American Muslims

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• American Muslims are fierce patriots, Obama says

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 639
  President Barack Obama can duck a question with the best of them, but when he was asked about the arrest in Pakistan of five allegedly home-grown U.S. jihadists, he seized the opportunity to damp down a potential backlash against American Muslims and praised the community for its "fierce patriotism." "What has ...
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• American Muslims are fierce patriots, Obama says

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 650
  President Barack Obama can duck a question with the best of them, but when he was asked about the arrest in Pakistan of five allegedly home-grown U.S. jihadists, he seized the opportunity to damp down a potential backlash against American Muslims and praised the community for its “fierce patriotism.” “What ...
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• More Homegrown Terrorists: But, Hey, Aren’t US Muslims “Moderate”?

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 672
  By Debbie SchlusselAs I’ve noted over and over again, ever since 9/11 and the mass murder of nearly 3,000 Americans by 19 Muslim men, we’ve been lectured by everyone, from President Bush to the vast American left to Sean Vannity and Glenn Beck, that only foreign Muslims are extremist, that only they are the ones ...
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• A Mixed Picture on Domestic Radicalization?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The arrest in Pakistan of five northern Virginia young men at a safe house belonging to the anti-India terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed underscores fears of domestic U.S. radicalization that have swelled in recent weeks. From Najibullah Zazi to the Minnesotans arrested for aiding Somali terror group al-Shebaab ...
  20 hours ago

• 5 American Muslims arrested in Pakistan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 10 (DPA) Five American Muslims from the Washington area who went missing have been detained in Pakistan as US authorities were investigating their motive for leaving the country, US officials and a Muslim group said.The five men in their 20s from northern Virginia are believed to have travelled to ...
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• Muslim Customer Allegedly Harassed at CitiBank for Wearing Hijab

  
  The Islamic Workplace — Authority: 126
  CAIRFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECAIR-Chicago Asks Citibank to Apologize for Hijab IncidentMuslim customer allegedly harassed by bank guard because of Islamic scarf(CHICAGO, IL, 12/8/09) — The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) today called on Citibank to apologize to a Muslim woman ...
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• Muslim women search for a place in the Hajj

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 130
  By Hadeel Al-ShalchiMECCA, Saudi Arabia — One of the main rites at Islam’s annual hajj centers on the bravery and determination of a woman. According to Muslim tradition, Hagar, the consort of the patriarch Abraham, ... Related Posts B ISSUES & IDEAS – Understanding the Hajj. Hajj links humanity across ...
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• The Price of Being Born Muslim

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 550
  OpEd in NY Times But with this increased awareness of the Muslim, there is a lack of appreciation of the nuances within our group. The reality is that many Muslims are secular. We do not pray five times a day, do not read the Koran and have not spent much time inside a mosque. We only turn to Islam when a child is ...
  6 days ago

• Muslim Punk Rock

  
  Virtually Islamic — Authority: 138
  Carla Power, Time, Muslim Punk Rock: A Mashup of Piety and Politics, 3 Dec 09 "Whether theyre the voices of Muslim feminists going back to read the Koran and the Hadith as documents of liberation, gay Muslims working out a theology that embraces homosexuality or even the millions of Muslim youths trusting Islamic chat ...
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• Book Review: A Country Called Amreeka

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 550
  Review of Alia Malek’s New  Book:  In “A Country Called Amreeka,” Malek chronicles the lives of a dozen Arab Americans. Their stories are markers on a timeline that stretches back to the legendary Alabama-Auburn football game of 1948 and runs through the riotous Detroit of the ’60s, the fraught tensions ...
  1 week ago

• Higher Education [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 810
  [Berkeley, December 2. Image via Getty ] BERKELEY, CA - DECEMBER 02: Muslim American teenager Shaymaa Mahmoud (R) looks on during her Gender and Womens Studies class at U.C. Berkeley December 2, 2009 in Berkeley, California. Eight years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Muslims in America are once again ...
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• Is anyone aware of any statement by any …

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 550
  Is anyone aware of any statement by any organized Muslim group in America about the proposed surge in Afghanistan which Obama will address tomorrow night taking a position either for or against the surge? a
  1 week ago

• Achieving Interfaith Understanding

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The Lesson of the "Interfaith Amigos" On Monday, The New York Times carried a story about three clergymen who have formed a kind of traveling road-show to promote interfaith understanding. The approach worked out by Rabbi Ted Falcon, the Presbyterian minister Don Mackenzie and Sheik Jamal Rahman is counter-intuitive ...
  1 week ago

• Health Consciousness and Religion

  
  The Manrilla Blog | Exploring Islam In America Through the Social Sciences — Authority: 120
  On November 15, I participated in a locally-held, national event co-sponsored by Jewish and Muslim student groups called Health Consciousness and Religion [https://www.ffeu.org/index.htm]. The event, held at Hillel on UPenn’s campus, was a talk about Kosher and Halal, and looking at both systems not just in their ...
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• Eid al-Adha

  
  Virtually Islamic — Authority: 138
  Oralandar Brand-Williams, The Detroit News, Best Buy creates Internet buzz with Black Friday ad marking Muslim holiday, 24 Nov 09 "Electronics retailer Best Buys Black Friday ads acknowledging the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha are stirring controversy on some Internet blogs today."The ads, promoting the retail giants ...
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• African American Muslims and Their Social Purgatory

  
  The Manrilla Blog | Exploring Islam In America Through the Social Sciences — Authority: 120
  Hat tip to Khalifa for passing this on. And while we may be occupied with more-than-earthly matters today, perhaps we can take a look at this over the next couple of days and reflect upon it. I have a few thoughts of my own I will share on it shortly.“When you control a man’s thinking [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Little Mosque on the Prairie

  
  Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas — Authority: 106
  I just discovered this delightfully-entertaining, half-hour episode comedy series about a diverse group of Muslims, set in a small Canadian town on on the prairie.  The 20-minute video above is the first episode. The diverse group of Muslims in the town have the same disagreements among themselves that different ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama’s plan for Afghanistan full of military bravado, empty of substance

  
  International Political Will — Authority: 106
  I wonder how that appeasement tastes to Obama right about now.First he boldly proclaims the US demands a freeze of Israeli settlements. Netanyahu and the Israeli right-wing tell the U.S. president to go f**k himself.In only a matter of weeks, Obama bends over on the Israeli settlement issue and lets Netanyahu have his ...
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• Best Buy Wishes Muslims Happy Eid al-Adha

  
  Hussam Ayloush Official Website — Authority: 118
  Bradweek.com Nov 23, 2009 Todd Wasserman Best Buy stands by its decision to wish U.S. Muslims a Happy Eid Al-Adha, a rep for the company said, and though some Best Buy customers took offense, a Muslim advocacy group praised the move. The retailer got some flak this week for including, along with its circular ...
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• Somalia

  
  Virtually Islamic — Authority: 138
  Herve Bar, Ex-Somali fighters tell why they abandoned jihad, 24 Nov 09 "The gunfire outside does not disturb them as they speak, explaining what led them to leave behind their lives as Islamist fighters and defect to the side of Somalias weak transitional government." There is a net link in this interesting story.
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