9/11 and World Trade Center – Page 12

Sameer Zuberi chosen as Liberal candidate for Pierrefonds-Dollard Over the weekend, the Conservative Party accused Zuberi of questioning Osama bin Laden's involvement in 9/11

September 17, 2019 Unlisted Author

(CBC) Sameer Zuberi, a Montreal activist who has been outspoken against Islamophobia in the province, has been nominated as the Liberal [candidate] for Pierrefonds-Dollard. Until July, Zuberi was the diversity and engagement officer for McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, according to LinkedIn. […]

Ex-Respect leader and anti-war activist Salma Yaqoob launches shock bid to be West Midlands mayor (LINK ONLY)

September 16, 2019 EoI News

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Omar responds to family of 9/11 victim who called her out at anniversary ceremony

September 15, 2019 Zack Budryk

(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Sunday responded to a family member of a 9/11 victim who called her out on the anniversary of the attacks, saying she intended to highlight civil rights violations. “9/11 was an attack on all Americans. It was an […]

Ilhan Omar: 9/11 ‘was an attack on all of us’

September 11, 2019 Justin Caruso

(Daily Caller) Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar commemorated [the] 18th anniversary of the September 11th attacks Wednesday, saying that she will “never forget” the attack on U.S. soil. “September 11th was an attack on all of us. We will never forget the […]

Rashida Tlaib bemoans Islamophobia on 9/11 anniversary: America cannot ‘allow this type of violence to divide us’

September 11, 2019 Justin Caruso

(Daily Caller) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib sent a tweet thread Wednesday about her memories of the September 11th, 2001, attacks by talking about Islamophobic phone calls she received while working at an Arab-American group. “I will #neverforget 9/11. I was working […]

9/11 victim’s son blasts Ilhan Omar at Ground Zero memorial service

September 11, 2019 Natalie Musumeci, Lorena Mongelli and Bruce Golding

(NY Post) The son of a woman killed on 9/11 slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar at Wednesday’s memorial service for being insensitive to victims’ families when she gave a speech saying, “Some people did something” to describe the terror attacks. Wearing a shirt […]

Bloomfield church cancels anti-Muslim 9/11 event after backlash

September 10, 2019 Emma Keith

(Detroit Free Press) A Bloomfield church is canceling an anti-Muslim event scheduled for Wednesday’s 9/11 anniversary after facing condemnation from Michigan representatives and organizations. Bloomfield Hills Baptist Church announced in a one-sentence email that it will cancel the two-day “9/11 forgotten? Is Michigan surrendering […]

9/11 Senate hearing: No mention of radical Islam, climate change is major threat

September 9, 2019 Robert Kraychik

(Breitbart) No mention of radical Islam was made by any senators during Monday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing — uniquely held at the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, NY — days before the 18th anniversary of the Islamic […]

‘Proud Islamophobe’ pastor hosts anti-Muslim event on 9/11 at Bloomfield Hills church

September 5, 2019 Unlisted Author

(WJBK) “Islam is a growing threat in the United States of America,” said Pastor Dr. Donald McKay. It’s on the flier and straight from the head minister at Bloomfield Hills Baptist Church, planning to host an event stirring controversy. “We don’t hate […]

CAIR declares ‘complete victory’ after judge rules terror watchlist violates constitutional rights

September 5, 2019 Patrick Goodenough

(CNS) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has hailed as a “complete victory” a federal judge’s ruling that the U.S. government’s watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of Americans named on it. Judge Anthony Trenga of the Eastern […]

B.C. man in terror case ordered released by Federal Court but awaits deportation

September 3, 2019 Camille Bains

(Canadian Press) A British Columbia man who glorified terrorism by the Islamic State group in multiple Facebook posts has been ordered released from immigration detention by the Federal Court nearly a year after the Immigration and Refugee Board deemed him inadmissible and […]

ISIS-inspired Queens women plead guilty to NYC bomb plot

August 23, 2019 Andrew Denney

(NY Post) Two terror fangirls from Queens who went gaga for al Qaeda and ISIS — including one who carried around Osama bin Laden’s photo — copped to bomb-building charges Friday that could land them in prison for up to 20 years. […]

