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“Fear, Inc.” names and shames top Islamophobes
NEW YORK (MEO) — A new report by the Center for American Progress called "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America" shows how a small group of self-proclaimed experts backed by a host of donors are spreading fear and hostility toward Muslims in the United States.According to the report, these so-called experts...Tehran triumphant at nuclear milestone
Tehran — Iran's first nuclear power plant has finally begun to provide electricity to the county's national grid, official media reported yesterday, a long-delayed milestone in the nuclear ambitions of a country the West fears is covertly trying to develop atomic weapons.The start-up will come as a relief to Tehran after many years of...
Lebanon: Israel’s proposed sea border threatens peace
September 12th, 20110 BEIRUT — Lebanon warned the United Nations on Monday that Israel's proposed sea border threatens peace and security, as tensions rise between the neighbors over offshore oil and gas reserves."Foreign Minister Adnan Mansur has sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon rejecting geographic coordinates Israel submitted to the...
TEN YEARS AFTER: Arab Americans on life after 9/11
September 12th, 20110 DEARBORN - The September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States of America had a profound effect on major policies both foreign and national, as well as on the collective psyche of the general U.S. population. But many of those changes had a unique effect on Arab Americans and American Muslims, especially in metro Detroit where the...
The argileh epidemic: Dearborn’s biggest ‘buzz’ kills
September 12th, 20110 DEARBORN — With recent studies in the city of Dearborn finding a connection between air pollution and higher than usual rates of asthma, it also doesn't help that younger adults in the area have been practicing a habit for years now that's slowly affecting their health: Smoking the hookah, or as the proper term that's used around...ACC celebrates education at annual gala
Lathrup Village — On Friday, September 30th at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center, 6 p.m., the Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) will host its 32nd Annual Civic and Humanitarian Awards Gala Education: The Road to Success. GM President Mark L. Reuss President of GM North America Mark L. Reuss is the evening's Keynote...FBI leak shows U.S. spying on Israel over Iran
WASHINGTON — An FBI translator was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking secret U.S. wiretaps of the Israeli embassy to a blogger, the New York Times reported Tuesday.Prosecutors and even the judge were tight-lipped about the case, the first of a record five prosecutions of individuals who leaked information to the...Saudi star-gazers accused of bungling dates of Ramadan
RIYADH — When is a moon not a moon? That is the question vexing Muslim astronomers after accusations that Saudi Arabia jumped the gun in declaring the festival of Eid ul-Fitr because they mistook Saturn for the Moon.The festival is the most joyous moment in the Islamic calendar and celebrates the end of the fasting month of Ramadan....
Barack Obama’s popularity plummets ahead of key speech
September 11th, 20110 WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's popularity has sunk to a new low, according to two new polls, adding to pressure on him to come up with a radical and workable jobs plan that might reverse his fortunes.Just 43% of people surveyed in a Washington Post/ABC opinion poll published on Tuesday approve of the job the president is doing overall –...
Libya now set to be a scene of multiple battles
September 11th, 20110 After six months of defiant resistance, fiery speeches, chilling threats and blood-curdling brutality, Gaddafi has finally fallen on his sword. His collapse, however, is far from the end of the story. Instead, it heralds the start of a more complicated chapter in his country's history. As tanks surround Gaddafi's last outposts in Sirte,...
Evidence of British, Pakistani complicity on 9/11
September 11th, 20110 In the hours immediately after the 9/11 attacks, before so many theories muddied the airwaves, there was the clear sense that the scale of the operation would have had to involve at least one foreign sovereign state. By mid-afternoon, then-CIA chief George Tenet laid the blame squarely on Al Qaeda. Mohamed Atta and 18 other...
