Minnesota Congressional candidate says Islam promotes criminal behavior and that the US constitution does not apply to Muslims. – In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, vandals spray-paint “go home sand n**ger” and Nazi swastikas on a truck owned by a Muslim of Mideast descent. The victim also finds a racist flier from the Aryan Nations on his … Continued
Six Michigan residents who are members of Michigan Peace Team are preparing to travel to Gaza and take part in the nonviolent, international Gaza Freedom March. Over 1,000 participants from countries around the world, and more than 50,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are expected to join the December 31, 2009 march inside Gaza. This … Continued
One year later, the deadly attacks which targeted an already suffering Gaza Strip have become yet another chapter in the epic tragedy that is the Palestinian struggle for freedom. During the attacks, over 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza woke up unsure if they would be able to experience waking up ever again. The Israeli attack … Continued
A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called for “swift justice” in the attempted bombing Friday of a Northwest Airlines flight arriving in Detroit. Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told the Detroit Free Press that he was grateful the alleged bomber … Continued
Iraqi refugee Leila Johanna Isho is determined to make this her last year in Syria. “Most of our family is scattered across Europe and I have a cousin in Canada so we don’t mind where we move, but we have to move because life is becoming too difficult here,” said Isho, sitting with her three … Continued
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is delighted at President Obama signing into law the Department of Defense Authorization Conference Report, which included in the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The hate crimes provision will strengthen existing hate crimes protections for race, color, religion, national origin, and ethnicity. It also now … Continued
New data underscore how Islam has spread around the world and that it’s wrong to think of the religion only in terms of its Arab followers. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reports that after three years of research it has concluded there are about 1.57 billion Muslims around the world, with more … Continued
Fifty-one percent of Israel’s Arabs do not believe peace between Israel and the Palestinians will ever be reached, according to a survey conducted by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. The poll, published Thursday, showed that 34% of Israeli-Arabs believe that while peace is possible, it is still a long way off. Only 11% … Continued
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to partner with the US Department of State, US Delegation to the OSCE, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department (TND), in a formal side-event entitled “Challenging Intolerance against Muslims” during the OSCE … Continued
Clothing giant Abercrombie & Fitch is not exactly known for its modesty, as evidenced by sexy catalogs featuring models in barely-there clothing. Now the company is being sued for allegedly denying a teenager the right to wear a religious headcovering. A Muslim teenager hoping to work at one of the company’s childrens clothing stores says … Continued
Arab and Muslim Americans continue to face an unusual degree of both discrimination and acceptance, according to a University of Michigan researcher who headed an in-depth study of the nation’s most visible Arab and Chaldean communities. “The post-9/11 backlash against Detroit area Arab and Muslim Americans was strong and immediate,” said U-M researcher Wayne Baker, … Continued
Muslims in the US are taking part in the first official September 11 Day of Service and Remembrance, established by President Obama and Congress to mark the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center to and engage more Americans in serving their communities. Over the course of the summer of service, culminating on … Continued
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