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Refugees, ISIS drive community leaders’ discussion
November 22nd, 20150 Leaders met Saturday, Nov. 21 to discuss issues facing the community after recent terrorist attacksDEARBORN — After ISIS orchestrated attacks across the world last week, national attention shfted focus to both Muslims and refugees. Arab American political activists and religious leaders met with U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell...
Suspect arraigned for holding teenager hostage at knife point
November 20th, 20150 DEARBORN - On Friday November 20, 2015, Anthony Jamal Sharay was arraigned by the Honorable Judge William Hultgren in the 19th District Court. Sharay was charged with Home Invasion 1st Degree, Assault with the Intent to Murder, Great Bodily Harm, Felonious Assault and Unlawful Imprisonment and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon. His...
Wayne County to pay $395,000 to settle Azzam Elder case
November 20th, 20150 DETROIT - Wayne County will pay $395,000 to settle a wrongful discharge case brought by Azzam Elder, who was deputy executive to former Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano.Commissioners approved a settlement today 14-1, with Commissioner Ilona Varga, D-Lincoln Park voting no, in the wrongful...
Son of local Beirut bombing victims to meet Christiano Ronaldo
November 20th, 20150 DEARBORN — The 3-year-old son of a Dearborn couple who were victims of the recent attack in Beirut will meet with his idol, Christiano Ronaldo, a player with the Real Madrid Football Club. Haidar Moustafa’s parents' lives were lost when two suicide bombs ripped through Borj El-Barajne, a suburb in south Lebanon. Goal, a...ISIS says ‘Schweppes bomb’ used to bring down Russian plane
ISIS' official magazine carried a photo on Wednesday of a Schweppes soft drink can it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board. The photo showed a can of Schweppes Gold soft drink and what appeared to be a detonator and switch...‘Spider in web’ mastermind of Paris attacks killed in raid
The suspected ISIS mastermind of the Paris attacks was among those killed in a police raid north of the capital, France confirmed on Thursday, bringing an end to the hunt for Europe's most wanted man. Authorities said they had identified the mangled corpse of Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud from fingerprints in the aftermath of...
Rev. Wright voices support for Palestinians, calls for unity at ADC dinner
November 20th, 20150 Rev. Wright speaking at the ADC dinner. Photo by Bill ChapmanDEARBORN — Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Obama's former pastor, has long been deemed a controversial figure in mainstream America. His criticism of Israel and uncompromising views on racial equality have turned him into an outcast in the popular narrative and even drew...Europe’s first female suicide bomber
PARIS — To her friends and neighbours she was the bubbly, outgoing woman who liked wearing large cowboy hats. But on Wednesday it became clear there was a far darker side to Hasna Aitboulahcen, when she achieved the dubious distinction of becoming Europe’s first female suicide bomber. The 26-year-old blew herself up...Calls for U.S. troops to fight ISIS misguided, say experts
WASHINGTON — Americans want the Obama administration to get tougher with the ISIS following the carnage in Paris, but many of the measures now being proposed could actually make the threat worse, counter-terrorism experts said. Republican presidential candidates, lawmakers and others are calling for deploying U.S. ground forces to...
Dearborn woman on delayed Spirit flight: Airline didn’t racially profile
November 20th, 20150 BALTIMORE — A Dearborn woman who was on the Spirit flight from Baltimore to Chicago before multiple passengers were removed for suspicious activity said the airline acted accordingly. On Tuesday, Nov. 17, Spirit Airlines confirmed that early morning flight number 969 from Baltimore to Chicago was halted just before take-off...These critical times require unity
A candlelight vigil at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for victims of terror, Nov. 23. Photo: Merinda ValleyWe live in critical times for our community, country and the world. Last week, terrorism struck mercilessly over three continents. Our homelands are suffering. Many Arab countries are turning into failed states ripped...Ex-Inkster cop found guilty in beating of driver
William MelendezDETROIT — A former Inkster police officer was found guilty on Thursday of assault and misconduct in office in the beating of a Black motorist during a traffic stop caught on video. A jury in Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit found William Melendez, 47, guilty of a third charge of strangulation from the Jan. 28...
