Tag: Islam

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Building a New Narrative Through Stories on Women, Food and Faith

A Haitian-American journalist who helped guide the previous two issues of our online magazine.

Food In 2 Worlds

Muslim Street Food Vendors Keep Cooking Despite Ramadan Fast

Many of the Muslim vendors of New York’s ubiquitous food carts spent the last month fasting for Ramadan, even while serving others.

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Protest in NYC Against Congressional Hearings on Threat of Homegrown Islamic Terrorism

Hundreds of demonstrators, including mothers of some 9/11 victims, gathered in Times Square on Sunday to protest Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) planned congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims. Aswini Anburajan and Mohsin Zaheer report.

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Muslim Americans To Demonstrate Against Congressional ‘Radicalization’ Hearings

Muslim Americans are protesting congressional hearings on the “radicalization of American Muslims” scheduled for March 10. Meanwhile, Park51 opponents are screening a “documentary” purporting to show the dangers of a proposed Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan.

"Liberal Snobs" and the Rest of Us: Arab American Reaction to the New Yorker

This week’s New Yorker cover showing Barack Obama in Muslim garb and his wife, Michelle, dressed as a Black militant has shown that even in a political campaign where race, gender and age barriers have tumbled, there are still some segments of American society that the media must handle with the utmost delicacy. The cover, meant as a parody of right-wing rumors about the Obamas, has instead re-ignited long-standing complaints by Arab Americans about mainstream media depictions of Islam.

Leading Arab American organizations have released statements and sent letters criticizing the New Yorker for falling prey to the same stereotypes that the magazine had aimed to dispel, or at least poke fun at, in regard to the Obamas.

“What this puts on display is the deep disconnect that exists between the “liberal snobs” of NYC and the rest of us,” Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute wrote Feet in 2 Worlds in an email.

“They think this is cute. Those of us who get our lives threatened and our careers ruined by the bigots who believe this crap do not think it is cute,” Zogby added.

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