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A Nation Divided: The State of the Muslim Community in America While it is a struggle for Muslims today to disseminate proper information about Islam to the Western world, a parallel struggle is taking place in the efforts of traditional Muslim scholars to present mainstream Islam and all of its components to Muslims in America. As Islam is little understood and therefore feared in the West, so too is the traditional Islamic curriculum by many American Muslims.Please note: This statement was published in ISCA's magazine, The Muslim Magazine, before the controversial State Department Forum in January 1999. It first appeared in the Fall 1998 edition of The Muslim Magazine (Vol. 1 Issue 4).
Patterns of Discrimination Among Muslims in the United States While some Islamic organizations see themselves as the champion of Muslim civil rights in the US by defending Muslims in discrimination cases versus the larger non-Muslim public, it is ironic that these same organizations do not defend fellow Muslims who are discriminated against by other Muslims. What is even more revealing is that these "civil rights" organizations actually participate in the discrimination of other Muslim groups and individuals based on their own biases. The following is a series of incident reports compiled by the Islamic Supreme Council of America, an educational organization based in Washington, DC.
Unveiling the controversy: The discussion of Islamic extremism in America On January 7, 1999, ISCA Chairman Shaykh Hisham Kabbani warned against the possibility of Islamic extremists causing a major national tragedy such as that which struck our nation on September 11, 2001. The statement, made at the US Department of State, invoked a major divide in the American Muslim community.
National Muslim organizations incite modern day lynch mob In an attempt to censor the viewpoints of moderate Muslims living in America, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in concert with six other "American" Muslim organizations have unified to stifle the First Amendment rights of Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA), and have instigated a modern day Muslim lynch mob.
Islamic Extremism: A Viable Threat to U.S. National Security Transcript of the presentation by ISCA Chairman Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani at an Open Forum at the U.S. Department of State, January 7, 1999.
Terrorist Threat in America: Extremist Wave Threatens to Engulf Muslim Americans Muslims comprise the second largest religion in America and live as any other citizens, looking after their families and attending to their work. The majority of Muslims have nothing to do with and vigorously condemn extremism and fringe organizations that incite unrest around the world for their own ideological purposes.
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