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Row over Ellison’s decision to take oath on the Quran
AMP Report: The choice by Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, to take his oath of office on the Quran, has stirred a debate. Ellison has been criticized by some Christian organizations and a conservative radio host, who say that even if the law allows him to take an oath on the Quran, he should adhere to what they call the historical tradition of taking the oath of office on the Bible. Read More
Hearings on profiling sought after six imams removed from flight
AMP Report: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have called for congressional hearings on religious and ethnic profiling at airports after six Imams, or Muslim religious leaders, were removed from a domestic flight on Sept. 19th in Minnesota. Read More
American Muslims in 2006 elections
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The seven-million-strong American Muslim community got a big political push when the Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison was elected as the nation's first Muslim member to the US Congress in November 7, 2006 elections. Ellison's election was accompanied by a massive turnout of the American Muslim voters to make their voices heard. More details
First Muslim elected to US Congress
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Keith Ellison, a Democratic candidate from Minnesota State, Tuesday created history when he became the first Muslim to be elected to the US Congress. Ellison got 136,061 or 56% votes while his rival, Republican Party candidate, Alan Fine, received only 52,263 or 21% votes. Independent candidate Ms.Tammy Lee also got 21% or 51,456 votes. More details
The Democrats control both the House & Senate
AMP Report: In a stunning rebuke to President George Bush and the scandal-plagued Republican Party, Americans have given control of both the House of Representatives and Senate to the Democrats in Tuesday’s midterm elections. This disenchantment of voters came only after two years when in 2004 they reelected President Bush and gave control of Congress to the GOP. More details
American Muslims gear up for next week’s elections
AMP Report: An intensive voter registration and get-out-the-vote drive is under way in the seven-million strong American Muslim community before the next week’s mid-term election. Muslim American voters, angered by the Bush Administration’s policies which abused their civil rights at home and killed and injured Muslims abroad, are expected to turn out in unusually high numbers this year, throwing their support overwhelmingly behind Democratic candidates, according to recent polls. More details
American Muslims support Democratic Party
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Majority of American Muslims are poised to support the Democratic Party in November 7 midterm election in which several polls suggest that President Bush’s Republican Party is likely to lose control of the congress while a Democratic Muslim candidate, Keith Ellison, is expected to become the first Muslim in American congress. More details
ISNA’s bid to introduce universal Islamic calendar fails
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: An attempt by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) to introduce a universal Islamic or Hijra calendar failed as most of the Muslim Islamic centers and mosques in America and Canada ignored its dates for the beginning and end of the month of Ramada. Read More
Pending immigration applicants must obtain permission before leaving the US
October 20, 2006 - American Arab and Muslim groups today strongly urged all individuals with pending applications for a change in immigration status and who plan on traveling outside the United States during the December holiday season to apply for "Advance Parole" by completing Form I-131 as soon as possible. Read More
Bush signs a sweeping terror interrogation and trial law
Habeas corpus relief for 12 million non-citizens curtailed
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Calling it a "vital tool" in the administration's war on terrorism, President George Bush signed a new legislation, on Oct. 17, 2006, providing new rules for the CIA to conduct interrogations and allows for the prosecution of terrorism suspects before military tribunals. Although the debate about the new legislation focused on trials at the US prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, it also takes away the right to go to court for non-citizens in the United States if they are declared "unlawful enemy combatants." This law creates two classes of persons inside the United States, citizens with rights and non-citizens i.e. 12 million permanent residents without rights. Read More
Fear mongering fueled case against the two American Muslims of Lodi, California
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Trial begins on Nov. 17, 2006 of Hamid Hayat, a US-born American of Pakistani origin, who was convicted by jury last April on charges of providing material support to terrorists. His lawyer has filed a motion for retrial on the plea that the judge has refused to allow crucial testimony. His father, Umer Hayat, 48, was freed last month after his first terror trial ended in a mistrial. The Public Broadcasting Service’s Frontline program, "The Enemy Within," argues that fear-mongering - that generates political support, a fact that the Bush administration has used after 9/11 -- not actual security threat fueled the much publicized “terror case” against the two American Muslims. Read More
Anti-Muslim bias incidents jump 30 percent in US
AMP Report: There is an almost 30 percent increase in the number of anti-Muslim bias incidents from 2004 to 2005, the annual report by a leading civil rights group said. The Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) report - the only annual study of its kind - outlines 1,972 incidents and experiences of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in 2005, the highest number of civil rights cases ever recorded in the group's annual report. Read More
Pope Apologizes for Uproar Over His Remarks
Sept. 17, 2006: Pope Benedict XVI sought Sunday to extinguish days of anger and protest among Muslims by issuing an extraordinary personal apology for having caused offense with a speech last week that cited a reference to Islam as “evil and inhuman.” Read More
Text of comments related to Islam in Pope Benedict’s speech
Has Pope changed his belief that Islam is “evil and inhuman”?
