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Boxing champ Mihtar hopes to change lives at new south end gym
NABC Middleweight Champion Brian Mihtar (right) poses with his son Ismail. PHOTOS: Nick Meyer/TAANDEARBORN — New Year's Day 2011 marked what many hope will be a chance at a new beginning, and local boxing champion Brian "The Lion" Mihtar hopes that the youth of Dearborn, especially from the south side, will have that chance as...CAIR: Seattle Muslim targeted in bias attack
SEATTLE, WA – The Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA) today reported that a Seattle man who allegedly threatened a Muslim cashier in late December has been charged under that state's hate crime statute. CAIR-WA said the alleged assailant reportedly told a Muslim clerk at a Seattle grocery...Columbia University announces post-doctoral fellowship in Palestinian studies
Columbia University's Middle East Institute Center for Palestine Studies announced it will now offer a post doctoral fellowship in Palestinian Studies. Applicants for the 2011-2012 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award are now being accepted. The semester-long fellowship offers a $25,000 grant and the opportunity to conduct post-doctoral research....Deadline to apply for ISNA fellowship draws near
The last day to apply for the Islamic Society of North America's 2011 nonprofit management fellowship is Feb. 1. Muslim graduate students are encouraged to apply. The fellowship allows students to receive education and training in nonprofit management and philanthropy, and includes an internship with ISNA. Every year, 10 students are...ISNA diversity forum comes to Detroit
DETROIT — The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is expected to hold its first annual diversity forum Jan. 14-16 at the Doubletree Hotel in Detroit. The workshop titled "Realizing the Dream: Finding Strength Through Diversity" is expected to educate attendees on the history, role, and importance of diversity in Islam, and suggest...String of burglaries in Dearborn causes concern, but crime rates down in 2010
DEARBORN – A total of five burglaries were committed on a single afternoon, Dec. 27, 2010 in Dearborn at homes near Telegraph Road between Ford and Cherry Hill, according to city police. Items including cash and jewelry were taken in each case. Police Chief Ron Haddad said that all five were likely committed by the same person, who...National 2010 Year in Review
• Countries, rights groups protest new TSA screening directives; “675 million added to terrorist list” • Suicide rate among U.S military veterans surges to average rate of 18 per day • Bush-era ban on Muslim Scholars Ramadan and Habib lifted • Flight 253: Why is the American press silent on Israeli role compared to...2010 International Year In Review
• U.S. poised to increase aid to Yemen following airstrikes against alleged militants • Dubai unveils Burh Khalifa, world's tallest tower, as area's debts continue to pile up • Egypt blocks aid to Gaza as thousands of local, international activists rally in Cairo • Disastrous earthquake strikes in Haiti, death toll...2010 Year In Review
• 9/11-themed class shirts at Edsel Ford disrupts students; deemed a mistake • Locals rally in solidarity with others in Cairo as Israeli siege of Gaza in 2009 remembered • Muslim Americans march in Detroit against terrorism after failed “underwear bombing” • Budget cuts deepen in Dearborn Public Schools system • ICE...Muslims in America are in need of help
(Khaleej Times) – Since 9/11 hundreds if not thousands of Muslims have faced "preemptive prosecution," where Muslims who are deemed "dangerous" are prosecuted before they commit a crime. In these prosecutions, there are so many holes in the government's theories that the case is nothing but a list of unsubstantiated accusations. When...
Season for Jews, Christians and Muslims to look back at 2010
December 29th, 20100 Amman — At the time of Eid ul-Adha, which marks the end of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca; Hanukkah, when Jews commemorate the dedication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem; and Christmas, when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, we look back, yet again, on a year "that could have been." Muslims, Jews and Christians are bound by a...Local church minister sees life in Palestine
A woman stands in line at Qalandiya, a major checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem. The line is long, filled with people going to work and children going to school. There are upwards of 200 people waiting for the metal turnstiles to open. This woman waits, holding her daughter who needs to go to the hospital, hoping that...Obama’s indecisiveness defines his presidency
He may still possess the poise of a confident leader and an eloquent intellectual, but the presidency of Barack Obama is now suffering its most difficult phase to date. President Barack Obama gestures during his news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington December 22, 2010....Special Tribunal for Lebanon recipe for failure
American democracy has often perplexed me, because it has a number of times trampled on democracy. Richard Nixon spied on his adversaries. Ronald Reagan sold arms to the Iranians and George W. Bush invented the Patriot Act. And now the Obama administration expects the Special Tribunal for Lebanon indictment to be unrelenting because it...Why do Jewish groups ignore Glenn Beck?
