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Students sue Snyder, state board, citing literary deficiencies
DETROIT — Seven students, represented by the not-for-profit law firm Public Counsel, filed a lawsuit against Gov. Snyder, the State Board of Education and other school officials on Sept. 13. The lawsuit addresses the literacy deficiencies among school children, with a strong emphasis on Detroit's schools. The lawsuit was formed...
White Americans embrace Arab culture, promote unity
September 16th, 20160 Novi resident Cristen Colleen (second from right) visits the Adonis restaurant in DearbornDEARBORN — The current political climate in the U.S. has lead minority groups to feel some discontent towards White Americans. With the rise of Islamophobia and Donald Trump, growing resentments towards illegal immigrants and refugees, as well...ADC-MI encourages judicial excellence at 14th annual Judges Night banquet
DEARBORN — A judge's seat can be a much sought after position.At the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Michigan Regional Office's (ADC-MI), 14th annual Guardians of Justice Judges Night banquet on Thursday, September 8, a strong emphasis on judicial leadership was the overall sentiment.ADC-MI established Judges Night...Serial rapist charged in numerous cases
DEARBORN — Dearborn police finally captured a serial rapist who attacked victims in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Garden City, Redford, Allen Park and Inkster, among other cities, dating back to five years ago. Last week, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy's office charged Ikeie Ranordo Smith, 32, of Redford Township with first-degree...Michigan violent crime rate plunges from peak decades ago
DETROIT — While Michigan still has many challenges, crime no longer appears to be one of them. The violent crime rate peaked in 1986 in Michigan, with 803.9 violent offenses per 100,000 people, and was nearing half that amount by 2012 at 454.5 offenses, according to FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics. Michigan State Police...
Local groups’ websites hacked with jihadi messges
September 15th, 20160 DEARBORN — The websites of three local Arab American organizations have been hacked, with their homepage displaying extremist jihadi messages.“Our brothers in Syria & Palestine & Iraq & Burma & Chichan & Ifriquia & asia are dying Stop follow and imitate western people in Wrong culture And forget about your...Syria ceasefire deal in balance
DAMASCUS — Russia and a war monitor said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday, a prerequisite for pressing ahead with international peacemaking efforts as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce.However, insurgent groups present in Aleppo said they still had not seen...Less than half of world’s refugee children are in school
UNITED NATIONS — The majority of the world's some six million refugee children are not in school, making them five times less likely to get an education than the global average, the U.N. warned Thursday.A full 3.7 million school-aged refugee children have no school to go to, the UN refugee agency said in a report."This...U.S., Israel sign $38 billion military aid package
WASHINGTON — The United States will give Israel $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade, the largest such aid package in U.S. history, under a landmark agreement signed on Wednesday.The deal, will allow Washington's chief Middle East ally to upgrade most of its fighter aircraft, improve its ground forces'...Houthis study U.S. truce proposal for Yemen
SANAA — A U.S. official has presented a proposal for a comprehensive ceasefire in Yemen to the country's dominant Houthis at a meeting in Oman, a member of the Houthi negotiating team said on Thursday.Negotiators will study the plan offered by U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon in talks in Muscat,...U.N. chief calls Netanyahu’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ video outrageous
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "ethnic cleansing" video as an "unacceptable and outrageous" portrayal of people who oppose Israeli settlements in the West Bank, home to more than 2.7 million Palestinians.Ban told the United Nations Security Council, "Let me...Muslims are now more disliked than atheists and homosexuals
WASHINGTON - Believing in ‘Allah’ is worse than believing in no god at all, according to a recent study that surveyed U.S. residents. The study from sociologists at the University of Minnesota who compared Americans’ perceptions of minority faith and racial groups found that Muslims are now more unpopular than both...
Clinton reiterates support for two-state solution
September 15th, 20160 Clinton speaking in Charlotte, N.C. Sept 8 (Reuters)DEARBORN — Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton reiterated her support for the two-state solution and emphasized Palestinians' right to a normal life with peace an dignity, in an exclusive statement to The Arab American News.Arab Americans may disagree on many issues, but ensuring the...