By Abullah Jan: Pope Benedict XVI proved himself to be another George Bush on the religious front of a war to sustain the existing unjust world order. As he spoke his mind more clearly, both Muslims and non-Muslims are demanding his “a deep and persuasive apology.” The question, however is: Would Pope’s apology mean he has changed his belief that the teachings of Prophet Mohammed are “evil and inhuman”? Read More
Pope’s attack on Islam was no casual slip
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Pope Benedict’s by default criticism of Islam during a lecture in Germany was no casual slip. Beneath his scholarly rhetoric, the Pope's logic seemed to be that Islam is dangerous and godless. Reports from Rome suggest that the Pope believes his church should take tougher line on Islam. More details
Muslim anger grows at Pope’s remarks against Islam
AMP Report: Pope Benedict XVI's indirect criticism of Islam and the Islamic concept of Jihad as unreasonable and against God's nature has sparked furor in the Muslim world amid calls for the pontiff to retract his remarks. More details
Ellison may become the first Muslim in US congress
AMP Report: Minnesota State lawmaker Keith Ellison has won primary election in a safe Democratic Party district. If he wins in the November 7 mid term elections, Ellison will become the first Muslim in the US congress. More details
The politics of fear in US elections
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Amid the stepped up rhetoric on national security, a Bush Administration proposed legislation was introduced in the congress on September 7 aimed at protecting the officials authorizing cruel, inhuman treatment retrospectively. The new legislation will apply to any conduct by any U.S. personnel, whether committed before or after the law is enacted. More details
Five years after 9/11: American Muslims remain under siege
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: For Muslims, Bush Administration’s “global war on terror” has become euphuism for racial profiling at airports and borders, monitoring of mosques, closing down of charities, FBI moles in their community, sting operations, high profile arrests on terrorism charges which are seldom proved in a court of law, and discrimination and harassment by law enforcement. It will not be too much to say that American Muslims remain under siege five years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. More details
Media highlights the plight of Muslims in America
AMP Report: Five years after the 9/11 tragic attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon, Muslims in America remain under siege. Their plight has been highlighted in dozens of reports in the media. The reports related personal experiences of backlash of Muslims. How their life has been adversely affected in the post 9/11 America? These reports indicate that discrimination and harassment by law enforcement have come to plague American Muslims in the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11. Arab Americans are still sorting through the profound and varied consequences of the attacks and events that followed. Some have faced threats and insults. More details
Victims of overblown terrorism threats
By Dr. Siraj Islam Mufti: American Muslims deserve respect, and their constitutionally guaranteed rights must be protected like any other citizen. Rather than being subjected to further witch-hunt, as recently suggested profiling based on race or religion. Apparently, the administration officials and associated agencies use the oft-repeated rhetoric of fighting terrorist threat, to keep American public aligned with their hegemonic foreign agenda. And that obviously is also the underlying reason for anti-Americanism prevalent worldwide. Read More
Hizbullah: Dilemma for the American Muslim charities
AMP Comment: Attracting charities to help rebuild Lebanon in the aftermath of Israeli rampage has once again highlighted the problem faced by the Muslim charities in the post-9/11 America. More details
Baluchistan: The Iranian connection
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Like the recent Israeli rampage against Lebanon and Hezbollah which is seen as a dry run for U.S. military operation against Iran, many commentators wonder if the current Pakistani military operation in Baluchistan may be a prelude to a ground operation against Iran from Baluchistan. More details
Flying While Muslim
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: American Muslims braced for a back lash soon after the alleged London plot to blow up 10 US airliners was announced on August 10, 2006. The fears aren't unfounded. The back lash is coming in the form of increased vandalism against mosques, harassment, discrimination, hate mails and ethnic profiling. More details
