Virginia school district shut down over Islamic assignment
VIRGINIA - A teacher's lesson on Islam in Virginia's Bible Belt sparked an angry meeting of outraged parents that mushroomed into a national denunciation of the educator in the form of thousands of angry emails and social media postings. An estimated 10,000 students in Augusta County's public school system got a one-day jump on the...
12-year-old Dallas student falsely arrested for terrorist threat
December 20th, 20150 DALLAS — Dallas cops put Armaan Singh Sarai in jail for three days because someone mistook the solar panel on his phone-charging backpack for a bomb.Sarai was in class when a classmate told him that he was going to tell on him because the solar panel he had looked like a bomb. According to a Facebook post by Sarai's cousin, "A...
California woman who attacked praying Muslims is being charged with hate crime
December 18th, 20150 Alameda County, Calif - The California woman who attacked praying Muslims at a park in an encounter that was caught on camera is now being charged with a hate crime, prosecutors said. The Arab American News originally broke the story last week. Denise Slader, a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee, was...New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration, responding to heightened concerns about rogue drone flights near airports, unveiled a pre-Christmas rule on Monday requiring drone hobbyists as young as 13 years old to register their unmanned aircraft. The new online registry will require current drone owners to register by Feb. 19,...Homeland Security chief says social media used in immigration vetting
WASHINGTON - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Wednesday that his department has been consulting social media in reviews of immigration applications since early this year, hitting back at criticism that U.S. authorities are not doing enough to weed out potential security threats. The Department of Homeland Security...
California shooters’ friend charged with supporting terrorists
December 18th, 20150 Marquez.WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES - A former neighbor suspected of supplying guns to the married couple who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, California, was charged on Thursday with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, the U.S. Justice Department said.Enrique Marquez, 24, a friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, who...
FBI: San Bernardino shooters were not a part of a terrorist cell
December 16th, 20150 Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook at Chicago's O'Hare Airport in this July 27, 2014NEW YORK — The San Bernardino attackers did not post support for jihad on open social media, contrary to previous reports, the FBI said.There is no evidence a married couple who killed 14 people in California this month were part of a terrorist cell, the...
GOP candidates reluctant to take on Trump
December 16th, 20150 Donald Trump (L) reaches out to Sen. Ted Cruz the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, Dec. 15LAS VEGAS — Challenger Jeb Bush locked horns with Republican front-runner Donald Trump in a national security debate on Tuesday but most rivals avoided tangling with the billionaire who has emerged as an enduring force in the 2016...
Ohio 7th grader charged for threatening to shoot Muslim student
December 13th, 20150 Morton Middle SchoolVANDALIA — A seventh-grader accused of threatening to shoot a sixth-grader faces expulsion in addition to the criminal charges filed against him. The boy made the threat to the six grader around 2:30 p.m. Dec. 7 aboard a bus after it left Morton Middle School. The victim called in to the police station...
California mosque fire-bombed
December 11th, 20150 CALIFORNIA - An Islamic center in the Coachella Valley was the scene of a fire Friday afternoon and was possibly firebombed, according to the center's Reymundo Nour. "The report that I got was someone threw some type of device at the building and firebombed the place," Nour told reporters. "I got a report from people who were...
Donald Trump faces global condemnation following Muslim ban proposal
December 11th, 20150 WASHINGTON — Outrage. Disbelief. Unsettlement. Those were the overall sentiments of civil rights groups, religious institutions and political leaders following Donald Trump’s statements on Monday, December 7 when he called for the U.S. to ban all Muslims from entering the country. Trump, who leads opinion polls in the Republican...Muslim home in Texas vandalized twice
Plano Texas, - A message is loud and clear in a neighborhood in Plano, Texas. Islam is not welcomed. A Muslim family who just moved into the neighborhood six weeks ago has been targeted with a hate crime after rocks smashed through their windows at least two times in the last week. The family said they believe that the people...CAIR office evacuated after foreign substance received in mail
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations said on Thursday its Capitol Hill office was evacuated by police after a foreign substance was received in the mail. The office received an envelope containing a note that read, "Die a painful death, Muslims" and a white powder, according to CAIR staff...California Sikh temple vandalized in suspected hate crime
The graffiti included the word Islam and a reference to ISISBUENA PARK, Calif. — Police in Southern California have opened a hate crime investigation into the vandalization of a Sikh house of worship in Orange County that was defaced with Islamaphobic and gang graffiti. The graffiti was discovered on the exterior of the Gurdwara...
