Action Item: Make du‘ā’ and Respond to Amnesty International's Urgent Call From Al-Resalah Palestinian female prisoner, Hana' al-Shalabi enters today her 31stday of hunger strike. She informed her lawyer that she stopped taking salt and is only taking water and that she will continue until her release. According to her lawyer, ... Read More »
When people in interfaith meetings and mosque open houses question why do they hate us, do they forget that Afghans have been suffering for a decade under the US invasion. As news after news of massacres, and collateral damage blip through our newsfeeds. This latest massacre makes every motherly cell ... Read More »
There was unrest at Al-Aqsa mosque all week afters calls from right-wing Jewish websites to push Muslims off the site. Jews hold the space sacred as it is the site of the Temple Mount; they pray below the plaza and are not allowed in the area. Muslims responded by converging ... Read More »
From the NYTimes TWO years ago, John O. Brennan, President Obama's top adviser on counterterrorism, spoke to members of a Muslim student group in a packed auditorium at the law school where I teach, offering his audience the White House's position about what jihad does and does not mean. Later ... Read More »
This exclusive report, Illume investigates the SFPD operations and how civil rights and community groups are fighting back. Read More »
Written by Spencer Ackerman at Wired.com An internal FBI investigation into its counterterrorism training has purged hundreds of bureau documents of instructional material about Muslims, some of which characterized them as prone to violence or terrorism. The bureau disclosed initial findings from its months-long review during a meeting at FBI headquarters on ... Read More »
The current state of the Arab Republic needs no introduction; with the number of fatalities escalating to hundreds on a daily basis under the authoritarian rule of President Bashar Al Assad, and more recently with the heavyweights China and Russia vetoing a draft UN security council resolution pressing for his immediate resignation, all news bulletins are pointing Middle East-wards. Read More »
The Shafia family practiced what would be termed cultural or cafeteria Islam. This is the Islam in which immigrant parents raise their children in a relatively secular household but then expect them, the girls especially, to behave as law abiding, pious Muslims. This pick-n-choose ‘Islam’ is epitomized by double standards for girls and boys; where boys are free to gallivant late at night and the girls can dare not be seen working on a school project with a boy. Read More »
The UN says at least 5,400 people have been killed in the government crackdown since March, and the turmoil has intensified as dissident soldiers have joined the ranks of the anti-Assad protesters and carried out attacks on regime forces. Read More »
Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House. “This is the true agenda of much of Islam in America,” a ... Read More »
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