U.S.: North Carolina – Eye on Islamism

Muslims win office in US municipal elections in 2021 Three years after the first Muslim women were elected to Congress, successful campaigns in Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania put Muslims in key local offices.

November 10, 2021 Joseph Hammond

(Religion News) In Dearborn, Michigan, where the mayor once promised to do something about the city’s “Arab problem,” Abdullah Hammoud, a Lebanese American Muslim, was elected this month to fill that post. In New York, Bangladeshi American Shahana Hanif became the first […]

Muslim voters are getting organized for the 2020 election And they could determine the outcome.

June 4, 2020 Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil

(Christian Century) This November, Jad Salamey will vote in a presidential election for the first time — and he’s hoping to bring his entire community with him. The 20-year-old student at Wayne State University in Detroit spends his free time phone banking, […]

UNC to update policies following complaint of anti-Semitism

November 26, 2019 Collin Binkley

(AP) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has agreed to expand its anti-bias training and expressly forbid anti-Semitism in campus policies as part of an agreement with the U.S. Education Department following complaints about a March conference featuring a rapper […]

Dept. of Education stands firm that Duke-UNC joint program needs to ‘expand’ to include more religions beyond Islam

October 10, 2019 Justine Coleman

(Hill) The Department of Education maintained that the joint Duke University-University of North Carolina program needs to “expand” to include more religions beyond Islam to fulfill federal grant funding requirements. The department stood its ground that the consortium needs to diversify its […]

US is urged to end probe of Middle East studies program

September 27, 2019 Colin Bertier

(AP) The American Civil Liberties Union urged the Trump administration Friday to drop its investigation into a Middle East studies program the agency says has focused too much on the “positive aspects of Islam” and misused grant money to promote “ideological priorities.” […]

Feds cite Islam focus in review of Duke-UNC language grant

September 19, 2019 Collin Binkley

(AP) The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program run by the University of North Carolina and Duke University, arguing that it’s misusing a federal grant to advance “ideological priorities” and unfairly promote “the positive aspects […]

Linda Sarsour claims that pro-Israel ‘Zionists’ marched with the KKK

August 27, 2019 Justin Caruso

(Daily Caller) Palestinian-American activist and Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour made the utterly baseless claim that pro-Israel “Zionists” marched with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in North Carolina this year in a recent social media post. Over the weekend, a tiny group […]

Female genital mutilation bill clears state legislature

July 22, 2019 Richard Craver

(Winston-Salem Journal) A state Senate bill that would ban female genital mutilation in North Carolina cleared the state legislature Monday. Senate Bill 9 was filed by state Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth, on Jan. 31. The bill was approved by the Senate by […]

Man arrested at Charlotte airport for lying about contacts with terrorist organizations

May 2, 2019 Madeline Holcombe

(CNN) A man was arrested after arriving in North Carolina Tuesday for lying about his contacts with terrorist organizations. Waqar ul-Hassan, 35, was returning from Pakistan and had gotten off a flight at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport Tuesday night when he […]

Chris Gaubatz, controversial critic of Muslim group, to speak in Asheville area

April 24, 2019 Joel Burgess

(Asheville Citizen Times) A national activist who has drawn backlash for claims that violent jihadists are infiltrating U.S. society is scheduled to speak to a local conservative group. Chris Gaubatz, who once posed as a Muslim convert, is set to speak at […]

Dem candidate in contested North Carolina race refunds donation from Omar campaign

April 17, 2019 Tal Axelrod

(Hill) Dan McCready, the Democratic candidate in the hotly contested House race for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, refunded a donation from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) campaign last month, Federal Election Commission filings show. Omar’s campaign initially donated $2,000 to McCready’s campaign on Nov. 6. The […]

Activist Linda Sarsour discusses ‘Islam and Intersectionality’ at Monday event

April 16, 2019 Carter Forinash

(Duke Chronicle) Other than one protester being removed, Linda Sarsour’s on-campus talk on “Islam and Intersectionality” took place on campus Monday night without issues — and with a heavy security presence. Sarsour, a prominent political activist who co-chaired the 2017 Women’s March […]

Palestinian-American activist Sarsour draws protesters, standing ovation in Hillsborough

March 31, 2019 Mark Schultz

(News & Observer) A talk by Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour calling for a progressive movement in which people may not always agree with one another drew a standing ovation Sunday from most of her audience. About 60 demonstrators, both critics and supporters, […]

At med school talk, Linda Sarsour condemns Israel, says precious little about health

February 25, 2019 Peter Reitzes

(Tower) Anti-Israel activist and Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour gave the keynote address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Minority Health Conference on February 22. Many community members were baffled that the UNC Minority Health Conference extended an invitation […]

Man who tried to create ISIS-inspired terror cell in U.S. gets 15 years in prison, half of what feds sought

February 4, 2019 Eric Heisig

(Cleveland.com) A man who tried to create a terrorist cell to carry out attacks in the U.S. in the name of the Islamic State was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison, half the amount sought by federal prosecutors. Erick Jamal […]

Bill would ban female genital mutilation procedures in North Carolina

January 30, 2019 Richard Craver

(Winston-Salem Journal) N.C. Sen. Joyce Krawiec introduced a bill on Wednesday that would ban female genital mutilation in the state. Krawiec, R-Forsyth, said she filed Senate Bill 9 “because we must protect our girls from this abuse of being mutilated … and […]