November 3rd, 20220ECORSE — An Arab American man is suing U.S. Steel for wrongful discrimination termination following employment discrimination by his supervisor.
The lawsuit, filed by the Michigan chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) in federal court on behalf of Yemeni American Jalal Muflihi, says Muflihi complained for...
September 16th, 20220TROY — After years of legal battles, the first mosque in the city of Troy is now set to open.
An inauguration for the Adam Community Center's mosque is scheduled for this Saturday at 5 p.m. at 3635 Rochester Road.
The large, ethnically and religiously diverse Metro Detroit city of more than 80,000 residents has churches, temples...
August 9th, 20220NEW MEXICO — After the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in Albuquerque in what authorities suspected to be related cases over nine months, police said they had a suspect in custody and announced charges on Wednesday in two of the shootings.
Muhammad Syed, 51, was taken into custody a day earlier after a traffic stop more than 100...
July 21st, 20220Google removed a stereotypical translation suggestion to a simple Arabic word from its widely used Google Translate app this week, after being contacted by media and an advocacy group.
The change took place on Wednesday, after Newsweek pointed out to the company that when users entered the Arabic word for the verb "plan", Google...
June 2nd, 20221CHICOPEE, MASS — A Muslim woman in Massachusetts has filed a legal complaint against a McDonald’s restaurant whose employees purposefully stuffed bacon into a fish sandwich she and her son bought.
"McDonald's made my children and me feel unwanted and worthless by intentionally stuffing a fish sandwich full of bacon for no other...
November 12th, 20210
NEW JERSEY – The Republican who defeated New Jersey's State Senate president last week has "committed to renouncing" hate speech amid criticism of old tweets he posted expressing Islamophobia, a Muslim advocacy group in the state said Wednesday.
State Sen.-elect Edward Durr met with Muslim community leaders in the state last...
February 15th, 20212NEW JERSEY — Arab American Osamah Alsaidi of Paterson, New Jersey is seeking justice after being brutalized by police officers in a seemingly unprovoked attack in December, when he was 19-years-old.
At least two officers are now under investigation for the violent incident that left Alsaidi with head trauma and a concussion. The...
June 8th, 20181WASHINGTON, D.C. — After declining to mark Ramadan last year with a traditional iftar dinner, which breaks the daily fast during the Islamic holy month, the White House held one Wednesday night with a few dozen guests, many of them ambassadors from Muslim nations.
Meanwhile, some Islamic groups that were not invited, led by the...
May 25th, 20180WARREN — A Warren city official has turned in her resignation papers after making anti-Muslim posts on social media.
Diane Toni Deliso Kozlowski, a member of the Elected Officials Compensation Commission, said she wasn’t talking about Muslims, but terrorists, and sparked a nerve with a local Muslim civil liberties...
April 27th, 20180By Farah Harb
The Arab Americans News
FARMINGTON HILLS – On Monday, April 23, the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations hosted a press conference at its Farmington Hills offices and released its 2018 civil rights report. CAIR is the largest advocacy and civil liberties organization for American...
January 19th, 20180By Farah Harb
WASHINGTON D.C. — The Pew Research Center recently released a report stating that Muslim Americans in the United States constitute 1 percent of the total U.S. population, but a Muslim advocacy group questions the results.
In the report, The Pew Research Center claims that as of 2017, there are 3.45 million Muslims...
