Drawing comparisons to the Red Scare that stretched from the late 1940s to the ’50s, a federal appeals court on Tuesdayreinstated a civil rights lawsuit that had challenged wide-ranging surveillance by the New York Police Department of Muslim communities in New Jersey. The Police Department, in an effort after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,…
DEARBORN, Mich. — About a dozen people, some armed with rifles, showed up for an anti-Islam rally over the weekend, outnumbered by two groups of counterprotesters. Waving American flags and holding up signs that read “Stop the Islamization of America” and “ISIS Is Evil,” the protesters gathered outside Henry Ford Centennial Library and said they…
State Rep. Sheila Butt would rather cut back on all religious study than risk the “indoctrination” of Tennessee students. A Republican lawmaker in Tennessee has proposed a bill that would ban public schools from teaching “religious doctrine” earlier than 10th grade after parents complained that middle school world history lessons on Islam were inappropriate. Tennessee middle school students…
Ilyasah Shabazz is in Australia on a speaking tour and has been visiting Islamic schools teaching young people about empowerment and being part of the global community. But she also has a message for parents about the threats of radicalisation. “If we don’t take full responsibility for our children’s development, we leave them open to…
A six-page, handwritten letter documenting Malcolm X’s pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964 was found in a California storage locker, and is now being sold for $1.25 million, the New York Post reports. The 51-year-old letter is being sold by California memorabilia dealer Moments in Time. The seller, Gary Zimet, told Page Six the historic artifact was almost…
