Sophia Pearson for Bloomberg: “Muslim groups seeking to revive a lawsuit over a New York City Police Department surveillance program of mosques and businesses faced tough questions from appeals judges about terrorism and skepticism from an attorney for the city about the program’s very existence. Several Muslims sued New York in June 2012 in Newark, New Jersey, federal court claiming police…
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/20/15) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded a unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that a Muslim inmate in Arkansas be permitted to grow a beard in accordance with his religious beliefs. That decision overturned a state prison policy banning…
Following the hostage dramas and Charlie Hebdo massacre, France’s imams have condemned any violence committed in the name of Islam during Friday prayers. The same message was announced at more than 2,300 mosques throughout France the Friday after the attack. “We denounce the odious crimes committed by the terrorists, whose criminal action endangers our willingness…
Unknown perpetrators have smudged the unfinished body shell of a mosque in the city of Dormagen with swastika Nazi symbols. The police refused to draw correlations between the assault and the current PEGIDA protests. Police and security authorities have initiated investigation, expecting that the assaults are politically motivated. At the same time, a fire assault…
The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) judged “totally unacceptable” remarks by a mosque leader in Lunel who refused to condemn young men from the town from becoming foreign fighters. Following the deaths of six men from Lunel, “unwelcome remarks were made by a local mosque official, who bears full responsibility for his words,”…
