Award offered in Ga Hate crime

CAIR OFFERS REWARD FOR INFO ABOUT ATTACK ON GA MUSLIMS - TOP$5,000 offered for arrest and conviction of perpetrators(ATLANTA, GA, 4/27/2006) - The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of an apparent bias crime against a Muslim family in that state.On April 8, vandals torched the Douglasville, Ga., family's van and spray-painted "Killers Go Home!" on a wall of their home. Local law enforcement authorities tell CAIR there is "evidence to suggest a racial or religious motive." Investigators say they are waiting for the results of laboratory tests on debris from the burned van. Yesterday, CAIR'S national office called on the FBI to join the investigation.SEE: Spray Painted Hate Message (CBS 46)

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"A reward can often bring forward information from community members that may otherwise go unreported," said Yusuf Burke, director of CAIR's Georgia chapter.Burke said CAIR will soon release its annual report on the status of American Muslim civil rights.CAIR, America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, has 32 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.CONTACT: Yusuf Burke, 404-542-1209; Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair-net.org; Rabiah Ahmed, 202-488-8787 or 202-439-1441, E-Mail: rahmed@cair-net.org

Hate Mail

POOR CHOICE, PROFESSOR - TOPThe State News 4/27/06
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Shame on you, Indrek Wichman.Come on, you didn't really send an offensive e-mail to a prominent student organization with the notion that it was going to be kept private - did you?Well, you're saying you did, but that was a pretty irresponsible move for an MSU professor.Seriously.The Muslim Students' Association received an e-mail Feb. 28 sent from your university account in which you blatantly verbally attacked the organization and basically told them if they don't like Western ways, to leave the United States.That's quite a thing to say.But as disturbing as that might be, what is arguably worse is the e-mail The State News received from you in which you appear to have decided maybe you should have actually thought this one through before typing out a ranting, accusatory e-mail.You're singing a different tune stating, "A communication that I thought was private was subsequently made public, much to my chagrin. That is troubling, and I regret this entire incident."If you're going to have the audacity to label a whole group of people, you better at least be able to back up your claims if need be.But instead you hid behind regret.There's no denying that you have the right to harbor the idiotic opinion about Muslims that you do, but using your MSU e-mail account and introducing yourself as a professor of mechanical engineering in the first sentence is unfairly looping the university in with your claims. (MORE)

Hate used to make sale

BILLBOARDS HIGHLIGHT MIDDLE EASTERN RELATIONS DURING ETHANOL DEBATE - TOP Chris Blank, Associated Press, 4/25/06http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/14426908.htmJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Highway billboards with pictures of a former Middle Eastern leader and a farmer are underscoring the role international politics are playing in a debate about whether to require most gasoline sold in Missouri to be blended with ethanol.The billboards, located throughout Missouri, show a farmer and an unlabeled picture of the former king of Saudi Arabia standing in front of corn field with the text: "Who would you rather buy your gas from?"The advertisement has prompted a mixed reaction in the Muslim community, with the president of the St. Louis chapter for the Council on American-Islamic Relations calling it "an attack" and a "cheap method" for ethanol supporters to get their point across."Just looking at the board implies hate and discrimination for no reason," Kamal Yassin said.Yassin said it made sense to talk about the Middle East when debating alternatives to fossil fuels, but said the billboards cross the line."Middle Easterners, Arabs and Muslims are all easy targets right now because no one is really defending them," he said. "It gets to the point where you have to think twice because using that tactic is inappropriate. It doesn't belong in any kind of campaign or discussion of the issues."The billboards are paid for by the Missouri Corn Growers' Association, one of the biggest backers of a bill that would require a 10 percent ethanol blend in Missouri gas whenever ethanol costs the same or less than gasoline. (MORE)

