In Michigan, Muslim and Arab American Voters Reconsider Support for Biden

There are about 200,000 registered Muslim American voters in Michigan, by some counts, a significant bloc in a battleground state of 8.2 million registered voters. | Valaurian Waller for The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Many in the swing state say they feel betrayed by the president’s support for Israel.

Sam Baydoun, a Wayne County commissioner in Dearborn, Mich., has been glued to Al Jazeera for weeks to absorb news from the war in Israel and Gaza.

Mr. Baydoun, a Democrat who is Lebanese American, has watched with fury as Israeli airstrikes have caused the deaths of many civilians, including children, following the deadly attack by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7 that killed many. He saw President Biden visit Israel and pledge full-throated American support.

And he is thinking ahead to the presidential election of 2024, a contest that could hinge on a handful of states including Michigan, whose Muslim and Arab American voters turned out decisively for Mr. Biden three years ago.

“How can I tell somebody who’s watching these atrocities on live TV, today, to vote for President Biden?” he said. “The pulse of the community is overwhelmingly not supportive of Biden now. They feel betrayed.” » | Julie Bosman and Ernesto Londoño | Julie Bosman reported from Dearborn, Mich, and Ernesto Londoño from St. Paul, Minn. | Saturday, October 28, 2023

Muslim-American: I'm Ready to Fight Radical Islam with Trump

'In the Land of Invisible Women' author weighs in on 'Fox & Friends'

What this lady is saying is actually not true! She may well distinguish Islam from Islamism, but the fact remains that Islam itself DOES NOT separate the religion from politics. In Islam, the Din is one integrated whole. The fact that there is NO separation of religion and politics is the problem. – Mark

Who am I as a Muslim - The Muslim Identity - Abdur Raheem McCarthy
Who am I as a Muslim - The Muslim Identity by Sheikh Abdur Raheem McCarthy.



Sheikh Abdur Raheem McCarthy went to the East to seek knowledge after he accepted Islam at the age of 18 in United States. He lives in Sudan and is a personal friend of sheikh Kamal el-Mekki. Among his references for acceptance into the University of Madinah was Sheikh bin Baz (r) whom he personally met in Saudi Arabia. He has studied under many great scholars in Sudan, and Saudi Arabia including Sheikh Jafar Idris and Sheikh Uthaymeen (r). This is his first visit back to the West after 15 years.

Islam 'Show Trial' Open[s] in US Congress
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Al Qaeda is targeting Muslim Americans for recruits to terrorism and the community must do more to combat Islamic radicalisation, a U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday as he opened hearings that have been criticised as a witch hunt.

Peter King, the chairman of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee who called the hearings, has accused the Muslim community of refusing to co-operate with law enforcement and charged that preaching in some U.S. mosques was leading to radicalisation.

"To combat this threat, moderate leadership must emerge from the Muslim community," Mr King said. "Today, we must be fully aware that home-grown radicalisation is part of al Qaeda's strategy to continue attacking the United States."

Mr King denied accusations that the hearings were "radical or un-American" and said there was no comparison between the threat by al Qaeda and neo-Nazis, environmental extremists and other "isolated madmen."

The New York congressman has been criticised by religious and civil rights leaders as going on a witch hunt for focusing on a single community, but he has defended the hearings, citing the open attempts by al Qaeda militants to recruit its members to launch attacks. >>> | Thursday, March 10, 2011

The New York Times Laments "A Sadly Wary Misunderstanding of Muslim-Americans." But Really Is It "Sadly Wary" Or A "Misunderstanding" At All?
THE NEW REPUBLIC – EXTRACT: ... But, frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among those Muslims led by the Imam Rauf there is hardly one who has raised a fuss about the routine and random bloodshed that defines their brotherhood. So, yes, I wonder whether I need honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment which I have in my gut the sense that they will abuse. Read the rest here, and comment >>> Martin Peretz | Saturday, September 04, 2010

Muslim Americans Arrested in Pakistan

No Place for Gay Discrimination in US: Obama
SX: US President Barack Obama has called for an end to discrimination, including inequality against gay people, in an address to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week.

In a speech mentioning the economy, health care, education and HIV/AIDS, Obama also addressed the issue of discrimination, calling for an end to prejudice against minority groups, specifically African-American women, Latinos, Muslim Americans and gays and lesbians.



“The first thing we need to do is make real the words of your charter and eradicate prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination among citizens of the United States,” Obama said in the address. >>> Rachel Cook | Thursday, July 23, 2009

Teach Your Children
WORLD DEFENSE REVIEW: More and more Muslim Americans, the New York Times reported recently, are home schooling their children – particularly girls. It is an alarming development, and grows more alarming still as it becomes clear that no one plans to do anything to stop it.

Leaving, for the moment, the low quality of these children's education – we'll get back to that – the motivations behind home schooling that Times reporter Neil MacFarquar observed – naively, it seems to me – sound a warning cry I find impossible to ignore. Reporting from Lodi, California, MacFarquar states, "Some 80 percent of the city's 2,500 Muslims are Pakistani, and many are interrelated villagers who try to recreate the conservative social atmosphere back home. A decade ago many girls were simply shipped back to their villages once they reached adolescence."

Slipped gracefully into a report on Islamic home schooling is an indication of horrifying abuse likely taking place in many of these homes. Why has no one noticed? Why has no one paid attention, and why, now that the Times has let this item out, is nothing being done?

Here's some more: "As soon as they finish their schooling," MacFarquar reports, "the girls are married off, often to cousins brought in from their families' old villages."

Forced marriage. Abbreviated educations. Notes the Times, "The girls follow the regular high school curriculum, squeezing in study time among housework, cooking, praying and reading the Koran. The teachers at the weekly tutorials occasionally crack jokes of the 'what, are your brothers' arms broken?' variety, but in general they tread lightly, sensing that their students obey family and tradition because they have no alternative."

Is anyone listening to this? Teach Your Children >>> By Abigail R Esman | May 8, 2008

The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback – USA)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardcover – USA)