Muslim woman aims to get Hijab emoji approved
September 13th, 20160 BERLIN - Rayouf Alhumedhi, a 15-year-old Berlin teen originally from Saudi Arabia, is aiming to get developers to approve a Hijab emoji. According to a story published by washable.com, Alhumedhi drafted a proposal featuring a hijab to the emoji subcommittee of the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit organization that develops and promotes...
Abu-Rayyan pleads guilty to gun charges
September 13th, 20160 Abu-Rayyan in Circuit Court (WDIV)DETROIT — A Dearborn Heights man who was accused of supporting ISIS and plotting a church attack could face up to 20 years in prison after entering a guilty plea to federal gun counts. Khalil Abu-Rayyan, 22, did not face terror-related charges. On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to two counts —......
Muslim Marine claims he was forced into a dryer and burned
WASHINGTON - A Muslim Marine said he was called a terrorist and ordered into an industrial clothes dryer multiple times by a drill instructor who then turned it on, burning him, according to an article published by The Washington Post.The treatment of recruits in the Marine Corps have been extinsevely investigated following the suicide...Record new U.S. military aid deal for Israel to be signed in days
Obama and Netanyahu during a meeting at the White House, Nov. 2015 (Reuters)WASHINGTON — The United States and Israel have reached final agreement on a record new package of at least $38 billion in U.S. military aid and the 10-year pact is expected to be signed this week, sources close to the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.The deal......
UPDATE : Police seek assistance in identifying man who set Muslim woman on fire
NEW YORK — Police released video Tuesday of a suspect in the attack. The video shows a man walking down a street, but it's hard to make out his face. In the suspected hate attack, a stranger set a Scottish Muslim tourist on fire while she was window shopping on New York's Fifth Avenue.The incident took place on Saturday...Mosque where Orlando shooter attended set on fire on eid
ORLANDO - The Florida mosque where Omar Mateen, who committed the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, prayed was damaged on Monday in an arson attack, investigators said. Mateen was killed by law enforcement officials after fatally shooting 49 people and wounding 53 others in a gay nightclub in Orlando in June.Local law...U.S. House votes to allow Sept. 11 families to sue Saudi Arabia
NEW YORK - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Friday that would allow the families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia's government for damages, despite the White House's threat to veto the measure. The U.S. Senate in May unanimously passed the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act," known...California woman sentenced for throwing hot coffee on praying Muslims
CASTRO VALLEY — A 51-year-old Castro Valley woman recently took a plea deal for throwing hot coffee on a Muslim man during a confrontation over his religion at a Castro Valley park last year, an incident that was caught on video and went viral on the internet. The AANews originally broke the story last year, when......
Trump supporter attacks Muslim women with babies, rips off their hijabs
NEW YORK - An angry Trump supporter allegedly attacked two Muslim women who were pushing their baby strollers through Brooklyn. 32-year-old Emirjeta Xhelili yelled Islamophobic slurs at two Muslim women who were out on a walk with their babies near her Brooklyn home. “Get the f*ck out of here,” the woman yelled, according to...Texas mattress store under fire for ‘disgusting’ 9/11 sale video
TEXAS - A Texas mattress store that used bedding to stage a mock collapse of New York City's Twin Towers in an ad for a Sept. 11 sale has come under a barrage of protests that described it as a tasteless pitch and called for the business to go bankrupt. In the social media video ad that has since been pulled by San Antonio's Miracle......
Arabs for Hillary hope to rally reluctant community
September 9th, 20160 (L-R) Zade Alsawah, Nirmeen Fahmy and Zaineb Hussein.DEARBORN — It's no secret that Arab and Muslim Americans have not rallied behind Hillary Clinton with the same enthusiasm as other presidential candidates. In fact, Arab Americans were credited with tilting the scales in Senator Bernie Sanders' favor during the state's...
Raqqa for Aleppo: The U.S.-Russian agreement hinges on the details
September 9th, 20160 Internal affairs in Russia and the United States are changing the balance of power and the shape of a future solution in Syria. In the United States, the presidential campaign is witnessing vicious attacks between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, with ISIS (and by extension the Syrian crisis) as one of the most important issues to......