011
By: Kemal Argon, Specialist on Islam
www.huffingtonpost.com
Proactive nonviolence is a concept often already well-known and accepted in many American religious circles. Before saying anything about some prospects for proactive nonviolence in North America, it would be silly not to recognize that much fine and important work is already being done by American men and women of religion in the realm of proactive nonviolence. My purpose for writing here is to point to its importance and relevance as a countermeasure to terror, hopefully to encourage more support for those Americans already active in nonviolence, also wishing to encourage any others who might already have a seed of interest in nonviolent countermeasures to terror.
December 25, 2011
Written by Jill Halpin
Correspondent – hometownlife.com
This Christmas Day, Christian volunteers across the area will have a chance to take a day off from working with others and spend the holiday celebrating with their friends and families thanks to their neighbors: Their Muslim and Jewish neighbors, that is.
Jabir Hazziez Jr. has been showered with accolades, but he sees his role as reflecting his Muslim faith. By TONY RIZZOThe Kansas City Star
A man foaming at the mouth lunged for the airliner’s cabin door, attempting to open it as flight attendants struggled to hold him at bay.Most of the post-Thanksgiving travelers cruising at some 30,000 feet toward Kansas City that day were unaware of the potential disaster looming at the front of the plane.But when a crew member came on the intercom asking if anyone had medical training, passenger Jabir Hazziez Jr. heard the sense of concern in her voice.What happened next came as no surprise to those who know and work with Hazziez, a Kansas City firefighter, reserve Jackson County deputy and member of the U.S. Naval Reserve.As Hazziez walked toward the front of the plane, he saw a man pacing and holding his head in his hands. The man appeared to be in an “altered mental state” and clearly appeared agitated.“He was trying to get to the door of the plane,” Hazziez recalled recently. “I grabbed ahold of him and tried to calm him down.”But the man only became more combative and knocked Hazziez into the cockpit door.
December 16, 2011
By Kate Dailey, BBC News Magazine
Clashes between Muslim activists and Florida conservatives have turned the state into a stand-off. Why?
When hardware superstore Lowe’s pulled its advertising from the cable reality programme All-American Muslim, it did so at the behest of a small group called the Florida Family Association (FFA).
A new report details how a small group of donors and ‘intellectuals’ have pushed Islamophobia into the mainstream.
By MJ Rosenberg
August 28, 2011 “Al Jazeera” – - It has been just about a decade since Islamophobia exploded in this country. That was of moment that the World Trade Center and Pentagon were hit by al Qaeda terrorists. It existed prior to 9/11, but the losses that day and the general terror it inflicted upon this country made many, many Americans much more wary of Arabs and, fairly quickly, fearful of the religion the terrorists professed.
December 23, 2011
The Turkish prime minister has accused France of committing genocide during its colonial occupation of Algeria.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was speaking after French MPs passed a bill making it a criminal act to deny that Ottoman Turks committed genocide in 1915-16 Armenia.
December 23, 2011
By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times
DENVER — This is the story of three sports-loving Muslim brothers and how they boosted the career of the NFL’s most famous Christian.
In his short time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Allen West has built a reputation for using rhetoric that crosses the line of acceptable discourse. (Photo courtesy of Allen West.)
Posted December 19, 2011 by The Decider for Global Grind Staff
In light of the recent Lowe’s controversy, Benjamin Jealous, current President and Chief Executive Officer for the NAACP, spoke with GlobalGrind to discuss the home improvement retail giant’s decision to pull advertising from TLC’s All-American Muslim.
December 21, 2011
WASHINGTON — More than two dozen members of Congress are calling for investigation into the CIA’s relationship with the New York Police Department.
Washington (CNN) — Two Islamic religious leaders from Tennessee filed a lawsuit against two airlines Monday, claiming they were discriminated against and not allowed to fly on a plane in May because of the way they looked.
Poor Lowe’s. The do-it-yourself chain made room in their budget for TLC’s “All-American Muslim,” a reality show about life in the Muslim American community in Dearborn, Mich., but the company ended up catching some focus for supporting a show that depicted Muslims as something besides terrorists. As it turned out, the protest was hardly broad based, with most of it coming from one guy. Still, the Florida Family Association, as David Caton’s Web site is called, claimed 65 companies agreed to stop advertising on “All-America Muslim.” That didn’t turn out to be precisely true.
DEARBORN, Mich. – When Fordson High School football coach Fouad Zaban was asked to be on a reality show about Muslim family life, his impulse was to decline.
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz.Muslim Chaplain, Attorney and Political Analyst
Posted at www.huffingtonpost.com December 16, 2011
There is no such thing as an “Islamic Christmas.” In Islam the nativity of Jesus and of any other prophet is not customarily commemorated. However, it cannot be interpreted that Jesus the Son of Mary (Issa ibn Maryam) has little significance or no relevance in Islam. Actually, it is just the opposite. Jesus is recognized in the Qur’an as the Messiah, the Creator’s Word and a Spirit coming from Him. Jesus is also mentioned at least on twenty five occasions in The Book (Quran); he is the Creator’s Word for the Muslims, for Christians and for humanity as a whole. Muslims believe in him, love him, and honor him. To read more:
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