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Headlines Archive
Muslim charities will undergo review process to win back donors
Muslim charities in the U.S., hit by a drop in donations since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are turning to the Better Business Bureau in an effort to give donors the confidence to open their wallets again.
Under an initiative unveiled Wednesday, seven Muslim charities have so far volunteered for a review process designed by the bureau to validate their transparency and financial soundness.
Wall Street Journal, 8/14/2008
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Miami Gardens Muslim group donates school supplies
Sometimes it's hard for students to get into a straight line at school. But on Saturday, kids didn't think twice about scrambling into a huge line. The reason: they were getting free school supplies.
``I love it, said Shellitia Campbell, 10, from Miami Gardens. ``I can't wait for school to start.''
So getting free supplies for her was the beginning of a new academic year.
Shellitia, who attends Robert B. Ingram Elementary School, and other students scrambled into a huge line to receive supplies at the Masjid Miami Gardens, 4305 NW 183rd St. More than 250 students from Miami, Opa-locka, Hialeah, and as far away as Delray Beach attended the event.
The supplies were donated by the South Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Miami Herald, 8/12/2008
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Muslim teen proud of her dual heritage
For someone so young, Monsura Sirajee sure has traveled in a lot of different worlds. She's Muslim, loves to research and write about her religion, and
has visited far-off Bangladesh. She's lived in America her whole life
and wouldn't have had it any other way. She is proud of both heritages. The 17-year-old is also a high-powered Chaparral High School senior
with dreams of being a lawyer and a professional writer on the side. Her worlds come together at a Muslim Youth Leadership Conference
that starts Thursday in Sacramento. She is one of only 30 students
statewide invited to attend.
The Press-Enterprise, 8/11/2008
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Washington’s Muslim electors could make history
If Democrat Barack Obama carries Washington state and the nation to
win the White House in November, he won't become the first Muslim
president of the United States. That's because, despite Internet rumors, he's not a Muslim. But Jeff Siddiqui is – and an Obama victory in the state and nation
would give Siddiqui a small but possibly historic role in choosing the
next president. Siddiqui, a real estate agent who lives in Lynnwood, is one of 11
presidential electors designated by the state Democratic Party.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/6/2008
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Islamic superheroes going global
Like other kids the world over, Middle Eastern children have long
fantasized about superheroes battling injustice in American cities or
fighting beasts in Japan. Five years ago, they got some champions of
their own to cheer on when Kuwait-born businessman Naif Al-Mutawa
created a new breed of superheroes endowed with Muslim traits and
virtues. Now Mutawa is on an even greater mission: taking those same
Islamic characters around the world.
Time, 8/5/2008
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Designer creates fashion-forward clothes for tradition-conscious Arab Americans
In an 820-square-foot space in West Dearborn, amid a jeweler, a shoe repair and a spa, Samaher Mohammad walks among garments of silk and organza, chiffon and crinoline.
She touches the tulle of a kimono-inspired abaya, an everyday Islamic dress, and the embroidery of a thoub, a formal Islamic dress.
Over days and weeks and months, the 27-year-old designed these gowns, dresses of lace and beading and Swarovski crystals -- Arab in their array of color, Islamic in their modesty and American in their silhouette.
They exude fun and creativity yet mesh with the conservative standards sought by many Arab-American Muslims like her.
Detroit Free Press, 8/3/2008
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Muslim community opens arms to church
To at least one minister, the people killed and wounded Sunday at
the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church aren't just victims. They are martyrs.
Knoxville News Sentinel, 8/2/2008
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Muslim women's law firm breaks down stereotypes
In what may be the nation's only law firm composed solely of Muslim women, the attorneys represent the ethnic and religious diversity within the Islamic faith: Some cover their hair, some don't. Some are Sunni; others are Shiite, and at least one is happy to be secular.
The six women hope that by founding Amal Law Group, they are helping to dispel common stereotypes held about Muslim women.
Chicago Tribune, 8/1/2008
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Turning humiliation into inspiration
Yasmine Hafiz was passing through security at an airport near Washington several weeks ago when a federal agent stopped her. Something strange and metallic had shown up in her carry-on bag during screening. Now she needed to explain what the suspicious object was.
At 18, newly graduated from high school, Yasmine knew the drill all too well. A few years earlier, an immigration officer had demanded she present a visa to board a flight from Canada to her home in Arizona. It was as if, because she had dark skin and a Pakistani surname and was Muslim, she, an American citizen, still needed permission to enter her own country.
The New York Times, 7/26/2008
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Young American Muslims hope to help, educate
They filled the cafe night after night. To the
casual observer, it might have appeared to be a roomful of
20-somethings with enviable amounts of idle time. Yet the 30 young Muslim men and women who met
for 30 days had serving society, not socializing, on their minds. And
the group calling itself 30/30 emerged from the meetings with an
agenda: to help teens in their community deal with social ills such as
drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness — and to teach those on
the outside about their faith.
USA Today, 7/17/2008
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Young Muslims gather in D.C. for leadership summit
Dr. Naba Sharif, a former pediatric resident at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, in Providence, was one of 25 Muslim Americans selected to speak with national political leaders and public officials shaping national policy during last week’s Young Muslim American Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C.