ISNA elects first woman president
AMP Report: Dr. Ingrid Mattson has been elected President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) in the newly held general election of ISNA, the ISNA announced on August 23, 2006. Dr. Ingrid Mattson is the first woman elected President of ISNA. She was elected Vice President in the last election. More details
Profiling of Muslims: Latest Republican campaign issue
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Mark Flanagan, a congressional candidate in Florida has become the fourth Republican office-seeker to call for profiling of Muslim airline passengers since the alleged airline bombing plot in Britain announced earlier this month. The GOP politicians’ endorsement of profiling came as the Muslims and Arabs witnessed a rise in ethnic profiling, harassment and discrimination. Read More
President Bush: A political opportunist or ……
By Khalid Saeed: Under the current political situation while the November elections are just around the corner President Bush and his handlers seems to be desperate to come up with a gimmick to save them from loosing the November elections. The current rhetoric against Islam seems to be the answer they have come up with to rally around their troops by playing with people fears and bringing out biases by insisting on this “Islamophobic” racist terminology. More details
From crusade to Islamic fascism
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: As we approach the fifth anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks and the "war on terror," American Muslim community is alarmed and dismayed at President George Bush’s remarks that that “this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.” Adding insult to the injury, the White House Press Secretary Tony Snow says the president will continue to use the phrase. In an e-mail interview with Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Snow said Bush has gradually shifted from general rhetoric about a war on terrorism to the more specific "war with Islamic fascists." With the new description, Bush "tries to identify the ideology that motivates many organized terrorist groups," Snow said. More details
Saying ‘Islamic Fascists’ may defeat Bush’s purpose
By Parvez Ahmed: Shortly after 9/11 attacks on World Trade Center in New York and other places in the US, President George W. Bush described and later retracted our fight against terrorism as a “crusade.” In his first press conference after the thwarted terrorist plot to blow up several aircraft on Thursday, the president said, “this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.” More details
London terror plot: American Muslims fearful of backlash
AMP Report: Muslims across the U.S. are bracing for a backlash against their community, which often occurs following headline-making events like London’s terror-plot revelations. While condemning all acts of terrorism, the Muslims are urging the fellow Americans not to stereotype an entire religion based on the alleged actions of a few. More details
London terror plot condemned
American Muslims concerned about Bush's use of 'Islamic fascists'
AMP REPORT: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group, has expressed concern over President Bush's use of the term "Islamic fascists" in a news conference about the arrest of suspects in a plot to bomb airliners flying between Britain and the United States. More details
Majority of Americans support Mideast cease-fire
CAIR POLL: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on August 4, 2006 released the results of a survey, called "The War in Lebanon and American Public Opinion," showing that a majority of Americans support an immediate cease-fire in the Middle East. The random telephone survey, commissioned by the Washington-based CAIR asked more than 1,000 Americans about their views on U.S. policy in the Middle East and whether the United States should call for an immediate cease-fire. More details
Time for a Mideast policy based on peace and justice for all
Opinion: Armed conflicts are not without rules of engagement. The concept of proportionality in all armed actions is mandated by the Geneva Conventions. The International Red Cross, the recognized guardian of those conventions, says that Israeli attacks on Lebanon violate this important principle. People of all faiths, races and national origins have the inalienable right to live in peace, freedom and dignity. This timeless moral value ought to guide American policy in the Middle East. Otherwise, once again, we will be complicit in plunging the Middle East into a multigenerational conflict. The Bush administration can take some positive steps to bring us all closer to peace with justice in the Middle East.
