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Dismissal of football players’ charges a major victory for ACRL
April 6th, 20120 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Dearborn Heights 20th District Chief Judge Mark Plawecki dismissed the criminal charges brought against four Arab American high school football players from Star International Academy on Wednesday."This court declines to criminalize football today," Plawecki said. While announcing his ruling, Plawecki added that...When Europe develops, and Israel destroys
RAMALLAH — The European Commission has released a document that lists projects it funded that were destroyed or damaged by the Israeli army between May 2001 and October 2011.The list documents 82 such instances, amounting to a monetary loss of 49.2 million euro, 30 million of which came directly from European aid. British Member...
The ex-FBI informant with a change of heart: “There is no real hunt. It’s fixed.”
April 6th, 20120 Craig Monteilh says he did not balk when his FBI handlers gave him the OK to have sex with the Muslim women his undercover operation was targeting. Nor, at the time, did he shy away from recording their pillow talk. Craig Monteilh (pictured above) describes how he pretended to be a radical Muslim in order to root out potential threats,...Judge permits Jones to protest without signing “hold harmless” agreement
DEARBORN- Florida Pastor Terry Jones is expected to protest outside the Islamic Center of America on Saturday, April 7. Earlier this week he filed a lawsuit against the city of Dearborn. In the suit Jones alleges the city violated his free speech rights by asking him to sign an agreement before his scheduled protest outside the...
New CISPA cybersecurity and censorship bill could be even worse than SOPA
April 6th, 20120 An unprecedented wave of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA Internet censorship acts from passing earlier this year, but U.S. lawmakers have authored yet another bill designed to rein in the Web in the name of cybersecurity. Citing cyberattacks as a threat, some legislators have lent their support to a new act that,...Supreme Court ruling allows strip searches even for minor arrests
WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court ruling handed down after a 5-4 decision will allow for even people arrested of minor offenses to be strip searched should law enforcement officials choose to do so.The ruling was in regards to a New Jersey man who was erroneously arrested during a 2005 traffic stop for a fine he had already paid. He claimed...
Gas station owner committed to helping community heal after shooting
April 6th, 20120 DETROIT — Protests outside of the BP gas station at Fenkell and Meyers in Detroit have been almost a daily occurrence since a shooting that resulted in the death of one young man, Michael Haynes II, and first-degree murder and illegal weapons possession charges against another, former employee Ibrahim Saleh, who was recently...Huntington Bank buys Dearborn’s Fidelity after FDIC shutdown
DEARBORN — The Huntington Bank corporation announced late last week that it purchased Fidelity Bank after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation closed it down.The Dearborn Bank has 15 branches and more than 800 in assets according to mlive.com. It is the first such institution to fail in Michigan this year according to the...HFCC hosting Pre-Pharmacy seminar April 18
DEARBORN – The annual Pre-Pharmacy Spring Seminar is being held Wednesday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Hackett Conference Room, located in the Health Careers Education Center (HCEC) on the main campus. Attendees will receive information about pharmacy school admission requirements, pharmacy school opportunities, HFCC's...Eight tax-time errors to avoid
With the tax-filing deadline looming on Tuesday, April 17, the IRS has released a list of eight common tax-time errors to avoid. If you make a mistake on your tax return, it can take longer to process, which in turn, may delay your refund. Here are eight common errors to avoid: 1. Incorrect or missing Social Security numbers: When...New law would prevent renewal of driver’s license following unpaid parking tickets
A new Michigan law expected to be enacted on May 16 would block the renewal of a driver's license in the event that three parking tickets have not been paid.Currently in the state six unpaid tickets would result in the same consequence. The secretary of state is notified when an individual has a significant amount of unpaid...Rally held in Dearborn to spotlight Shaima Alawadi case
DEARBORN — Despite heavy rains resulting from a thunderstorm just prior to the event, a rally was held on behalf of Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi American Muslim woman who was killed in her El Cajon, California home. It was attended by about 30 people in front of City Hall. Imam Husham Al-Husainy speaks with an Iraqi TV station about the...U.S. Rep. Conyers working on national Amer Act bill
DETROIT — Families are the backbone of a strong society and Michigan's families received extra protection in December 2010 with the passage of the 'Amer Act,' or HB 4118, which gives special consideration to families and to religious similarities in foster care cases. After a meeting with U.S. Rep John Conyers (D-Detroit) this...
