Amer Ghalib, the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, apparently believed he dodged a public relations disaster after Harvard University invited him to lecture students about voting rights at a July 31 "Summer Voting Bootcamp." "What...
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The mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, Amer Haiderah Ghalib, was recently exposed for mocking black political demonstrations and endorsing comments that referred to African Americans as "animal" and "inhuman." He also accused Arab...
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Since the U.S. drone strike on July 30 that killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, a number of Western Islamists and their allies have denounced the U.S. government, claiming its operation "threatens peace" and was completely...
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Darul Qasim, an Islamic seminary in the suburbs of Chicago, has announced that the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) has awarded the institution "a license to operate as a college." Founded by Shaykh Mohammad Amin...
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A Turkish-backed coalition of the nation's most prominent Sunni Islamist organizations converged on Capitol Hill for the 7th annual National Muslim Advocacy Day in mid-June. The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO)...
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A new survey focusing on the upcoming mid-term elections from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) offers little insight into the American Muslim mind; but it does, inadvertently, illustrate CAIR's failure to have...
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***Click here to send a letter to the Hamtramck City Council asking for Mayor Ameer Ghalib to attend racial sensitivity training and be censured for his bigoted social media posts. In January, the city of Hamtramck, Michigan...
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The House Appropriations Committee published the draft of its 2023 Homeland Security funding bill on June 15, providing over $85 billion for the Department of Homeland Security and its various agencies. The U.S. Council of Muslim...
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