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American Arab & Muslim groups call for halt to Israeli military rampage
AMP Report: American Arab and Muslim civil rights groups have condemned the Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon and called for an immediate halt to Israel’s military rampage. They urged the Muslims and fellow Americans to contact your elected representatives (including President Bush) and ask them to publicly condemn Israel's "disproportionate and excessive" attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructures in Gaza and Lebanon. Point out that such attacks only serve to strengthen extremism in the region and that the United States must adopt a Middle East policy that is in our nation's, not Israel's interest. More details
Confronting the monolith:
The struggle against Islamophobia and Osamaism
By Jehanzeb Hasan: Religion has the potential for great good but when in the wrong hands, it also has the potential for great evil. When Islamophobes conflate Osamaism with Islam and simply blame the religion, one of the consequences is shutting down discussion of the social, political, and economic reasons and motivations behind many of the conflicts taking place around the world today. More details
How the Bush administration recruits Muslim informers?
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The Bush administration has launched an operation seeking Muslim informants in its ‘War on Terror.’ A Wall Street Journal report of July 11, 2006 gives an insight into the covert operation. More details
Ill-advised court decision strips rights from many foreigners
American Muslims are likely to be interned in case of another terrorist attack
By David Cole: ``What will they do to us if there is another attack? Will they intern us like they interned the Japanese?' That is the most common question I get when speaking about counterterrorism policies and civil liberties to Arab and Muslim audiences. Until Wednesday, I assured them that such a response was unthinkable. The Japanese internment during World War II is so widely recognized as morally, legally and ethically wrong, I told them, that it could not possibly be repeated. But after a decision by a federal judge in New York, I'm no longer confident that I can be so reassuring.
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A tale of two terror trials
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Although prosecution failed to get guilty verdict by the jury but such high profile arrests and trials are producing the desired results: intimidation of the Muslim community, defaming their faith (which is linked to acts of terrorism) and straining its financial resources because million of dollars are paid by the community in defense expenses. More details
Al-Arian sentenced to more prison before he can be deported
AMP Report: A District Judge in Florida has sentenced former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian to another year and a half in prison before he will be deported in his terrorism conspiracy case. The former computer science professor signed a plea agreement April 14 in which he admitted providing support to members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a State Department-designated terrorist group responsible for hundreds of deaths in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Al Arian took a plea deal despite a jury failing to convict him of any of the 17 charges against him after a six-month trial last year. His family said he took the deal to get out of jail and end their suffering. More details
The Challenge of Moderates
By Jonathan Hayden: Moderates are fighting a war on two fronts; from the more conservative leaders within the religion and, on the other side, from the US Foreign Policy mistakes that marginalize them. More details
Muslim organizations welcome resolution of Al-Arian’s case
AMP Report: American Muslim organizations have welcomed the government's decision not to retry Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Florida professor who remained in jail despite being acquitted late last year of eight out of 17 federal charges brought against him. The jury deadlocked on the other charges. More details
American Muslims and 'integration'
By Dr Parvez Ahmed: Muslims have enjoyed an uninterrupted presence in America for more than a century. Yet they remain conspicuous by their absence in many spheres of American public life. Despite being about 2 percent of the population, Muslim representation in policy making is negligible even when such policies directly affect Muslims here or abroad. American Muslims are by and large absent from representation in major policy making circles of the three national branches of the U.S. government. More details
How to tackle the rising Islamophobia in US?
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Two polls released on March 9, 2006 indicate that almost half of Americans have a negative perception of Islam and that one in four of those surveyed have extreme anti-Muslim views. The results of the two polls – conducted by Washington Post-ABC and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – are not unexpected as anti-Muslim and anti-Islam campaign continues unabated since 9/11 by print and electronic media along with politicians, religious leaders as well as the government policies that have reinforced Islamophobia which may be defined as “alienation, discrimination, harassment and violence rooted in misinformed and stereotyped representations of Islam and its adherents.” More details
Flemming Rose’s inexcusable excuses only epitomize hypocrisy
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: I thought we had seen enough of Flemming Rose, cultural editor of the sensation seeking right-wing newspaper Jyllands-Posten. I was wrong. He appeared in the CBS Sunday (February 19, 2006) program - 60 Minutes. Even the prestigious Washington Post published his article in its Sunday issue: “Why I published those cartoons.” More details
Another American Muslim charity shut down
AMP Report: Attorney Jihad Smaili said he has confidence in the U.S. justice system, but he expressed concern that secret evidence and other post-9/11 legal maneuvers will be used against KindHearts whose accounts were frozen by the Treasury Department last on February 19, 2006. Its offices in Toledo, Ohio were also sealed. Pending a court battle all he and KindHearts can do is to tell their story, said Jihad Smaili, a board member of KindHearts. Read More
FBI informer was paid $250,000 to infiltrate
the Pakistani community in Lodi, CA
AMP Report: The FBI informer in the terror case against the two Pakistani Americans was paid $ 250,000 to infiltrate the large Pakistan American community in Lodi, California. This was stated by the defense attorney, Washma Mojaddidi, in her opening statement of trial of Hamid Hayat, 23 and his father Umer Hayat, 48. Attorney Washma Mojaddidi charged that the government case was founded on cultural ignorance that confused a wedding party for a terrorist gathering and depended heavily on the testimony of an FBI informer who infiltrated the 4000-strong Pakistan American community in Lodi. Read More
Danish Cartoons – Expression of Freedom or Abuse of Speech?