Christian Vandals Attack Muslim Family

FBI ASKED TO PROBE ATTACK ON GEORGIA MUSLIM FAMILY - TOP Family's van torched, 'Killers Go Home' sprayed on wall(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/26/2006) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today asked the FBI to probe an attack on a Georgia Muslim family as a possible hate crime.On April 8, vandals torched the Douglasville, Ga., family's van and spray-painted "Killers Go Home!" on a wall of their home. The family told CAIR that local authorities have been slow to investigate the attack.SEE: Spray Painted Hate Message (CBS 46)"This disturbing incident once again points to the need for our nation's leaders to speak out strongly against anti-Muslim bias," said CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. "We urge the FBI to add its resources to those of local law enforcement authorities so that the perpetrators of this attack may be brought to justice."Hooper said other attacks on American Muslims and their institutions have occurred recently. Earlier this month, CAIR announced a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator of an assault on a female Muslim student at Baylor University in Texas.SEE: CAIR Offers Reward for Info on Baylor U AssaultAlso this month, CAIR's Florida office (CAIR-FL) called on local and national law enforcement authorities to investigate vandalism at one of that state's mosques as a possible hate crime. CAIR-FL received reports of similar acts of vandalism at five other South Florida Islamic centers last year.SEE: FBI Asked to Probe Mosque VandalismAs evidence of growing Islamophobia, Hooper cited the recent Dubai ports management controversy and an ongoing highway billboard campaign in Missouri that features a farmer and an unlabeled image of the former king of Saudi Arabia with the text: "Who would you rather buy your gas from?"SEE: Billboards Highlight Middle Eastern Relations During Ethanol Debate (AP)

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HAte mail sent to Muslim Students

MI: MUSLIM STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF MSU RECEIVES HATE-FILLED E-MAIL FROM PROFESSOR - TOP (East Lansing, Michigan - 04/24/06) - The Muslim Students' Association (MSA) of Michigan State University (MSU) received a very disturbing email from Dr. Indrek S. Wichman, professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University on 02/28/06. Using his MSU email account, he degraded Muslims by calling them, "dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems" and despicably demanded Muslim students to "return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans." These virulent attacks are inexcusable for a MSU professor, especially considering the University's collective commitment to fostering a welcoming academic environment for all.Representatives from the MSA have discussed this grave matter with University officials on numerous occasions. Unfortunately, their response was unsatisfactory and therefore, along with the undersigned organizations, the MSA is calling for a public letter of reprimand by the University to the professor.Despite the University administration's unwillingness to adequately discipline the professor, they have expressed a positive commitment to work with us to avoid the reoccurrence of such an incident. To achieve this end, we call for a comprehensive initiative to be undertaken by the University to address the underlying problems of hate and discrimination present at MSU through the following measures:o Support for the MSA to put on Islamic culture and diversity programs,o Sponsorship by the office of the president and provost for diversity programs and programs highlighting issues confronting Muslim students,o Mandatory freshmen seminar addressing hate and discrimination, ando Programs for the faculty of MSU to undergo diversity training, including Muslim sensitivity training.The MSA has been proactive in uniting students of various backgrounds to take a unified stance against all levels of hate, discrimination, and racism at MSU. Specifically, we have been working with many other student groups to establish an umbrella organization comprised of student leaders of every concerned University registered student organization (RSO). RSOs interested in joining the coalition should contact the MSA at msaofmsu@gmail.com. We also urge everyone to contact the University to express their disapproval of the professor's racist remarks and support the call for the implementation of the aforementioned initiatives. It is our hope that these initiatives and the like will help put an end to hatred and discrimination at MSU and foster a healthier and more harmonious community.Signed:Muslim Students' Association of Michigan State University

Hate E-mail sent to Muslim Students At MSU

The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) today called on Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing to take "appropriate disciplinary action" against a professor who sent an Islamophobic e-mail to Muslim students.MSU engineering professor Indrek Wichman used his faculty e-mail account to send a "Dear Moslem Association" message to the university's Muslim Students' Association (MSA) containing a long list of charges, including a claim that Muslims rape "Scandinavain [sic] girls and women (called 'whores' in your culture)."The February 28, 2006, e-mail also stated: "I counsul [sic] you dissatisfied, agressive [sic], brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile 'protests.' If you do not like the values of the West--see the 1st Ammendment [sic]--you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option. Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans."Representatives from CAIR-MI and the MSA met several times with MSU officials to urge the university to take appropriate action in the case as well as to address the increasing religious and racial tensions on campus. The university is considering a response to Muslim student concerns."It is unconscionable for a professor to use his university e-mail account to foster a hostile learning environment for Muslim students," said CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid. "The university needs to take appropriate disciplinary action in this case to demonstrate through its actions that anti-Muslim bigotry will not be tolerated on campus."Walid also said there have been a number of recent incidents on or near the MSU campus targeting minorities.

