Muslim man charged for setting Houston mosque on fire
December 31st, 20150 TEXAS - A Muslim man has been charged with setting fire to a Houston mosque on Christmas Day. Gary Nathaniel Moore, 37, of Houston, was arrested early Wednesday morning, and appeared in court 7 a.m. that day for the Dec. 25 fire. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent Nicole Strong said...Judge orders restraining order against California woman who attacked praying Muslims
CALIFORNIA -- A Castro Valley woman on Tuesday was banned from her local park and ordered to have no contact with the man she is accused of throwing coffee at during an anti-Muslim rant that went viral on the Internet. "I want an no contact order from their side too," Denise Slader could be heard saying in a courthouse...Poll: Americans say Muslims should have the least religious rights
Washington - Americans place a higher priority on preserving the religious freedom of Christians than for other faith groups, ranking Muslims as the least deserving of the protections, according to a new survey. Solid majorities said it was extremely or very important for the U.S. to uphold religious freedom in general. However, the...Latino-Americans are converting to Islam more than ever before
Latinos in the U.S. are considered to be the fastest-growing demographic as well as the fastest-growing group of Muslims in America, the Press-Enterprise reported. Although the statistics haven't been widely tracked, there are an estimated 150,000 Islam converts among the Latino community in the U.S. The...Israeli man in Brooklyn charged with hate crime against Muslims
James Samways.NEW YORK - Police charged a Brooklyn resident with a hate crime after he allegedly chased four Muslim men in Marine Park on Saturday night while screaming “I want to see Arab blood in the streets.” James Samways, an Israeli American who works for the UPS, was arraigned Sunday and charged with menacing as a...Houston mosque set on fire on Christmas Day
HOUSTON – The Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Houston) called on local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate a possible bias motive for a fire at a mosque in the city. Firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire at the mosque in southwest Houston on Friday afternoon....San Bernardino killer denied militancy in U.S. entry papers
San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik denied having any militant sympathies or intentions when she was asked in an application form for a U.S. visa two years ago according to documents.Information in the documents could bolster complaints of critics in Congress who said flaws in the immigration system meant Malik was not thoroughly...Pennsylvania man pleads not guilty to supporting Islamic State
A 19-year-old Pennsylvania man pleaded not guilty to charges of supporting Islamic State by trying to help others travel to the Middle East where the militant group is engaging in ground combat.The man, Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, spoke little during a hearing at U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, just entering his plea and indicating he...Young protesters heckle Trump during Grand Rapids speech
GRAND RAPIDS — Protesters heckled Donald Trump at a 9,000-person rally on Monday, December 21, interrupting his speech more than 10 times with shouts before security guards ejected them from the event. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, alternated between criticizing the hecklers and asking the...Man named Jihad arrested after telling California police he left bomb in backpack
Jihad Mufaddi Khalaf Haddadin. El Monte - A man named Jihad was arrested after telling California police he had a bomb in a backpack. Cops in El Monte carried out a controlled explosion on the bag after Jihad Mufaddi Khalaf Haddadin claimed he had left a bomb outside their police station. The 52-year-old told police he...Psychiatric evaluation ordered for accused Planned Parenthood gunman
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO - The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine others in a Nov. 27 shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado was ordered on Wednesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he insisted on acting as his own lawyer.Judge Gilbert Martinez ordered the evaluation to determine whether...Muslim family escorted out of Arkansas mall after shoppers report them to security
ARKANSAS - A Muslim couple in Arkansas dressed in a thobe and hijab are being taunted on social media and are planning to move after getting tossed from a mall while holiday shopping this weekend. Alan and Daphne Crawford and their son were removed from Fort Smith's Central Mall after shoppers grew concerned about the family's...British Muslim family of 11 blocked from boarding flight to visit Disneyland
LONDON - A British Muslim family heading for Disneyland was blocked from boarding a flight to Los Angeles by US authorities at London’s Gatwick airport amid concerns of an American overreaction to the perceived terrorist threat. US Department of Homeland Security officials provided no explanation for why the country refused to allow...
California neighborhood evacuated after man makes bombs to harm Muslims
December 22nd, 20150 Richmond, CA. — A man was arrested on Sunday afternoon after police say he was making explosives in his home with the intent of harming Muslims, prompting the neighborhood to be evacuated.Police say they received a tip from a caller on December 17, who said the man was constructing devices to "harm the Muslim community."A bomb...Virginia school district shut down over Islamic assignment
VIRGINIA - A teacher's lesson on Islam in Virginia's Bible Belt sparked an angry meeting of outraged parents that mushroomed into a national denunciation of the educator in the form of thousands of angry emails and social media postings. An estimated 10,000 students in Augusta County's public school system got a one-day jump on the......
12-year-old Dallas student falsely arrested for terrorist threat
December 20th, 20150 DALLAS — Dallas cops put Armaan Singh Sarai in jail for three days because someone mistook the solar panel on his phone-charging backpack for a bomb.Sarai was in class when a classmate told him that he was going to tell on him because the solar panel he had looked like a bomb. According to a Facebook post by Sarai's cousin, "A...
California woman who attacked praying Muslims is being charged with hate crime
December 18th, 20150 Alameda County, Calif - The California woman who attacked praying Muslims at a park in an encounter that was caught on camera is now being charged with a hate crime, prosecutors said. The Arab American News originally broke the story last week. Denise Slader, a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee, was...New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration, responding to heightened concerns about rogue drone flights near airports, unveiled a pre-Christmas rule on Monday requiring drone hobbyists as young as 13 years old to register their unmanned aircraft. The new online registry will require current drone owners to register by Feb. 19,...Homeland Security chief says social media used in immigration vetting
WASHINGTON - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Wednesday that his department has been consulting social media in reviews of immigration applications since early this year, hitting back at criticism that U.S. authorities are not doing enough to weed out potential security threats. The Department of Homeland Security......
California shooters’ friend charged with supporting terrorists
December 18th, 20150 Marquez.WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES - A former neighbor suspected of supplying guns to the married couple who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, California, was charged on Thursday with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, the U.S. Justice Department said.Enrique Marquez, 24, a friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, who...
FBI: San Bernardino shooters were not a part of a terrorist cell
December 16th, 20150 Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook at Chicago's O'Hare Airport in this July 27, 2014NEW YORK — The San Bernardino attackers did not post support for jihad on open social media, contrary to previous reports, the FBI said.There is no evidence a married couple who killed 14 people in California this month were part of a terrorist cell, the......
GOP candidates reluctant to take on Trump
December 16th, 20150 Donald Trump (L) reaches out to Sen. Ted Cruz the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, Dec. 15LAS VEGAS — Challenger Jeb Bush locked horns with Republican front-runner Donald Trump in a national security debate on Tuesday but most rivals avoided tangling with the billionaire who has emerged as an enduring force in the 2016...
Ohio 7th grader charged for threatening to shoot Muslim student
December 13th, 20150 Morton Middle SchoolVANDALIA — A seventh-grader accused of threatening to shoot a sixth-grader faces expulsion in addition to the criminal charges filed against him. The boy made the threat to the six grader around 2:30 p.m. Dec. 7 aboard a bus after it left Morton Middle School. The victim called in to the police station......
