(KDFW) Two Dallas Islamic groups want to change ideas about women of their faith and the hijab as its symbol. The Dallas chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America and Gain Peace are launching a six-week public outreach campaign. The main […]
(Dallas Morning News) An Arlington man faces federal charges after authorities say he groomed a would-be recruit for a terror group and arranged to get him to Pakistan. Michael Kyle Sewell, 18, was charged Friday in Fort Worth with conspiring to provide material support […]
(NBC) Warren Christopher Clark, a Texas man recently captured with ISIS fighters in Syria, has been brought back to the U.S. by law enforcement and faces charges of aiding ISIS. Clark was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a largely Kurdish militia, […]
(NBC) A Texan who says he offered to work as an English teacher for the Islamic State and was captured earlier this month in Syria by U.S.-backed forces said he witnessed executions and crucifixions during the more than three years he spent […]
(D Magazine) In August of 2017, Alia Salem and Huma Yasin decided to launch something for Muslim parishioners to go for help. They’d seen enough. An imam in Irving had been accused of “sexually grooming” an 18-year-old congregant, beginning when she was […]
(Stars and Stripes) Kurdish-led forces battling Islamic State militants in Syria say they captured five foreign fighters, including an American who once sought to become an English teacher in the jihadi group’s Iraqi capital. The American, a Texan named Warren Christopher Clark, […]
(BuzzFeed) A Muslim cleric who was ousted from at least two mosques amid claims of sexual misconduct with young women he’d mentored now works at a Texas mosque that’s standing by him despite a former employer’s warning and a civil lawsuit. The […]
(Houston Chronicle) Sarah Alikhan lost her bid Sunday to become the first woman ever elected to the shura, or governing board, of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, one of the largest Muslim organizations in the U.S. Incumbent Faizan Atiq will retain […]
(Houston Chronicle) In a front room of the Masjid at Taqwa, a Sugar Land mosque, Sarah Alikhan watched M.J. Khan film a Facebook video endorsing her. Khan, 68, isn’t super-fluent with Facebook, but as a former member of Houston City Council and […]
(PJ Media) In November, a writer for the American Thinker called to ask for my recollections about covering the trials and tribulations of what is often described as the largest terrorist fundraising operation in U.S. history. It hadn’t occurred to me, but […]
(Star-Telegram) There’s a clear division in the Tarrant County Republican Party. At a time when many want to focus on the 2020 election, in the wake of this reliably red county turning blue in this year’s U.S. Senate race, Tarrant Republicans instead […]
(Star-Telegram) It is still up in the air whether a small group of Tarrant Republicans will succeed in a controversial plan to oust a leader of their party because he’s Muslim. Tarrant Republican precinct chairs met for nearly four hours Saturday — […]
(Dallas Morning News) The Islamic Center of Irving is facing backlash from the North Texas Muslim community after allegations surfaced about a man behaving inappropriately with children at the mosque. The center issued a statement Sunday, saying it had filed a police report […]
(BuzzFeed) Late at night on Dec. 5, 2016, the respected imam of one of the biggest mosques in Texas allegedly invited an 18-year-old to a prepaid room at the Motel 6 in Grand Prairie. The young woman, identified as Jane Doe in […]
(Clarion) The Alavi Foundation is an Iranian front group that funds mosques and educational institutions in the U.S. and Canada. In 2009, federal prosecutors charged that the Alavi Foundation was a front group for the Iranian government and violated U.S. law by […]
(Star-Telegram) Dallas-Fort Worth, meet Hammad Fazlani of Plano. Fazlani is a senior at the University of Texas at Dallas where he studies software engineering. He likes playing basketball and football and enjoys hanging out with his fraternity brothers. He’s also the subject […]
(BuzzFeed) Anwar Khalifa is about as Texan as you can get. He speaks in a sharp twang and cruises around in a Chevy truck with real longhorns mounted on the front. He never skips “worship day,” he taught his three daughters to […]
(PJ Media) Former Muslims with Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA) were kicked out of a Starbucks connected to a Hilton hotel in Houston, Texas, on Saturday. Video shows Lina, an ex-Muslim Syrian woman, physically barred from re-entering the Starbucks after she had […]
(Houston Chronicle) Tempers flared Saturday when more than 100 protesters and counterprotesters squared off outside a large Islamic convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center. A Texas Patriot Network member ran across barriers erected by police around noon and began punching […]
(Houston Chronicle) A five-week capital murder trial came to a swift ending Thursday when a Harris County jury took less than an hour of deliberations to convict a Jordanian immigrant of killing his son-in-law and orchestrating the slaying of his daughter’s close […]
(Conservative Review) On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Appeals, affirming the trial court’s ruling, dismissed entirely the defamation lawsuit filed by Mohamed Mohamed on behalf of himself and his 15-year-old son, Ahmed Mohamed. Ahmed caused a bomb scare by bringing a hoax […]
(Clarion) The 55th Annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention is scheduled to take place in Houston from August 31 to September 3 and, as in years past, its appealing moderate theme is contradicted by its choice of extremist speakers. ISNA was […]
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