Helen Thomas deserves more than a seat at White House correspondents’ dinner
April 5th, 20120 It was 50 years ago this year that veteran journalist Helen Thomas convinced President John F. Kennedy to boycott the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner. If women weren't invited to attend, the president announced, he wouldn't be going, either. ThomasMs. Thomas, who had been assigned to cover the president — making...
Obama administration guarantees Syrians Temporary Protected Status
April 5th, 20120 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) praised the announcement by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to allow Syrian nationals in the United States to stay beyond their visas and avoid the risk of returning to their homeland which has been plagued by violence since the popular......
Rally held in Dearborn to bring attention Shaima Alawadi case
DEARBORN – Despite heavy rains resulting from a thunderstorm just prior to the event, a rally was held on behalf of Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi American Muslim woman who was killed in her El Cajon, California home, attended by about 30 people in front of City Hall. The killing of Alawadi, who was found brutally beaten in her home...
Galloway’s stunning win shakes up English political scene
March 31st, 20120 George Galloway's stunning electoral triumph in the Bradford by-election has shaken the petrified world of English politics. It was unexpected, and for that reason the Respect campaign was treated by much of the media (Helen Pidd of the Guardian being an honorable exception) as a loony fringe show. A BBC toady, an obviously......
Judge urged to dismiss charges against four Arab American high school football players
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — During a court hearing Wednesday here at the 20th District Court Chief Judge Mark Plawecki was urged to drop the battery and assault charges brought against four senior Arab American football players from Star International Academy. The four seniors from Star International Academy who were charged with battery and...‘Images and Perceptions of Arab Americans’ event attracts diverse participation
DEARBORN — 3D Consulting & Communications held their 9th Annual ‘Images and Perceptions of Arab Americans: Challenges and Commonalities’ reception at Byblos Banquet Hall on Thursday March 29 to a diverse crowd filled with community members and organization leaders.Nadia Fadel-Bazzi, one of the co-producers of the event gave an...Members of the Hutaree Militia plead guilty to weapons charges
On Thursday David Stone, Sr. 47 and his son Joshua Stone, 23, members of the Hutaree Militia, pleaded guilty in federal court to weapon charges, according to United States Attorney Barbara McQuade. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Andrew G. Arena, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation. From top left, David...American Heart Association and Oakwood Healthcare System team up for National Walking Day
In an effort to increase physical activity among Americans, the American Heart Association and Oakwood Healthcare are teaming up for National Walking Day. The event takes place at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center, located at 18101 Oakwood Boulevard in Dearborn on April 4. Oakwood’s four hospital sites will simultaneously......
Creating the ‘Muslim Manchurian Candidate’: The right wing’s election-year Islamophobia
Those who fervently believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim generally practice their furtive religion in obscure recesses of the Internet. Once in a while, they’ll surface in public to remind the news media that no amount of evidence can undermine their convictions. A disconnect between accusation and reality hardly matters in American...Poll: Opposition to war in Afghanistan grows to 69%
Support for the war is dwindling among Republicans and Democrats, poll findsA new New York Times/CBS News poll shows that support for the U.S. War in Afghanistan has reached an all-time low. The poll, conducted between March 21-25, revealed that of those surveyed, 69 percent opposed the war in Afghanistan. This is up from 53 percent just......
Documents obtained by ACLU: FBI using ‘Mosque Outreach’ for intelligence gathering
March 31st, 20120 NEW YORK — In what will likely constitute another blow to the fragile trust between American Muslims and American intelligence-gathering agencies, the ACLU has revealed that the FBI's San Francisco office conducted a a ‘Mosque Outreach’ program through which it collected and illegally stored intelligence about American Muslims’...Gaza in the ‘heart of darkness’: When reality outdoes fiction
GAZA CITY — In a small room in Gaza City, Lisa Masharawi reads by candlelight, dreaming of being able to study for her upcoming exams by the light that even a small generator could provide.But for now, as Gaza struggles through the worst power crisis residents can remember, the flickering light of a candle is all that is available. A......
