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High school student says classmate tried to rip off her hijab
LOS ANGELES - A 16-year-old Muslim student at El Camino High School says a male student attempted to yank off her hijab. Mariam Nomair said the day after Trump was elected president, a male student walked up to her as she was walking to class and tried to rip her hijab off of her head and she was called a terrorist. 'He...
Man threatens to set Muslim woman on fire, forces her to remove Hijab
November 13th, 20160 ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A woman was forced to remove her hijab after a man threatened to set her on fire with a lighter near the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor police said the incident happened in the 600 block of East William near S. State Street between 5:30 and 7:00 p.m. Friday. Police said the man approached the...High school students leave note for Muslim teacher to “hang herself”
GEORGIA - A Gwinnett County high school teacher said she was left a note in class Friday telling her that her Muslim headscarf "isn't allowed anymore." “Why don’t you tie it around your neck & hang yourself with it...,” the note said, signed "America!" Mairah Teli, 24, who teaches language arts at Dacula High, said she...
Troy jogger attacks Iraqi neighbor, exposes himself
November 12th, 20160 TROY, Mich. (WXYZ) - A man in Troy was arrested after he allegedly yelled ethnic slurs at a woman and then exposed himself while out for a jog, according to police. The 64-year-old reportedly got irritated with the woman as she drove her vehicle behind him. Police said the jogger began to yell obscenities and ethnic slurs...Man assaults Muslim woman, uses hijab to choke her
CALIFORNIA - Esra Altun, a 19-year-old Muslim woman who wears a hijab had never felt unsafe at San Jose State University. But on Wednesday, as she was walking to her in an on-campus parking garage, she was assaulted by a white male. As Altun approached her car that afternoon, a man came up behind her in the third-floor of the...
Junior High students formed physical wall to block minority students
November 11th, 20160 DeWitt – Students at DeWitt Junior High School in Michigan allegedly formed a physical wall to block minority students from going to class on Wednesday morning. According to DeWitt Public Schools Superintendent John Deiter, the first racial incident began early in the morning, before most of the kids had even started showing...
America’s liberals unleashed the Trump monster
November 11th, 20160 The Earth has been shifting under our feet for a while, but all liberals want to do is desperately cling to the status quo like a life-raft. Middle-class Britons are still hyperventilating about Brexit, and now middle-class America is trembling at the prospect of Donald Trump in the White House. And, of course, middle-class Americans...
We accept the democratic process and prepare to push back
November 11th, 20160 The unthinkable happened. Donald Trump was elected against the odds. The man who suggested placing Muslim Americans in a database and proposed banning Muslims from entering the country will be the next president. And all Americans must live with it and bow to the democratic process. There is no doubt...
Among devastated Arabs and Muslims, Trump’s victory is a call to organize
November 11th, 20160 DEARBORN — Tuesday night was a nail biting ordeal for most Arab Americans. Across Dearborn and in Hamtramck, where high concentrations of Arab and Muslim Americans reside, the community was mobilized and went to the polls vote in promising numbers. After dozens of volunteers and local candidates campaigned at precincts, they...Trump protests sweep the nation
NEW YORK — Demonstrators took to streets across the country for a second day on Thursday to protest Republican Donald Trump's election victory, voicing worries that Trump would strike a blow against civil rights. Trump's marquee buildings in New York and Washington were targets of protesters and police put up security fences around...How Clinton’s White voters melted away
WASHINGTON — The unraveling of the coalition that was supposed to carry Hillary Clinton to the White House had a lot to do with voters like Jim McAndrew in counties like Northampton, Pennsylvania. McAndrew, 69, a retired steel worker, voted Democrat in every presidential election for half a century. This year he stayed home. And...Trump and Obama set campaign rancor aside with White House meeting
WASHINGTON — President Obama and President-elect Trump met on Thursday for the first time, setting aside the deep rancor that dominated the long campaign season to discuss the transition to the Republican's inauguration on Jan. 20. Their 90-minute meeting in the White House Oval Office, with no aides present, took place just two...
Universal Academy holds memorial for teen who drowned saving sister
November 11th, 20160 Labak's mother and brother standing next to the memorial tree at the tree planting ceremony.DEARBORN — With the direction of the superintendent of Universal Academy, Nawal Hamadeh, the academy's administrative team held a memorial tree planting ceremony at the campus on Friday, Nov. 4 at 10 a.m. to honor the life of Abdulrahman Labak,...
