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Ten years after 9/11, U.S. Muslims still battling stereotypes

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Iran Hikers Thank CAIR for Seeking Their Release WASHINGTON, -- Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the American citizens recently freed after being jailed for more than two years in Iran, met last week with the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) ... CAIR \| Comments	Laughs keep coming for Arab-US comedians New York City // Dean Obeidallah doesn't look the nervous type. His "Ken-doll" appearance, as it has been described, conveys the vague sense that you have seen him somewhere before, ... Taimur Khan \| Comments
From 9/11 To 8/22: My Arab-American Muslim Father Was A Victim Of American Terrorism As the nation approaches the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an Arab-American Muslim man, his wife and six kids continue to wrap their brains around a terrorist attack that ... Maytha Alhassen \| Comments	Don’t call me a terrorist It didn’t take long from the time the planes hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 for something ugly to begin occurring in American ... News \| Comments
Ten years after 9/11, U.S. Muslims still battling stereotypes Ten years have passed since al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four planes in an attack that killed nearly 3,000 people and wiped the World Trade Center from the New York City sk... HANNAN ADELY* \| Comments	Latino and Muslim: A growing minority Latino and Muslim are two words that come charged with various sentiments in American society. Being a Latino Muslim comes with the challenge of facing both religious and ethnic os... Audris Ponce \| Comments
American Muslims on guard after 9/11 STERLING, Virginia: Muslims in Sterling, Virginia have marked every anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 with a solemn prayer service for the victims and heightened vigilance against potential ... AFP \| Comments	CAIR Asks U.S. Mosques to Step Up Security After Norway Attacks A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on American mosques to step up security following attacks by an anti-Muslim, right-wing terrorist in Norway that left more ... CAIR \| Comments

CAIR Seeks FBI Probe of Third Hate Attack on NY Muslims (WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/15/11) -- A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on the FBI to investigate a third recent hate attack on New York ... News \| Comments	Same hate, new target: Islam in U.S. WASHINGTON- Workers discovered burnt Holy Qu'ran outside a mosque in San Francisco. A Muslim woman wearing hijab, or head covering, was removed from the line at the Navy Federal Credit ... NISA ISLAM MUHAMMAD \| Comments
The Fourth of July: What does it mean to an American Muslim? The Fourth of July has many meanings to this American Muslim. It is both a source of pride, disappointment of a dream deferred and the hope of fulfillment of a ... Imam Johari Abdul-Malik \| Comments	Defend Muslims, Defend America WITH an eye toward the 2012 elections, legislators in six states have been debating laws explicitly prohibiting courts from considering or using Sharia law, with 14 more looking at wider ... AZIZ HUQ \| Comments
CAIR-LA Releases Video on Rep. King's Anti-Muslim Hearings The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today released a video following Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) second McCarthyesque hearing targeting American Mu... CAIR \| Comments	Republicans Urged to Reject Islamophobia As White House hopefuls met Monday night for their first face-to-face debate, a Muslim coalition is calling on Republican candidates to repudiate growing Islamophobia in the United ... News \| Comments
Cleveland Cultural Gardens unite Syrian-Americans as turmoil swirls in homeland CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Local Syrian-Americans devoted months of research, discussion and fundraising to be ready for Sunday, when they will become the first Arab-American community to join the Cleveland Cultural Ga... Robert L. Smith, The Plain Dealer \| Comments	American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Bans Pro-Freedom Singer Ben ... Jeffrey Goldberg* \| Comments

