(Daily Caller) Democratic Ohio Rep. Ismail Mohamed, a Somali immigrant, won the Democratic primary for Ohio’s 3rd House District on Tuesday night and delivered his victory speech almost entirety in Somali. Mohamed, the incumbent in the district, defeated fellow Somali immigrant Abdirizak […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The Columbus City Council has canceled an annual interfaith Ramadan dinner scheduled for Thursday after a large Muslim advocacy organization withdrew support. The Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced on Tuesday that it would not attend this […]
(Columbus Dispatch) An Iraqi man who was living in Columbus when federal authorities say he plotted to assassinate former President George W. Bush as revenge for the Iraq War has been sentenced to 14 years and eight months in prison. Shihab Ahmed […]
(Free Beacon) A Muslim advocacy group is defending its decision to broadcast the claims of an Ohio man about a bogus anti-Palestinian hate crime. The man, Hesham Ayyad, was subsequently arrested for lying to police after he appeared to have fabricated the […]
(Cleveland.com) Authorities say a North Olmsted man was arrested Tuesday and accused of lying about being the victim of a hate crime involving anti-Palestinian slurs. The Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a press release Oct. 23 calling for […]
(WEWS) A teacher at Strongsville High School has been placed on administrative leave after writing a statement about Islam on the classroom whiteboard that some on social media said is offensive and intolerant and that the district said should not have been […]
(Columbus Dispatch) A Gahanna man who previously ran a local Islamic center has been sentenced to prison for embezzling more than $80,000 from the center and others. Ahmed A. Sh. Ahmed, 44, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus Jr. […]
(Dayton Daily News) A Beavercreek man sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court was arrested by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force at John Glenn International Airport in 2018 while trying to travel to Afghanistan to join ISIS. Naser Almadaoji, 23, was sentenced […]
(AP) It’s a busy Friday afternoon at a Somali restaurant on the northeast side of Columbus, home to [the] second-largest Somali population in the United States. The smell of spices is just as robust as the loud conversation, and the East African […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The former director of a local mosque admitted in federal court on Thursday to embezzling funds, defrauding public housing and filing for fraudulent COVID-19 assistance money. Ahmed A. Sh. Ahmed, 43, of Gahanna, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and submitting […]
(Fox) Two Republican lawmakers from the Committee [on] Education and Labor called for an inquiry Wednesday into Oberlin College’s religion studies professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati due to his reported ties with the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic Republic of […]
(Cleveland.com) Cleveland officials made a wave of changes Wednesday in the wake of what they said is an inability to discipline a police officer who made antisemitic social media posts. Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Police Chief Wayne Drummond said in a […]
(WBNS) A petition drive by a group of Muslim students in Hilliard resulted in the first school district in Ohio to recognize the Muslim holiday of Eid. As a result, the district will change the school calendar to reflect a district holiday. […]
(Cleveland Jewish News) A Cleveland police officer who was named the department’s 2019 officer of the year and received a distinguished service medal has been identified for antisemitic posts on his social media accounts prior to his tenure as a police officer. […]
(Daily Caller) Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Republican California Rep. Tom McClintock sent a letter Tuesday to the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calling for information about the May assassination plot against former President George W. Bush. […]
(AP) An Iraqi man behind bars following his arrest on a charge of plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush has waived his right to a detention hearing and will remain behind bars for now, according to a court document filed […]
(Forbes) An Iraqi man in the U.S. accused of being linked to ISIS operatives was plotting to kill George W. Bush, going so far as to travel to Dallas in November to take video around the former president’s home and recruiting a […]
(Middle East Eye) New York’s attorney general has called on the US Justice Department to investigate whether an anti-Muslim group violated federal, criminal, and civil rights laws by spying on American Muslim groups. In a letter to the Justice Department on Friday, Attorney […]
(AP) Noor Abukaram’s elation at completing one of her first varsity cross-country races quickly turned to disappointment when she failed to find her name among those of her high school teammates on the results list. To Abukaram’s shock, she learned she’d been […]
(AP) Schools and school sports regulators could no longer require advance waivers or otherwise restrict participants’ religious apparel unless it causes a “legitimate danger” for fellow competitors, under a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Mike DeWine. The measure was inspired […]
(Middle East Eye) More than 80 Muslim organisations, including rights groups, mosques and charities, have sent a letter to the US Department of Justice, calling on the administration to launch an investigation into whether an anti-Muslim group violated federal laws by allegedly […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ national office revealed more information on Wednesday afternoon about two people who came forward to say they were familiar with — and in one case, directly involved in — a plan to spy on American Muslims for the Investigative Project on Terrorism. […]
(Al-Jazeera) First, the major Muslim-American advocacy group reported that a “mole” had infiltrated the leadership of one of its state branches. Then, only days later, the organisation said a “spy” at a US mosque had passed information on to an “anti-Muslim” group. […]
