NY Times: More Than 1,000 Protest Cartoon Depiction of Prophet

More than 1,000 Muslims gathered yesterday for a rally and prayer session across the street from the Danish Consulate in Manhattan, protesting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have set off a series of violent demonstrations around the world since their first publication in Denmark. The rally, billed by the organizers as a stand against […]

NY Muslims Hold Cartoon Protest at Danish UN Mission

A New York Muslim group has staged a prayer protest outside the Danish mission to the United Nations over the cartoons affair. While protests in other parts of the world have been often marked by violence, the New York demonstration was a model of calm. New York City Muslims hold a peaceful demonstration near the […]

ICNA Stands in Solidarity with Attacked Baptist Churches

  —FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—   JAMAICA, New York (February 16, 2006) – The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a grassroots organization of American Muslims, has strongly condemned the senseless arson attacks on ten Baptist churches in Alabama, five of which were burnt to the ground.

NCC Calls for 'Dialogue of Civilizations' over Cartoon Controversy

The National Council of Churches USA is praising the restraint of some Islamic groups over the Muhammad cartoon controversy while calling for a ‘‘dialogue of civilizations.’’  The NCC on Monday said it stood in solidarity with North American Islamic organizations that “exercised disciplined restraint and advocated diplomacy and education” in response to the caricatures of […]

HPD Meets With Local Muslim Leaders

(Houston, TX) On Thursday, February 9, 2006, representatives of the Houston Police Department met with local Muslim leaders at the Islamic Dawwa Center, located at 202 Main. The primary purpose of the meeting was to address local concerns and recent international attention given to the media handling and depiction of the Prophet Muhammad. Among the […]

NY Times: U.S. Muslims Try to Ease Europe's Discord

As the crisis over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad flared over the last two weeks, leaders of several American Muslim groups began working quietly to try to mediate between European Muslims and the West.  Muslim American leaders say they feel anguish over the Muslim world’s violent protests, which have left at least 11 […]

NY Newsday: Muslim Leaders upset at Prophet Muhammad drawings

When the 1988 film, “The Last Temptation of Christ,” in which Jesus is tempted to live out his life with Mary Magdalene, the Islamic Circle of North America, based in Jamaica, Queens, joined with some Christians in protest. They did the same when an artist at the Brooklyn Museum of Art depicted Jesus as a […]

Muslim ACT Program

Muslim ACT : Goals and Objectives The Muslim ACT Project has been designed to improve immigrant ability to access a range of 9/11-related services. This goal will be achieved through our provision of  individual crisis counseling and referrals, workshops and culturally competent and intensive self-help groups for clients  in their local communities.  Objectives: 1. Coaching […]

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