Obama hosts Iftar dinner to mark Ramadan
June 26th, 20150 WASHINGTON — President Obama hosted an Iftar dinner on Monday, June 22 to mark Ramadan and to reach out to the roughly 1.5 billion Muslims around the world. The president said that the holiday dinner "is also a reminder of the freedoms that bind us together as Americans, including the freedom of religion — that inviolable...White nationalists condemn church killings, identify with shooter
WASHINGTON — Leaders of America’s core white supremacist groups have a laundry list of perceived grievances. They say the media ignore black on white crime; that desegregation has led to poorer schools for white students; that white people in the United States have lost power to black people. And while they don’t condone last...Study finds White Supremacists a bigger danger to Americans than foreign terrorists
WASHINGTON — Nine people were added to a long list of lives taken by domestic terrorism when a 21-year old allegedly began shooting inside a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17. Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by White supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other...
Google launches “Ramadan Companion”
June 19th, 20150 Google has released a personal "companion" to help Muslims observe the holy month of Ramadan.The world's 1.6 billion Muslims are mandated Muslims to refrain from consuming food and drinks from sunset to sunrise and encouraged to be charitable and pious during the month.On Thursday morning, Google released My Ramadan Companion, a web...Arabs, Muslims can sue U.S. officials over post-9/11 jail treatment
NEW YORK — A divided U.S. appeals court said the federal government's top law enforcers can be sued by former inmates who claim their civil rights were violated while jailed after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks because they were Arab, Muslim or stereotyped that way. Wednesday's 2-1 decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...City probe finds Washington state ex-NAACP official violated ethics rules
Rachel DolezalWASHINGTON — Former Washington state NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal, who drew national attention after being accused of lying about her racial background, has violated ethics rules while heading a police oversight commission, a senior city official said on Wednesday. Investigators hired by the city of Spokane to probe a...
White suspect arrested in killing of nine at black U.S. church
June 19th, 20150 CHARLESTON, S.C. — A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible-study group at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina was arrested on Thursday and U.S. officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime. Law enforcement officials detained alleged gunman Dylann Roof, 21, after a...New York man attacks FBI agent in “Islamic State” tied probe
NEW YORK — A New York City man was arrested on Wednesday after authorities said he tried to stab an FBI agent executing a search warrant in connection with an alleged plot to carry out an attack in support of the militant group "Islamic State." Fareed Mumuni, 21, was charged with attempting to murder a federal officer after...Police identify gunman in south Carolina church attack
Booking photo of Dylann Storm Roof, April 26WASHINGTON — The FBI has identified the gunman in the shooting that killed nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina, church as 21-year-old Dylann Roof.An uncle of Roof's said he recognized the man in the surveillance photo as his nephew."The more I look at him, the more I'm convinced,...American teenager pleads guilty to charges of helping ISIS
WASHINGTON — on Thursday, June 12, a 17-year-old from Virginia pleaded guilty in court to charges of conspiring to help Islamic State militants, the first time the United States has prosecuted a minor as an adult in such a case. Ali Amin, of Manassas, Virginia, used Twitter and his blog to provide instructions on how to use...Obama orders more troops to Iraq to guide fightback against “Islamic State”
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq's Sunni heartland to advise and assist fragile Iraqi forces being built up to try to retake territory lost to "Islamic State." The plan to expand the 3,100-strong U.S. contingent in Iraq and open a new operations center closer to...U.S. top court backs Obama, invalidates Jerusalem passport law
WASHINGTON — On Monday, June 8, the Supreme Court struck down a law that would let American citizens born in Jerusalem have Israel listed in passports as their country of birth, saying it encroached on the president's exclusive power to recognize foreign governments. The 6-3 ruling, a victory for President Obama, comes at a time...
