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Lawyers Press for Return of 'No-Fly' US Teen Stranded in Kuwait
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsGovernment lawyers say they are working to bring Gulet Mohamed, an American teenager detained in Kuwait and placed on a "no-fly" list, back to the United States this week, but the teenager's lawyers fear the U.S. will delay the process. At a hearing Tuesday at a U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., Judge Anthony Trenga said Mohamed has a constitutional right to come home to the United States and told government lawyers to arrange for his return this week. But lawyers for Mohamed, a 19-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia who has been held in Kuwait for a month, say they are ...
Fire at Mosque Site Part of a 'Perfect Storm'?
By David Lohr - AOL News(Aug. 30) -- As federal investigators search for the cause of an equipment fire at the future site of an Islamic center in Tennessee, a Muslim civil rights organization says the incident could be yet another instance of anti-Islam attacks. "Unfortunately, a number of factors -- from the rise of the tea party movement to the rise of vocal anti-Muslim hate groups to the obvious decision by right-wing politicians to exploit Muslim-bashing as a political issue they feel gains them support -- have come together, I think, to make it a perfect storm of Islamophobia," Ibrahim Hooper, national ...
NYC Mayor Meets With Stabbed Muslim Cab Driver
By David Lohr - AOL News(Aug. 26) -- A Muslim cab driver who was stabbed in an apparent hate crime met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at City Hall today and told reporters afterward that he's haunted by the terrifying attack. "It still has me scared," Ahmed Sharif, 43, told reporters. "I still have a view of the knife when I close my eyes." Sharif, who lives in the borough of Queens, was attacked Monday night by a passenger he picked up on the east side of Manhattan, police said. He told authorities the passenger asked him, "Are you Muslim?" When the cabbie replied yes, the passenger pulled out a knife ...
Civil Rights Groups Decry US Muslim's No-Fly Plight
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(June 16) -- U.S. civil liberties groups are protesting the case of a 26-year-old Muslim-American man who was placed on the no-fly list and barred from returning to the States after spending 18 months in Yemen. Yahya Wehelie, an American citizen, remains stranded in Cairo after being stopped there by FBI agents while en route back to his Virginia home six weeks ago, The New York Times reports. The agents questioned Wehelie about his contact with other Americans in Yemen, including a New Jersey man suspected of joining al-Qaida and killing a hospital guard in Yemen. U.S. counterterrorism ...
Creators Out, But Muhammad Drawing Protest Is On
By David Moye - AOL News(April 27) -- An event calling on North Americans to draw the Islamic prophet Muhammad is not only drawing controversy, it's also drawing in participants -- even as the organizers drop out of the picture. After hearing about the threats made against "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker by Muslim activists for a recent episode depicting Muhammad in a bear costume to spoof the Islam rule that he never be drawn, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris decided to take action. Courtesy Of Molly Norris Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris created this poster declaring May 20 as "Everybody Draw ...
Fort Hood Killings Revive Controversial Book
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Nov. 11) - A book that claims to expose a rising Muslim threat in the United States is gaining unexpected popularity amid the fallout from the Fort Hood massacre. "The Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry, has shot up in Amazon's ranking since the shooting spree allegedly carried out by a Muslim Army officer, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. The shootings at Fort Hood, which left 13 dead and 42 wounded, has led to a heated debate about whether Hasan's deadly rampage was related to his contacts with Islamic extremists, a ...
American Muslim Groups Condemn Fort Hood Shootings
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyThere's still so much that we don't know about the man who is accused of murdering 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounding so many more. But we know the suspect's name: Nadal Malik Hasan. And we are told his faith: Islam. Certainly since 9/11, that's enough to set many Americans' teeth on edge. That may be a natural reaction. But Thursday's tragedy in Texas has also succeeded in making many American Muslims feel they've been put on the spot. Again. I often see the question: Why don't the "good" Muslims condemn terrorism? Well, very often they do just that. And long before we have any idea if ...
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