Dec 21, 2011–Washington — More than two dozen members of Congress are calling for investigation into the CIA’s relationship with the New York Police Department. The members of Congress want to know more about the CIA’s collaboration with the police department to monitor Muslims after an Associated Press investigation. A letter signed by 34 members…
16.06.2011 An East London-based charity (Maslaha) is looking for Muslim women to participate in arts exhibition that illustrates the achievements of everyday Muslim women. Rather than targeting the most prominent female Muslims in the country, the charity is intentionally looking for those ‘whose stories are yet to be told’ (BBC). The exhibition aims to…
U.S. government tactics in pursuing domestic terrorism cases target and entrap Muslim community members and fail to enhance public safety, according to a report released Wednesday by a human rights center at New York University’s law school. The government’s use of surveillance, paid informants and invented terrorism plots prompts human rights concerns, according to the…
The suspect in the slaying of two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport has confessed to targeting American military members, a German security official said Thursday as investigators probed what they considered a possible act of Islamic terrorism. German federal prosecutors took over the investigation into Wednesday’s shooting, which also injured two U.S. airmen, one of…
A taxi driver turned prominent businessman in Chicago’s South Asian community is among three people indicted for defrauding hundreds of Muslim investors out of $30 million, in part by promising that investments complied with Islamic law, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Salman Ibrahim, 37, who vanished in 2008 after allegedly persuading hundreds of Pakistani and Indian…