Syrian Americans mobilize in L.A. area to support freedom movement in Syria Some 200 Syrian Americans packed a hall in La Mirada, Calif., Wednesday to organize their efforts to promote freedom and democracy in Syria and to stop the Syrian ... Watan \| Comments	CAIR: U.S. Muslim Denied Passport by Embassy in Kuwait WASHINGTON, -- A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on the Obama administration to return the passport of an American Muslim citizen in Kuwait, which was seized by ... CAIR \| Comments
CAIR Asks Napolitano to Probe Use of Islamophobic Trainers (WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/23/11) -- A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to conduct an agency-wide investigation ... CAIR \| Comments	A protest in Los Angeles in support of Palestinians on Nakba 63 Los Angeles – More than 250 activists on the steps of the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles rallied in solidarity with others around the world and in Palestine on Sunday, May 15 to co... Bassam Mahdawi \| Comments
Homeland Security ends immigrant registration that targeted men from Muslim countries The U.S. government has ended a controversial counterterrorism program created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that required men living in the U.S. who came from mostly ... NIRAJ WARIKOO \| Comments	At American Islamic banquet, warning about "surveillance society" CLEVELAND - "We now live in a surveillance society," civil liberties attorney Chip Pitts charged here May 7, "and the dangerous thing is that [it is being] taken for granted, ... RICK NAGIN \| Comments
Federal agent coerced Somali-American teen to violence Portland: Defense lawyers for a Somali-American teen charged with trying to detonate a bomb at a holiday tree-lighting ceremony says a federal agent tried to coerce him into ... AP \| Comments	400-plus march in Irvine for Syria freedom IRVINE – More than 400 demonstrators gathered on an Irvine street corner Saturday evening to show support for freedom in ... ERIC CARPENTER* \| Comments

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Palestinian theatre suffers loss of director Abu Salem RAMALLAH (West Bank) - Francois Abu Salem, a French actor and director and long-time West Bank resident, has died at the age of 60 in the city of Ramallah, Palestinian ... Watan \| Comments	Islamic finance forum focuses on Shariah in banking WASHINGTON: The US-Qatar Business Council and the Bilateral US-Arab Chamber of Commerce hosted the 2nd Annual Islamic Finance Forum last week, offering much-needed insights into the growing use of Islamic ... BARBARA FERGUSON \| Comments
In Hebron, bargains draw rare crowds to Old City An unlikely noise can be heard in the Old City of Hebron in the southern West Bank -- the sound of Ramadan bargain-hunters dipping in and out of shops and ... Samih Shahine - HEBRON \| Comments	Palestine campaign song generates controversy ahead of release It's a compilation number, along the lines of Feed The World or Free Nelson Mandela, and its artists include Dave Randall of Faithless, Maxi Jazz and the Durban Gospel Choir. Imag... Harriet Sherwood* \| Comments
UAE's super dad with 90 kids to marry again Daad Mohammed Al Balushi, UAE's super dad who has 90 children from 17 wives is all set to marry yet again in two ... News \| Comments	Damascus old souk craves for tourists Hani Abou al-Nasser rolls his eyes, shrugs and lets out a worried sigh as he gestures toward his empty store in the old souk of ... Jocelyne Zablit - DAMASCUS \| Comments

4th Gulf Film Festival opens in Dubai with red carpet gala Dubai, UAE - The fourth edition of the Gulf Film Festival, held under the patronage of Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture & ... News \| Comments	PechaKucha Night at the Arab American Museum As part of their Global Thursdays series, the Arab American National Museum held their first-ever PechaKucha Night on ... Jessica Carreras \| Comments
Telling Muslim Women What Not to Wear France has now officially outlawed the Islamic niqabor burqa in public. French President Sarkozy said in 2009, "The issue of the burqa is not a religious issue, it is a question of freedom ... Kari Ansari \| Comments	France bans Muslim full-face veil Police in France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim population, arrested two protesters wearing niqab veils Monday after a ban on full-face coverings went into ... Cecile Azzaro - PARIS \| Comments
Jordan seeks return of antiquities from Israel AMMAN - The director of Jordan's antiquities department said Sunday that "treasure of vital historic importance" has turned up in Israel after being smuggled out of his ... News \| Comments	Saudi Airlines Shows Pirated Film to Passengers Saudi Airlines has been caught showing pirated film during a flight this week, a Blu-Ray rip of Killers to be ... News \| Comments