KKK in Alabama recruiting to fight Islam
December 10th, 20150 KKK flyer being distributed in cullman and Decatur Alabama. ALABAMA - The KKK in Alabama is recruiting Americans "to fight the spread of Islam in our country." The Alabama chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Alabama) on Wednesday called on public officials to repudiate growing Islamophobia following reports......
Pig’s head found outside Philadelphia mosque
PHILADELPHIA - A severed pig's head was found outside a Philadelphia mosque early Monday, and officials say it may have been thrown from a car window. The caretaker of the Al Aqsa Islamic Society found the pig's head near the front door about 6 a.m. early Monday. Surveillance video shows a red pickup truck slowing down in front of the...Muslim convenience store owner beaten in New York
NEW YORK - Cops arrested a man who attacked a Muslim store owner in Queens. The store owner, Sarker Haque, claims that suspect Piro Kolvani, 55, screamed that he would “kill Muslims” as he threw haymakers at the shop owner, but police and prosecutors have yet to charge him with committing a hate crime. Kolvani was charged with......
Ohio Muslim man murdered at family-owned Pizza shop
December 9th, 20150 AKRON, Ohio-- The Akron Police Department is looking for a woman who murdered a 21-year-old Muslim man during an armed robbery at a Pizza shop. Zakareia Husein was working at his family owned 'Premium New York Style Pizza' shop when he was shot during a robbery shortly before 11 p.m. on Monday, December 7, after an armed and disguised...
Woman attacks praying Muslims in California park
December 8th, 20150 Castro Valley, CA – It was supposed to be another normal Sunday at the park for Rasheed Albeshari and his friends, until they were attacked by a local woman because of their Islamic faith.Albeshari and his pals frequent Lake Chabot often, a quiet regional park in Alameda County. But around 4 p.m. on Sunday, December 6, they...Chicago cop won’t be charged for shooting man to death
Ronald JohnsonCHICAGO— A police officer will not be charged for shooting 25-year-old Ronald Johnson to death in an incident captured by a police car’s dashboard camera.Cook county State Attorney Anita Alvarez announced on Monday that she is not charging Officer George Hernandez in the killing of Ronald Johnson, an African American...Trump calls for “complete shutdown” of Muslims coming to the U.S.
TrumpNEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a "complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States.In a statement, Trump cited anti-American sentiments in Muslim-majority countries as the reason behind his call. He also mentioned sharia law as a danger to American society. "Without looking at......
Florida man arrested for vandalizing mosque
FLORIDA - Hours after a prayer group in Florida discovered their Islamic center had been broken into and vandalized, police arrested a man who had a history of anti-Islamic sentiment. The Islamic Center of Palm Beach was discovered vandalized on Friday, with several windows smashed and blood spattered in the prayer...Muslim sixth grader attacked by students who attempted to remove her hijab
NEW YORK - A Muslim girl was attacked at her New York middle school by three schoolmates who referred to the girl as a terrorist organization and tried ripping off her religious headscarf. The sixth grade girl from the Bronx was playing during recess when three boys allegedly went after her. The boys, who......
Attorney General Lynch to Muslim community: I stand with you
December 4th, 20150 Loretta LynchWASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Thursday she stands with the Muslim community.Lynch warned that the Justice Department could take aggressive action against people whose anti-Muslim rhetoric “edges towards violence.”Speaking at Muslim Advocate’s 10th anniversary dinner, Lynch said since the terrorist...San Bernardino shooters may have been radicalized; wife pledged allegiance to ISIS
Syed Rizwan FarookWASHINGTON — A woman who joined her husband in killing 14 people in California apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of ISIS, two U.S. government sources said on Friday, as intelligence officials in her native Pakistan pressed the investigation overseas.Tashfeen Malik, 27, and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28,......