(Columbus Dispatch) One week after the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Ohio chapter in Hilliard was fired for spying on the organization for an anti-Muslim group, the national office of CAIR announced Tuesday via its Twitter account that a second “spy” […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The Hilliard Division of Police announced Thursday afternoon that it is not pursuing a criminal investigation against Romin Iqbal, former executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Ohio chapter (CAIR-Ohio). Iqbal, 45, was fired on Tuesday from his role […]
(Columbus Dispatch) Romin Iqbal, a former leader of a Columbus Muslim advocacy group, had been sending confidential information to an anti-Muslim group since at least 2008, national Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) officials said Thursday morning. During a media call, the national […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The Ohio chapter of a national Muslim-American advocacy and civil rights group announced on Tuesday that its director was working with a national anti-Muslim group and had been for years. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim advocacy and civil rights […]
(Dayton Daily News) A Beavercreek man pleaded guilty Friday to trying to travel overseas to join ISIS-K, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. Naser Almadaoji, 22, who was arrested by the FBI at John Glenn International Airport in 2018, pleaded guilty […]
(AP) The newly drawn legislative district maps in Ohio were contested for the third time Monday, when state and national civic groups filed suit alleging the Republican-controlled redistricting process violated voters’ rights. The newest lawsuit, filed in the Ohio Supreme Court by […]
(Cleveland.com) A northwest Ohio resident who admitted plotting a mass shooting at a Toledo-area synagogue to show his allegiance to ISIS was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison. Damon M. Joseph, aka Abdullah Ali Yusuf, 23, of Holland, Ohio, was arrested […]
(Cleveland.com) A northwest Ohio resident admitted Tuesday that he planned to carry out a mass shooting at a synagogue to show his allegiance to ISIS. Damon Joseph, 23, of Holland pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Toledo to charges of attempting […]
(Columbus Dispatch) A central Ohio mosque is trying to pull the community together while making history at the same time. For what is believed to be the first time in Ohio, a call to prayer, also known as Adhan, began being publicly […]
(WDTN) Members of the Dayton Muslim community gathered in Courthouse Square on Saturday in solidarity with black Americans. The rally for justice was organized by CAIR-Ohio, the state’s only Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. “Racism is not something that any community […]
(AP) A federal judge has stripped a terrorist of his naturalized U.S. citizenship, siding with the government in the case of a Pakistan-born man convicted more than 15 years ago of plotting to destroy New York’s Brooklyn Bridge. Defendant Iyman Faris, once […]
(AP) Delta Air Lines is being fined $50,000 for ordering three Muslim passengers off planes even after the airline’s own security officials cleared them to travel. Delta denied that it discriminated against the passengers in two separate incidents but agreed it could […]
(Columbus Dispatch) Columbus police Chief Thomas Quinlan said this week that he is open to taking another look at the division’s ban on head coverings for religious reasons. The ban made headlines in 2015 after a female police recruit left the Columbus […]
(Cleveland.com) A man whom the FBI said planned an attack on a downtown Cleveland park where spectators planned to watch last year’s Independence Day fireworks pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges. Demetrius Pitts admitted to charges of attempting to provide material support […]
(WFMJ) A Cortland couple is suing the Lakeview School District, claiming a teacher, a student teacher, and a school nurse subjected their ten-year-old son to a strip search and interrogation about his religion and his loyalty to the United States. Nail Majid […]
(WOSU) Columbus Police Interim Chief Tom Quinlan says he is considering changing a department policy that forbids officers from wearing headscarves. Quinlan says officers cannot currently wear headscarves because of safety concerns. “Some of our concerns are, again, wearing gas masks, wearing […]
(Cincinnati Enquirer) A Huber Heights man who beat up a man he believed was Jewish outside a Cincinnati restaurant in 2017 was sentenced Tuesday to two and [a] half years in prison. Izmir Koch, 34, was outside the restaurant on Feb. 4, […]
(Dayton Daily News) The man convicted in the first terrorism-related trial in the Southern District of Ohio was sentenced to 15 years in prison, a judge ruled Thursday. Laith W. Alebbini, 28, was found guilty last year by U.S. District Court Judge […]
(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 […]
(WOSU) Gov. John Kasich has signed a law criminalizing female genital mutilation, or FGM. FGM is described as surgical modifications or cutting to external genitalia for non-medical reasons. It’s a cultural practice that is common in some African countries, and can result […]
(Deseret News) A new study from the Rand Corporation suggests that focusing on immigrants as a source of potential “jihadist terrorism” in the United States could miss the majority of potential terrorists. That’s because, according to the study, the more prominent threat […]
(Cleveland.com) The Ohio General Assembly has sent to Gov. John Kasich a bill that would make it illegal to perform female genital mutilation on girls under age 18. Known by its initials of FGM, it is a ritual practice in some cultures […]
(Detroit News) A Michigan Muslim man alleges he was kicked off a Greyhound bus last summer for talking on his phone in Arabic, an advocacy group reported Wednesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan chapter has filed a complaint with the state Department […]
(WSYX) A 21-year-old Ohio man is accused of attempting to provide support to foreign terrorist organizations, after investigators say not only did he plot to support ISIS, but he was trying to plan an attack on a Toledo-area synagogue after he was […]
(NY Times) In this congressional district just east of San Diego, a Christian Democrat, Ammar Campa-Najjar, has been portrayed by his Republican opponent as an Islamic terrorist sympathizer. The same allegation has been tossed at Democratic candidates in Ohio and New Jersey, […]
(WCMH) It is the end of September and if it wasn’t an election year, the Ohio Statehouse would likely be a much busier place than it is right now. In what has been a very quiet summer at the Statehouse, Tuesday was […]
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