Has anyone noticed that right-wingers are really exercised about anti-Semitism these days except when it emanates from right-wingers? This week in Forbes, Abigail R. Esman pens an utterly over-the-top column called "World To Jews: Drop Dead." Dead! She claims that, even here in the United States, anti-Semitism is no longer a "fringe"......
The returning issue of Palestine’s refugees
Before his murder in 1948, Lord Folke Bernadotte, the first UN mediator to the Arab-Israeli conflict, stated: "It would be an offense against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes, while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine." Lord Bernadotte paid for...Messages on buses protest U.S. aid to Israeli military
SEATTLE — City buses in the city will display signs that read: "Israel war crimes. Your tax dollars at work." The Seattle Midwest Awareness Campaign reportedly paid King County $1,734 to display the message on 12 buses. The message is expected to appear on buses starting Dec. 27, two years after the Israeli attacks on Gaza.......
Iraq parliament gives Maliki government stamp of approval
BAGHDAD – Iraq's parliament on Tuesday gave Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government a vote of confidence and adopted a 43-point program aimed at liberalizing the economy and fighting terrorism. Parliament, in separate votes, gave its approval to Maliki, three deputy prime ministers and 29 other cabinet ministers, as well as...Israel continues to destroy peace talks
ISSAWEYA (IPS) – More and more Palestinians are paying the price for deadlocked talks over Israel's continued settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Muhammad Robin Alyyan, 27, from the volatile Issaweya suburb of East Jerusalem, stands next to piles of rubble and twisted metal. This is all that remains of his, and...Iran, Turkey boost ties despite Western pressure
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul (R) shakes hands with his Iranian counterpart Ahmadinejad before their meeting in Istanbul December 23, 2010. REUTERS/Osman OrsalTEHRAN – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Turkey on Thursday for a regional summit, as the two neighbors bolster ties in the face of international...
Top secret America: Billions used to spy on Americans
December 28th, 20100 A large network of military and intelligence agencies working with large corporations. The government spending billions of dollars undermining citizens' privacy. A major database filled with names of everyday people. Self-described experts on terrorists. Battlefield technologies being used in neighborhoods. Though it sounds like......
USCIS hosts naturalization information session in Detroit
DETROIT — A diverse group of about 30 people attended the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' information session at the USCIS offices at 11411 E. Jefferson Ave. in Detroit to address questions and concerns regarding the naturalization process. USCIS Immigration Service Officer Majdie Bazzi speaks to prospective citizens...
ACC names Detroit centers after founding members in ceremony
December 28th, 20100 DETROIT—Even after 31 years, the Arab American and Chaldean Council's founding members Salman Sesi, Dr. Haifa Fakhouri and Fr. John Badeen continue dedicating their lives to benefit the ACC, which provides more than half a million services annually to the needy ranging from job education and training, behavioral health to dental care......
Hamtramck father, businessman granted permanent residency after outpouring of community support
December 28th, 20100 It was January of this year that Anees Sous had his bags all packed and ready to go back with him to Jordan in expectation of being deported. Anees Sous (third from left) poses with his wife and six children. Photo courtesy of Sous familyBut almost a year later, after an exhausting fight to stay in the United States with plenty of...… And justice for few
NEW YORK (IPS) — Poor defendants on death row, immigrants in unfair deportation proceedings, torture victims, domestic violence survivors and victims of racial discrimination — all these groups are consistently being denied access to justice while those responsible for the abuses are protected, according to a new report by the......
