Articles by
Sophia Tareen
September 21, 2010
Chicago— The Associated Press
A man arrested for allegedly placing a backpack he thought contained a bomb near Chicago’s Wrigley Field got the fake explosive from an FBI undercover agent, authorities say — …
Wednesday September 22, 2010
Matt Galloway spoke with Toronto lawyer Ziyaad Mia. He was part of a team that helped build and transport the first mosque to Inuvik. To listen click here.
Wednesday September 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it is monitoring 11 cases of potential land-use discrimination against Muslims, a sharp increase in cases under a federal law designed to …
The New York Times
At a time of growing tensions involving Muslims in the United States, a record number of Muslim workers are complaining of employment discrimination, from co-workers calling them “terrorist” or “Osama” to employers …
By Omar Ha-Redeye
Rafia Zakaria is an American lawyer and Ph.D. candidate at the Political Science at Indiana University. She writes in the September 2010 issue of Guernica about how she has used Shari’ah (Islamic law) …
Courtesy of The Washington Post
September 18, 2010
AT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away …
NEW HAVEN — Valarie Kaur is an award-winning filmmaker who has fought racism for the past nine years, and still she found herself overwhelmed and paralyzed by the anti-Muslim sentiment flowing from controversy over the …
By Hajara Kutty
Later this month, a case will be fought in the Ontario Court of Appeal involving a mother who killed two of her newborns.
The case revolves around the Criminal Code’s infanticide provision, which permits …
Reviewed by Faisal Kutty
Nineteenth-century French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that the relationship between religion and democracy in the West was the “great problem of our time.” While arguably it may be less significant in …
Courtesy: The Huffington Post
September 11, 2010
I am opposed to the building of the “mosque” two blocks from Ground Zero.
I want it built on Ground Zero.
Why? Because I believe in an America that protects those who …
September 14, 2010
The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that affects less than 2,000 women but that has been widely …
New York Times
September 9, 2010
Nearly every Sept. 11 since Sept. 11, Hadidjatou Karamoko Traoré has made sure that her three children were dressed in their best clothes, and taken them from their tidy brick home …
September 10, 2010
Courtesy of www.islam.ca
All praises to Allah the compassionate, the merciful. We thank Him for giving us yet another opportunity to fast the month of Ramdhan and reap the spiritual blessings. We thank Him …
Speaking on Governor’s Island, misty-eyed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised a decision to allow an Islamic center to be built near Ground Zero.
Bloomberg choked up during his delivery, which highlighted the spirit of religious …
