Frustrated by mistrust, suspicion, and proactive actions targeting law-abiding Muslims, major American Muslim groups are considering rupturing ties with the FBI and the Justice Department. “The Muslim organizations are very carefully considering to suspend relations with the government agency in order to create some room for the agency to re-consider the way they are dealing…
The Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA) has congratulated President-elect Barack Obama, saying the organization looks forward to an improved and more compassionate health care system under the new administration. IMANA shares Obama’s plan for an inclusive health care system as a right of all Americans, and concern for uninsured Americans in a deteriorating…
U.K. prosecutors will retry seven British Muslims who they claim conspired to blow up several passenger planes bound for North America from London after a jury days ago failed to reach a verdict. The men will be retried for conspiring to kill passengers by detonating homemade liquid-based bombs on trans-Atlantic flights, Ken Macdonald, the U.K.’s…
The annual Islamic Circle of North America convention drew thousands at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, bringing Muslims from a wide variety of backgrounds, mixing “tradition” with the “modern.” Women with headscarves holding Starbucks coffee cups, American converts, and Muslim Americans from states including Texas and the Carolinas came to the convention, drawing more…
The annual Islamic Circle of North America convention drew thousands at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, bringing Muslims from a wide variety of backgrounds, mixing tradition with the modern. Women with headscarves holding Starbucks coffee cups, American converts, and Muslim Americans from states including Texas and the Carolinas came to the convention, drawing more…
