by Carla Hinton | NewsOK | Feb 1, 2017 | In The News
Several Oklahoma City Muslim leaders said there has been an increase in phone calls and emails spewing anti-Muslim rhetoric since the Trump’s Administration’s recent ban on refugees from Muslim-majority countries. However, they said the community-at-large...
by Kelly Roliard | KSWO | Feb 1, 2017 | In The News
LAWTON, OK (KSWO)- Approximately 300 Muslims live in the Lawton area. Around 60 people pray at the Islamic Center of Lawton every day. Many are terrified about what’s being going on in the world. Dr. Hassan Ahmed, the Director of the Islamic Center of Lawton is...
by Bill O'Brien | Red Dirt Report | Jan 31, 2017 | In The News
“Soldiers, soldiers, twenty centuries look down on you from these pyramids”, Napoleon told his troops as he rallied them to defeat their Mameluke enemies in the Battle of the Pyramids in Egypt in 1789. And one wonders what will be said when history looks down on our...
by Bill Sherman | Tulsa World | Jan 31, 2017 | In The News
Indian student Gnana Subramaniam speaks to a crowd during a “Rally for Diversity” on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, in reaction to the president’s executive order temporarily banning citizens from seven nations to enter the U.S., on Monday. Paul...
by Ryan Braschler | KTUL | Jan 30, 2017 | In The News
TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — Things happening within the Muslim community around the world are hitting home right here in Green Country. The mosque shooting in Quebec and President Trump’s immigration ban put on seven countries has Muslims in Tulsa nervous and scared. One...