Arsalan Iftikhar, a human rights lawyer, author of the blog, The Muslim Guy, and a senior editor at “The Islamic Monthly,” said when the news broke about the bombings in Boston that he, like millions of Muslims in America, had one overpowering thought: “Oh God…Please don’t let it be a Muslim.” In the “Islamic Monthly,” Iftikhar noted, “The majority [...]
President Obama: FBI Investigating Boston Bombing as Terrorist Attack
April 16, 2013 | Posted by
President Barack Obama speaks at a White House news conference on the investigation into Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing.
3 Dead, 144 Injured in Boston Marathon Bombing; Police Question Saudi Man
April 16, 2013 | Posted by
As police search for answers and motive in the Boston Marathon bombing that killed 3 people and injured more than 100 yesterday, there were reports that a Saudi man was being questioned by police in connection with the attack. But as a story in the New York Times makes clear, the man is not a [...]
Fort Hood Massacre Survivors Accuse Government of ‘Betrayal’
February 13, 2013 | Posted by
Survivors of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre believe that the government betrayed them in the three years since the incident, and failed to provide adequate care for the victims after the national spotlight faded. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is still awaiting trial for the shooting spree that killed 13 and left 32 wounded at the [...]
Italy is Latest Nation to Join France in Mali Conflict
January 22, 2013 | Posted by
Italy announced Tuesday that it will be offering support to French and Malian troops battling Islamist rebels who threaten to take over the West African nation. France launched Opération Serval on Jan. 11, deploying 500 troops to Mali to defeat the militants, pledging to continue fighting “for as long as it takes to beat the [...]
Paid Informant Alleges To Have Spied On Muslims For NYPD
October 23, 2012 | Posted by
A paid informant for the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit says he was under orders to “bait” Muslims into saying incriminating things as he lived a double life of snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam. In an interview with the Associated Press, Shamiur Rahman, [...]
President Obama’s Secret ‘Kill List’
May 29, 2012 | Posted by
This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years. President Obama, overseeing the [...]
Islamists Attack Ancient African City of Timbuktu in Mali, West Africa
May 7, 2012 | Posted by
In the northern Malian city, Timbuktu, Ansar Dine Islamist fighters burned the shrine of a local saint on Friday. The mausoleum is classified as part of a World Heritage site by the United Nation’s cultural body, Unesco. Islamists tore off the wooden doors, gates and window frames of the mausoleum and burned them. The tomb [...]
Terror Group, Boko Haram, Threatens Nigerian President
May 7, 2012 | Posted by
“We want Dr Jonathan one on one. No police, no nothing. And if he doesn’t address us in the next 78 hours, we are going to strike, and, this time around, we are coming to Abuja and Lagos. We are not hiding it; we are going to see to it.” With these words, a caller [...]