American Cops rip off Muslim Girls Hijab

POLICE RIPPED OFF MUSLIM GIRL'S HIJAB - TOP Khalid Hasan, Daily Times (Pakistan), 4/23/06
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WASHINGTON: The trial of Rehana Khan, a Muslim girl of Pakistani-descent from Illinois who had her headscarf or hijab ripped off after she and several others were arrested for civil disobedience while protesting at a rally for immigrant rights last year, has finally been scheduled for April 25.A group of five young people - white, Latino, Muslim - are facing up to four years in jail for a protest against the racist vigilante group the Minutemen.Two Illinois state attorneys have reportedly refused to discuss a plea without jail time. Their case goes to trial on April 25, according to the New Jersey-based website DesPardes, quoting the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR).Rehana, while being led to a police squad car, reportedly informed an officer that the way in which she was being handled was causing extreme pain - actions from which she obtained bruises and scars - and requested that the officer ease her grip.The officer responded by stating, "No, that's what you get," and then remarked, "Take that off" and violently pulled off her hijab. At the police station, Rehana was made to take off her hijab again and was searched by a female and male officer without her hijab on.After the search, the female officer tried to give the hijab back to her but the male officer stopped her, saying that there was nobody at the station to look at her, while adding that the practice of wearing the hijab was a "fashion statement".The detainee was then kept in lock up without being permitted to wear her hijab. CAIR-Chicago will be meeting representatives of the village of Arlington Heights to discuss this instance of police misconduct.

Christians Harras Muslim Students

MUSLIM STUDENTS BATTLE PREJUDICE - TOP 'I've never done anything to anybody'Sophia Maines, Lawrence Journal World, 4/20/06
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/apr/20/muslim_students_battle_prejudice/ It was just two days ago that Kansas University student Bazigha Tufail was taunted for being Muslim.Tufail, 20, stopped at a food court on campus for a bite when she casually made eye contact with a young man. Tufail wore a headscarf as she does wherever she goes.As the man walked by, he muttered in her direction, "Bombs away."The words stung. They gave her pause and left a lingering sadness."I've never done anything to anybody," she said. "I'm like, 'why?' ... There's no way to counter that ignorance."KU's Muslim Student Assn. is hosting Islam Awareness Week through Friday to better students' understanding of Muslims and Islam. The aim is to correct stereotypes and encourage tolerance. (MORE)

American Radio Host calls for mass murder of Muslims

INCITEMENT WATCH: SAVAGE ADVOCATED "KILL[ING] 100 MILLION" MUSLIMS - TOP Media Matters, 4/19/06
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On April 17, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage called for "kill[ing] 100 million" Muslims. . .On his radio show, Savage told listeners that "intelligent people, wealthy people ... are very depressed by the weakness that America is showing to these psychotics in the Muslim world. They say, 'Oh, there's a billion of them.' " Savage continued: "I said, 'So, kill 100 million of them, then there'd be 900 million of them.' I mean ... would you rather us die than them?" Savage added: "Would you rather we disappear or we die? Or would you rather they disappear and they die? Because you're going to have to make that choice sooner rather than later."-----

Christians oppose building of Mosque

MOSQUE EXPOSES FEARS IN WARREN - TOP Plans OK'd over residents' worriesDAN CORTEZ, FREE PRESS, 4/12/05http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060412/NEWS04/604120407/1006 The plans for Warren's first mosque were approved, but a series of ill-informed, fear-tinged and derogatory comments from residents and city planning commissioners Monday night still echoed a day later."It's reminiscent of the Jim Crow South of the 1950s and 1960s," said Dawud Walid, executive director for the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations who attended the meeting Monday night."There were blatant Islam-ophobic comments made by two members on this board," he said, adding that he is happy the plan was approved. "But we're also very discouraged by some of the comments from both the residents and the commissioners."During the two-hour session, one Warren resident was loudly applauded for demanding that the developer prove the Islamic Organization of North America won't have ties to terrorists. Planning commissioner Maurice Daniels asked if sacrifices would be made. The planning commission rejected the plan a month ago, and nearly tabled it Monday before giving it the OK. Steve Elturk, the 50-year-old Troy man who proposed the project, did not return messages Tuesday to comment about the meeting, but he is going ahead with the project.Crews already have started renovating the old office and retail building on Ryan Road just south of 12 Mile, and Walid said Elturk plans to host an open house at the new mosque in order to promote a better understanding of Islam."What I saw were not only anti-Islamic sentiment, but anti-minority sentiment," Walid said. "We are hopeful that there are no types of retaliatory actions taken against the mosque. One positive is that there are people in the academic and religious communities in Warren that spoke out in favor of the mosque."Walid said he wants to hold symposiums on race relations in Macomb County in response to Monday's raucous meeting. (MORE)

