by Ariana Garza | KOCO | Oct 12, 2014 | In The News
A town hall meeting on Islam will attract several nationally renowned speakers to an Edmond church Monday. The event will be at the Fairview Baptist Church and speakers include: Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy and former assistant secretary...
by Ben Felder | Oklahoma Gazette | Oct 8, 2014 | In The News
As Imam Imad Enchassi looks out over the hundreds of Muslims gathered for Friday afternoon prayer, he can see the stress in many faces. There is nothing comfortable about being Muslim in modern America as politicians, cable news talking heads and popular television...
by Dana Branham | OU Daily | Oct 7, 2014 | In The News
When news outlets reported that a supposed convert to Islam had beheaded a woman in a Moore grocery store, OU junior Yazan Salus was worried. “I told my sisters and mom to lay low for a little bit because people will have this sort of ignorance towards the situation,...
by Bill O'Brien | Red Dirt Report | Oct 7, 2014 | In The News
The Muslims of central Oklahoma came together on Saturday at the Mercy Masjid in Oklahoma City to celebrate the second and final Eid holiday of the year. Dr. Imam Imad Enchassi spoke to the attendees who filled the masjid to capacity about the prophets that are...
by Andrew Donley | KFOR | Oct 6, 2014 | In The News
Oklahoma Muslims marked the end of the yearly pilgrimage to mecca with communal prayer and celebration called Eid Ul-Adha on Saturday. Leaders of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City say it’s been a tough month for Muslims here in Oklahoma after being...
by Dean Obeidallah | Daily Beast | Oct 6, 2014 | In The News
Did that Oklahoma man who beheaded a woman do so because he’s Muslim? Don’t count on Fox to tell you. Another day, another Fox News segment stoking the flames of hate against Muslims. The latest chapter in Fox’s unholy war on Muslims occurred on Wednesday night’s...
by Dylan Goforth | Tulsa World | Oct 6, 2014 | In The News
Sallisaw Republican state Rep. John Bennett ignited a firestorm last month with his comments that Islam was a “cancer that needed to be cut out of America.” He later said those comments were meant to inspire “open dialogue and education about the Islamic faith.” In...
by Andy Oden | NewsOK | Oct 5, 2014 | In The News
Is a Muslim your neighbor? How should you treat Muslims? After the Civil War, critics chastised President Lincoln for not being harsher with the South. He asked, “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” As a Christian and native Oklahoman, I...
by Dylan Goforth | Tulsa World | Oct 3, 2014 | In The News
If it wasn’t clear already, it should be now. State Rep. John Bennett, R-Sallisaw, is not going to back down on his criticism of Muslims and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Speaking to about 25 members of the Muskogee Patriot Group at the town’s public...
by Bill Sherman | Tulsa World | Oct 3, 2014 | In The News
Oklahoma’s embattled Muslim community got some good news Thursday. The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear the case of a Muslim teenager who was denied a job six years ago at a Tulsa Abercrombie & Fitch store because her religiously mandated head covering...
