US Muslims Relieved at Death of bin Laden...
May 02, 2011 Jerome Socolovsky | Washington, D.C. In the past decade, many American Muslims have said Osama bin Laden changed their lives in America for the worse. The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that he ordered killed nearly 3,000 people and made all Muslims a target of suspicion, they said. So the killing of bin Laden by U.S. military commandos storming a heavily fortified compound in Pakistan was widely welcomed. “Today we greet the news of the death of Osama bin Laden with immense relief,” said Tarin. Haris Tarin, the head of the Muslim Public Affairs Council Washington office, says he was awake all night after the killing, communicating with Muslims, especially the younger generation. “And I...
Seven Muslim Americans on Ballot in Suburban Chicago...
April 04, 2011 Kane Farabaugh | Chicago, Illinois When it started last year, the non-profit group Project Mobilize, or Project M, hoped to change the political landscape in suburban Chicago by promoting Muslim Americans as election candidates. So far, there are no Muslim Americans serving as elected officials in the Chicago area. But Project M hopes that will change in municipal elections April 5. In the countdown to election day, Maha Hasan is making a final push to get out the vote. She is running for a position as a trustee with the Justice Public Library. Justice is a Chicago suburb. “The demographics have significantly changed. You see a lot more Polish immigrants coming in. You see a...
More Muslim Americans on Ballot in Chicago...
February 19, 2011 Kane Farabaugh | Chicago Much of the attention on Chicago’s local elections February 22 is focused on the race for mayor. Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and former Senator Carol Moseley Braun lead a list of candidates seeking the office currently held by Mayor Richard Daley. But in those same elections, an increased number of Muslim American candidates also are seeking positions on Chicago’s city council. Ahmed Khan is running for alderman (city council member) in Chicago’s 50th Ward. He is the son of Indian immigrants and knows many neighborhood people from working at his parent’s grocery store. “We talk about grassroots politics, and grass roots activism,” said Khan. “But I think...
USC Program Helps to Train Young Muslim Leaders...
Mike O’Sullivan | Los Angeles February 18, 2011 A new generation of Muslim American leaders is emerging in the United States. And a project at the University of Southern California called American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute is helping to train them. The American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute’s approach includes stretching exercises and heart-to-heart sharing of personal stories. One goal is to help young Muslim leaders counteract negative sentiments, like the anti-Muslim protests last year surrounding plans to build an Islamic center near the site of the terrorist attacks in New York in 2001. Khuram Zaman, who helps to run an Internet-based Islamic educational site, said, “I think the community in general feels like it is under attack, but...
US Group Launches Campaign to Promote Peaceful Image of Islam...
December 21, 2010 Peter Fedynsky | New York Many Muslims are concerned that terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam are creating a false impression that the faith is violent by its very nature. A group of American Muslims has launched a campaign at Times Square in New York City to defend Islam against that impression. Amid the blaze of lights at Times Square in New York City are signs advertising a range of goods and services — from restaurants to theaters, from pharmaceuticals to the New York Yankees baseball team. This holiday season, there is also a 15-second video sponsored by Muslims for Peace, a group that follows the pacifist tradition within Islam. It promotes a...
Stockholm Bomber Seen as Radical by U.K. Muslims...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — At his local mosque in England, Taimour Abdulwahab alarmed elders with his extreme views on Islam. On the Internet, he posted videos of Chechen fighters and abused Iraqi prisoners. On Saturday, officials say, he died in a botched suicide bombing in Stockholm. Authorities are now trying to learn when he was radicalized, whether he had accomplices — and how a man whose radical views were displayed both online and in person escaped official notice. Swedish prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said Monday that authorities are certain the suicide bomber who terrified pre-Christmas shoppers was Abdulwahab, an Iraqi-born Swede who spent much of the past decade in Britain. He said Abdulwahab was completely unknown to Swedish security police...
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