The Providence Journal, 7/14/2008
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Muslim, American and proud
No doubt terrorism is a threat to our national security, but this presidential campaign has convinced me that ignorance may be our biggest affliction.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/11/2008
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Young Muslims dream of a diverse Congress
Of the 435 members of the United States House of Representatives, only two practice the Islamic faith. Not a single Senator is Muslim. But the Muslim Public Affairs Council wants to change that.
The group brought 26 young Muslims to Washington, D.C. for three days of meetings with lawmakers, government officials and religious leaders of all faiths.
The delegates, who ranged in age from 18 to 28, used the opportunity to discuss everything from racial profiling to Jewish-Muslim relations.
Medill Reports, 7/10/2008
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When pursuing happiness means taking to the skies
“On a Wing and a Prayer” is, if nothing else, a congenial exercise in cultural bridge building. This hourlong documentary introduces us to Monem and Iman Salam, an investment manager and his wife who live in Bellingham, Wash. He travels too much for work; she scrapbooks; they debate whether to buy a new truck or take an anniversary trip to the Maldives. If this were in Us Weekly it would be called “American Muslims: They’re Just Like Us.”
The New York Times, 7/7/2008
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Operation stereotype
A few years ago, when Ahmed Ahmed was a young Egyptian-American actor
struggling to make a name for himself in Los Angeles, he asked his
agent if she could get him a part – any part – that didn’t involve him
playing the same old stereotypical bad Arab.
The National, 7/1/2008
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Being Muslim in America
Muslims in the United States find that hope lies not in assimilating or shedding their identities but in winning over the hearts and minds of their fellow Americans.Mubarakah Ibrahim is an American woman living in the town of New Haven, Connecticut, where she works as a fitness instructor and personal trainer. Having appeared on Oprah Winfrey's TV show, she is also something of a celebrity.
The Star, 6/29/2008
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Muslim-American magazines explore identity
They are not headlines one sees at the grocery store checkout. "A
Jihad for Love" or "There's Something About Rumi." Flipping through the
May edition of the glossy magazine, one also finds features about a
graffiti artist; Nobel Prize winners; calligraphy in the Digital Age;
and the usual magazine fare of recipes, travel tips, and fashion ideas.
There's just one twist: The articles are all aimed at Muslim Americans.
Welcome to Elan, one of the latest in a growing
field of US-based magazines for Muslims. Publications such as Elan,
Azizah, and Islamica cater to a dizzying array of demographic groups
within the community, yet all share a common motivation: to define
themselves at a time when many believe they have surrendered that
responsibility to Western media that often get them wrong.
Christian Science Monitor, 6/23/2008
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'First Muslim country singer' got start in Iowa City
A man being tabbed as the first known Muslim country and western singer got his start in Iowa City.
After
self-releasing two albums through an Iowa City recording studio, Kareem
Salama is starting to catch on, and people are telling him he is one of
a kind.
“That’s what they say, that he is the first Muslim
country music singer. But, I don’t know that for a fact,” the 2007
University of Iowa College of Law alumnus said.
The son of
Egyptian immigrants, Salama was raised in Oklahoma and Texas where
twangy rhythms are the norm. With a thick Southern accent, the devout
Muslim said the country sound is a natural fit for him.
Iowa City Press-Citizen, 6/23/2008
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Historic mosque, records hit by Iowa flood
The flood waters that devastated much of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, also have damaged historic records and artifacts in the Mother Mosque of America, one of the first permanent structures in the United States that was designed and built to serve as a mosque.
Imam Taha Tawil, executive director of the mosque, told The Gazette newspaper
he was certain that the flood waters had entered the basement, where
most of the books, artifacts, historic documents, photos of American
Muslim immigrants from the early 1900s, and filmed documentaries were
stored. Waters also may have gone into the first floor.
Completed in 1934, the mosque is well known among American Muslims.
"The mosque has been visited by people from all over the country,"
Tawil told The Gazette. "It is part of the American Muslim identity."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/17/2008
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Muslim doctors to open free clinic in Brooksville
It was about to rain Monday afternoon, and Dr. Husam Zarad had an exam table to move. With
some help from deliverer Don Lambert, the 45-year-old internist
unloaded the table from the back of Lambert's pickup as the clouds
darkened overhead. Wheeling it on a dolly, they maneuvered the large
brown rectangle down a long, narrow hall and into one of the
examination rooms at the soon-to-open Crescent Community Clinic of
Hernando County.
On the way in, they passed a stack of gray
waiting-room chairs and diagrams of the human body — detailed sketches
of the nervous system and the brain — yet to be hung on the freshly
painted peach-colored walls.
"This is our dream coming true,"
Zarad said, wiping sweat from his brow after angling the table into the
room. "This is how we are going to give back to our community."
St. Petersburg Times, 6/11/2008
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Blending cultures in the melting pot
I grew up being an American at school, an Indian at home and a Muslim
in the prayer hall. America's poets gave me a place in this nation, and the permission to push it towards its potential.My son fell asleep that night to Woody Guthrie songs. I placed him back
in his crib and whispered the Shahada in his ear. He, too, will sing
America — in Indian languages, Arabic prayers and the poetry of
possibility.
National Public Radio, 6/04/2008
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