Muslim Voice ARIZONA
MAY 2013
RAJAB / shabaan 1434H
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Muslims and the War on Terror A tipoff from a prominent Toronto imam more than a year ago appears to be at the heart of arrests at the end of April in the alleged VIA Rail terror plot in Canada. In fact, counterterrorism police began their press briefing by thanking Muslim leaders. Even in the Boston marathon tragedy, national and local Muslim organizations have condemned the bombings. The largest Muslim civil rights group in the country, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, even asked Muslims to offer authorities any leads that they ay have. Moreover, in an interesting twist, mosques refused to arrange Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s janaza (Islamic funeral prayers). In fact, a number of fatwas (religious opinions) have been issued Continued on page
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CAIR Co-Hosts Meeting of Civil, Human Rights Activists in Cleveland
The Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIRCleveland), the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) and the Carl Stokes Brigade, along with other groups recently convened an organizing forum for more than 30 community activists from across the greater Cleveland area. Topics ranged from Continued on page
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Britain’s Muslims fear of reprisal, extremism rises after London attack By Amer Sultan Anxiety at least, while at most Britain’s Muslim community fear further extremism and reprisal in wake of Wednesday’s southeast London attack. Dalia, young Muslim mother of three, feels reluctant to send her two daughters to their Islamic school in north London. Thursday afternoon, Dalia received a text message on her mobile phone from “Islamia School,” one of the biggest and most well-known inner-city Islamic faith schools in Britain, advising her to take maximum precautions between home and school. As a Muslim, Dalia still feels terrified, as she “could be a target for any member of the English Defence League or other rightwing members in London.” Dalia is just one of many Muslim parents who feel very intimidated because of crime they stand up against. Since the southeast London terrorist attack on Wednesday, which killed a British Armed Forces soldier on a street in Woolwich, Muslim communities all over England are on alert. The British police were rarely seen around mosques. Yet, big numbers of their officers have been deployed around the mosques and Islamic centres during Friday prayers. “The presence of the officers were a clear and strong signal to our community that the authorities are very keen to protect Muslims as an integral part of our British society,” Mustafa Ragan, chair of the Egyptians Association in Britain. “The mainstream Muslims, who condemn any act of violence of extremism, are very frightened and terrified after the Woolwich attack,” Ragab said. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) received reports of hate assaults and abuse faced by mosques and individual Muslims following the terrorist attack. The council was very swift in deploring the attack as “an inexcusable and criminal murder.” Other main Muslim organisations rushed to join the council in condemning the killing of the British soldier as “a horrific attack, murder and mutilation, which has no links Continued on page to the teaching of Islam.”
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