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Snyder: It’s time to embrace immigrants
July 23rd, 20110 DETROIT — Speaking at the conference, Immigration and Michigan's Economic Future, Gov. Rick Snyder said in addition to cultural diversity, immigrants bring jobs to America. "Make no mistake about it, they are job creators, and we should be embracing that," he added. New Michigan Media members pose with Governor Rick Snyder...Israel suspends MP for opposing Gaza blockade
Haneen ZoabiJerusalem — The Israeli parliament has temporarily suspended an Israeli-Arab politician who participated in the Gaza-bound flotilla last year that was intercepted by Israel in a bungled assault that left nine pro-Palestinian activists dead.Civil rights groups condemned the controversial sanction against Haneen Zoabi, an MP...
Community mourns Hassan Zeidan
July 23rd, 20110 Community vows not to forget Zeidan, lessons learned as mourning continues DEARBORN – Just over a week since the shooting death of 23-year-old Hassan Zeidan rocked the local Arab American community, mourners have continued to cope in their own ways while support for Zeidan's family has continued to pour out from all...
Candidates beware: Islam-baiting doesn’t work
July 23rd, 20110 During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a Muslim, a mosque, or Islamic pieties. In the wake of those elections, with 85 new Republican House members and a surging Tea Party movement, the political virtues of anti-Muslim rhetoric as a means of rousing...Iran claims U.S. drone shot down over nuclear site in Qom
TEHRAN — Iran has shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that flew over its Fordu nuclear site, a state-run website reported Wednesday, a day after it confirmed it was installing a new generation of advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges."An unmanned U.S. spy plane flying over the holy city of Qom near the uranium enrichment Fordu site...Poet jailed in protests claims she was beaten by Bahraini royal
MANAMA — A female member of the al-Khalifa royal family in Bahrain has been accused of repeatedly beating the 20-year-old student poet Ayat al-Gormezi when she was in prison, accused of reciting a poem at a pro-democracy protest rally criticizing the monarchy.In an interview with The Independent, Ms. Gormezi, who became a symbol of...
Jewish settlers terrorizing Palestinians, says Israeli general
July 23rd, 20110 Jerusalem — A senior Israeli army commander has warned that unchecked "Jewish terror" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank threatens to plunge the territory into another conflict.In unusually outspoken comments, Major General Avi Mizrahi took aim at extremist Israeli settlers, and said the yeshiva, or religious seminary, in...Jewish activists launch campaign supporting divestment from Israel
DEARBORN — Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) held a protest on Tuesday evening in Dearborn outside of the Veolia Environmental Services plant on Schaefer Rd against TIAA-CREF, for investing in companies that profit from Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Jewish Voice for Peace protesting in Dearborn outside of the Veolia plant on Schaefer...
Hizbullah says it will overcome STL conspiracy
July 23rd, 20110 BEIRUT — Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that Hizbullah would overcome the conspiracy of the Special Tribunal on Lebanon (STL) and emerge stronger than before. Nasrallah also declared his support for the dialogue initiative launched by President Michel Sleiman, and denied claims that Hizbullah was not...Hundreds of Palestinian minors jailed for throwing stones
JERUSALEM — One out of more than 800 Palestinian children charged with throwing stones in the West Bank over a six-year period was acquitted, according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.Ninety-three percent of the 834 under-18s who were convicted were given prison sentences by the Israeli military courts, including 19 children...Israeli and Palestinian activists march in step for peace
OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM (IPS) — For the first time in over 20 years, thousands of Israeli and Palestinian peace activists marched peacefully together on Friday to support the Palestinian drive for statehood expected to be endorsed at the UN General Assembly in September."Only a declaration of Palestinian statehood can prevent...Damascus warns U.S., French envoys, apologizes to Qatar
DAMASCUS — Syria launched a diplomatic offensive Wednesday, warning French and U.S. ambassadors they risked expulsion if they breached a travel ban on leaving Damascus, while issuing an apology to Qatar for an attack by demonstrators on its embassy that prompted it to suspend work in the country.Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem...Dearborn kicks off “master plan” initiative, seeks resident ideas
DEARBORN – Residents have the chance to play city planner this summer as part of a new "master plan" initiative designed to create a vision for the city's future.On Tuesday, July 19, the kick-off meeting for all residents was held at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center during which about 40 residents took surveys, held...
