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League of Women Voters to hosts Dearborn candidate forum
DEARBORN — The League of Women Voters of Dearborn / Dearborn Heights is organizing a candidate forum for the upcoming primary election in Dearborn. The event will take place on Tuesday, July 12, at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at the Dearborn Administrative Center, 16901 Michigan Ave. The public is invited to attend the forum...
Sorrow from terror against Muslims taints Eid celebrations
July 6th, 20160 Yemeni Americans in Hamtramck celebrate EidDEARBORN — Eid el-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, is one of the most festive times for Muslims across the world. The holiday’s bliss was tainted by the sadness of the violence and terror that have targeted Muslims in the last days of the Holy Month.Locally, children sported new...
Muslim man’s car vandalized, damaged
July 6th, 20160 LOS ANGELES - A hate crime task force is investigating who spray-painted anti-Muslim graffiti on a Muslim man’s car in Palmdale, California, on the final day of Ramadan. Lt. Belinda Johnson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to The Huffington Post that officers had responded to...
Hotel clerk fired for suspecting Muslim tourist was a terrorist
July 6th, 20160 AVON – The hotel clerk at the Fairfield Inn hotel in Avon, Ohio, who suspected that a Muslim man was a terrorist while he attempted to check in, has reportedly been fired and could be charged. The terrorist scare, which garnered massive attention, involved a man from Abu Dhabi who was...
Homeland Security to allocate $10 million to fight extremism
July 6th, 20160 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will announce on Wednesday $10 million in grants for non-profit organizations and colleges to develop counseling programs and other services to turn people away from violent extremism, according to a senior DHS official. The official, who spoke to Reuters on the condition of...
Flag burning Illinois man will not be charged
July 6th, 20160 ILLINOIS - An Illinois man who posted a picture of himself burning an American flag on social media on the July Fourth U.S. holiday will not be charged because flag burning is protected speech, authorities said on Tuesday.Bryton Mellott, 22, was charged with flag desecration and disorderly conduct when he was arrested in Urbana,...
Missouri candidate sells “ISIS hunting permits,” prompts fear among Muslims
July 6th, 20160 MISSOURI - A Republican Missouri candidate for governor is raising money for his campaign by selling fake “ISIS hunting permits,” scaring local Muslims who say the stickers perpetuate anti-Islam sentiment.According to the Associated Press, Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens sent out a fundraising email last...
“Iranian Hulk” promises to fight ISIS
July 5th, 20160 IRAN - After going viral online last month, a monstrous weightlifter dubbed the “Iranian Hulk” has confirmed he will join Iranian forces fighting ISIS on the battlefield. According to The Sun, larger-than-life Sajad Gharibi, 24, reportedly weighs a staggering 160 kilograms, with much of his bulk made up of muscle. The volunteer...
FBI: Hillary Clinton will not be charged
July 5th, 20160 WASHINGTON - The FBI will recommend to the Justice Department that no prosecution is warranted as a result of its yearlong investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state, agency Director James Comey said on Tuesday. Comey said the probe found there was evidence of extremely careless...
“An attack on Islam itself”
July 5th, 20160 "A direct attack on Muslims all across the world"UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. human rights chief on Tuesday called a suicide bombing outside the Prophet Mohammad's Mosque in the Saudi city of Medina an attack on Islam itself and many Muslims expressed shock that their second-holiest site had been targeted.Three apparently coordinated...
Suicide bombers hit three Saudi cities
July 4th, 20160 RIYADH - Suicide bombers struck three cities across Saudi Arabia on Monday, in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks as Saudis prepared to break their fast on the penultimate day of the holy month of Ramadan.The explosions targeting U.S. diplomats, Shi'a worshippers and a security headquarters at a mosque in the holy city of...
UAE warns residents not to wear traditional clothing when traveling
July 4th, 20160 ABU DHABI— United Arab Emirates warned its citizens not to wear traditional garb when traveling to America for fear they might be mistaken for members of the Islamic State militant group. The UAE gave the warning after an Emirati man was wrestled to the ground in Ohio, mistaken for a member of the extremist group. The warning was...
Two teens viciously beaten outside of New York mosque
July 4th, 20160 NEW YORK – Two teenagers were violently beaten outside a Brooklyn mosque early Sunday morning, CBS News said. The incident allegedly happened around 1:18am at the Muslim Community Center of Brooklyn in Sunset Park, after lengthy evening prayers common during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The victims were two teenagers, ages 16...
