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COLUMN: “This is Why America Needs More Muslim Journalists”
From Niemen Reports After the Boston bombings, 2013 Nieman fellow Souad Mekhennet argues for more Muslim voices and faces in the U.S. media By Souad Mekhennet It seemed surreal during the Boston area lockdown last month when my cell phone … Continue reading
AUDIO: “Should American Muslims Monitor Other Muslims in America?”
From WBUR Radio (Boston) Investigators are still trying to figure out what radicalized Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Since the bombings, members of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s mosque in Cambridge, Massachusetts have spoken of two angry outbursts. Tamerlan objected … Continue reading
CNN: “Meet Saudi Arabia’s First Female Lawyer”
From CNN (CNN) — As Arwa Al-Hujaili begins her legal career, she has not only her own expectations to live up to, but those of a generation: she has just become Saudi Arabia’s first female lawyer. After three years of petitioning … Continue reading
NBC NEWS: “Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers Say Stop Quran Searches & Desecration”
From MSNBC More than four years after President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, little has changed. In spite of the administration’s hand wringing over what to do with the facilities’ 166 prisoners–transferring … Continue reading
NEWS VIDEO: “Christian Pastors Condemn Missouri Lawmaker Over Bizarre E-Mail About Dangers of Islam”
From FOX-2 News (Missouri) KIRKWOOD, MO (KTVI)– An e-mail from a powerful Missouri lawmaker attacking Muslims is drawing fire from Christian pastors in the lawmakers St. Louis County hometown. State Representative Rick Stream of Kirkwood chairs the house budget committee. … Continue reading
AP: “Female Army Soldier Says She Was Harassed Because of Muslim-Sounding Name”
From Associated Press by MICHAEL BIESECKER MAY 8, 2013, 3:04 PM RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Sgt. 1st Class Naida Hosan is not a Muslim — she’s a Catholic. But her name sounded Islamic to fellow U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and they … Continue reading
NEWS: “Dalai Lama Pleads with Buddhist Monks to Stop Killing Muslims in Burma”
From The Daily Mail (UK) Religious leader asks monks to intervene in anti-Islam violence Dalai Lama condemned attacks on Muslims in Myanmar and Burma Hundreds dead and more than 135,000 displaced in Myanmar this year Buddhist groups have attacked businesses … Continue reading
NEWSPAPER: “An Exclusive Interview with Noam Chomsky on Future of Pakistan”
From DAWN Newspaper (Pakistan) by Ayyaz Mallick | DAWN.COM | Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Noam Chomsky, is without doubt the most widely heard and read public intellectual alive today. Although trained in linguistics, he has written on and extensively … Continue reading
VIDEO: “Greeting Card With Female Muslim Suicide Bomber Angers Consumers”
A member of a Chicago-area civil rights group made a disturbing discovering when she found a neighborhood card and novelty shop selling a card that depicted a young hijab-wearing Muslim girl — as a terrorist. The Chicago Monitor, a website … Continue reading
NEWS: “World-Famous Professor Stephen Hawking Joins Academic Boycott of Israel”
From The Guardian Newspaper (UK) Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians by Harriet Sherwood and Matthew Kalman in Jerusalem The Guardian, Tuesday 7 May 2013 Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling … Continue reading