Kansas student killed while stopping ISIS suicide bombing
June 12th, 20150 KANSAS — A Wichita State University international student, Abduljaleel Alarbash, 22, is being hailed as a hero after sacrificing his life to stop a suicide bomber from entering a mosque in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, on Friday, May 29. Alarbash and his brother Muhammad, 18, both volunteered at a Shi’a mosque as security guards,...U.S.-Egyptian released from Egypt jail
CAIRO — An Egyptian-American jailed in Egypt for nearly two years for involvement in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has been released and is back in the U.S. Former Dearborn resident Mohamed Soltan was among thousands detained after Islamist president Mohamed Mursi was toppled in 2013 by the military under Abdel Fattah...Obama signs NSA bill
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation passed by Congress earlier in the day reforming a government surveillance program that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records. Reversing security policy in place since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the bill ends a system exposed by......
Muslim religious freedom is not sharia law
June 5th, 20150 Hours after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who was denied a job at Abercrombie and Fitch because she wears the hijab, the world wide web was filled with countless posts bemoaning the triumph of sharia law. The frenzy about sharia law, led by bigoted anti-Muslim bloggers and Republican...Group sues to compel U.S. to evacuate Americans from Yemen
WASHINGTON — Lawyers representing a group of Yemeni Americans on Wednesday sought to have a federal judge force the government to order emergency evacuations of 37 American citizens stranded in Yemen since a deadly conflict broke out in March. The U.S. government is needlessly putting citizens in imminent danger by not moving to get......
U.S. top court backs Muslim woman denied job over head scarf
June 1st, 20150 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who sued for discrimination after being denied a sales job at age 17 at an Abercrombie & Fitch Co(ANF.N) clothing store in Oklahoma because she wore a head scarf for religious reasons.In an 8-1 decision in the important religious rights case, the court backed...Texas man charged with conspiracy to provide support to ISIS
WASHINGTON — A Houston-area man was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to "Islamic State" by attempting to fight for the militant group in Syria, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Asher Abid Khan, 20, of Spring, Texas, was arrested on Tuesday morning and was due to appear in federal court in...
Bikers to stage anti-Islam rally outside Phoenix mosque
May 28th, 20150 PHOENIX - Arizona authorities are bracing for an anti-Islam biker rally scheduled outside a Phoenix mosque. John Ritzheimer, an ex-Marine organizing the event called for participants to come armed and draw cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.Ritzheimer says he is targeting the Islamic Community Center because the two ISIS sympathizers...FCC looks to crack down on robocalls, robotexts
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. telecommunications regulator wants to make it harder for telemarketers and other businesses to place unwanted robocalls and text messages under changes to autodialing rules proposed on Wednesday. The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on June 18 on the proposal, which would give legal cover to......
Appeals court rules with states challenging Obama’s immigration action
WASHINGTON — The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday in favor of 26 states challenging President Obama's executive action on immigration. Two judges on the three-judge panel ruled that the executive action, which would grant an estimated 4.7 million undocumented immigrants relief from deportation, should stay on hold...Appeals court rules with states challenging Obama’s immigration action
WASHINGTON — The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday in favor of 26 states challenging President Obama's executive action on immigration.Two judges on the three-judge panel ruled that the executive action, which would grant an estimated 4.7 million undocumented immigrants relief from deportation, should stay on hold......
Texas police seek gang truce, end of bloodshed after deadly brawl
May 22nd, 20150 WACO, TEXAS — Police asked rival motorcycle gangs on Tuesday to put aside their differences after a weekend brawl at a Waco restaurant that left nine people dead and 18 injured, calling for a halt to the carnage and threats of revenge attacks. "There has been enough tragedy and there has been enough bloodshed in Waco, Texas. We...Mother of reporter missing three years in Syria urges U.S. help
WASHINGTON — The mother of American reporter Austin Tice, who has been missing in Syria for more than three years, believes her son is alive and well and urged Washington and Damascus to work together to free him. Tice went missing in Damascus in 2012 and the State Department said in March Washington had been in periodic, direct......