by Carla Hinton | NewsOK.com | Aug 30, 2016 | In The News
An image used as part of a Pioneer Library System promotional campaign has come under fire from a Norman man who says it promotes the religion of Islam. Chad Grensky said he recently voiced his concerns to a leader with the Norman-based library system after seeing an...
by Christopher Mathias | Huffington Post | Aug 24, 2016 | In The News
In a time of rising Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate, a beloved Oklahoma man is gunned down. The Jabara family left Lebanon in 1983, fleeing that country’s brutal civil war, and settled in a quiet neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Things were good. Mounha Jabara and his...
by Arsalan Iftikhar | The Islamic Monthly | Aug 18, 2016 | In The News
Can you imagine if an Arab American man constantly harassed his White neighbors in Oklahoma with indefensible racial slurs like “dirty honky” or “filthy cracker” on a regular basis? Can you imagine if this same Arab American man was also found guilty of running over a...
by David Norris | KTUL Channel 8 Tulsa | Aug 17, 2016 | In The News
TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — A Tulsa Imam said Muslims in Tulsa are really trying to get the message out: extremists don’t represent the Muslim religion. John Ederer, Imam with the Islamic Society of Tulsa, said Christians have been in a similar situation....
by Carla Hinton | News OK | Aug 15, 2016 | In The News
Vandals recently targeted a Muslim-owned grocery store with anti-Muslim sentiments and derogatory slurs aimed at a prominent metro Muslim leader and several Muslim organizations. Saad Mohammed, director of Islamic news and information for the Islamic Society of...
