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Cities issue warnings, ban on consumer fireworks
July 1st, 20160 A firework vendor in Detroit - Photo by The AANews.LANSING — Michigan's state fire marshal is weighing recommending bans on fireworks and burning in parts of the state with extremely dry conditions heading into the Fourth of July weekend. "It is being discussed at the state level, and at this point, we are not taking any actions for...
Police storm hotel after staff assumed Arab guest was a terrorist
July 1st, 20160 AVON - Police stormed a Fairfield Inn Hotel after a woman called dispatchers and said there was a man in the lobby who was acting suspicious and “pledged allegiance to ISIS.”But it turned out, the man didn’t speak English. And he did not pledge allegiance to ISIS. In fact, when police confronted the Arab speaking man who...
Two Muslim men shot while walking to mosque
June 30th, 20160 MINNESOTA - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Minnesota is asking federal officials to investigate the shooting of two Muslim men who were shot down on the way to a mosque early Wednesday morning.“The Muslim victims, who were dressed in Islamic attire, were reportedly attacked as they headed...
Maronite Patriarch Rai stresses ties with the homeland
June 30th, 20160 Dr. Daher Rahi with Patriarch RaiDETROIT — Maronite Patriarch Bechara Peter Rai came to Detroit with a prayer for peace. He called on world powers to end the wars in the Middle East and demanded expatriates hold on to their homelands’ identities.“We pray together for the Middle East, for its peace, for a permanent, overreaching,...
Chicago Police tackle, strip search fasting Muslim woman
June 30th, 20160 CHICAGO— A Muslim woman was running to catch a train in Chicago when five police officers tackled her, ripped off her hijab and strip searched her. Itemad “Angel” Almatar said she faced humiliation at the hands of police before being arrested for no reason. She was carrying a backpack with food in it to break...
WSU president, federal judge awarded for social justice efforts
June 30th, 20160 DETROIT — On Tuesday June 7, The Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) and the NAACP branch of Detroit awarded federal judge Terrance Berg of the Eastern District of Michigan and Dr. M. Roy Wilson, president of Wayne State University, for their commitment to social justice and equality. Wilson created the Office of Multicultural...Lebanese army foils further ISIS attacks
Lebanese army soldiers at the site of suicide bomb attacks in Qaa, June 27.BEIRUT — Lebanon's army said on Thursday it had foiled planned terrorist attacks by ISIS on a tourist site and a crowded area, days after multiple suicide bombers killed five people in the border village of Qaa. Five people involved in the two thwarted attacks,...Cheating taxpayers for political advantages
Politicians who limit the effectiveness of government agencies for short-term political advantages cheat taxpayers and short-change the government. I first met Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), a brash young Republican, at a gathering of EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), which challenges invasions of privacy by big...
Arab American journalist Hassan Hamie dies at 81
June 30th, 20160 DEARBORN — Veteran journalist and diplomat Hassan Hamie died on Sunday, June 26 after a long struggle with illness. He was 81. Hamie was born in the Lebanese village of Taraya. He had a degree in political science and history from Brussles University in Belgium. He started his journalistic career as a reporter for Al-Nabaa...
Community mourns loss of State Rep. Plawecki, a dedicated public servant
June 29th, 20160 Plawecki was a regular volunteer with Project Dignity Outreach, a local non-profit organization that feeds the homeless in Detroit. DEARBORN HEIGHTS – The local community is grieving over the untimely death of State Representative Julie Plawecki, 54, who died on Saturday, June 25, from a presumed heart attack...
Iftar with an African American family
June 29th, 20160 The El-Amins having iftarDETROIT — "God, we thank you for the food that has been prepared for the nurturing, for the healing of our bodies," prayed Maurice El-Amin, hands folded together, in ritualistic gesture. "Amen," his family responded collectively at the Ramadan dinner table. "Bismillah (in the name of Allah)," said another, as...
CIA Chief concerned about ISIS attacks in U.S.
June 29th, 20160 WASHINGTON - An attack by Islamic State in the US would not be surprising, the CIA chief said. While the US is more difficult for terrorists to infiltrate than it was before 9/11, ISIS has shown ability to inspire people already in the US using the internet.“I would be surprised if ISIL isn’t considering carrying out...