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: In recent days, since the publication of the racist, Islamophobic, utterly despicable and offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in a Danish newspaper, many other newspapers across Europe and America have joined the fray as what they disingenuously claim as ‘demonstrations of freedom of expression.’ Naturally, when protests across the Muslim world became louder and some Muslim governments decided to pull off Danish products from their market, Europe appeared to be stunned by such reactions. More details
Strategy for survival: A question of priorities
By Dr. Muhammad Khan: American Muslims’ thinking need to be based on the ground reality and priorities should be set accordingly now at least as they were not so far. Immediate answer to the current situation caused by the offensive cartoons is that we should focus on improving our image as Muslims with ordinary Americans and present Islam as religion in accordance with the teachings of Abraham, Moses, Jesus etc. This should be done on individual level and collective level. More details
Provocative Danish cartoons: American Muslims reject violent response
AMP Report: American Muslim organizations, while vehemently condemning the recent offending Danish cartoons about the Prophet of Islam (which were later published by other European newspapers in the name of freedom of speech), rejected violence and called for a restraint response. On February 5, the Council on American-Islamic Relations held a news conference in Washington, D.C., to express the U.S. Muslim community's rejection of violence in response to the defamatory caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The CAIR urged the American Muslim community and American media outlets to continue to show the restraint they have exhibited during this controversy. Read More
Spying on Muslims should worry all Americans
By Dr. Siraj Mufti: Americans have been shocked by reports of President Bush permitting the National Security Agency to spy on citizens by eavesdropping on their communications.The president has admitted he signed an executive order in 2002 allowing the NSA to monitor without any court approval. The pretext: It was limited to communications between terror suspects in the United States and abroad. However, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enacted by Congress in 1978, requires approval of all wiretaps and electronic surveillance by a duly constituted court. Furthermore, citing current and former government officials, The New York Times reported that the information gathered is much larger than acknowledged by the president. More details
Neo-Orientalists of the Rand Corporation
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: December 13th marks the first anniversary of the Rand Corporation report “The Muslim World After 9/11” that suggests exploitation of Sunni, Shiite and Arab, non-Arab divides to promote the US policy objectives in the Muslim world. This was the second Rand report about Islam and Muslims in 2004. The first report was Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies. The Rand reports are the latest in a long series of policy papers dedicated to further the military, economic, and cultural onslaught of the West on the Muslim World. Dig a little into the reports and it won’t take long to find the real objectives. Writers of these reports are neo-Orientalists with clear intention to belittle Islam and its adherents to achieve ambitions of the empire like the Orientalists of the 19th century who co-operated hand-in-hand with the imperialistic aims of the European colonial powers. More details
Petition: Respect the court verdict, free Sami Al Arian
American Muslim Voice, a leading Muslim civil rights group, has appealed fellow Americans to sign the online petition to free Dr. Sami Al Arian, who remained in prison despite a jury on Dec. 6, 2005 found him not guilty on eight counts and was deadlocked on other counts. More details
Dr. Al-Arian acquitted on terror charges
TAMPA, FL. November 6, 2005 - After a five-month trial and 13 days of deliberations, the jury acquitted Dr. Sami Al-Arian of eight charges, including conspiring to maim and murder people overseas. After serving 33 months in jail awaiting trial and a verdict, Al-Arian was returned to prison and will remain there until prosecutors decide whether to retry him on the deadlocked charges. Two other men, Sameeh Hammoudeh and Ghassan Zayed Ballut, were found not guilty of all charges. The fourth man, Hatem Naji Fariz, was acquitted on 25 charges, with the jury unable to decide on eight others. More details
Senate Finance Committee concludes investigation of
American Muslim groups; Finds no wrong doings
