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Courtesy: Guernica
Four or five years ago, the term Sharia, which for Muslims denotes Islamic law, meant scant little to Americans. As I write this in the fall of 2010, America’s perceptions of Islam and Muslims …
An Ex-FDNY Muslim’s View of Ground Zero
By RICHARD STEIER
Kevin James is clearly frustrated, his face tight with emotion, as he speaks about the controversy over the building of the Islamic cultural center a couple …
The Asian American Studies Program and South Asia Center of the
University of Pennsylvania invite you to the following panel
discussion
Nine Years Later: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America
This forum will address the state of …
Courtesy: AlJazeera
September 20, 2010
In possibly the most dramatic mea culpa in Presidential history, Bill Clinton, newly appointed as UN Special Envoy for Haiti, admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the US policy of compelling …
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 …
