May 21, 2012
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz.
Muslim Chaplain, Attorney and Political Analyst
Former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama have persistently affirmed: “We are not at war with Islam,” trying to assure 1.7 billion Muslims that the military actions of the so-called “war against terrorism” do not constitute belligerence against Islam or Muslims.
Religion News Service | By David Finnigan Posted: 05/21/2012
LOS ANGELES (RNS) After lobbying from Muslim and Sikh leaders, the Los Angeles Police Department has agreed to modify its information-gathering program on suspicious activities after the New York Police Department came under fire for spying on local Muslims.
Continue reading ‘LAPD Modifies Surveillance Program Of Muslims’
May 20, 2012
The Associated Press
(AP) ISLAMABAD – Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s top telecommunications officials.
Continue reading ‘Pakistan blocks Twitter over anti-Islamic material’
May 13, 2012
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic or other foreign legal codes has cleared the state Legislature after a contentious debate about whether the measure upholds American values or appeals to prejudice against Muslims.
The Senate approved the bill Friday on a 33-3 vote. The House had approved it, 120-0, earlier in the week. The measure goes next to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, who hasn’t said whether he’ll sign or veto the measure.
Continue reading ‘Kansas lawmakers pass anti-Islamic law measure’
May 12, 2012
By ANTOINETTE KELLY,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
An Irish American U.S. military officer who had been teaching that Islam in general is America’s enemy has had his class canceled.
Continue reading ‘Irish American officer stopped from teaching that Islam is America’s enemy’
May 12, 2012
By Al Arabiya with Agencies
A panel of federal judges grilled Justice Department lawyers on Friday over the U.S. government’s “no-fly” list, questioning whether those barred from commercial air travel for suspected terrorism ties are given any realistic avenue for appeal.
Continue reading ‘Muslim Americans on ‘no fly’ list take on U.S. government in lawsuit’
May 11, 2012
By Kari Huus, msnbc.com
Emerging details of inflammatory anti-Islam materials used in U.S. military training have prompted a chorus of outrage from civil rights and American Muslim groups, and growing demands for the dismissal of military leaders associated with the course, and for other actions to address the issue.
Continue reading ‘Outrage, calls for action over anti-Muslim materials in military training’
May 10, 2012
By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman
The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary.”
Continue reading ‘U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam’
May 10, 2012
FORT LAUDERDALE —
Toddlers may be jokingly called terrors when they hit the “terrible twos,” but one little girl’s parents said their daughter was accused of being an actual terrorist.
Continue reading ’18-month-old baby on no-fly list ordered off plane’
May 8, 2012
Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid.
President, Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York
Muslims first arrived in this country while the United States was in its infancy. Thousands of Muslim slaves were brought here from Africa and worked on southern plantations. Today, there are as many as nine million Muslims in the United States, in all parts of the country. We are doctors, lawyers and police officers. We are active participants in cities, towns and villages, sitting on city councils and school boards, volunteering for civic groups and coaching Little League teams. We are of all races. Some of us were born here, others came in search of a better life for our children. We are Americans.
Story By AZPM Staff
May 7, 2012
By Britain Eakin, Reporter Intern, Arizona Public Media
Some young Muslims in the U.S. feel afraid to be identified with their religion, says a psychologist who works with Muslim youth.
Continue reading ‘U.S. Muslim Teens Facing Identity Questions’
May 8, 2012
By Syndicated columns
By Arsalan Iftikhar
Watch for Mitt Romney to play the anti-Muslim card against President Obama.
During the primaries, several Republican candidates pandered to their nativist constituencies by mouthing anti-Muslim slurs.
By Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY, Missouri | Fri May 4, 2012
(Reuters) – A Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5 million in punitive damages by a jury who found the telecommunications giant AT&T created a “hostile work environment” after her conversion, according to a judge’s order issued Friday.
Continue reading ‘Muslim woman wins $5 million verdict from AT&T for discrimination’
May 6, 2012
BERLIN — Clashes erupted in Germany when police tried to separate competing rallies by an ultraconservative Muslim group and a small far-right march, injuring 29 officers, authorities said Sunday. More than 100 Salafist protesters were briefly arrested.
OnIslam & Newspapers
Saturday, 05 May 2012
CAIRO – UK Muslims have rejected calls to ban animals’ halal slaughter after a leading British vet called for curbing or even banning the practice popular among the country’s Muslim and Jewish minorities.
Published April 30, 2012
Associated Press
PARIS – The graves of several Muslim soldiers in a cemetery in southeastern France were desecrated over the weekend, officials said Monday. The French president called the act “a slur” on the country’s history.
Continue reading ‘Graves of Muslim soldiers desecrated in France’
April 29, 2012
By Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press Staff Writer
Anti-Islam activists from across the U.S. are in Dearborn today for a conference they say is needed to rescue Muslim women. Called the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killings, it’s named after a 20-year-old Muslim woman killed in Warren last year.
“It’s usually in the South, I’m proud to say”
Charles Johnson
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By MOSI SECRET
April 30, 2012
There was a British man who nearly became the second shoe bomber and took his orders directly from Osama bin Laden. There was a man from Long Island who, after dropping out of the United States Army during training, traveled to Afghanistan to fight American troops alongside the Taliban.
Continue reading ‘In Terrorists’ Testimony, a Rare, Intimate Look Into a Secretive World’
By PAULINE JELINEK 04/25/12
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has suspended a course for military officers that officials say contained inflammatory material about Islam.
Defense Department spokesman Capt. John Kirby said Wednesday that among problems with the course taught at Norfolk, Va., was a presentation that asserted the United States is at war with Islam. Kirby noted that officials across two American administrations have stressed that the U.S. is at war with terrorists who have a distorted view of the religion.
Continue reading ‘Military Halts Class Teaching Anti-Islam Material’