AMP Report : The Senate Finance Committee has wrapped up a high-profile investigation into about two dozen American Muslim organizations and terrorism financing, saying it discovered nothing alarming enough to warrant new laws or other measures. While seeking the tax records of the Muslim groups in December 2003, Senate Finance Committee leaders said they would look at the "crucial role that charities and foundations play in terror financing" and that "often these groups are nothing more than shell companies." But almost two years later, the committee has concluded its work with no plans to issue a report, forward any findings to law enforcement agents, hold hearings or propose new legislation. More details
On the 4th anniversary of the Patriot Act
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The Patriot Act is an example of the step-by-step journey toward giving government the permission to erode the very rights they are elected to uphold. The reason that the Bill of Rights was enacted in the first place, was to protect the people from incursions by the government. More details
Muslim Americans pledge $20 million for south Asian quake victims
Washington, D.C. Oct. 13, 2005 -- Leaders from member organizations of the American Muslim Taskforce for Disaster Relief gathered at a press conference today in Washington to announce their pledge to raise $20 million in aid for victims of the South Asian earthquake. More details
U.S. asks Muslims why it is unloved; Indonesians reply
JAKARTA, Indonesia, - A group of Indonesian Muslims, handpicked by the United States Embassy here for their moderate views, told an expert panel from Washington in unvarnished terms why America is unloved in the Islamic world. The basic problem is policy, not public relations, said Yenni Zannuba Wahid, 28, who is the daughter of the nation's former president, Abdurrahman Wahid, and who has just returned from a year of graduate study at Harvard, reports New York Times. Read More
Hughes' Middle East tour leads her back to Oval Office
By Dr. Parvez Ahmed: Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes has been on a mission to change Muslim hearts and minds. Since taking up her post in early September, she met with American Muslim leaders in Chicago before embarking on a ''listening tour'' of the Middle East. Media reports from that tour indicate that she got an earful of both complaints and advice. Some complaints, mostly about the war in Iraq and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, were predictable. But who could have predicted that Hughes would hear women in Saudi Arabia dismiss the notion that they are oppressed? One audience member told Hughes, ''The general image of the Arab woman is that she isn't happy. Well, we're all pretty happy.''
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NJ counter-terror agents reportedly target suspects for practicing Islam
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 26, 2005: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group, today urged state law enforcement agencies nationwide to check suspect databases to make sure they are not being used to profile Muslims. More details
Muslim groups help Katrina victims on 9/11 anniversary
HOUSTON, Texas -- About 2,000 Muslim volunteers helped victims of Hurricane Katrina at the city's downtown convention center Sunday, the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. More deails
American Muslims four years after 9-11
AMP COMMENT: Four years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Muslims in America remain under siege. There are no second thoughts about it: Arabs and Muslims are the prime targets of the post 9/11 reconfiguration of American laws, policies, and priorities. And they are feeling the brunt of it. Their constitutional rights to free exercise of religion and assembly, due process and security from unreasonable searches and seizures have been violated. The government initiatives have reshaped public attitudes about racial profiling and created a harsh backlash against the Muslim community. More details
Portrait of a Post 9/11 American Muslim
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Muslims in America are not the same after 9/11 attacks which changed America for ever and this change has profoundly affected the seven million-strong American Muslim community. The prevalent atmosphere of official discrimination and anti-Muslim campaign by media and others for the last four years has created a state of fear and hopelessness amongst many in the Muslim community. Muslims have been made the scapegoats in the witch hunt that ensued after 9-11. What is taking place in the country now is the most massive campaign of ethnic profiling since the World War II when seventy thousand Japanese American citizens and around forty thousand Japanese aliens were sent to internment camps. Hereunder a Muslim friend describes his feelings in the post-9/11 era which may resonate with the thinking of many Muslims in America: Read More
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