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New TSA screening rules amount to profiling
AMP Report: American Muslim and Arab civil rights and advocacy organizations have described the new security measures announced by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) amount to profiling of Muslims. Read More
No positive change for American Muslims in 2009
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: President Obama's good gestures and public policy measures have little positive impact on the restoration of civil rights of American Muslims curtailed since 9/11. The year 2009 brought no positive change to alleviate the plight of the seven-million strong American Muslim community which remains victim of guilt by association. Read More
US Muslims & Media...Lost Love
By Dina Rabie: The Muslim community remains poles apart from the media industry in post- 9/11 America, where a severely negative image about Islam and Muslims is being projected by many media outlets in the absence of a clear Muslim media voice. Media professionals agree that in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, the US media put much focus on Muslims, estimated between 7-8 millions. Read More
American-Islamic group alerted FBI to missing students
AMP Report: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) played a key role in alerting U.S. authorities about five young Americans who were arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of attempting to join militant groups after going missing from the United States. The five lived in Northern Virginia. The incident provoked deep concern in the Muslim community about the existence of homegrown extremism among Muslim American youth. Read More
The Status of American Muslims’ Civil Rights in 2009
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The seven-million strong American Muslim community continued to face barriers to their full and equal participation in American society while certain individuals and institutions persisted in profiting by smearing Islam, says the 2009 CAIR report on the status of American Muslims. American Muslims continued to fear profiling, surveillance and undue scrutiny by law enforcement and other authorities, the report said adding: “The government’s ability to conduct surveillance without adequate oversight or control has expanded and shows no immediate sign of contracting.” The report was alluding to the Attorney General’s Guidelines issued in the waning days of Bush Administration and adopted by the Obama administration. Read More
The Politics of Minaret
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The seven-million strong American Muslim community has received the ban on Minarets in Switzerland with alarm and dismay. The referendum is seen as part of a recent disturbing trend in Europe to restrict the religious freedom and self-expression of religious and ethnic minorities, notably of Muslims. Read More
A rejoinder to “The 500 most influential Muslims of the world”
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The Amman, Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in collaboration with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Georgetown University, Washington DC, has issued a list of 500 most influential Muslims in the world. Read More
Holder: Protect rights of Arab Americans, Muslims
AMP Report: In the wake of recent anti-Islam and anti-Muslim rhetoric by rightist leaders and some media outlets, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has said that full rights of American Arabs and Muslims must be protected. Read More
U.S. leaders urged to reject anti-Muslim rhetoric prompted by Fort Hood shootings
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has called on American political and religious leaders to challenge Islamophobes engaged in a rhetorical backlash to the recent shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas. Read More
American Muslim groups express concern over govt seizure of four US mosques
AMP Report: American Muslim groups today expressed concern over the government’s move to seize four mosques in New York, Maryland, California, and Texas. The government has accused the foundation that owns the mosques of being tied to the Iranian government. Read More
Fort Hood shooting: Arab & American Muslims react with grief & fear of backlash
AMP Report: The seven-million strong American Muslim community has reacted with grief and fear of backlash at the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. All major Arab and Muslim organizations were swift in unequivocally condemning this heinous incident which claimed the lives of 13 innocent soldiers and injured scores other on November 5, 2009. Read More
Muslim Coalition seeks probe into FBI shooting death of Michigan Muslim
The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, is calling for an independent investigation into the death of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was shot and killed by the FBI on Wednesday in Detroit during raids in which a number of individuals were arrested on charges unrelated to terrorism. Read More
Islamophobia Machine Targets American Muslims
By Nihad Awad: It is becoming obvious to anyone who puts all the parts of the Islamophobia machine together that American Muslims are being targeted by a coordinated and well-funded nationwide effort to disenfranchise their community and demonize their faith. This insidious effort will only succeed if Americans of all faiths fail take a stand against un-American attempts to divide our nation along religious lines. Read More
American Jewish Committee extends an olive branch to Muslims
By Hailey Woldt: Rather than tensions between Muslims and Jews subsiding, the recent conflict in Gaza has shown us that they are only getting worse. But on a recent night in Washington, DC, Jews and Muslims came together for the first time for a different kind of exchange. Read More
“Anti-Muslim Caucus at the Capitol Hill” attempts to destroy CAIR