Sikh charity urges journalists to stop referring to ‘Asian’ grooming gangs

August 8, 2019 David Sharman

(Hold the Front Page) A Sikh charity has called on journalists to stop using the term “Asian” in their coverage of sexual grooming gang cases. The Network of Sikh Organisations has made the plea in new media guidelines published following a meeting […]

Al Rayan Bank: Clients include ‘terror’ group and Abu Hamza’s former mosque (LINK ONLY)

August 5, 2019 EoI News

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New York GOP group faces backlash for inviting anti-Muslim speaker who said ‘Nazis were inspired by Islam’

August 2, 2019 Chris Sommerfeldt

(NY Daily News) A group of Big Apple Republicans are under fire for inviting a notorious Islamophobe to speak at one of their events this month. The New York Young Republican Club, which bills itself as the oldest GOP youth group in […]

More presidential candidates are visiting mosques than ever before Prior to the 2020 election, presidential candidates rarely — if ever — visited a mosque on the campaign trail. But that’s changing.

August 1, 2019 Rowaida Abdelaziz

(HuffPost) The day before he appeared onstage at Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee visited the Islamic Center of Detroit to discuss the concerns of Muslim Americans. The roundtable, attended by imams, activists, nonprofit leaders and other community members, lasted […]

UK ‘has responsibility’ to prosecute IS fighters

July 30, 2019 Mark Urban

(BBC) The failure to bring Britons who fought for the Islamic State group to justice in the UK is a “dereliction of responsibility,” a top US counter-terrorism official says. Since the fall of [the] group’s last Syrian stronghold, Baghuz, the US has […]

Report: Anti-Muslim hate crimes drop for second year in a row

July 30, 2019 Masood Farivar

(VOA) Anti-Muslim hate crimes in 10 of the largest U.S. cities declined last year for the second year in a row, according to a new report from California State University at San Bernardino. There were a total of 53 reported anti-Muslim hate […]

Judge overturns 2006 terror conviction of California man

July 30, 2019 Don Thompson

(AP) A federal judge on Tuesday overturned the 2006 conviction of a California man accused of plotting an attack in the United States after attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. Federal prosecutors were reviewing the decision and did not immediately say […]

Trump shares Fox News report on Somali refugees arrested in Tucson: ‘Get smart people!’

July 30, 2019 Jessica Campisi

(Hill) President Trump in an early morning tweet on Tuesday shared a Fox News report about two Somali refugees who were arrested while allegedly trying to board a flight to join ISIS, saying “Get smart people!” Trump tweeted that the refugees were […]

2 refugees in Arizona charged with supporting Islamic State

July 29, 2019 Jacques Billeaud

(AP) Two Somalia refugees living in Arizona were charged with providing support to a terror group after federal agents say they were planning to travel from Tucson to Egypt to join the Islamic State. A criminal charge unsealed Monday alleged 21-year-old Ahmed […]

Omar challenger motivated by 9/11 comments

July 25, 2019 Unlisted Author

(KSTP) Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has become a lightning rod for controversy in her less than two years representing Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Now, she’s beginning to attract challengers for the 2020 election. “I think there are a lot of disaffected moderate Democrats […]

Ilhan Omar’s defiance resonates with Muslim-American activists

July 25, 2019 Brian Padden

(VOA) U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar struck a chord with other Muslim Americans when she denounced a perceived assumption that she is reluctant to condemn or sympathetic to terrorism and atrocities committed by Islamic groups. “Does this need to be on repeat every […]

In resurfaced interview, Ilhan Omar answers question on ‘jihadist terrorism’ by saying Americans should be ‘more fearful of white men’

July 24, 2019 Nick Givas

(Fox) In a resurfaced interview from 2018, anti-Trump Democrat Ilhan Omar responded to a question about the “quote-unquote legitimate fears” some people have of “jihadist terrorism,” by saying Americans should be “more fearful of white men.” In the interview, Al Jazeera host […]

Ex-jihadist Tania Joya now fights to ‘reprogram’ extremists

July 19, 2019 Cyril Julien

(AFP) Tania Joya has devoted her life to “reprogramming” extremists and reintroducing them into society — a process she understands well as a “former Islamic jihadist” herself. “My aim is for them to feel a sense of remorse and to train them […]

It’s 2019 and Democratic presidential candidates are ignoring Muslim voters Muslim organizers say the candidates’ lack of interest in an upcoming gathering reflects a much larger apathy toward their community.

