Tag: news
-
Making An Exercise Space for Muslim Women
February 14, 2012[WAMU, Jonna McKone] Hadil Alyamani, a Yemeni Muslim-American in her 20s, teaches Zumba a few nights a week at a Northern Virginia community, arts and fitness center called the Nur Center. The Latin-inspired dance class is all women, and draws a diverse crowd, including non-Muslims.
For many Muslim women who wear a hijab or scarf to cover their hair and neck, the privacy of an all-female setting in which to workout is important, given their standards for modesty.
http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/12/02/10/making_an_exercise_space_for_muslim_women
View Comments -
Obama proposes $800 million in aid for “Arab Spring”
February 13, 2012
(Reuters) – The White House announced plans on Monday to help “Arab Spring” countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt.
In his annual budget message to Congress, President Barack Obama asked that military aid to Egypt be kept at the level of recent years — $1.3 billion — despite a crisis triggered by an Egyptian probe targeting American democracy activists.
The proposals are part of Obama’s budget request for fiscal year 2013, which begins October 1. His requests need the approval of Congress, where some lawmakers want to cut overseas spending to address U.S. budget shortfalls and are particularly angry at Egypt.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/us-usa-budget-foreign-idUSTRE81C1C920120213
View Comments -
Arab Spring turns one year old
January 25, 2012[Wired Danger Room] The revolt that started a year ago today in Egypt was spread by Twitter and YouTube, or so the popular conception goes. But a group of Navy-backed researchers has a more controversial thesis: Egyptians were infected by the idea of overthrowing their dictator.
And now, these researchers claim, they’re getting close to developing tools that can track the spread of infections like these.
With funding from the Office of Naval Research, a team at Aptima, Inc. is developing software that’d do more than just scan Twitter for trending topics. Instead, it’d mine the web, including news stories, social networks and blogs, to extract topics and phrases that are gaining traction online. Then, the software would keep tabs on how the conversations proliferate, both geographically and over time.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/military-meme-tracker/
View Comments -
Bloomberg blasts use of movie during NYPD training
January 25, 2012[Associated Press] NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that New York police used “terrible judgment” in showing counterterrorism trainees a documentary-style film that says Muslim extremists are masquerading as moderates to destroy America from within.
Bloomberg said police have stopped showing officers “The Third Jihad,” a 72-minute movie that has been branded inflammatory by some Muslim organizations and was produced by a conservative group called the Clarion Fund.
“Somebody exercised some terrible judgment,” he said in Albany, the state capital. “As soon as they found out about it, they stopped it.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP3734e6c13f2a4b9b85ef5692766d9088.html
View Comments -
Arab American Museum explores effects of 9/11, hijab, other topics in podcast series on iTune
January 20, 2012[Dearborn Press] Why do some Muslim American women cover their heads, while others do not? In what ways did the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001 affect the Arab American community? How do groundbreaking research and plain old-fashioned legwork combine to create a major new exhibition focused on issues of democracy, defense, diplomacy and public service?
The answers to these and other intriguing questions can be heard on a series of eight free podcasts being released by the Arab American National Museum (AANM) via iTunes U every two weeks, beginning Tuesday.
http://www.pressandguide.com/articles/2012/01/19/news/doc4f1890146787a581500156.txt
View Comments -
Oklahoma Sharia law ban ‘unconstitutional’, court rules
January 11, 2012[BBC] The US state of Oklahoma has been stopped from introducing a amendment to its constitution, stopping courts from considering Islamic law in judgements. A federal court of appeals upheld a district judge’s decision to block the implementation of the amendment. The ban on Islamic law was approved by 70% of voters in a referendum in 2010. But it was challenged by a Muslim community leader who said the amendment violated his constitutional right to freedom of religion.View Comments -
New Yorkers Protest Police Apartheid
January 9, 2012[OnIslam] NEW YORK – Politicians, civil society leaders and residents took to the streets of New York on Saturday, January 7, to protest police behavior, accusing it of targeting ethnic minorities.
If city officials don’t acknowledge that the police department “has created a system of apartheid in this city of New York, we are going to show you that there will be no peace,” Kirsten John Foy, a top aide to New York Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, told ABC.
http://www.onislam.net/english/news/americas/455305-new-yorkers-demand-end-of-police-apartheid.html
View Comments -
Obscuring a Muslim Name, and an American’s Sacrifice
January 3, 2012[NY Times] He was buried after the Sept. 11 attacks with full honors from theNew York Police Department, and proclaimed a hero by the city’s police commissioner. He is cited by name in the Patriot Act as an example of Muslim-American valor.
And Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota, one of two Muslim members of Congress, was brought to tears during a Congressional hearing in March while describing how the man, a Pakistani-American from Queens, had wrongly been suspected of involvement in the attacks, before he was lionized as a young police cadet who had died trying to save lives.
View Comments -
Lowe’s pulls advertising from TLC’s ‘All-American Muslim’
December 12, 2011[CNN] Lowe’s has pulled its advertising from the reality TV show “All-American Muslim,” which the retail store called a “lightning rod.”
“All-American Muslim” is an eight-part series that follows five Muslim families living in Dearborn, Michigan.
“Lowe’s has received a significant amount of communication on this program, from every perspective possible. Individuals and groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and this program became a lightning rod for many of those views. As a result we did pull our advertising on this program,” the company said in a statement Saturday.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/11/showbiz/all-american-muslim-lowes/index.html
View Comments -
Slain Iraqi reporter brought courage and realism to war coverage
December 9, 2011BAGHDAD, Iraq—Yasser Salihee was killed on his day off.
The irony is breathtaking, if you knew Yasser and the risks he took to gather scraps of truth in a place filled with deceit and danger. Yasser worked as an Iraqi correspondent for Knight Ridder, relentlessly pursuing stories that put him in harm’s way because he wanted to show American readers the realities of life in a war zone.
His curiosity took him across Iraq. He interviewed an insurgent leader at a clandestine meeting in Baghdad. He braved the road through the “Triangle of Death” to cover the aftermath of a battle in Najaf. He kept his cool in Fallujah as he convinced rebels with grenade launchers that we were “just journalists.”
View Comments
