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American Muslims alarmed at the new profiling policy
AMP Report: American Muslim community is alarmed at the proposed Justice Department policy change that would allow the FBI to investigate Americans without evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims and Arabs. Read More
“Holding Muslims at Arm’s Length”
AMP Report: The Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson says that Obama himself has said “Christians and people of other faiths lived very comfortably” with each other when he lived in Indonesia. It is time for him to live comfortably with Muslims in his campaign. Read More
Dr. Sami al-Arian indicted on contempt charges
AMP Report: Palestinian activist and a former professor of South Florida University, Dr. Sami al-Arian, has been indicted on June 25, 2008, in Alexandria, Virginia on two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury. Read More
Pew surveys and the politics of demography
AMP comment: The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released the second report of the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey on June 23, 2008 which again uses its 2007 flawed report about the population of Muslims in America. Read More
From embedded newsmen to embedded media generals
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The New York Times revealed last April that in summer 2005, confronted with a fresh wave of criticism over Guantanamo Bay, the Bush administration prepped some 75 retired military officers to serve as paid television commentators. Disclosure of the program triggered a furor among the public and in Congress but the news chiefs and on-air hosts at CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, and CBS, had little reaction to the revelations concerning the "Embedded Media Generals." Why, because the corporate media is a fully-integrated part of the state power-structure. Read More
The Decline in America's Reputation: Why?
AMP Report: A congressional report, titled "The Decline in America's Reputation: Why," finds that other nations hate us not because of our values but because of our policies. The report concludes that U.S. policy is what matters most of all in creating our international image. Read More
Another Islamic charity vindicated
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Judge Dennis Saylor’s latest ruling to quash the January jury conviction of the defunct Islamic charity leaders vindicates what the civil right activists and groups have been saying that the American Muslim charities are being targeted to intimidate the seven-million strong American Muslim community that remains besieged more than six years after 9/11 terrorist attacks. Read More
Keffiyeh: The Politics of Symbolism
AMP Comment: The campaign against the innocent use of keffiyeh in a commercial ad is the latest episode of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and Islamophobic diatribe which is the best seller in the post-9/11 America where our administration has created a culture of fear, hate, anger and division among all Americans. Read More
Surveillance of LA, San Diego mosques sparks calls for hearing
AMP Report: Alarmed by a report that the mosques in Los Angeles and San Diego are under surveillance, civil rights groups have called for congressional hearings. The call for public hearings followed a San Diego newspaper report that a group of military reservists and law enforcement officers at Camp Pendleton stole the data from a federal surveillance program that monitored mosques in Southern California. Read More
An Online Petition in Support of Syed Fahad Hashmi
Syed Fahad Hashmi is a Muslim American citizen being held in a federal jail on two counts of providing material support --and two counts of making a contribution of goods or services -- to Al Qaida. As his case goes to trial, we wish to register our concern about the conditions of his detention, constraints on his right to a fair trial, and the potential threat his case poses to the First Amendment rights of others. Read More
Why US soldier shot at Quran for practice?
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali An unnamed sergeant’s use of the Quran for target practice emanates from an unabated and persistent anti-Islam and anti-Muslim propaganda, desecration of the Quran and attacks on mosques. Read More
Muslim, Arab Groups express concern on latest
Government Report on “Homegrown Terrorism”
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Four leading Arab-American and Muslim-American advocacy groups have expressed deep concern about a recently released Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee report on “homegrown terrorism.” The report - titled Violent Islamist extremism, the internet, and the homegrown terrorist threat - claims that the threat posed by violent extremists now comes “increasingly from within” the U.S. Read More
Mock attack on the fake mosque in Illinois sends a wrong message
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Six years and eight months after the 9/11 tragic attacks, Muslims in America remain at the receiving end with the reconfiguration of American laws, policies and priorities to target them. The latest assault on the Muslim community comes in the form of a simulated attack on a fake “mosque” by the law enforcement authorities in Illinois. Read More
The ordeal of Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al-Hajj
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: After six and a half years of imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay military prison, Al Jazeera cameraman, Sami Al-Hajj, was released on May 2, 2008 in a very bad shape. He was carried off a US air force jet on a stretcher when he arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, and immediately taken to hospital. Al-Hajj’s case symbolizes the policy of torture and human rights violation of the Bush Administration. Read More
Evangelicals highjack the National Day of Prayer
Abdus Sattar Ghazali: “Evangelicals attempt to exclude non-Christians from National Day of Prayer,” this Mother Jones headline best reflects the controversy over the National Day of Prayer (NDP) observed this year on Thursday, May 1, 2008. The National Day of Prayer was once a symbol of American unity and faith in God that transcended boundaries but in recent years the decades-old tradition has become mired in divisions. Read More
Probe in the mysterious death of Riad Hamad sought
The San Antonio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Antonio) has called for a Justice Department investigation into the death of Riad Hamad, whose body was found earlier this month in a Texas lake. The body had been bound with duct tape. Read More
McCain declines to drop 'Islamic' terror label
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain has declined to stop using the adjective "Islamic" to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States. Rea More
Dr. Al-Arian suspends hunger strike after 8 weeks
On the 57th day of his hunger strike, Dr. Sami Al-Arian has suspended his fast, at the urging of his family, friends and supporters, Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace, announced on April 29. Read More
Sami Al-Arian in deadlocked terrorism case could face a new indictment
Sami al-Arian, a computer science professor imprisoned for more than five years after pleading guilty to a single terrorism-related charge when his trial deadlocked, is back in legal limbo this week. He faces either deportation or a new indictment that could extend his incarceration for years. Read More
Dr. Sami Al-Arian put in solitary confinement
AMP Report: Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a former Florida professor currently on his second hunger strike in federal detention to protest unjust treatment by the U.S. authorities, has been placed in solitary confinement, with no medical monitoring, in a Maryland detention facility. Read More
Civil rights advocates urge Justice Department to honor Al-Arian plea agreement
AMP Report: On March 31, 2008, Representatives of several American Muslim civil right groups visited Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a former Florida professor currently on his second hunger strike in federal detention to protest unjust treatment by the U.S. authorities. Meanwhile, Civil rights advocates urged the Justice Department to honor Al-Arian’s plea agreement. Read More
Abuse of judicial system to keep Dr. Al-Arian in prison
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Dr. Al-Arian is in Catch-22. Gordon Kromberg, an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, is setting up Dr. Al Arian for a perjury/obstruction trap. If Dr. Al-Arian again refuses to testify because of the 'no-cooperation' agreement, he will be charged with obstruction of justice and could receive several additional years in prison. If he testifies, he faces a 'perjury' trap based on past practice with other acquitted Palestinian defendants.Read More
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