I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Dawud Walid, the leader of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has spoken out publicly against trying to restrict Terry Jones’ right to protest outside a mosque in Dearborn.
The Michigan Council on American-Islamic Relations is suing right-wing political commentator and lawyer Debbie Schlussel for trademark infringement.
Tea Party darling Sharron Angle of Nevada has made the Michigan city of Dearborn part of the political fodder in her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Associated Press reports Angle told a crowd of supporters in Mesquite, NV, that Dearborn has been taken over by militant Islamic law.
The city of East Lansing will not seek trespassing or littering charges against an unidentified man who left a burnt Quran at the Islamic Center in the city, reports the Lansing State Journal. Assistant City Attorney Tom Yeadon tells the newspaper that there is no evidence the man, who turned himself in after authorities posted [...]
The Council on American Islamic Relations in Detroit has released autopsy photographs taken of a Detroit Imam shot to death by federal authorities late last year. Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah was shot 20 times by federal authorities during an attempt to arrest him. Police say he fired first.
Muslim activists are raising concerns about the death of a muslim man in the Macomb County Jail. Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel says the man, Mohammed Abdul-Fazal Chowdhury, died from a suicide. Hackel said Chowdhury sliced his own throat with a razor. But activists, including Dawud Walid from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told [...]
DETROIT — As activists call for an independent investigation into the killing of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the imam at the center of the FBI’s Oct. 28 raids in Detroit, Michigan Messenger has learned that the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office will not divulge the imam’s autopsy report.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, made a personal phone call to each of the two Muslim women who said they were denied seating behind him at this week’s rally in Detroit because they wore Islamic head scarves known as hijabs. Obama called Shimaa Abdelfadeel and Hebba Aref Thursday to personally apologize [...]
A young Muslim woman said Wednesday that she was asked not to sit in view of television cameras by an Obama campaign volunteer at Monday’s rally because she was wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf called a hijab. Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign apologized for two volunteers’ refusals to allow Hebba Aref and another woman, Shimaa [...]
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