EDITORIAL: “Anti-Muslim Legislation Fueled by Prejudice, Not Patriotism”
Tweet From Detroit Free Press Michigan State Rep. Dave Agema At a time when hundreds of thousands of Michigan families are hurting, State Rep. Dave Agema, R-Grandville, is waging a silly anti-immigrant crusade that will do nothing but sow fear and distrust among the state’s diverse residents. Bordering on xenophobia, his bill to ban “foreign laws” is, above...
DETROIT FREE PRESS: “American Muslim Women Tell Their Own Story”
Tweet From Detroit Free Press State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, says America needs to hear the stories of ordinary Muslims doing ordinary things. BY ROBIN ERB DETROIT FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER Explaining who they are can be tricky for Muslim-American women — a balancing act between the drive to explain the uniqueness of their faith and...
Detroit Free Press: “Understand Shari’a — its Guidelines of Faith Don’t Conflict with Laws of the Land”
Tweet Detroit Free Press April 28, 2011 BY DAWUD WALID DETROIT FREE PRESS GUEST WRITER From anti-Islam legislation proposed in Texas in which a legislator states that Dearborn is governed by Islamic law to the recent media circus surrounding Pastor Terry Jones, the term “Shari’a” has become perhaps the most misunderstood term in America’s contemporary...
USA TODAY: “Quran-burning pastor accidentally fires gun on eve of anti-Muslim rally”
Tweet By Douglas Stanglin | USA TODAY April 22, 2011 By Bill Pugliano, Getty Images Terry Jones, the Quran-burning pastor from Florida who is in Michigan to try to mount an anti-Muslim rally this evening, accidentally fired his .40-caliber handgun while leaving a TV studio parking lot Thursday night, the Detroit Free Press reports, quoting...
Detroit Free Press: Dearborn Mayor Says City “Not Ruled by Islamic Law”
Tweet By Niraj Warikoo | Detroit Free Press April 21, 2011 In an open letter Wednesday to Pastor Terry Jones, Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly Jr. blasted claims that his city is under Islamic law, noting that it has three strip clubs and a factory that makes pork products sitting across the street from a mosque....
Detroit: “Metro Interfaith Leaders to Unite against Quran-burning Pastor”
Tweet BY NIRAJ WARIKOO | DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER April 20, 2011 A protest is planned Friday outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Area interfaith leaders plan a rally Thursday, in which they will encircle the mosque and hold hands to symbolically shield it from Jones. / ANDRE J. JACKSON/Detroit Free Press As...
NEWSPAPER: “Michigan man who calls Quran Violent behind Terry Jones Rally”
Tweet Apr. 20, 2011 | BY NIRAJ WARIKOO | DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER A rally that Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones plans to attend Friday outside a Dearborn mosque was first organized by a Marlette man who has controversial views about Islam. “It’s just a perverse ideology,” Frank Fiorello, 35, told the Free Press. “There’s...
Detroit Free Press: “At Dearborn forum, law enforcement leaders say all faiths must be protected”
Tweet BY NIRAJ WARIKOO April 12, 2011 DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Speaking at a forum in Dearborn, the U.S. Attorney for eastern Michigan said that Muslims and Islam should not be stereotyped. “Blaming all Muslims and Arabs for the acts of the hijackers of 9/11 is like blaming all Catholics for the acts of Timothy...
