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.
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 [...]
Three years ago three friends couldn’t find fashionable yet modest clothing for hijab-clad women.They figured they must not be alone. The three Muslim-American women, Hanan Mirza, Haji Linda Bazzi and Haji Mariam Murad decided to open up a clothing shop catering to women who experienced the same dilemma. “There are a lot of Arab (women) [...]
While non-Muslims might see the wearing of the hijab, or veil-like head covering, by Muslim woman as strange or exotic, it is part of a “code of modesty asked of all people, not just Muslims,” said Imam Mohamad Mardini of the Muslim Center in Dearborn. Mardini a prominent Sunni Imam pointed out that most Jews [...]
Angela’s grandfather fought in the American army during WWI. She can usually be seen wearing jeans and a baggy long sleeve shirt either dropping her kids off to school or picking them up. She was born and raised in the United States, a typical American woman, except Angela, 32, (who asked that her last name [...]
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