RELIGION NEWS SERVICE: “Chicago is Ground Zero in U.S. Muslim Renaissance”
Tweet From Religion News Service by Monique Parsons CHICAGO (RNS) Religious affiliation may be on the wane in America, a recent Pew study asserts, but you wouldn’t know it walking into the storefront near the corner of West 63rd Street and South Fairfield Avenue. Inside a former bank in a neighborhood afflicted with gang violence,...
NEWS: “Louisiana Republican Congressman’s Restaurant Refused to Serve Muslim Couple”
Tweet From Talking Points Memo Mohammad Husain and his wife were looking for a bite to eat and a nice place to relax when they stopped in last month at a Shreveport, La. sandwich shop owned by Rep. John Fleming (R-LA). But that visit soon turned turbulent, Husain told TPM recently, when he found himself...
MAGAZINE: “American Media Helped Anti-Muslim Bodies Gain Influence & Distort Islam”
Tweet From Wired UK By Liat Clark | November 30 2012 A study published by a sociologist has revealed that fear-mongering non-governmental anti-Muslim organisations have been heavily influencing US media since 9/11, their messages seeping into news articles and television reporting and drawing their ethos from the fringes, straight into the mainstream. What’s perhaps most troubling about the...
NBC NEWS: “Recent Attacks on U.S. Mosques Spark Security Concerns for American Muslims”
Tweet From NBC News By Kari Huus, NBC News On Sunday and Monday, when Muslims will celebrate the end of Ramadan, even many who are less observant the rest of the year will be at mosques to pray. Worshippers will celebrate, but many will do so amid heightened security after a recent spike in attacks on mosques and...
MSNBC VIDEO: “Letters Threaten North Carolina Muslims With Klan-like Abuse”
Tweet 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...
COLUMN: “TLC Show ‘All-American Muslim’: Step in the Right Direction”
Tweet From Patheos Posted on December 6, 2011 by Arsalan Iftikhar This is a guest post from author Arsalan Iftikhar. Network news anchor Katie Couric once declared that “bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country was one of the most disturbing stories to surface” in the last few years. At the time, Couric was referring to the proposed Park51...
CNN: “Study: Why Are Muslims More Religious Than Other Faiths?”
Tweet From CNN A recent global survey suggests that Muslims are more religious than Christians and Hindus. By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) – Every religion has its true believers and its doubters, its pious and its pragmatists, but new evidence suggests that Muslims tend to be more committed to their faith than other believers. Muslims are...
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: “Muslims in the United States”
Tweet From Council on Foreign Relations Author: by Toni Johnson, Senior Staff Writer September 19, 2011 Introduction U.S. Muslim Demographics Muslim Integration Anti-Muslim Sentiment U.S. Muslims and U.S. Policy Introduction Since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror abroad and domestic terror incidents involving U.S. and immigrant Muslims have focused attention on Islam in the United States....
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: “Ramadan Transforms Oakland at Night”
Tweet From SFGate.com Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle | Muslim children play soccer in Oakland Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, August 24, 2011 A dozen school-age boys played soccer on the wide sidewalk, men clustered on steps and under awnings to gab about the day, and dozens of women ambled down the street. This would...
