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Young protesters heckle Trump during Grand Rapids speech
GRAND RAPIDS — Protesters heckled Donald Trump at a 9,000-person rally on Monday, December 21, interrupting his speech more than 10 times with shouts before security guards ejected them from the event. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, alternated between criticizing the hecklers and asking the...What about the neighborhoods? The Detroit bankruptcy one year later
Once upon a time, Detroit was about as close to a workingman’s paradise as ever there was in America. Understanding, of course, that there is a rather large gap between a workingman’s paradise and the popular imagining of that other place where everything comes up rainbows and all frowning is banned. The racism was intense and...Dearborn elementary students sing Christmas carols for senior citizens
DEARBORN — Students from Becker and Oakman Elementary Schools celebrated the holidays singing Christmas carols to senior citizens at the Oakman Common Retirement Community. A group of about 30 students at both schools spent three months attending after school singing lessons to practice for the event, held on Thursday December...
Fordson’s Key Club continues to lead the state in student volunteering
December 24th, 20150 DEARBORN — For the last few years, Fordson’s Key Club, which continues to be one of the community’s most distinguished student organizations, has been leading the state. Consisting of more than 160 students and six board members, the organization frequently conducts volunteer work in the local area. It has won more awards...Beaumont Hospital – Dearborn revokes guardianship from ill patient’s family
DEARBORN — A local family is frustrated with Beaumont Hospital- Dearborn (formerly Oakwood Hospital- Dearborn) regarding the treatment of an elderly relative who has remained hospitalized for more than 18 months. Amine Zriek, 86, had been diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in 2009, due to 50 years of heavy...Man named Jihad arrested after telling California police he left bomb in backpack
Jihad Mufaddi Khalaf Haddadin. El Monte - A man named Jihad was arrested after telling California police he had a bomb in a backpack. Cops in El Monte carried out a controlled explosion on the bag after Jihad Mufaddi Khalaf Haddadin claimed he had left a bomb outside their police station. The 52-year-old told police he...Psychiatric evaluation ordered for accused Planned Parenthood gunman
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO - The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine others in a Nov. 27 shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado was ordered on Wednesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he insisted on acting as his own lawyer.Judge Gilbert Martinez ordered the evaluation to determine whether...
Family of fatally shot man vows to bring justice against Dearborn Police
December 23rd, 20150 Kevin Matthew.Dearborn — The family of Kevin Matthew, the 36-year-old unarmed Black male who was fatally shot by Dearborn police on Wednesday, December 23 has vowed to bring justice against the police officer.During an emotional press conference held by the National Action Network, Matthew's family described him as a loving family...“Islam is not a race”, but Islamophobia is racism
Students at a rally against Islamophobia at San Diego State University, Nov. 23. Photo: ReutersAnti-Muslim bigots often try to escape accusations of racism by proclaiming that Islam is not a race.Vilifying, marginalizing or hating others because of their gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or skin color is not acceptable....
Driver spits at local Muslim activist at traffic light
December 23rd, 20150 Najah BazzyCANTON — Najah Bazzy cried when a woman paid for her coffee at a Tim Horton's drive-through last week. But within 20 minutes, the tears of joy turned into tears of horror. A man rolled down his window at a red light, spat at her and took off.Bazzy, the founder and president of Zaman International, a humanitarian...Muslim family escorted out of Arkansas mall after shoppers report them to security
ARKANSAS - A Muslim couple in Arkansas dressed in a thobe and hijab are being taunted on social media and are planning to move after getting tossed from a mall while holiday shopping this weekend. Alan and Daphne Crawford and their son were removed from Fort Smith's Central Mall after shoppers grew concerned about the family's...British Muslim family of 11 blocked from boarding flight to visit Disneyland
LONDON - A British Muslim family heading for Disneyland was blocked from boarding a flight to Los Angeles by US authorities at London’s Gatwick airport amid concerns of an American overreaction to the perceived terrorist threat. US Department of Homeland Security officials provided no explanation for why the country refused to allow...Early detection decreases chance of death from lung cancer
Lung cancer is typically asymptomatic in early stages and is usually diagnosed in advanced stages when the chances of a cure are lower. With effective treatment, only 15 to 16 percent of all patients diagnosed in various stages of lung cancer manage to survive five years. There are four stages of lung cancer: from early, when...