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: In a fresh attempt to destroy the national American Muslim civil advocacy groups, four Republican congressmen which have been dubbed by Washington Independent as ‘the Anti-Muslim Bigot Caucus at the Capitol Hill’ have accused the Council on American-Muslim Relations (CAIR), of attempting to plant spies in key Congressional offices in order to affect policy. Read More
Muslim Advocates sues the FBI over mosque surveillance
AMP Report: The San Francisco-based Muslim Advocates on September 16, 2009 filed a suit in federal court in Washington, DC demanding access to surveillance guidelines issued by the FBI to its agents. In the wake of concerns over federal agents infiltrating mosques and the so-called “mapping” of communities where American Muslim reside, the suit against the Department of Justice asserts that the FBI has no legal basis to withhold the Domestic Investigative Operational Guidelines, which became effective in December 2008. Read More
American Muslims Hold 9/11 Vigil at White House
To honor the victims, their families and unsung first respondent heroes of 9/11, the American Muslim Voice Foundation along with Multifaith groups and community organizations held a candle light vigil, “Light the Night for Peace and Friendship” on Sept. 11, at Lafayette Park , SE Quadrant (in front of the White House) in Washington DC . The event included an Iftar (breaking of the Ramadan fast) as the commemoration fell during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. This was the first time that American Muslims have gathered in front of the White House to commemorate and honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Read More
American Muslims eight years after 9/11
AMP Comment: It will not be a harsh judgment to day that eight years after 9/11, Muslims in America remained at the receiving end with assault on their civil rights and their faith. Muslims are the prime targets of the post 9/11 reconfiguration of American laws, policies, and priorities which have not been changed under the Obama administration. Defending civil rights remains the single most important challenge before the seven million-strong American Muslim community. Read More
American Muslims widely seen as facing discrimination: PEW Survey
AMP Report: Eight years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Americans see Muslims as facing more discrimination inside the U.S. than other major religious groups, says the 2009 annual survey of PEW. Read More
Teaching hate to school children
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: On August 24, a 10-year-old girl was sent home on her first day back to school in Gainesville, Florida, for wearing a shirt with the words 'Islam Is Of The Devil' printed on it. Who was this teen age girl. She was Faith Sapp, daughter of Wayne Sapp, pastor of the controversial church, the Dove World Outreach Center, in northwest Gainesville. This church drew protests last month when it displayed a series of hand-painted signs that read "Islam is of the devil." Read More
North Carolina arrests raise serious issues: MPAC
Washington, DC - July 29, 2009 -- The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) said today that the arrest of seven men in North Carolina this week on charges that they were plotting to wage "violent jihad" outside the United States raises serious issues. The latest in a string of high profile domestic counterterrorism cases, the arrests were made after three years of FBI surveillance of the men. Read More
Minneapolis Judge says imams booted from US Airways flight can sue police
AMP Report: A federal judge has cleared the way for a lawsuit by six Imams who were arrested on a US Airways jet in Minneapolis three years ago to move forward. In a strongly worded ruling, U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery said that a law passed in part to scuttle the Imam’s lawsuit doesn't give law enforcement officers immunity from being sued for violating the Constitution. Read More
Murder of scarved Muslim woman in German court
sparks fear of Islamophobia across Europe
AMP Report: American Muslim and Arab civil rights groups have expressed concern over the assassination of a scarved Muslim woman in a German court. Read More
U.S. leaders asked to address growing Islamophobia
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group, has cited recent anti-Muslim incidents nationwide in calling on American leaders to address what it said is a “growing level of anti-Muslim prejudice and stereotyping” in American society. Read More
ACLU report says US laws hindering Muslim charities and faith
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The American Liberties Union (ACLU) on June 16, 2009 released an extensive report about how the U.S. terrorism finance laws and policies were unfairly preventing the seven-million-strong American Muslim community from practicing their religion through charitable giving. The 164 page report, "Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity," is the first comprehensive report that documents the serious effects of Bush administration terrorism finance laws on Muslim communities across the nation. Read More
By naming unindicted co-conspirators the govt irreparably damaged
the reputation of individuals and mainstream Muslim organizations
The U.S. government has smeared the reputations of Muslim charities, Muslim community organizations, and associates of Muslim charities without affording these organizations and individuals their day in court or any other opportunity to clear their names, the ACLU report on Muslim charities says. Read More
MLFA fund raiser for Dr. Afia and Holy Land Foundation
AMP Report: The Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) held an event on June 13, 2009 at the American Community Center in Santa Clara to raise funds for the legal defense of Dr. Afia Siddiqui and the Holy Land Foundation. Read More
Muslim groups condemn fatal shooting at Holocaust Museum
AMP Report: American Muslim advocacy groups have condemned a shooting incident at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., during which a security guard was killed and the alleged gunman was wounded. Read More
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