Police On Long Island Say Mosque Vandalism Is Hate Crime

NEW YORK — A message of hate was spray-painted on a Suffolk County mosque and now police are searching for the vandals. The angry words on the Bay Shore mosque threatened a rising war. It’s believed that someone came over the fence and vandalized the building, police said. The imam at Masjid Darul Quran Mosque…

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Police Leader’s Evolving Efforts to Defend Surveillance

It was still several hours before Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly was to meet with Muslim leaders whom he had invited to Police Headquarters on Tuesday. But the meeting was already drawing criticism, underscoring how precarious the commissioner’s scattershot style of aggressively defending his department’s counterterrorism efforts could be. The closed-door meeting between Mr. Kelly…

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Between Black and Immigrant Muslims, an Uneasy Alliance

Under the glistening dome of a mosque on Long Island, hundreds of men sat cross-legged on the floor. Many were doctors and engineers born in Pakistan and India. Dressed in khakis, polo shirts and the odd silk tunic, they fidgeted and whispered. One thing stood between them and dinner: A visitor from Harlem was coming…

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Protesting Hearings on Muslim Extremism: “Today I am a Muslim too”

In advance of Thursday’s Congressional hearings on homegrown terrorism, hundreds protested in Times Square on Sunday, as a Long Island congressman dealt with a political firestorm over his specific focus on Muslims for the hearings. Many protesters held signs reading “Today I am a Muslim too” at a rainy protest to voice concerns that Representative…

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Speed-Dating, Muslim Style

The ultimate oxymoron: Islamic matrimony speed dating. It is a twice-yearly conclave started in 2007 by a Pakistani-American financial adviser from Long Island who was tired of being asked by Muslim clients if he knew anyone suitable for their children. “It’s a combination of East and West,” said the organizer, Jamal Mohsin. He was inspired…

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