Physicians struggle to gain patients’ trust in light of recent fraud cases
December 23rd, 20150 DEARBORN - Health care providers in Michigan have come under scrutiny in light of recent cases convicting physicians for fraud, money laundering and misdiagnosing patients. Throughout history, medical doctors have been among the most trusted professionals. People usually place full confidence in the diagnoses of physicians, who...
Officials, interfaith and civil rights activists condemn bigotry
December 22nd, 20150 Congress members Brenda Lawrence (L), John Conyers and Debbie Dingell stand at the podium in front of a group of activists and officials at Charles Wright Museum of African American History, Dec. 21DETROIT — Heads of civil rights organizations, interfaith activists, government officials and religious leaders gathered at the Charles H.......
California neighborhood evacuated after man makes bombs to harm Muslims
December 22nd, 20150 Richmond, CA. — A man was arrested on Sunday afternoon after police say he was making explosives in his home with the intent of harming Muslims, prompting the neighborhood to be evacuated.Police say they received a tip from a caller on December 17, who said the man was constructing devices to "harm the Muslim community."A bomb...UN: People who reject Syrian refugees are allies of extremists
A Syrian refugee with her children in Riksgransen, Sweden, Dec. 15. Photo: ReutersUNITED NATIONS — People who reject Syrian refugees are the "best allies" of ISIS militants and other extremists, the United Nations refugee chief said on Monday after U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed an entry ban on foreign......
Miss Puerto Rico suspended for anti-Muslim Twitter rant
Destiny VelezMiss Puerto Rico 2015 has been indefinitely suspended from her role by the island's official Miss America organization for launching a verbal attack against Muslims on Twitter.Destiny Velez, 20, posted a series of tweets at filmmaker Michael Moore on Thursday in which she blasted the religion.Moore sent a letter to...Former Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar killed in strike
Kuntar with Hezbollah leader Hassan NasrallahBEIRUT — An Israeli air strike killed Samir Kuntar, a Hezbollah militant leader, in Damascus on Saturday evening, the Lebanese group and Syrian state media said on Sunday.Israel welcomed Kuntar's death, saying he had been preparing attacks on it from Syrian soil, but stopped short of...Virginia school district shut down over Islamic assignment
VIRGINIA - A teacher's lesson on Islam in Virginia's Bible Belt sparked an angry meeting of outraged parents that mushroomed into a national denunciation of the educator in the form of thousands of angry emails and social media postings. An estimated 10,000 students in Augusta County's public school system got a one-day jump on the...
Muslim woman files lawsuit following termination from Livonia clinic
December 20th, 20150 Terry Ali.DETROIT - A Muslim woman has filed a federal lawsuit against a Livonia Dermatology clinic for allegedly getting fired just two days after the mass shootings at San Bernardino. Terry Ali claims, who wears the hijab, said she had only been on the $14-an-hour job for one day at Livonia Dermatology when national news broke about......
12-year-old Dallas student falsely arrested for terrorist threat
December 20th, 20150 DALLAS — Dallas cops put Armaan Singh Sarai in jail for three days because someone mistook the solar panel on his phone-charging backpack for a bomb.Sarai was in class when a classmate told him that he was going to tell on him because the solar panel he had looked like a bomb. According to a Facebook post by Sarai's cousin, "A...
California woman who attacked praying Muslims is being charged with hate crime
December 18th, 20150 Alameda County, Calif - The California woman who attacked praying Muslims at a park in an encounter that was caught on camera is now being charged with a hate crime, prosecutors said. The Arab American News originally broke the story last week. Denise Slader, a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee, was......
Kerry: Assad can stay for now
Kerry.MOSCOW — On Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry accepted Russia's long-standing demand that President Bashar Assad's future be determined by his own people, as Washington and Moscow edged toward putting aside years of disagreement over how to end Syria's civil war. "The United States and our partners are not seeking...Michael Moore to Trump: We are all Muslim
You may remember (you do, after all, have a "perfect memory!"), that we met back in November of 1998 in the green room of a talk show where we were both scheduled to appear one afternoon. But just before going on, I was pulled aside by a producer from the show who said that you were "nervous" about being on the set with me. She......