Basha Diagnostics finds major success competing against local hospitals
September 11th, 20110 Some residents in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb County might feel comfortable going to their local hospitals for diagnostic check-ups. But since 1980, many patients have been comfortable taking an alternative route — getting their medical testing done by the top diagnostic company in the area, Basha Diagnostics, without having to step foot...Now recruiting in Wayne County: The National Children’s Study
A comprehensive study that can potentially provide groundbreaking insight into the health of children has launched in Wayne County. The National Children's Study is the largest and most long-term research study conducted on children in the United States. The goal of the study is to improve the health and well-being of...Sept. 14 event takes aim at bullying problem in Dearborn
DEARBORN — The city along with Dearborn Public Schools will kick off a year-long effort against bullying on Sept. 14 with an event at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center on Michigan Avenue. The event will begin at 6 p.m. and include various attractions for kids including the Detroit Pistons' and Detroit Lions' mascots,...International scheme shipping cars to Iraq busted by feds
DETROIT — Last Wednesday, federal authorities announced the arrests of 13 people, including 10 from metro Detroit, in an international car-theft scheme. The vehicles, which were rented and then reported as stolen or carjacked in Detroit, were allegedly taken to Canada where suspects hoped they would not be detected and then shipped to......
Pie-throwers get jail time for Levin incident
DETROIT — Ahlam Mohsen and Max Kantar pled guilty last week to a federal charge of assaulting a Member of Congress stemming from an August 2010 incident. Mohsen, 23, a graduate of Michigan State University, hit U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Michigan) in the face with an apple pie at a deli in Big Rapids leading to the charges. Kantar...Accused murderer Faraj bound over to 3rd Circuit Court
DEARBORN – 19th District Court Judge Mark Somers said there was reasonable evidence for Fadi Faraj to be bound over for trial to Wayne County Circuit Court.The decision came down last Friday against Faraj, who is accused of shooting Hassan Zeidan, 23, multiple times after a scuffle related to a basketball game at Riverside Academy in......
Catholic Leader Twal to visit Southfield on Sept. 23
SOUTHFIELD — The Arab American Catholic community in Michigan is preparing to welcome Beatitude Fouad B. Twal, Patriarch of Jerusalem, as part of a multi-city U.S. tour on September 23 at the city's Regency Manor at 6:30 p.m. Twal is the second Arab Patriarch of the Holy Land to be appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, in June 2008. In...CAIR launches “Remember Through Service” campaign for 9/11 anniversary
SOUTHFIELD — The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) this week launched a billboard and Internet campaign designed to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks by highlighting the service of Michigan Muslims to the nation.The CAIR-MI "Remember Through Service" campaign is designed to tell the...Detroit community honored for building bonds between Jews, Muslims
WASHINGTON — Prominent religious leaders representing Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh faiths honored the Detroit faith community at a gathering in Washington, D.C. for its efforts to build bonds between the Jewish and Muslim communities.The Washington gathering was organized by the members of the interfaith campaign Shoulder to...
Physician incarcerated for years after false accusation of sexual assault
September 11th, 20110 A metro Detroit doctor spent more than three years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.In 2007 a woman working at Dr. Labeed Nouri's Hazel Park medical office for only five days accused him of sexually assaulting her. The accusations changed the orthopedic specialist’s life. He was charged with two counts of fourth degree......
Post 9/11 national security policies undermine American values, experts say
DETROIT - The United States government has drawn sharp criticism for the methods it has used to intensify national security measures after 9/11. In a forum at Wayne State University titled, "Post 9/11 Legal Landscape," speakers argued that some of the measures undermine the country's core democratic values. Juan Cole, professor of...Documents show NY police watched devout Muslims
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department compiled lists of mosques and Muslim businesses it saw as potential security risks for reasons that included endorsing conservative religious views or having devout customers, according to hundreds of pages of internal police documents newly obtained by The Associated Press.The records reveal......
Fusing food not often paired together makes Crave unique
The courage to combine flavors that typically wouldn’t be used in the same entree is the essence of the fusion themed menu at Crave sushi bar and restaurant. “It’s a little more daring. We introduce foods that are not commonly put together, and we are not afraid of unconventional flavors,” Executive Chef Dennis Kennedy said....Poll: Romney leads among Michigan Republican voters
LANSING — Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads among those likely to vote in Michigan's 2012 Republican Presidential Primary. Romney got 32 percent according to the EPIC-MRA poll with Texas Governor Rick Perry receiving 17 percent. Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter of Livonia received just one percent of the vote.......