Al Jazeera Journalist Shares Insights on Arab Spring WASHINGTON—As protests in one country have followed the next—Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, and now Jordan—correspondents have had the best seats to view history unfold in what’s become known as Arab ... Gary Feuerberg* \| Comments	Game over for calories When 11-year-old Matthew Garcia of Lancaster, California, wants to get some exercise, he bypasses the two bicycles in his garage and heads to the Antelope Valley Family YMCA for one ... Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times \| Comments
Dearborn's Own Miss USA Continues to Break Barriers In May 2010, Dearborn’s own Rima Fakih became the first Arab-American and Muslim to be crowned as Miss USA. Nearly a year later, Fakih’s success has made history and continues to... Mariam Dahoui-Charara \| Comments	Egypt museum gets back stolen artefacts CAIRO - Troops and police have recovered five artefacts stolen from the Egyptian Museum during a revolt that toppled the country's government, the antiquities council said on ... watan \| Comments
Sudan to send Egypt 5,000 cows as a present Sudan will start sending 5,000 cows that it promised as a gift to Egypt next week, the foreign ministry said on Saturday, just ahead of a two-day visit by Egyptian ... AFP \| Comments	Arab uprisings raise hope but also doubts among filmmakers Popular uprisings that toppled veteran leaders in the Arab world have raised hopes among north African filmmakers that the winds of change will also blow across the burgeoning ... Arab uprisings raise hope but also doubts among filmmakers \| Comments

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Arab Spring takes toll on tourism in Jordan Pro-democracy revolts across the Arab world are taking their toll on tourism in cash-strapped Jordan, where revenues from the key source of hard currency earnings have dropped by 16 percent ...	Learn Coexistence from Muslims: UK Bishop A UK bishop urged Christians to learn coexistence from the Muslim minority in British cities where a rich diversity of immigrant communities that exceeds the number of Christian exist, the ... News
Arab American Forum Marred by Discord Over Song “Oh my homeland, when will I see you free… When the land is watered with the blood of martyrs and the brave… And all the people shout: Freedom to ... Davin Hutchins*	Young Mechanics in Gaza dream of joining world's Formula race Happiness appeared on the face of the 20-year old Gaza young man Osama Othmani as he switched on the engine of a racing car he made with his colleague with ... Hamada Hattab, Osama Radi
Jailed rape victim in UAE sues consulate A QUEENSLAND woman who was jailed in the United Arab Emirates claims she was not properly advised by an Australian consular official after she said that she had been drugged an... Sophie Elsworth	Occupation's 44th year: A Doctor's Visit to Gaza At the Erez Checkpoint, as I was standing in front of the concrete walls and the enormous iron doors that exemplify the severe blockade policy imposed on the people of ... Dr. Rafik Masalha

Opinion

An Illegal and Counterproductive Assassination YASIR QADHI ANWAR AL-AWLAKI, the Yemeni-American cleric who was killed Friday in a C.I.A. drone attack in Yemen, appears to be the first United States citizen that our government has publicly targeted for ...	Netanyahu's Lie: "I Already Gave at the Office" James Zogby Back when I was in Catholic elementary school and in the Boy Scouts, we would often be enlisted to participate in fund-raising drives that had us going door-to-door in our ...
Hopes and Fears Ten Years After Hesham Hassaballa I was a bit sleepy as I walked into the resident physician lounge. I was just finishing up my overnight duties, and I was preparing to discuss the patients with ...	Let’s Cancel 9/11 Tom Engelhardt Let’s bag it. I’m talking about the tenth anniversary ceremonies for 9/11, and everything that goes with them: the solemn reading of the names of the ...
For the Love of Israel: Congresswoman’s Misguided War on the UN Ramzy Baroud From an Israeli point of view, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the ideal American politician. Although many in the US government aspire to her level of commitment to Israel, few can ...	US Republicans drift to the right Dr James J Zogby The contest has begun to determine who will be the Republican candidate to square off against President Obama in 2012 national ...

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