Members of Congress are pushing the FBI for additional information on the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) after it called the organization a front for radicals. Leading member of the House of Representatives Frank Wolf of Virginia is asking the FBI to explain why it did not notify Congress that it had cut ties with…
The West Virginia State University Extension Service gathered a diverse crowd to teach the basics of producing more alternative and ethnic foods for West Virginia. Nearly 50 farmers, agriculturalists, and a rabbi attended the teach-in. While compared to other US states, West Virginia does not have large groups of minority populations, international pockets and religiously…
It was, said the organisers, as historic and radical an act as Emmeline Pankhurst chaining herself to railings outside the Houses of Parliament. But for others a Muslim service led by a woman was sacrilege. Amina Wadud, an American academic, yesterday became the first woman to lead British Muslims in mixed congregational prayers and deliver…
A recent article in the Washington Post discusses the balancing and adjusting of marital issues among Muslim communities in the United States. For example, the imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) in Sterling, Virginia made premarital counseling a requirement for people who marry at the mosque. In addition, his wife recently launched…
The Islamic Saudi Academy in Fairfax county has long been subject to scrutiny, especially after 9/11 and a few years later when one of the school’s class victorian’s admitted to having joined al-Qaida. The school, which has approximately 900 students, has been dubbed “Terror High by its most virulent critics and twelve US senators and…