Syrian refugee returns €150,000 he found in a cupboard
June 28th, 20160 Police in Minden, Germany, say a Syrian man who arrived last year as a refugee is their “hero of the day” after he found €150,000 ($166,000) and handed it to authorities.The 25-year-old discovered the money in a cupboard he had been given by a charitable organisation.Minden police said on Tuesday that the man had found...
Sorority girl sentenced to life in prison for killing newborn
June 28th, 20160 OHIO - A former Ohio college student who gave birth in April 2015 and then left her daughter in a trash bag outside her on-campus sorority house to die, was sentenced to life in prison without parole.Prosecutors said Emile Weaver, 21, then a student at Muskingum University, knew she was pregnant and still played sports and...
Suicide attack kills 28 at Istanbul airport
June 28th, 20160 Ataturk Airport following a blast, June 28ISTANBUL — Two suicide bombers opened fire before blowing themselves up at the entrance to the main international airport in Istanbul on Tuesday, killing at least 28 people and wounding many more, Turkish officials and witnesses said.Police fired shots to try to stop the attackers just before......
Saudi-led air strike kills 10 Yemeni civilians
June 28th, 20160 A Saudi airstrike in Sanaa, March 2015SNAA — A Saudi-led coalition air strike killed 10 Yemeni civilians and wounded at least another 15 in the southern province of Lahj on Tuesday, residents said, a day after bombing attacks by ISIS that killed 45 others.Yemen is more than 15 months into a war in which the Saudi-led coalition has...
Bahraini activist to be tried for tweets
June 28th, 20160 Nabeel RajabMANAMA — Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been taken to hospital with heart problems after spending more than two weeks in solitary confinement, his family said. Rajab is a vocal critic of the Bahraini government and led protests during the Arab Spring.The activist has been placed in a......
Israel, Turkey restore ties
June 28th, 20160 Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoğanANKARA — Israel and Turkey announced on Monday they would normalize ties after a six-year rupture, a rare rapprochement in the divided Middle East driven by the prospect of lucrative Mediterranean gas deals as well as mutual fears over growing security risks.Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim...
Plane crashes in Detroit neighborhood
June 28th, 20160 DETROIT - A single-engine plane crashed Monday night near Coleman A. Young International Airport on Detroit’s east side. The plane had been trailing a banner over the crowds gathered Monday for the downtown fireworks and was returning to the airport when it went down. A 45-year-old woman who was on the ground near the crash...
Suicide bombers kill five Lebanese village
June 27th, 20160 Suicide bomb attacks took place in the village of Qaa, June 27BEIRUT — Four suicide bombers killed at least five people and wounded 19 more in a series of attacks in a Lebanese Christian village at the border with Syria on Monday, the latest violent spillover of the five-year-old Syrian war into Lebanon.There was no immediate claim of...
Turkey “sorry” for shooting down Russian jet
June 27th, 20161 "I say: I'm sorry." -ErdoganMOSCOW — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has apologized to Russian leader Vladimir Putin over last year's shooting down of a Russian air force jet by Turkey's military, the Kremlin said on Monday, opening the way for Russia to lift economic sanctions.The Russian jet was shot down, with the loss of the......
ISIS bombings kill 18 in southern Yemen
June 27th, 20160 ADEN — At least 18 people were killed in three coordinated ISIS bomb attacks on Yemeni government forces in the southern port city of Mukalla on Monday, medics and security sources said.They said dozens of other people were wounded in the bombings, which occurred just as soldiers were about to break their day-long fast during the...
Gun loving mother shoots two daughters to death
June 26th, 20160 Houston - A Texas woman was killed by police after she shot two of her daughters in the street in front of her home. Christy Sheats, 42, had already killed one of the daughters and had shot the second one as police arrived on the scene late Friday afternoon. She poised to shoot again when the police officer opened fire,......
State Rep Julie Plawecki dies
June 26th, 20160 DEARBORN HEIGHTS - State Representative Julie Plawecki, 54, has passed away. Her unexpected death occurred on Saturday, June 25 when she was hiking with her daughter in Oregon, where she suffered a heart attack, according to our sources. Plawecki was serving her first term in Michigan's 11th House District, which covers...
Florida woman charged for threatening to “blow up” praying Muslims
June 25th, 20160 SUNRISE, FLORIDA – A woman was arrested by Sunrise Police on Sunday after she allegedly made several verbal threats against a local mosque. Irina Bihary was taken into custody after someone inside the mosque called to report her. “She just had very abnormal behavior of asking very strange questions and texting,” said Rabia......
