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 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 [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has declined — for now — to launch a separate investigation into the killing of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah in a late-October FBI raid, according to a letter dated Dec. 2. Dawud Walid, director of the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, requested a [...]
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.
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