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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
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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.
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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
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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.”
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Arab Spring On the Minds of Hajj Pilgrims
November 8, 2011
More than two and a half million Muslims are continuing their pilgrimage in Mecca, the holiest site of Islam, throwing stones at a symbolic Satan as the annual ritual enters its final stages. The religious has mixed with the political this year, with the changes sweeping the Arab world on the minds of some performing the Hajj.
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Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman in NYC
October 28, 2011
“In her own version of Occupy Wall Street, the Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, was in town last week, leading a rally in a plaza across the street from the United Nations headquarters. Karman and hundreds of Yemeni-Americans, all energized by Qaddafi’s fall, appealed the U.N. to force President Ali Abdullah Saleh to give up power after thirty-three years of rule. Karman is a thirty-two-year-old mother of three and the first Arab woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, which she shared with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee. Even before the Arab Spring, she staged weekly demonstrations and sit-ins in a central square in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. She told Dexter Filkins, who wrote about Yemen for the magazine in April, that “the whole regime has to go.” In New York, Karman’s tenacity proved somewhat successful; the U.N. passed a resolution on Friday encouraging Saleh to step down.”
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The wrong way to fight terrorism By SALAM AL-MARAYATI
October 21, 2011[Los Angeles Times] We in the Muslim American community have been battling the corrupt and bankrupt ideas of cults such as al Qaida. Now it seems we also have to battle pseudo-experts in the FBI and the Department of Justice.
A disturbing string of training material used by the FBI and a U.S. attorney’s office came to light beginning in late July that reveals a deep anti-Muslim sentiment within the U.S. government.
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Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football – Documentary Explores Muslim-American Experience
September 30, 2011
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[Patch Network] Set in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Fordson tells the story of the football team at a predominantly Muslim-American high school. The high school students go through grueling practices leading up to a big rivalry game during Ramadan, a holy month where Muslims do not eat or drink from sunrise to sunset. Through interviews with students, coaches, family members, teachers and fans, the filmmakers provide an inside look into an American community enjoying one of the nation’s most popular pastimes while coping with racism, cultural misunderstandings and terrorism allegations. -
Join us on Friday the 10th to help The Iraqi Student Project
June 6, 2011
Iraqi Student Project presents an evening of music and literature! Iraqi-palooza will feature music by A Cat Called Cricket, Cameron Blake, Midway Fair, Harwood, and MacGregor Burns. Featured readers are Justin Sirois of the Understanding Campaign and Manal Omar, author of Barefoot in Baghdad. Admission price includes 2 raffle tickets and snacks.
ISP is a Baltimore-based nonprofit organization whose goal is to bring qualified war-displaced Iraqis to study without cost at U.S. colleges and universities so they can return and help rebuild Iraq.
http://www.thewindupspace.com/
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