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NY MUSLIM LEADERS & ACTIVISTS SUE THE NYPD
(AP photo) LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE MAJLIS ASH-SHURA OF METROPOLITAN NY JOIN COMRADES IN STRUGGLE TO ANNOUNCE LAW SUIT AGAINST NYPD: first row, beginning from right to left: plaintiff Asad Dandia (white shirt with black tie), Majlis Executive Committee member Imam Siraj Wahhaj (representing Masjid At-Taqwa as a plaintiff), me (Imam Al-Hajj Talib 'Abdur-Rashid) , Amir of The Majlis, plaintiff Imam Hamid Hassan Raza, of Masjidul-Ansar, attorney Hina Shamsi of The ACLU, attorney Ramzi Kassem of City University of NY CLEAR (Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility) , Dalia Shams, also of CLEAR 2nd row, right to left , Majlis secretary, Imam Abdul-Azeem Khan of Masjid Omar bin Abdul-Aziz, Imam Charles Aziz Bilal of Masjid Alhamdulillah, Imam Ayub Abdul-Baki of The Tauhid Center for Islamic Development, Attorney Art Eisenberg of the ACLU (far left) LINK: http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/18/nypd-faces-lawsuit-over-massive-surveillance STAT...
NO BREAKFAST WITH BLOOMBERG 2012
ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF METRO NY Announcement 12 Safar 1434 A.H. December 25, 2012 As-Salaamu 'Alaikum wa Rahmatullah. As promised, below please find our official statement this year regarding Mayor Bloomberg's December 28, 2012 breakfast. Yours in Islam, Imam Al-Hajj Talib 'Abdur-Rashid Amir MUSLIM LEADERS PLAN TO ONCE AGAIN BOYCOTT THE MAYOR'S INTERFAITH BREAKFAST THIS YEAR For immediate release December 25, 2012 The Majlis Ash-Shura (Islamic Leadershi...
LINCOLN SAID IT RIGHT
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time" - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
WHAT PRICE DIGNITY?
NYC MUSLIM LEADERS AND THE POLITICS OF COMPROMISE DURING THE LAST YEAR OF THE BLOOMBERG-KELLY ADMINISTRATION Somber Reflections on the 16 th Day of Ramadan (Monday, August 6, 2012 C.E. ) By Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, wa Ramadan Karim ! Tonight as the sun sets over the skies of New York City, and Muslims break their fast ending yet another day and beginning another night of Ramadan worship, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will host yet another annual iftaar , just as his Police Commissioner, Ray Kelly, hosted another annual Pre-Ramadan briefing a few weeks ago. These events have occurred over the past years, but in 2012 they have taken on an ominous significance. As the world now knows, over the past year the Associated Press revealed in a Pulitzer Prize winning set of articles, that the NYPD, under the leadership of Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly, engaged in widespread, ...