City of Dearborn announces free bp gas cards sponsored by Armada Oil & Gas Co.
Armada Oil and Gas Company is the sponsor of the $25 bp gas cards to help the City in its campaign to attract homebuyers to Dearborn. DEARBORN —As the cost of filling your gas tank continues to rise, Dearborn will be awarding free gas cards to remind area residents and potential homebuyers that the City is centrally located to major...ACLU sponsors rights conference
DEARBORN — The rights of Arab Americans and all Americans will be the focus of a conference and mobilization sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. "With new revelations about wiretapping, Internet spying, torture cover-ups, and library censorship emerging...Prayer breakfast will commemorate Dr. King
DETROIT — A prayer breakfast will be held to commemorate and honor Dr. Martin Luther King's birth, his life, his vision, and his dream, which is the theme of the program, "More Than A Dream." Rasul Muhammad, Michigan's representative for Louis Farrakhan and son of Elijah Muhammad, will deliver the keynote address to speak on the...VNA of Southeast Michigan looking for hospice volunteers
DEARBORN — For a unique and truly rewarding life experience, the Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan invites you to become a hospice volunteer. VNA is in search of kind, compassionate individuals to help support patients and families in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Volunteers are needed Monday through Friday...DCC Offers Help Paying Energy Bills For Low-Income Families
The Downriver Community Conference (DCC) weatherization program has funds available for income-qualified Dearborn residents who need help paying their home energy bills. DCC will provide assistance based upon eligibility requirements. Those who qualify can receive up to $800 towards energy bill payments, based on the amount owed....A handbook for Muslim teens
Being a young Muslim in the U.S. got much tougher after 9/11, so a brother-sister team came up with a book to help peers in their faith.Growing up in today's culture can be exciting, confusing, and chock-full of challenges.For young American Muslims, navigating adolescence has proven especially daunting since the events of Sept. 11,...Jewish conscience confronts Palestinian tragedy
Garfinkel's book is an account of his journeys in Israel and Palestine, both actual and emotional. He is a poet and a playwright, and his account is informed by the preoccupations of his calling. The book is subtitled "Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide," and his crossing is both awkward and revealing. Stylistically, there...Study: Canadian Muslims less likely to vote
Muslims are less likely to vote than other Canadian religious minorities. That is a finding of a study sponsored by the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW). CCMW engaged Daood Hamdani to produce a report on the political involvement of Muslim women in Canada. Funding was received from governmental sources.Looking at...British lawyers berate Canada
The British Bar Council, Law Society, Criminal Bar Association, Bar Human Rights Committee, and Commonwealth Lawyers Association have joined in criticizing Canada for failing to act on the case of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, imprisoned at Guantanamo now for six years since his capture in Afghanistan when he was a 15-year-old child...Ramadan attacks Muslim studies
Writing in Academic Matters, a Canadian journal, Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss Islamic scholar, attacks Western universities for the way in which they teach about Islam and the use they make of Muslim scholars. He charges that universities in the West have focused on the struggle against terrorism and extremism, to the neglect of its...The grinch who stole eid
Some people's noses are out of joint because of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's brand of season's greetings. His card wishes recipients a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah but does not mention Eid-ul-Adha, in spite of the fact that there are half again as many Muslims as Jews in the country. His website greetings make the...Grosse Pointe peace group discusses Bethlehem dilemma
GROSSE POINTE WOODS — News reports around Christmas-time told about a resurgence of tourists and pilgrims visiting Bethlehem as a result of relative stability in the ancient city over the past two years.But just before Christmas, a group of about 35 Christian peace activists gathered in a Grosse Pointe Woods Presbyterian church to...Should Lebanon become a neutral country?
Should Lebanon become a neutral country? That is the question addressed by André Patry, professor emeritus of international law at Laval University, in an article appearing in the French-language Quebec magazine "Forces." To begin, Patry distinguishes between two kinds of neutrality.Neutrality can be either perpetual or...Terror prosecutions shed more heat than light
NEW YORK (IPS) — The U.S. government's spotty record in obtaining convictions of people charged with providing "material support" to terrorist organizations is adding new impetus to the efforts of prominent constitutional lawyers to seek substantial changes in the law.The latest failure in a terrorism-financing prosecution came late in...Security hurts trade
Canadian Minister of International Trade David Emerson charges that "Some of the rigid mindsets of the security establishment are really starting, I think, to threaten the special relationship that used to be there." He spoke of companies having to warehouse inventory on both sides of the border, "a just-in-case supply chain rather......
Dubai sheik pardons Canadian
Vancouver native Bert Tatham was working for an American company under contract to the State Department to assist the Afghan government in eradicating opium poppies. On arrival in Dubai, he was found to be in possession of 0.6 grams of hashish and two poppy bulbs. A urinalysis found traces of hashish. The judge in Dubai was...Arar book scheduled
Monia Mazigh, wife of Maher Arar, the Canadian who was rendered to Syria by American authorities, where he was tortured, has a deal with publishers to write a book about the family's experiences. The book, scheduled to appear in 2009 in both English and French, will be written in French and then translated. ......
General: Banning prisoner transfer wrong
In response to efforts of Canadian human rights organizations to get a court-ordered halt to the transfer of Taliban prisoners to Afghan authorities, Brigadier-General André Deschamps predicted serious consequences should such a ruling be made. The groups bringing the case to court are concerned about the mistreatment of those who...Interfaith dialogue
Earlier this year, I attended the Ottawa convention of the Islamic Society of North America. One session was on interfaith dialogue, with presentations by Abdul Rashid, an Islamic scholar, and Sister Jean Goulet, a Catholic nun. Rashid emphasized the Qur'anic basis for the practice of dialogue: "O mankind! We created...Honor killing in Canada needs denouncing
On December 10, a man in Toronto's suburb of Mississauga called 911 to report that he had just killed his daughter. Muhammad Purvez, the father, has been arrested, along with his son Waqas, who has been charged with obstructing police. Sixteen-year-old Aqsa Purvez had been in constant conflict with her family over matters such...
Arabs and Muslims do Christmas too!
December 23rd, 20070 DEARBORN — As much as parsley and tomatoes match traditional Christmas colors, giant bowls of tabbouli are not the only holiday trimmings found in the average Arab American household this season. Both Christian and Muslim Arab Americans decorate for Christmas with the best of them. The East Dearborn home of Haysam and Kelly Sleiman, who......
ADC outlines achievements, challenges
Organization honored as it honors others DEARBORN — At its annual fund-raising gala Dec. 7, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's Michigan chapter received as many honors from government officials as it presented to activists and leaders. As it offered awards to six different people, the group accepted six certificates and...Sorry performance by Quebec unions
It was not the unions' finest hour. Quebec union federations made their presentations to the Bouchard-Taylor hearings on "reasonable accommodation." The presentations of the two largest union organizations reflected a lack of tolerance for diversity. Claudette Carbonneau, president of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux......
Canadian census immigration statistics released
Canadians use a bit of jargon that would typically be part of a linguist's vocabulary. There are anglophones, francophones, and allophones. Then, there are saxophones — an ill wind that no one blows good. Anglophones and francophones are speakers of English and French, and allophones speak another language. On December...Darkness over Islam
As a take-off on the title of the popular CBC program "Little Mosque on the Prairie," the Toronto Globe and Mail entitled its article "Little mosque on the tundra," all about Muslims in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories. Because of the very limited amount of sunlight during the winter months, prayer schedules are taken from......