NEWSPAPER: “2 Women Sentenced in Hate Crime Against Pakistani Muslim Woman”
From Buffalo News Updated: May 12, 2012, 6:49 AM LOCKPORT — Two women from Niagara Falls were sentenced to weekend jail terms Friday for their hate crime assault on a Pakistani woman last summer. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas ordered Sheree A. Sabater, 39, to four months of weekends in the County Jail and three...
REUTERS: “Kansas Lawmakers Pass Effective Ban on Islamic Law”
From Reuters by Kevin MurphyMay 12, 2012 KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) – Kansas lawmakers have passed legislation intended to prevent the state courts or agencies from using Islamic or other non-U.S. laws in making decisions, a measure critics have blasted as an embarrassment to the state. The legislation, which passed 33-3 in the state Senate...
NEWSPAPER: “Texas Imam in Strip Mall Mosque Stresses Social Services”
From Houston Chronicle Standing behind the pulpit, addressing his modest 25-member congregation, Imam Khalis Rashaad preaches about time management, nutrition and economic empowerment at his new mosque in Houston’s Third Ward – a largely uncharted territory for Islamic centers. The rhetoric there is different from the more abstract spiritual sermons of its counterparts – the dozens of long-established...
POLL: “Almost 20% of Americans Still Believe That Obama is Muslim”
From Religion News Service 1 in 6 Americans Believe Obama Is A Muslim, Lest that 1 in 4 Can Identify Him As Protestant WASHINGTON (RNS) After nearly four years in the Oval Office, President Obama is incorrectly thought to be Muslim by one in six American voters, and only one quarter of voters can correctly...
NEWS: “18-Month-Old Baby Girl on Terrorist No-Fly List Removed From Plane”
From Bay Area 9 News 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. The family said the Transportation Security Administration and JetBlue have some explaining to do after ordering their 18-month-old daughter off a...
AP: “AT&T to Pay Muslim Woman $5 Million for Anti-Islam Harassment”
From Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse boiled over in 2008 when her boss snatched her head scarf and exposed her hair. A Jackson County jury on Thursday awarded Susann Bashir $5 million in punitive damages in...
EXCLUSIVE: “The Day Osama Died: My Daughter Was Born”
By Rizwan Qureshi Exclusive | The Crescent Post One year ago today, most people in this country were celebrating an amazingly heroic achievement by our American military, the assassination of one of the most despised men in history, Osama bin Laden. Like the assassination of President Kennedy almost fifty years ago, our younger generation will...
MSNBC VIDEO: “Letters Threaten North Carolina Muslims With Klan-like Abuse”
From MSNBC By Kari Huus, msnbc.com Law enforcers in Charlotte, N.C., are looking for the writer of a threatening letter sent to regional mosques detailing ways that an anti-Islam “network” would make life miserable for Muslims, and warning that the writer would not hesitate to kill them if they tried to retaliate. “On face value it’s...
CNN: “Muslim and Jewish College Students Join Together To Celebrate Art”
From CNN Art on display at the interfaith art gala hosted by Muslim and Jewish student organizations at Emory University. By Summer Suleiman, CNN ATLANTA (CNN) - Canvases with bold colors and Arabic letters lined the walls of the rooms. Downstairs, students rapped about Islam and Judaism to their own version of the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” melody,...
