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Dearborn Heights police heighten traffic enforcement

August 18th, 20171 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Dearborn's neighboring city seems to be tackling drastically similar types of reckless driving on its roads and has found no better way to control it than to heighten traffic enforcement. The Dearborn Heights Police Department kicked off the crackdown in July, According to Police Chief Lee Gavin, it's been a...

COMMUNITY

Pew Study: Muslims are proud Americans, but worried

August 18th, 20171 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On July 25, the Pew Research Center released a report on Muslim Americans and their concerns regarding their place in society; despite the data showing high concern from U.S. Muslims, 92 percent of them are proud to be American. The survey was conducted between January and May. It showed that half of Muslim...

COMMUNITY

Local Islamophobe sues Dearborn Heights to “stop sharia”

August 4th, 20172 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Debbie Schlussel, an attorney known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric, filed a lawsuit against Dearborn Heights and its officials on May 15 for being denied access to booking photos and videos of resident Malak Kazan without her hijab. Police had arrested Kazan for driving on a suspended license on July 9, 2014....

In Our Opinion

Hamtramck’s Muslim majority Council proves media wrong

July 21st, 20170 HAMTRAMCK — When the voters of Hamtramck elected four Muslims to the City Council in 2015, it made headlines nationally and internationally on media outlets like the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, CNN, Fox News and more as a seemingly oxymoronic move in an "American city"— as if those public officials' Islamic faith...

COMMUNITY

Local Yemenis feel marginalized as Lebanese brethren gain momentum

July 7th, 20171 DEARBORN — The daughter of Yemeni immigrants who'd fled war and poverty a couple decades ago and found home in Metro Detroit grew up feeling like she always had to prove herself more than others. Hanan Yahya, a 23-year-old recent college graduate and current administrator at a Dearborn-based education organization, said as long as...

COMMUNITY

A day with Dearborn Rep. Abdullah Hammoud: A young Arab American strives for a more welcoming Michigan

June 30th, 20170 LANSING — On election night last November, Dearbornites celebrated a triumph. Abdullah Hammoud, 27, became the first Arab Muslim male to represent the city in the state legislature. He told The AANews he felt relieved to win the race, but knew that struggle still lay ahead because "Trump might win Michigan." Donald Trump not only...

COMMUNITY

Chaldean, Iraqi communities across Metro Detroit scramble to act following ICE detentions

June 16th, 20171 SOUTHFIELD — On Monday, June 12, dozens gathered outside the Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church in Southfield to protest a recent wave of ICE raids that targeted, captured and detained dozens of Iraqi immigrants at multiple locations across Metro Detroit, including local churches, homes and even a hospital. Shocked and outraged...

U.S.A

Protesters rally against “Sharia Law” in dozens of U.S. cities

June 10th, 20171 SEATTLE- Protesters held rallies across the United States on Saturday to denounce sharia law, the Islamic legal and moral code that organizers say poses a threat to American freedoms, but critics believe anti-Muslim hatred is behind the condemnation. ACT for America, a self-described grassroots organization focusing on national...

COMMUNITY

Muslim shopper harassed at Trader Joe’s

May 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON ― A video of a woman appearing to tell off a Muslim shopper went viral, in which the woman told her, “I wish they didn’t let you in the country." The encounter allegedly took place at a Trader Joe’s in northern Virginia over the weekend, according to a South Carolina-based comedian who posted the video and claimed...

U.S. Politics

NAACP issues statement against discriminatory Texas voter ID law

April 13th, 20170 Baltimore– In response to a controversial voter ID law struck down by a Texas judge for being discriminatory, NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks issued statement supporting Judge Nelva Gonzalez Ramos’ ruling that SB 14 intentionally discriminates against African-American and Latinos. The statement held that the law, SB...

In Our Opinion

Hubbard’s statue has no place under the Dearborn sun

April 8th, 20172 Former Mayor Orville Hubbard's statue stood in front of the Dearborn City Hall on Michigan Avenue and Schaefer Road from 1989-2015. After much community debate, the sale of the building and national events like the Charleston massacre in 2015, the statue was removed and placed into storage. Many said it was for good reason. Hubbard...

U.S.A

White man who wanted to kill blacks arrested in New York stabbing

March 23rd, 20170 NEW YORK- A white man who police said traveled to New York City to harm black people turned himself in with knives in his pocket at a Manhattan police station on Wednesday, a day after authorities say he fatally stabbed a black man on a city sidewalk. James Harris Jackson, 28, told police he left his home in Baltimore on Friday and...

U.S.A

Muhammad Ali’s son detained at airport, questioned about religion

March 7th, 20170 FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Muhammad Ali, Jr., the son of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, was detained at a Florida airport for four hours in early February. Ali, who was born in Philadelphia in 1972 and holds a U.S. passport, said immigration officials who detained him on Feb. 7 repeatedly asked, "Where did you get your name from?" and...

Local

Warren city officials call on Fouts to investigate himself

January 29th, 20170 WARREN — On Tuesday, Warren City Council called for its battered mayor to inspect the recordings that appeared in the past month of him or someone else disparaging disabled people, older women and African Americans. The plan passed 4-3 and asks the mayor to use state and local agencies to help him find the source and verify the...

COMMUNITY

Referee makes disturbing comment to Muslim basketball team

January 26th, 20170 MEMPHIS, TN - A basketball coach at the Pleasant View School at the Muslim Community Center in Memphis hoped to teach her students a life lesson after a confrontation with a referee on Sunday night before their game. The referee addressed the crowd, bringing Bilquis Abdul-Qaadir, who is the athletic director at the school, to...

Crime

Man charged with hate crime after holding gun to Muslim cab driver’s head

January 26th, 20171 NEW YORK- On Monday, New York police confirmed that a man has been charged with a hate crime after holding a gun to the head of a Muslim cab driver. Andrew M. Plachecki, 26, was apparently drunk as he waved to the cab early Sunday morning before threatening the driver with a gun and calling him a “motherf---ing piece of Muslim...

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