Historic win for Abdullah Hammoud sets stage for challenges in state House
November 11th, 20162 State Rep-elect Abdullah Hammoud at a Dearborn polling location. DEARBORN — Sealing his promise to Dearborn voters, Abdullah Hammoud, the Democratic candidate for the 15th District in the State House of Representatives, became the first Arab American Muslim man to win that seat. An aura of unease and suspense set in...
Four Eastern Michigan students face possible expulsion after protesting racist graffiti
November 11th, 20160 YPSILANTI — Four students may be expelled after a group participated in a sit-in protest at Eastern Michigan University's Student Center on Wednesday, Nov. 2. The protests began Tuesday night after the racial slur "Leave N*****" was spray-painted outside Ford Hall that Monday. The graffiti was removed......
Iraqi forces preparing advance on south Mosul
November 11th, 20160 BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces are preparing to advance toward Mosul airport on the city's southern edge to increase pressure on ISIS militants fighting troops who breached their eastern defenses, officers said on Thursday. The rapid response forces, part of a coalition seeking to crush the terrorists in the largest city under...
Israeli minister: Trump’s victory ends prospects of Palestinian state
November 11th, 20160 Donald Trump's election victory means the Palestinian people will never have a state of their own, right-wing Israeli government education minister Naftali Bennett has said. He hailed the demise of a "two-state solution" in the Middle East. Bennett is an advocate of expanding Jewish illegal settlements in the West Bank, which......
U.N. says rations run out in east Aleppo, hopes for aid deal
November 11th, 20160 UNITED NATIONS — Aid workers in eastern Aleppo were distributing the last available food rations on Thursday as the quarter of a million people besieged in the Syrian city entered what is expected to be a cruel winter, U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said. Speaking in Geneva, Egeland said he was hopeful of a deal on a...
Sandstorm hindering Raqqa offensive
November 11th, 20160 DAMASCUS — A U.S.-backed advance on Raqqa, ISIS de facto capital in Raqqa, was being hampered by a sandstorm on Thursday, a commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said. "The situation is dangerous today because there is no visibility due to a desert sandstorm," the commander said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We...
Anxious world leaders seek clarity on Trump policies
November 11th, 20160 WASHINGTON — World leaders offered to work with Donald Trump when he takes over as U.S. president, but expressed anxiety over how he will handle problems from the Middle East to an assertive Russia and whether he will carry out a number of campaign threats. Several authoritarian and right-wing leaders hailed the billionaire...
Smartphone screen time leads to poorer sleep
November 11th, 20160 Using smartphones to measure how much time people spend looking at those phones confirms that more screentime is tied to poorer sleep, researchers say. "This is the first study to directly measure actual screen time in natural environments and compare it to sleep quality," said senior author Dr. Gregory M. Marcus of the University of......
Libraries can be a health benefit for people most at risk
November 11th, 20160 PHILADELPHIA — Public libraries can provide vital support for people at high risk for health problems, such as new immigrants and people dealing with homelessness, mental illness and substance use, say researchers. Their analysis of Philadelphia libraries and how communities use them concludes that libraries can offer specific...
Regional transit proposal rejected in southeast Michigan
November 11th, 20160 ANN ARBOR — On Tuesday Nov. 8, southeast Michigan vetoed a $4.6 billion regional transit plan by a slight margin. The plan did not pass in two of four counties that had the proposal on the ballot. Most voters in Oakland and Macomb counties did not support it, while voters in Washtenaw and Wayne counties did. The 20-year,......
Local races drive Arab Americans to the polls
November 11th, 20160 DEARBORN — Arab Americans flocked to the polls on Election Day to support local candidates, but a lack of enthusiasm for any of the presidential candidates resulted in a lower turnout in Dearborn compared to the 2012 election. The community celebrated a major milestone with Democrat Abdullah Hammoud's win in the race for the...
Nadia Berry becomes first Arab American elected to Crestwood School Board
November 11th, 20160 Nadia Berry (C) with her brother , Mike Jaafar, and his wife Angela.DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Crestwood School Board race will go down in the books as a notable one, as Nadia Berry becomes the first Arab American resident to be elected to the board. Berry bolted into first place against her opponents, two of whom were incumbents.......