Boycott the state, not just the settlements
July 23rd, 20110 Recent legislation passed in the Israeli Knesset, which many people call the "Anti-BDS" bill, has raised a number of questions about a rising tide of "fascism" in Israel. This language is not only used by Palestinian critics, who have long borne the brunt of Israel's undemocratic policies. Now, many Israeli and American Jewish writers...Awaited One Foundation event brings 2000 to Hemlock Park
DEARBORN — Last Sunday, July 17, members of the community came together at Hemlock Park in Dearborn, Michigan to celebrate the birthday of Imam Mahdi, who Shi'a Muslims consider to be the Awaited Savior along with Jesus.The event was attended by 2000 people according to its organizers and included a diverse range of people from......
Dearborn’s Saad makes the leap to Major League Soccer
July 23rd, 20110 KANSAS CITY – Soony Saad, the 18-year-old former University of Michigan forward from Dearborn who led the NCAA in scoring last fall with 19 goals, was acquired by Sporting Kansas City of the professional Major League Soccer organization early this month after the team won a lottery for the rights to sign him. Saad had...Dearborn Heights man receives murder charge over 2004 killing
DETROIT – Oussama Talal Othman, age 35, was arraigned on Tuesday of last week on a charge of first-degree murder over the killing of a 43-year-old woman in the city in 2004. Othman faces life in prison without parole if convicted. He is accused of killing Margaret Sheppard Webb of Dearborn according to Wayne County prosecutors.......
EnvisionTEC machines improve lives on a global level
EnvisionTEC CEO Al Siblani (right) is seen speaking to a associate at the company's location in Ferndale, Michigan while holding a product produced by a EnvisionTEC printer, similar to the machine both are standing in front of. The company has 13 different types of machines.A product created by a EnvisionTEC printer is pictured here....New state senator Kowall to run for Congress
WHITE LAKE — Mike Kowall (R-White Lake), who was elected to the state Senate last November, will run for Congress in 2012 in a bid to replace U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Livonia.McCotter is giving up his seat in the 11th Congressional District, which was recently re-drawn, in a bid to seek the Republican nomination for U.S....Muslim woman sues Abercrombie & Fitch over headscarf
Hani Khan took her case to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who then determined that the company had discriminately fired her. CALIFORNIA — Hani Khan, 20, from the San Francisco Bay Area, has filed a lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch after the company had fired her for refusing to remove her head scarf...Prejudice still spewing over Farmington school sale to Islamic Cultural Association
FARMINGTON — “It was just really a shock. And it was hurtful to feel that hate. I never felt that living in this country,” Muslim American Reem Shukairy says while speaking about the controversy surrounding the sale of Eagle Elementary to the Islamic Cultural Association (ICA). The ICA made a $1.1 million offer to purchase the......
“Just Like Us” premiere takes audiences on a Middle East comedy tour
DEARBORN — Life has been a rollercoaster ride for many people of Arab descent since the Middle East uprisings began, and one group of stand-up comics knows all too well.For Ahmed Ahmed, the star of the new documentary/comedy film "Just like Us," current events in the region have had a funny way of affecting his own plans even while he...Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Another frame-up?
Here we go again. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a United Nations-backed body investigating the killing of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005, has accused four people of his murder. They all belong to Hizbullah, the militant Lebanese Shiite movement that Israel and the United States define as terrorist. But they are probably......
A time to mourn, a time to ask why
July 16th, 20110 Hassan Mustafa Zeidan. Dead this week at 23 years of age. Not of illness, or natural disaster, or accidental injury.He died, instead, from what looks to be an intentionally inflicted gunshot wound from a fellow basketball player, ostensibly over an argument of some sort. What courtside disagreement could have been so important that...The global war on tobacco
Second-hand smoke still a major killerUNITED NATIONS (IPS) — This year, tobacco use will kill nearly six million people. Of that number, 600,000 will die because of exposure to second- hand tobacco smoke. If current trends continue, the annual death toll could rise to eight million by 2030, according to a new report by the World......
