DEARBORN, Mich. — A Florida pastor’s planned demonstration outside a Michigan mosque was scuttled Friday after a jury determined the protest would constitute a breach of the peace and he was briefly jailed for refusing to pay what authorities called a “peace bond.” The Rev. Terry Jones, whose past rhetoric against Muslims has inflamed anti-Western…
In an October 13 article, CBSNews.com political reporter Brian Montopoli notes that the “notion that Sharia law is coming to America has been percolating in the conservative media for a while.” Montopoli cites examples from Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, and Newt Gingrich, among others. He later reports that “fears of an outbreak of…
. . .When [Nevada?s Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron] Angle suggested last week that certain American cities like Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas, have been taken over by a “militant terrorist situation” wherein Muslims have instituted Sharia law upon its residents, many people were left scratching their heads at what she could possibly have meant. It’s…
Led by Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, one of the most revered thinkers in global Shiism, a program called I.M.A.M. deploys scholars and lecturers to help US Shiites integrate into US society. The Dearborn I.M.A.M. group studies sources like the US Federalist Papers, Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope” and Joel Osteen’s books, as well as…
Two Canadian men wanted by the FBI in connection to a radical mosque in Detroit were arrested by authorities. Yassir Ali Khan, 30, and Mohammad Philistine, 33 – also known as Mohammad Al-Sahli and Mohammad Palestine were wanted following the death of the leader of a fundamentalist Islamic group, who was killed in a shootout…