Mosque Vanadlism Part of American Life

MOSQUE DEFACING PART OF ONGOING HATE SPREE - TOP Ashley Fantz, Miami Herald, 4/6/06http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/14273637.htm The weekend defacing of a Muslim prayer hall and a new audit of hate crimes against Jews brought into relief the continuing threats against Muslim and Jewish houses of worship in South Florida.On Sunday, volunteers for the Islamic Center of South Florida discovered that vandals had sprayed the words "Osama BinLeden" in yellow paint on a wall of their new school, gymnasium and prayer hall, which are under construction in the 5400 block of Northwest 108th Avenue in Sunrise."Incidents like this aren't going to stop us," said Syed Rahman, a spokesperson for the center. ``If anything, this will underscore the importance of reaching out to the different religious communities so that we all come together to denounce acts of hate.''The Anti-Defamation League released an audit on Wednesday indicating that hate crimes against Jews increased statewide last year, from 173 in 2004 to 199 in 2005.In Weston alone, between January 2005 and March 2006, a dozen bomb threats were made to synagogues, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.One temple director contacted by The Miami Herald, who asked that his name not be published, said a school at his synagogue regularly conducts bomb drills.''There are religious customs,'' said Andrew Rosenkranz, the Anti-Defamation League's Florida regional director. "Unfortunately, in the world today there is another custom -- and it's security. Everyone has got to do it."FIVE INCIDENTSAt least five incidents of vandalism in South Florida involved mosques or places of Muslim worship last year, said Altaf Ali, of Pembroke Pines.

Christian Man Attacks Muslim Girl

FBI JOINS BAYLOR POLICE IN 'HATE CRIME' INVESTIGATION - TOP Monica Oritz Uribe, Waco Tribune, 4/6/06http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/04/06/04062006wacfbimuslimstudent.html The FBI is now assisting Baylor University police in investigating Saturday's reported assault of a Muslim student on campus.Chief Jim Doak of the Baylor Department of Public Safety announced the collaboration Wednesday, said Baylor spokeswoman Lori Fogleman."We have had an FBI representative on campus with us throughout the day and will continue to work with the agency as this process goes forward," Doak said Wednesday.Nohayia Javed, 19, a Chicago native of South Asian heritage, Sunday reported to Baylor police that she had been assaulted the night before by a white Christian man in his mid-30s.She said the Christian man made anti-Muslim and ethnic slurs "in a really Southern, very pronounced, noticeable accent" as he pulled her to the ground kicking, slapping and digging his nails into her skin.Al Siddiq, a leader of the local Muslim community and president of the Islamic Center of Waco, said Wednesday that he was relieved to learn the FBI had joined the investigation. He said it was a sign that the Baylor administration was "no longer in denial that this is a hate crime."Siddiq said campus administrators had not initially given the incident enough attention or concern because the student assaulted was not "a blond, white girl."Meanwhile, officials from the Dallas office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations are heading to Waco on Friday to make their own assessment of the situation, he added.

Mosque Vandalized My Christians

VANDALS DEFACE MOSQUE UNDER CONSTRUCTION - TOP Sun-Sentinel, 4/5/06http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-c3bdig05apr05,0,3846159.story Police are investigating on Tuesday the defacement this week of a mosque under construction, as members of the local Muslim community called for the matter to be handled as a hate crime.The words "Osama binleden" were discovered spray-painted on a wall Monday morning at the Islamic Center of South Florida, under construction in the 5400 block of Northwest 108th Avenue, according to Sunrise Police spokesman Lt. Robert Voss.A report for criminal mischief was filed Monday evening.The Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations released a statement calling for both Sunrise police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to pursue the matter as a hate crime, saying the nature of the graffiti indicated a specific bias.Voss said his department had not yet been in contact with the federal agency, as the investigation had just been initiated.

