CAIR argues that the amendment violates both the establishment and free-exercise clauses of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom” and would ‘officially disfavor and condemn the Muslim community as being a threat to Oklahoma’”:
Just hours before departure, “the group learned that the package had been seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. After a flurry of phone calls, the passports were released and arrived” but “by then, all but one of the travelers had missed their flight. ‘Grown men were crying’”:
- Travel Delays for Northern Virginia Muslims Heading to Mecca (Washington Post)
“The European Union on Tuesday urged Israel to reconsider its plan to construct more than 1,000 new homes in East Jerusalem”:
“Voter turnout is expected to reach an average of 40% and drop down to as low as 20% in areas densely populated by Jordanians of Palestinian origin, where votes normally go to the Islamists”:
- Jordan’s Parliament Without An Opposition (Al-Jazeera)
“The hope among Muslims,” said the Interfaith Director of ADAMS, “is that once we get to the other side of these trials, we will never have to go through it again. That eventually, this, too, shall pass”:
- Muslims Await Obama’s Speech (Washington Post)
“One female journalist — who said the minister had refused to shake her hand — gleefully noted that now he would no longer be able to wriggle out of it”:
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