October 30th, 20210Endorsing candidates for important offices is a major responsibility for local organizations and newspapers.
For an ethnic newspaper, the voice of the community we advocate for has to be taken into consideration, as should the issues that affect it the most. But decisions on endorsements cannot simply come about with a superficial...
October 26th, 20210DEARBORN — This week, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell introduced legislation in the U.S. House inspired by the story of a Dearborn family in the 1980s.
The legislation, named the Samier Amer Foster Care Improvement Act of 2021, requires state foster care programs to ensure children are prioritized for placement with their relatives and...
October 2nd, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The fourth annual Halal Expo and Summit is due to kick off in late October in the Washington, D.C. area.
The trade expo features exhibitors from companies all over the world, cooking demonstrations and a fashion show. The dynamic exhibition space has been redesigned to facilitate networking and commerce...
September 15th, 20212The Michigan chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) is asking the Ferndale Police Department to take action after its officers arrested a Muslim woman, subjected her to searches by male officers and coerced her to remove her hijab for a photo, violating her constitutional rights.
At a press conference on...
September 11th, 20210Twenty years later, the Muslim community in the U.S. and abroad is reflecting on the legacy of U.S. response to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
The tragedy and trauma of the surreal attacks of that day are coupled with two decades of domestic and foreign policy that deeply changed the relationship between the U.S. government,...
September 10th, 20210— This article by Abdul El-Sayed originally appeared in the newsletter The Incision. It has been edited for style. Subscribe to The Incision here: incision.substack.com
Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives on that fateful day. We...
August 23rd, 20211DEARBORN — U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) has sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, calling for a complete and thorough audit of the No-Fly and Selectee Lists to ensure innocent American citizens have not been...
July 7th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — A second teenage girl has been sentenced to juvenile detention, and will be released when she turns 21, for the tragic death of Pakistani American Mohammad Anwar in Washington D.C.
Anwar, 66, was an Uber Eats delivery driver. He was killed in March when two teenagers attempted to carjack him. Anwar clung on to...
June 24th, 20210A new banking system offers its customer the first halal banking experience in the U.S., by promising no-interest lending and ethical investments.
Fair is a "neobank", or digital bank, that practices principles in line with Islamic law, which forbids usury, or collecting interest on loans. Fair's customers can conduct business through...
June 11th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to look at a decade-long class-action case involving the FBI’s use of an informant to spy on several LA and Orange County mosques, the Courthouse News reported Tuesday.
For more than a year, the FBI planted an informant in the mosques and instructed him to coerce and gather...
June 10th, 20210On Thursday, the U.S. Senate approved President Biden’s nomination of Zahid Quraishi, a magistrate judge in New Jersey, to the federal bench, making him the first Muslim federal judge in U.S. history. Quraishi will serve as U.S. district judge for the District of New Jersey.
The Democrat-controlled Senate voted 81-16 to confirm...
June 6th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and Center on Muslim Philanthropy have jointly published an extensive study on the characteristic of the U.S. mosque.
Entitled The American Mosque 2020: Growing and Evolving: Report 1 of the U.S. Mosque Survey 2020:...
June 3rd, 20210The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) announced a new project that will research, track and document anti-Arab and Islamophobic bias in the media, public discourse and from public officials.
The ADC-Research Institute's (ADC-RI) Media Research Project, led by veteran journalist Ali Younes, hopes to expose xenophobia...
May 19th, 20210HAMTRAMCK — The city of Hamtramck, known to be the nation’s first Muslim-majority city, is the subject of a documentary set to makes its broadcast premiere on the WORLD Channel (formerly PBS WORLD) on Tuesday, May 25.
A synopsis for the documentary, titled Hamtramck, USA, says it "goes behind the scenes of small-town politics,"...
April 26th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has released a report detailing nationwide incidents of civil rights complaints by Muslim Americans that the group received over the past year.
The 2021 report is named Resilience in the Face of Hate.
The country’s “largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy...
April 3rd, 20210This week, a federal appeals court in Virginia enshrined the federal government's use of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). After a lower court ruling held that the TSDB's application deprived Americans, especially those of Arab and Muslim descent, the right to due process under the law, this appeals court declared that the right...
April 2nd, 20210A panel of appeals court judges ruled this week that the “terror watchlist” does not violate the constitutional rights of American citizens, even if they are not notified or allowed to defend themselves against the government’s underlying reason for adding their names to the list.
The legal news website Law & Crime reported...
March 20th, 20210DETROIT - 2021 should be a transformative year for HUDA Clinic in Detroit.
Located near the Highland Park enclave in Detroit, the free clinic has been providing essential medical and psychological care services to the low income communities in Detroit and Hamtramck for almost two decades. The urgency of that care only intensified...
January 18th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The pro-Trump violence in the U.S. Capitol earlier this month has pushed the nation’s law enforcement authorities to high alert for White supremacists groups seeking more chaos around Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration.
Connected to this is a fear by minority groups, like Muslim Americans, that the anger...
November 6th, 20200MICHIGAN — Emgage Action, a Muslim civic advocacy organization, said Wednesday that it celebrated a high Muslim American voter turnout in Michigan, and that turnout was instrumental to former Vice President Joe Biden's victory in the state.
According to the Emgage analyes, more than 81,000 Muslim American early and absentee votes...
October 4th, 20201When it comes to choosing between Joe Biden or Donald Trump, and their approaches to the American Muslim community, it’s not even close.
The Biden campaign has demonstrated a strong commitment to American Muslim communities, causes, and concerns. The vice president and Dr. Jill Biden have spoken to our audiences and institutions,...
October 4th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) published its fifth annual poll, analyzing attitudes and policy preferences on issues concerning American Muslims across faith and non-faith groups.
The American Muslim Poll 2020: Amid Pandemic and Protest covers important issues such as Muslim...
August 31st, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Andre Carson (D-IN) are leading a letter to the Department of Homeland Security that calls for a full investigation into allegations that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) fed detainees pork, in violation of their religious tenets.
The...
July 22nd, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the NO BAN Act, a bill that will effectively repeal the Trump Administration's discriminatory ban against Muslims, Africans, refugees and asylees.
The final vote tally was 233-183. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) presided over the debate of...
July 20th, 20200WASHINGTON D.C. — Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden spoke at an online event hosted by Emgage Action, a national organization that promotes Muslim civic engagement, on Monday, where he promised to engage with the concerns of Muslim voters seriously.
"I’ll be a president who seeks out and listens to and incorporates the...
June 15th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — Emgage Action, a national advocacy organization for Muslim Americans, says it is disheartened by Islamophobic comments made by Retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, the White House's nominee for a top position as Pentagon policy chief. The organization calls for the White House to reject Gen. Tata from this...
June 5th, 20200
DEARBORN — Arab Americans participated in several actions in solidarity with African Americans and in demonstrations against police brutality across the country. In Metro Detroit alone, prominent Arab Americans joined other communities in condemning the senseless killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police...
June 2nd, 20200DEARBORN — Arab Americans will continue to participate in actions in solidarity with African Americans and in demonstrations against police brutality across the country. In Metro Detroit alone, prominent Arab Americans are joining others to condemn the senseless killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer last...
