16 February 2012 According to the below news video, an Iraqi mother has been arrested and charged with a felony-for allegedly tying up and padalocking her daughter to a bed and then beating her. This punishment, it has been alleged, is in response to one of her daughters talking to a man. The mother is seen [...]
Feb 162012
16 February 2011 Links to more articles, on this story, can be found below. ———————- CBS-Denver
26 October 2011 An article in the St. Petersburg Times (25 October 2011) reports that a Florida Appeals court has apparently upheld the use of Islamic Law (Sharia) by a judge considering the disposition of Mosque assets. Surprisingly, it was actually the intneded use, by the judge, to use sharia that prompted the Islamic Education [...]
May 072011
07 May 2011 According to a report by WJBK Fox News-Detroit (02 May 2011), a twenty year-old woman was killed by her step-father in what appears to be an honor killing. Jessica Mokedad was apparently killed by her stepfather, Rahim Alfetlawi. Jessica, assisted by friends, fled her family home in Minnesota and settled in Michigan. [...]
07 May 2011 According to an article by the Associated Press (06 May 2011), an Atlanitc Southeast airlines flight in Memphis returned to the terminal and two Muslim Imams were removed from the flight. The article states that the two men were taken to a lounge and then booked on a later flight. Here [...]
Apr 222011
21 April 2011 In an odd turn of events, the Wasatch Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake city is handing out Qurans. The Qurans, according to an article in the Utah News (21 April 2011), are given out with a bookmark that says, “This book was donated by the leaders of Wasatch Presbyterian Church, who are [...]
13 April 2011 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in a report dated 11 April 2011, says that Farooque Ahmed has been sentenced to 23 years in prison. Farooque pleaded guilty to “attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization and collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit facility.” [...]
11 April 2011 The Daily Reporter, in an article dated 11 April 2011, reports that a new bill restricting the use of “foreign or international law” is meeting opposition. According to the article, the bill prohibits any court or agency rulings based on foreign law “that would not grant the parties affected by the ruling [...]
Apr 072011
07 April 2011 According to an article in The Brooklyn Paper, dated 06 April 2011, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, in New York, will be losing its current location. The article reports that the school, founded in 2007 by Debbie Almontaser, suffered from low student enrollment and “poor student performance and student progress”. The school is reportedly [...]