July 19, 2019 Rowaida Abdelaziz

(HuffPost) The president of the United States stood tall and proud at his North Carolina rally as the crowd chanted loudly for him to deport Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), one of the first two Muslim women in Congress. Just days before, Donald Trump had […]

Donald Trump twists Ilhan Omar’s comments about al-Qaida

July 16, 2019 Louis Jacobson and Amy Sherman

(PolitiFact) President Donald Trump drew wide criticism July 14 for a tweet that told “‘progressive’ Democrat congresswomen” to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Some commentators said Trump’s tweet was racist. It […]

Trump claims Omar is ‘never happy’

July 15, 2019 Brett Samuels

(Hill) President Trump on Monday claimed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is “never happy” and suggested she should leave the U.S. if she’s inclined to criticize it. In a lengthy diatribe on the South Lawn of the White House, Trump defended incendiary tweets from Sunday […]

Ilhan Omar declines to respond to Trump claiming she supports al Qaeda

July 15, 2019 John Gage

(Washington Examiner) Rep. Ilhan Omar said she would not dignify with a response President Trump’s assertion that she is pro-al Qaeda. “I will not dignify it with an answer because I know that every single Islamophobe, every single person who is hateful, […]

America faces a new counter-terrorism problem it is completely unprepared for Country lacks system to ensure that scores of jailed extremists no longer pose a threat after release

July 11, 2019 Stephen Starr

(National-UAE) Few people have defined America’s post-9/11 homegrown terrorist threat like John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban.” On May 23, having served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for aiding a terrorist organisation, Walker Lindh walked free from a high-security prison […]

Muslim scholar catches flak for serving on new State Department rights panel

July 10, 2019 Aysha Khan

(Religion News) One of the world’s most prominent Islamic scholars is drawing criticism from some Muslims for participating in the State Department’s newly announced Commission on Unalienable Rights. Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, an influential Sunni leader who co-founded Zaytuna College, America’s first accredited […]

Ilhan Omar sends somber Fourth of July message days after celebrating Somali Independence Day

July 5, 2019 Molly Prince

(Daily Caller) Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar urged Americans to celebrate the Fourth of July by reflecting on “how much further we have to go,” standing in contrast to her joyful celebration of Somali Independence Day four days prior. “Today gives us […]

With CAIR’s backing, Rep. Ilhan Omar targets FBI terror database

July 1, 2019 Patrick Goodenough

(CNS) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and ten other House Democrats have written to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, requesting information about how information from the FBI-administered terrorist watchlist is shared with foreign governments — including governments with poor human rights records. In […]

Qatari charity head gives millions to European Muslim Brotherhood-linked bodies Some of the money has gone to groups linked to a hate preacher banned in the UK

June 29, 2019 Nicky Harley

(National-UAE) The head of a Qatari charity that founded a website instructing Muslims to hate Jews and Christians is behind more than £28.2 million (Dh131.4 m) in donations given to a UK benevolent fund. Some of the money has recently been given […]

Islamic scholar’s terror convictions reviewed in Virginia

June 25, 2019 Matthew Barakat

(AP) A judge is considering tossing out parts of a 10-count conviction against an Islamic scholar serving life in prison for persuading some of his followers to travel overseas after the Sept. 11 attacks and try to join the Taliban. The review […]

London Bridge inquest: ‘Extremist’ denies close links to attackers (LINK ONLY)

June 24, 2019 EoI News

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Study: Radical Muslim inmates rule UK prisons

June 18, 2019 Patrick Dunleavy

(IPT) One group, radicalized Muslims, dominates the UK prison system, Britain’s Ministry of Justice found in a study into prison gangs released earlier this month. The study included interviews with 83 inmates and 73 staffers from several prisons. Operating as a prison […]

IPT report exposes ICNA’s radical domestic agenda

June 17, 2019 Abha Shankar

(IPT) Most religious groups exist to provide fellowship for their members and help them with spiritual needs. The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) stands apart, both for its close ties to South Asian Islamist radicals, and for its overt and repeatedly […]

Islamist ‘Crime Stopper’ Sofian Zakkout’s Holocaust assault His Facebook page says the Holocaust 'never happened.'

