July 15, 2014 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, today condemn vandalism of a Massachusetts synagogue with pro-Palestinian graffiti. Police are investigating graffiti, which included “Free Palestine” and “God Bless Gaza,” spray-painted on the Montefiore Orthodox Synagogue in Lowell, Mass. In a statement, CAIR said: “Whatever views one…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said hate incidents in Massachusetts and New York occurred following the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon. A Bangladeshi man was beaten at Applebee’s in ‘revenge attack’ over Boston Marathon bombings. The man has claimed he was beaten at…
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, angrily disrupted a January talk at a Cambridge mosque when a speaker compared the Prophet Mohammed and the peace activist Martin Luther King Jr., the second time in recent months that Tsarnaev’s radical theology collided with mainstream Muslim faith at a public religious…
14 July 2012 Rizwaan Sabir, a British Muslim student from Nottingham University was arrested by the Police under the Terrorism Act, in 2008. He was accused of downloading an al-Qaida training manual for terrorist purposes. Sabir was doing an MA on terrorism tactics at the time and he had downloaded the manual from a…
Eligibility for MA Scholarships * A first class or very high upper-second class honors degree or equivalent in a relevant subject from a recognized university. * Evidence of a clear ambition to develop an academic research career in the area of Islam and Muslims in Britain * Proven track-record of interest in, and/or enthusiasm for…
