January 27th, 20240ANN ARBOR — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened a formal investigation into the Ann Arbor Public Schools district on Tuesday, Jan. 23. The investigation will look for signs of discrimination over shared ancestry, a category that includes racial and nationality-based discrimination. The investigation...
December 22nd, 20230ANN ARBOR — The family of a middle school student has filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Education against the Ann Arbor Public Schools through a local Muslim civil rights organization, claiming a school counselor allegedly referred to a 12-year-old Palestinian Muslim student as a...
February 22nd, 20190YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Authorities said a man has been arrested at a residence in Ohio for threatening a mass shooting in Michigan.
The U.S. Marshals Service said 28-year-old Cameron White, of Detroit, was arrested Wednesday without incident by deputy marshals in Youngstown.
White is charged in Michigan with making a terrorist...
February 9th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security called on authorities in a draft report from late January to continuously vet Sunni Muslims coming into the U.S. who fit an "at-risk" demographic profile.
The report, obtained by Foreign Policy Magazine, reviews 25 terrorist attacks in the United States between October 2001 and...
December 12th, 20170NEW YORK — Prosecutors on Tuesday brought federal charges against a Bangladeshi man, accusing him of using a weapon of mass destruction in Monday’s bombing of a Manhattan commuter hub.
Akayed Ullah, 27, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court with providing material support to a foreign terrorist...
November 26th, 20170CAIRO - The death toll in a devastating terrorist attack on a mosque on Friday in Egypt’s North Sinai has risen to 305 killed, including 27 children, and 128 more people were wounded, MENA state news agency said on Saturday.
The gunmen were carrying an ISIS flag and were between 25 to 30 in number, the public prosecutor’s office...
November 23rd, 20170NAZARETH—“You see them, you love them; they are human like you,” Shady Srour, writer and director of the film “Holy Air”, said about the movie’s two main characters, Adam and Lamia. “They are modern, they want to live.”
Srour is a self-described minority inside a minority. He grew up an Arab living in Nazareth.
He...
August 10th, 20170Young men who leave their homes to fight for terrorist groups in Syria mainly come from disadvantaged backgrounds, have low levels of education and “lack any basic understanding of the true meaning of jihad or even the Islamic faith”, according to a study for the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism.
The report, which was...
August 7th, 20170St. Paul ― Minnesota's governor called the bombing of a mosque outside Minneapolis the previous day "an act of terrorism" during a visit to the site on Sunday.
Police in Bloomington, Minnesota, were called on Saturday at 5:05 a.m. local time about an explosion at the Dar Al Farooq mosque, after a bomb was thrown through the window of...
June 12th, 20170ANKARA — Iran said on Thursday that gunmen and bombers who attacked Tehran were Iranian members of ISIS who had fought in the militants' strongholds in Syria and Iraq - deepening the regional ramifications of the assaults.
The five attackers raided Iran's parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's mausoleum on Wednesday morning, in a rare...
June 12th, 20170HOUSTON- A teacher at a Houston-area school is out of a job after presenting mock awards to seventh-grade students, including one for being "most likely to be a terrorist," the school district said on Wednesday.
"We have concluded our investigation and the teacher responsible is no longer employed by the district," the Channelview...
April 2nd, 20170DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Monday, Khalil Abu Rayyan, a 22-year-old accused of supporting ISIS, told U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh that he embarrassed Islam during a hearing that ended with a postponed sentencing.
"I never intended to hurt anyone," the Dearborn Heights man said. "My behavior caused embarrassment to myself, my...