VANDALISM AT SUNRISE MOSQUE FEARED A HATE CRIME - TOP Carey Codd, CBS, 4/4/06http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_094160235.htmlMembers of a Sunrise mosque are asking the public and the FBI to get involved in investigating an act of vandalism on their building this week.Monday, the words 'Osama Binleden' were found spray-painted on one of the Islamic Center of South Florida's walls located at 5457 Northwest 108th Avenue in Sunrise. An electrical box was also found damaged at the site of the building, which is still under construction. Officials believe the vandalism was done sometime overnight and fear this might be a possible hate crime.For this reason the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have become involved and are publicly requesting that federal and local agencies get involved in investigating this as a possible hate crime."The nature of the graffiti in this incident would seem to indicate the possibility of a bias motive," said CAIR-FL Executive Director Altaf Ali. "We urge the FBI to assist local law enforcement authorities in resolving this case and assuring the security of Florida Muslims."CAIR is also asking for increased police patrols outside Islamic institutions in South Florida. (MORE)

Muslim Student attacked By christian extremist

MUSLIM STUDENT BELIEVES ATTACKER CAME FROM OFF CAMPUS - TOP Tim Woods and Terri Jo Ryan, Waco Tribune, 4/5/06http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/04/05/04052006wacmuslim.html A Muslim woman who said she was assaulted on the Baylor University campus Saturday night said Tuesday that she doesn't believe her attacker is a Baylor student.Nohayia Javed, a 19-year-old senior who has been at Baylor since 2003, said she was attacked near the Draper Academic Building about 8:45 p.m. by a clean-shaven white man in his 30s, weighing about 200 pounds, with buzz-cut blondish-brown hair. She said he was wearing jeans and steel-toed cowboy boots.The incident, which wasn't reported immediately, has sparked the condemnation of the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights organization. The group's communications director, Ibrahim Hooper, said law enforcement officials, including the FBI, should investigate the attack as a hate crime.Javed, a Chicago native of South Asian heritage, said that as she was walking Saturday night from the Student Union Building to her dorm room in Dawson Residence Hall, a man grabbed her hijab - a Muslim head scarf - and pulled her to the ground while making anti-Muslim and ethnic slurs "in a really Southern, very pronounced, noticeable accent."She said the man told her to keep quiet or he would kill her. She added that the quickness and ferocity of the attack shocked her into silence."But when he dug his nails into my chest, reflexively I screamed," Javed said. "And once I started screaming, I could not stop."She said her attacker responded to her screams by slapping her and kicking her multiple times in the ribs before running away."I could tell that he wasn't familiar with campus because he didn't seem to know where to run," she said. "He ran in a kind of circle before he found his way out."Baylor's interim vice president for student life, Dub Oliver, said Baylor's Department of Public Safety was notified of the reported assault at about 5 p.m. Sunday. He said "the university is treating this incident very seriously and is in the process of investigating the matter in cooperation with law enforcement agencies."CAIR spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed said the group's legal affairs office contacted the FBI and asked them to investigate the matter as a hate crime. The FBI's Web site states that to qualify as a hate crime, "the offender's criminal act must have been motivated, in whole or in part, by his/her bias." (MORE)

MUSLIM STUDENT REPORTS ATTACK ON BAYLOR CAMPUS - TOP Associated Press, 4/5/06http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4726996&nav=1TjDWACO, Texas Baylor University police are investigating a report by a Muslim student who says she was attacked on campus.The Council on American-Islamic Relations has asked the F-B-I to investigate the attack as a hate crime.The student says was walking alone Saturday night when a white man grabbed her head scarf. He threw her on the ground and yelled ethnic slurs at her.The man slapped her face, kicked her ribs and threatened to kill her if she made noise.The student reported she screamed and he ran away. She was able to drive to the emergency room and was treated for a dislocated shoulder and other injuries.Baylor is the world's largest Baptist university.In a statement today, Baylor officials said the university is "treating the reported incident very seriously."