June 11, 2019 Joe Kaufman

(FrontPage) On March 4th, South Florida Muslim leader and board member of Crime Stoppers and Citizens’ Crime Watch, Sofian Zakkout, posed the following query on Twitter: “Please can someone tell how many Holocaust survivors!” The exact intent of Zakkout in asking this […]

Trump officials pushing to strip convicted terrorists of citizenship Critics fear a dangerous new front in how the legal system treats naturalized U.S. citizens convicted of terrorism offenses.

June 8, 2019 Josh Gerstein

(Politico) John Walker Lindh walked out of prison last month and returned to American life, having served 17 years for providing support to the Taliban. But another American who pleaded guilty in a high-profile terrorism case after the Sept. 11 attacks is […]

Man sought guns, grenades for Times Square attack, feds say

June 7, 2019 Tom Hays and Michael R. Sisak

(AP) A New York City college student accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns and grenades, heaped praise on the Islamic State group and Osama bin Laden, and feared being known as the “Looney […]

Student jailed for ferocious terror attack

June 5, 2019 Margaret Scheikowski

(AAP) An “unequivocally committed terrorist” who repeatedly stabbed a Sydney stranger in a “violent, ferocious and inhumane attack” after seeing him wearing an American flag t-shirt has been jailed for at least 27 years. Ihsas Khan had planned to attack Wayne Greenhalgh […]

Arlington Heights parade organizers defend letting controversial group march

June 1, 2019 Christopher Placek

(Daily Herald) Organizers of the Arlington Heights Memorial Day parade defend allowing an organization deemed by critics to be an anti-Muslim hate group to march, saying that though the group’s positions are extreme, they feared a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds. A […]

London Bridge inquests: Chances ‘galore’ to stop attack, says lawyer

May 31, 2019 Unlisted Author

(BBC) There were “opportunities galore” to identify that the London Bridge extremists were plotting an attack, an inquest has heard. Gareth Patterson, the lawyer representing several victims’ families, said there was evidence the attackers had been in contact since January 2017. Eight […]

Who are the Muslim community patrols protecting US mosques?

May 28, 2019 Brajesh Upadhyay

(BBC) Days after the deadly attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, a private patrol service was launched in New York to protect Muslim places of worship there. The additional security has proved controversial. On a Friday afternoon, minutes before the […]

Controversy and security concerns follow Ilhan Omar to Bellevue

May 26, 2019 Lilly Fowler

(Crosscut) Wherever U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar goes, layers of security follow. The freshman congresswoman’s visit to Washington state on Saturday was no exception. At Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, where Omar spoke Saturday night at a sold-out fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations of […]

Muslim candidates feel the effect of Trump attacks on Ilhan Omar Some Muslim Americans running for office in Virginia have seen a rise in death threats since the controversy.

May 26, 2019 Amanda Terkel

(HuffPost) President Donald Trump’s decision to vilify Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has had real, harmful effects not just on the first-year congresswoman, but on Muslim candidates running for public office at the state and local levels as well. In March, Omar faced […]

A fund to support the Muslim American community, inside and out The founders of the Pillars Fund seek to strengthen a network of Muslim support groups while countering negative perceptions and stereotypes.

May 24, 2019 Paul Sullivan

(NY Times) After attaining professional success and wealth, Anas Osman, a technology entrepreneur and executive, turned to philanthropy. He wanted to help other Muslim Americans embrace the opportunities in the United States. So he and some friends from Chicago, who had also […]

Some Canadians still believe harmful stereotypes about Muslims and Jews: poll

May 24, 2019 Laura Hensley

(Global News) Stereotypes around religion, ethnicity and race can have damaging effects on people, yet some Canadians still believe these harmful tropes. A recent poll conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of Global News found that three in 10 Canadians believe […]

Can John Walker Lindh be deradicalized?

May 23, 2019 Masood Farivar

(VOA) John Walker Lindh, the former jihadi dubbed the “American Taliban,” was released from prison Thursday after completing 17 years of a 20-year sentence for supporting the Afghan insurgent group. The first American detainee in the U.S. war on terror, Lindh, now […]