Suspect arrested for beating man outside of Orlando shooter’s mosque
July 3rd, 20160 FORT LAUDERDALE(AP) — Authorities said they have arrested a suspect in the early Saturday beating of a man outside a Florida mosque that Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen had attended. Police said a suspect identified as Taylor Anthony Mazzanti, 25, was arrested and has been charged with felony battery. Mazzanti was booked into...
Muslim doctor shot and stabbed outside mosque in Texas
July 3rd, 20160 Madrasah Islamiah MasjidA Muslim man on his way to morning prayer has been shot and stabbed outside a mosque in Houston, Texas, the Independent reported.Mohammed Imaduddin, a spokesperson for the Madrasah Islamiah Masjid Noor mosque near Bellaire, told news local news agencies the victim was a doctor, who had parked along the street......
ISIS bombings kill 125 Ramadan shoppers in Baghdad
July 3rd, 20160 A fire raged hours after the bombingBAGHDAD - At least 125 people have been killed and about 150 injured in an explosion claimed by the ISIS in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.A car bomb exploded on a busy street in the central district of Karrada late on Saturday.The mainly Shi'a area was busy with shoppers late at night because it is the...
Al-Qaeda leader warns of ‘gravest consequences’ if Boston bomber executed
July 3rd, 20160 A screengrab from the terrorist leader's videoAl-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has warned the United States of the "gravest consequences" if Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any other Muslim prisoner is executed.Tsarnaev, named in a new online video message from Zawahri, was sentenced last year to death by lethal injection......
Islamophobic man planned to bomb police station
July 1st, 20160 OHIO - Police in Ohio have arrested a man who they said was plotting to attack a police station using armed mannequins and explosives. Police said they were alerted that 51-year-old Timothy Ward was planning to use mannequins to shoot officers and blow up the police station in Marlboro Township, Stark County, about 30 miles outside of...
Drill instructor may have bullied Muslim Marine to suicide
July 1st, 20160 TAYLOR — The U.S. Marine Corps is expanding its investigation into the death of a 20-year-old Muslim Marine recruit from Taylor who fell 40 feet from a barracks stairwell 11 days after reporting to boot camp at Parris Island in South Carolina. This week, Marine Corp officials said that Raheel Siddiqui may have been subjected to...
California Latinos and Muslims unify against Trump
July 1st, 20160 LOS ANGELES - If Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric has been good for one thing, it’s unifying diverse Latino groups into a more cohesive political identity.And that’s precisely what Orange County Latinos are doing with the county’s small, but unified Muslim community centered around Anaheim’s Little...
Leave Sayed Qazwini alone
July 1st, 20160 Bint Jebail Cultural Center after it was vandalized with anti-Qazwini graffiti last yearThe local Arab American community is suffering enough attacks and divisions on all levels. When the Islamic Center of America controversy started last year, it took the community by storm.Unfortunately, some members of the community want the storm to......
U.S. Supreme Court abortion ruling could overturn Michigan laws
July 1st, 20160 LANSING - The 5-3 Supreme Court decision to abolish controversial Texas rules on abortion clinics could overturn similar laws in Michigan, according to the state’s Planned Parenthood representatives. "I think we have a good case now," Amanda West, a director of government relations for Michigan Planned...
The DIA is coming to Dearborn
July 1st, 20160 DEARBORN — Tour the DIA Away and think like an artist at Dearborn's Ford Community & Performing Arts Center on July 14, from 1 to 6 p.m. Open to the public at no charge, DIA Away is a mobile, interactive creative exploration space for people of all ages. This educational "hands on" experience is provided by the Detroit......
Daesh Girl: A film about love
July 1st, 20160 NEW YORK — In the global fight against terrorism, drowning in the noise of political rhetoric, fear-inducing news and bullet-firing drones, an arguably more effective – and certainly a creative – method of uniting people in the muddled battle against extremism is film. A Saudi-American filmmaker, Abdul Almutairi, aims to do just...
Michigan’s U.S. Reps. say “No Fly, No Buy” is flawed, but offer no solutions
July 1st, 20160 U.S. Reps. discuss gun legislation on a panel in Berkley - Photos by The AANewsBERKLEY — Democratic Congress members acknowledged a defect in a proposed gun legislation in the House of Representatives that would deny individuals on the No-Fly list the right to buy firearms. They said it should be corrected, but offered no......