Community commemorates terror victims
November 20th, 20150 DEARBORN — The effects of the terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris have been felt here. Thousands of Dearbornites call Beirut home and the suicide bombings in the Lebanese capital killed three local residents. Moreover, the Paris attacks sparked a wave of hatred against Arab Americans. The community held candlelight vigils and...
A city on-edge: Dearborn residents on high alert following threats
November 20th, 20150 DEARBORN — The community continues to be cautious in the days following online threats aimed at the Muslim population. In an ironic twist, a city that is often misconstrued and suspected of abiding by Sharia law and harboring terrorists, is now the city that many feel is a likely target. "There’s an overwhelming amount of phobia...
Detroit department directors highlight Arab Americans’ role in the city
November 20th, 20150 Beydoun.DEARBORN — Abdul El-Sayed, Detroit’s health department director, is the son of an Egyptian immigrant who settled in Michigan in 1978. He used to buy meat from the father of Fayrouz Saad, the director of Detroit’s Immigrant Affairs department. Mallak Beydoun, director of Constituent Affairs for the city, was Saad’s......
#PrayingForParis: A trend or true solidarity?
November 19th, 20150 The Eiffel Tower artfully shaped into a peace sign. National monuments lit up with the colors of the French flag. Facebook users overlaying profile pictures with the Tricolore. A constant flood of posts, pictures, and tweets replete with #PrayForParis and #ParisAttacks. That was the response to the terrorist attacks in the...
Canadian man dressed as ‘Joker’ threatens to Kill Muslims
November 19th, 20150 MONTREAL - A Montreal man faces serious criminal charges in connection with an online video in which a person disguised as the Joker promises to kill Muslims and Arabs in Quebec. The video shows a man dressed like Heath Ledger’s Joker from “The Dark Knight,” with a cut-out mask over his face, vowing to kill Arabs in......
On Syrian refugees: We cannot lose our values to fear
November 19th, 20150 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."In the wake of the recent attacks in France, Lebanon and other places around the world, our nation has understandably become more...Mayor against Syrian refugees cites WWII internment of Japanese Americans
Mayor David Bowers Photo: City of RoanokeROANOKE, Va. — Mayor David Bowers made an inaccurate, offensive analogy to justify his call to humanitarian organizations not to resettle refugees in his city in Virginia. The mayor said rejecting Syrian newcomers would be as legitimate as placing Japanese nationals in internment camps during...Blast at market in northeastern Nigeria kills 32
People at the scene of a bomb blast at a fruit market in the Jimeta area of Yola, Adamawa, NigeriaA blast struck a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola on Tuesday evening, killing 32 people and wounding 80 others, both the Red Cross and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. The explosion occurred at a fruit and...U.S. approves $1.29 billion sale of smart bombs to Saudi Arabia
RIYADH — The State Department has approved the sale of $1.29 billion in smart bombs to Saudi Arabia to help replenish supplies used in its battle against insurgents in Yemen and air strikes against ISIS in Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday. The Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which facilitates foreign arms......
Russia to West: Drop Assad condition to unite against ISIS
MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday the West had to drop its demands about the political exit of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if it wanted a genuinely international coalition against ISIS. Lavrov, who said there was still no agreement about Assad's political fate after international talks in Vienna,...One dead, 8 wounded in West Bank
WEST BANK — At least one attacker opened fire from a car then crashed into a group of pedestrians near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank Thursday, killing an Israeli and wounding eight people, police and the army said. The army said an assailant was shot, but the condition of the attacker was unclear. The incident......
Lebanon arrests man in connection to Beirut bomb attacks
Lebanon's security forces arrested a Lebanese man on Wednesday in connection with twin suicide bomb attacks that killed 44 people in Beirut last week, a security source said. The authorities had arrested five Syrians and a Palestinian linked with the attacks, which took place on Thursday in a crowded residential and commercial area of...
Oakland County executive demands Pontiac stop refugee housing project
November 19th, 20150 L. Brooks PattersonPONTIAC — Inflammatory remarks are nothing new to Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson. But now that many bizarre, xenophobic and sectarian statements have been made about Syrian refugees, Patterson had to put extra efforts to outdo his fellow Republican politicians.Patterson wrote a letter to Pontiac Mayor......