Mosque Vandalized

VANDALS SCRAWL 'OSAMA BINLEDEN' ON SUNRISE MOSQUE - TOP NBC6, 4/4/06http://www.nbc6.net/news/8462654/detail.htmlSUNRISE, Fla. -- Members of a South Florida mosque are calling on local and federal authorities to investigate what they believe is a hate crime.The Islamic Center of South Florida reported that vandals spray-painted the walls of a mosque under construction in Sunrise with the words "Osama Binleden."Altaf Ali, of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the vandalism was discovered on Monday."When I saw this, I said to myself, 'Here is another example of the ignorance within our community,'" Ali said.Ali said he is asking for additional police patrols outside Islamic institutions in South Florida."Unfortunately, we've seen these kinds of incidents happen over and over," he said. "Last year we had five incidents of vandalism at the Islamic center in South Florida. This year, actually two weeks ago, there was another incident involving vandalism at the Islamic center in Hollywood. Vandals spray-painted graffiti on the walls. So, of course, this is very disturbing to us because this is a place of worship. I think Muslims should have the freedoms to express their faith as any other individuals in this community." (MORE)

Muslim Student Attacked

MUSLIM STUDENT ATTACKED ON BAYLOR CAMPUS - TOP Tim Woods, Tribune-Herald, 4/4/06http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/04/04/04042006wacmuslimearly.html A national champion for the rights of followers of Islam today asked that Waco law enforcement officials aggressively pursue Saturday night's attack on a Muslim Baylor University student on campus as a hate crime."Law enforcement authorities and university officials need to treat this disturbing incident with the seriousness it deserves," said Council on American-Islamic Relations communications director Ibrahim Hooper. "Local, state and national leaders also need to speak out against the rising level of Islamophobic hate in our society that can lead to such attacks."Hooper also called on the FBI to investigate the incident as a hate crime.Two recent polls indicate that almost half of Americans have a negative perception of Islam and that one in four of those surveyed have "extreme" anti-Muslim views, CAIR officials said.A Baylor senior of South Asian heritage who was active in Muslim-Christian relations was attacked on the school's campus Saturday night, suffering multiple injuries.Chief Jim Doak of the Baylor Department of Public Safety has confirmed that police were alerted about the attack and that the incident is being investigated, but he has refused to release further details. Neither Doak nor a university spokeswoman could immediately say whether the alleged attack will be investigated as a hate crime.The Baylor DPS web site indicated that the attack occurred near Draper Hall between 8:45 and 9 p.m. Rabiah Ahmed, a spokeswoman for the Washington, D.C.-based CAIR, said the victim called them Monday and said a man, thought to be in his 30s, grabbed her hijab, an Islamic head scarf, and threw the woman to the ground. As he did, the attacker allegedly yelled anti-Muslim and ethnic slurs at the woman including "Arabian (expletive)" and "(expletive) Muslims."When the woman screamed, her attacker reportedly slapped her and kicked her multiple times in the ribs, according to Ahmed. An emergency room examination found bruises and a dislocated shoulder, Ahmed said. (MORE)

Florida Masjid Vandalized by Christians

FBI ASKED TO PROBE FL MOSQUE VANDALISM AS POSSIBLE HATE CRIME - TOP 'Osama Binleden' spray-painted on Islamic Center of South Florida(MIAMI, FL, 4/3/2006) - The Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) today called on local and national law enforcement authorities to investigate vandalism at one of that state's mosques as a possible hate crime.Officials of the Islamic Center of South Florida (IFSF) under construction in Sunrise, Fla., reported to CAIR-FL that vandals spray-painted "Osama Binleden" on one of the outside walls of the facility sometime overnight. The perpetrators also damaged an electrical box at the site."The nature of the graffiti in this incident would seem to indicate the possibility of a bias motive," said CAIR-FL Executive Director Altaf Ali. "We urge the FBI to assist local law enforcement authorities in resolving this case and assuring the security of Florida Muslims."Ali also called for additional police patrols outside Islamic institutions in South Florida. (There are an estimated 70,000 Muslims in the South Florida area.)Two weeks ago, officials of the Darul-Uloon Islamic center in Hollywood, Fla., reported that vandals scrawled unintelligible graffiti on the exterior wall of that facility. CAIR-FL received reports of similar acts of vandalism at five other South Florida Islamic centers last year.

Russia faking Islamic Terrorism cases

RUSSIA: STALINISM FOREVER - TOPAnna Politkovskaya, Washington Post, 4/1/06http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/31/AR2006033101584.html MOSCOW -- We are using Stalin's methods again, this time to fight terrorism. I am writing for this American newspaper on a subject that one can no longer write about in Russia -- islamskiy terrorizm, or Islamic terrorism cases. There are hundreds of such cases going through the courts in our country. Most of them have been fabricated by the government so that the special services can demonstrate how "effective" Russia is in fighting terrorism and so that President Vladimir Putin has something with which to impress the West. (MORE)