By CHRIS SPARGO A Muslim woman was removed from Donald Trump‘s campaign event in South Carolina on Friday after standing in silent protest following one of the Republican front-runners controversial immigration comments. Rose Hamid, 56, attended the event in Rock Hill wearing a hijab and a shirt that read ‘Salam, I come in peace,’ hoping...
MOGADISHU, Somalia’s Jazeera Palace Hotel, which was attacked by terrorists in Mogadishu last year, has been running smoothly amid tight security since it reopened in November last year. Abdinasir Mohamed, the Operations Manager at one of the most popular hotels in Mogadishu, told Xinhua on Thursday that there are security improvements in the hotel including...
By KHAINGA O’OKWEMBA “Whenever the legendary Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame ‘Hadraawi’ described as the greatest living Somali poet, walked from the conference hall, he was mobbed by the crowd.” That’s how I annotated my essay when I first met Hadraawi in Djibouti in 2012. I would sue for an interview. But it was difficult to get...
New York, Somali authorities should immediately release journalist Abdirisak Omar Ahmed or disclose any charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency arrested Abdirisak, a freelancer who wrote for the privately owned, Somali-language, news websiteXogmaal, on the morning of December 17, near the Jubba Hotel in the...
BY TIM MAK Forces from America, Japan, France, Germany, Italy—and soon, even China—are crammed into the dirt-poor Djibouti. Good luck asking the locals if they like all the attention. There’s a smell of sewage out on the beaches outside, juxtaposed with tangerine, sunset views glimmering atop the murky waves. Looking southward across the warm waters...
Web screenshot of al-Shabab video from YouTube.com, Jan. 1, 2016. By Dan Joseph The Somali militant group al-Shabab has released a new recruiting video that highlights U.S. police shootings and the call by presidential candidate Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the United States. The video released Friday may be the first instance of...
By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA China’s POLY-GCL Petroleum Group Holdings Ltd has finished drilling two appraisal wells in Ethiopia’s southeast and will soon know the size of gas deposits there, a senior Ethiopian official said. Ethiopia says the wells in the Calub and Hilala fields in the Ogaden Basin should show deposits of 4.7 trillion...
The name-calling started when I began wearing a hijab. Things have only gotten worse. By Theresa Corbin Grafitti defaces a mosque at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Mich. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) In November 2001, while firefighters were still sorting through the rubble at the World Trade Center, I became a Muslim. I had...
By Scott W. Johnson On what seems like a daily basis, Minnesotans are lectured against the evils of “Islamophobia.” In October, Gov. Mark Dayton weirdly instructed “white, B-plus, Minnesota-born citizens” to suppress their qualms about immigrant resettlement in Minnesota, according to the St. Cloud Times. If they can’t, they should “find another state,” he added....
The terror threat isn’t exactly theoretical, so why are state leaders mollycoddling the community where it’s most likely to brew? By Scott W. Johnson On what seems like a daily basis, Minnesotans are lectured against the evils of “Islamophobia.” In October, Gov. Mark Dayton weirdly instructed “white, B-plus, Minnesota-born citizens” to suppress their qualms about...