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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...Lebanese Americans commemorate Imam Sadr disappearance
Community members gather at the Islamic Center of AmericaDEARBORN — Amal Movement in the United States, Message of Hope USA, commemorated the 38th anniversary of the disappearance of Lebanese leader Musa al-Sadr during a trip to Libya in 1978. Sadr founded the Amal Movement in Lebanon in 1974 and revived interfaith dialogue, calling...Henry Ford College to assist displaced college students
DEARBORN — Henry Ford College (HFC) plans on assisting 40,000 students who were dislocated after a national technical college shut down all five of its campuses in Michigan. HFC will provide opportunities to help students of ITT Technical Institute finish their educations and move on with their career goals. After the incident,...LAHC rebrands itself, donates school supplies to hundreds in Detroit
DEARBORN — Times are changing, and so is the local Arab American community. To reflect a growing and evolving Middle Eastern community in metro Detroit, The Lebanese American Heritage Club (LAHC), a nonprofit social services organization and local household name, has rebranded itself as the Leaders Advancing and Helping...
Huntington Bank to settle class action lawsuit in alleged discriminatory account closures
September 9th, 20160 DEARBORN — The strife of thousands of Arab Americans being discriminated against by government entities since 9/11, as well as by some Trump-inspired individuals, is nothing new to the immigrant community. Recently, cases of banks abruptly closing the accounts of their Arab Americans customers without explanation have begun to...Arab bodybuilder places second in North American championship
Haider Ali.DEARBORN — Haider Ali stood proud when he came in second place in the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) North American Championship, which took place in Pittsburgh on September 1. The 35-year-old Iraqi bodybuilder had previously nabbed the top title in 2013, in the lightweight...Home-based community bakers shine on Instagram
@zee_sweets.DEARBORN — At one point it seemed impossible for home-based bakers to attract customers, but the past few years have proven otherwise because of social media sites like Instagram. This useful site has allowed talented bakers from the community to launch and showcase their small businesses without having to market or...
Fifteen years after 9/11, America fails to end terror
September 9th, 20160 Fifteen years have passed since the planes hit the towers in New York. Beyond the immediate tragedy, the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 gave birth to the disastrous "war on terror." A decade and a half and multiple wars later, the world is a far more dangerous place. On the second anniversary of 9/11, the United States had...
Classroom standing desks may help kids slim down
September 9th, 20160 Standing desks in classrooms could help children maintain a healthy body weight, a new study suggests. These desks are set at a height that allows students to alternate between sitting on a stool or standing while working. Standing desks "can interrupt sedentary behavior patterns" while kids are in school, "simply, at a low cost, and...
WHO strengthens safe sex guidance when returning from Zika zones
September 9th, 20160 The World Health Organization said men and women returning from areas where the Zika virus is actively spreading should practice safer sex or abstinence for 6 months, regardless of whether they are trying to conceive or showing symptoms. The guidance is a change from the WHO's interim recommendation on June 7, which referred only to...Is Israel pushing for a Palestinian civil war?
Avigdor Lieberman.Division within Palestinian society has reached unprecedented levels, becoming a major hurdle on the path of any unified strategy to end Israel's violent occupation or to rally Palestinians behind a single objective. Newly-appointed Israeli ultra-nationalist, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, understands this too...
Stein promotes ‘Green New Deal’ in Detroit
September 9th, 20160 Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka speaking to reporters in Detroit.DETROIT — Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, campaigned in Detroit on Sept. 3, presenting themselves as a viable alternative to the two major parties' candidates. Stein emphasized the symbolism of Detroit in the national......
Hillary Clinton finally holds a press conference
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton has finally broken her silence. The Democratic Presidential nominee held her first press conference in 278 days on Thursday, September 8. Of course, she used most of that time to chastised Republican rival Donald Trump for talking about things he learned in classified intelligence briefings, calling it...Texas schoolgirl shoots fellow student then kills herself
TEXAS — A 14-year-old girl shot and wounded a fellow student at Alpine High School in rural West Texas on Thursday and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Brewster County sheriff told reporters. The wounded girl, thought to be 16, was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive. No names have been released and......
Lower Manhattan rebounds 15 years after Sept. 11 attacks
NEW YORK — Lower Manhattan's population has more than doubled and the number of children living there has tripled since just before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks hit the financial district, a report on the neighborhood's rebirth showed. Employment growth in the area has equaled one in 10 of Manhattan's private sector jobs, with a more...Man gets 15 years for attacking Somali cafe
NORTH DAKOTA — An American man who threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a Somali restaurant in North Dakota was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday over what federal prosecutors said was an act of "hate violence." Matthew Gust, a 26-year-old of Grand Forks, North Dakota, pleaded guilty to arson and hate-crime...
EU grants 348 million euros in aid for Syrian refugees in Turkey
September 9th, 20160 ANKARA — The European Union on Thursday announced it was contracting 348 million euros to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) for humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey, part of the bloc's migration cooperation with Ankara. The money comes as part of a 3 billion euro support for some 3 million Syrian refugees living in Turkey,...Syrian army and allies regain key Aleppo district
DAMASCUS — Syria's army and its allies have regained an important Aleppo district lost to rebels last month, state media and a war monitor said on Thursday, and were pressing an offensive south of the city to further squeeze the insurgents. If sustained, the advance in Ramousah would reverse nearly all gains rebels made in a push......
Saudi airstrike kills civilians north of Sanaa
SANAA — At least nine civilians, including four children, were killed on Thursday in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a residential building north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, residents said. At least five other people were injured in the attack, early on Thursday, on the apartment building in Amran city, north of Sanaa,...World’s largest cemetery grows bigger as war rages in Iraq
BAGHDAD — The world's largest cemetery, in Iraq's Shi'a holy city of Najaf, is expanding at double its usual rate as the nation's death rate increased with the war on ISIS. The Wadi al-Salam cemetery, Arabic for "Peace Valley", has a special place in the hearts of Shi'ite Muslims as it surrounds the Mausoleum of their first imam,......
Muslim man acquitted for shaking stranger’s hand and talking about ‘Allah’
September 8th, 20160 Muslet (center) with his attorneys. FLORIDA – A Muslim Man in Palm Beach has been acquitted from charges after a 65-year-old man believed he was a 'radical Muslim' who posed a threat on him during a brief encounter.50-year-old Yousef Mohammad Muslet was found not-guilty of burglary with a battery and battery on a...Investigation reveals Marine drill instructors bullied Muslim man to suicide
TAYLOR - The suicide of a Muslim Marine Corps recruit amid widespread hazing could lead to punishment or charges against 20 officers and enlisted leaders, officials said Thursday.Investigators said a drill instructor physically abused Raheel Siddiqui, 20, and called him a terrorist.Three internal investigations revealed Siddiqui leapt......