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Islam

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    OC Muslims Connect With Japanese-American Internment Struggle at Manzanar

    John Asanuma was 11 years old when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, paving the path for mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. The Los Angeles native, and his parents were sent to Manzanar in 1942--one of the largest camps housing more than 120,000 Ja ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Allerto's Mexican-Indian Comida is All-Halal All The Time!

    Go to Allerto's if you're in the area, and you're craving Mexican and/or Indian food. Some might feel like they're making a pit stop on a road trip when entering the 24-hour restaurant. It's probably because it doubles up, with no barrier, to a gas station store. There are about a dozen small tables ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Eat This Now: Spicy BBQ Chicken Pizza at San Giovanni's Pizza

    The magic of San Giovanni's barbecue chicken pizza is the palimpsest of ingredients, each distinct yet meshing into each other so that traces of what's above and below seep through. The owner freshly tosses and bakes every pizza at this halal restaurant upon order--no pizza under hot lamps and throw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Why Does Rick Warren Need to Defend His Interfaith Efforts with Muslims?

    ​It's called interfaith: different religious groups converging to recognize their common values and bridge the gap of misunderstandings, usually accompanied by tea and cookies.But some groups have a difficult time doing it, unlike Saddleback Church, which is possibly the only evangelical gathering ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Anaheim's Access Celebrates its Work in the Arab/Muslim Community With Congressman Keith Ellison

    ​The Anaheim-based Access California Services, which has its office nestled on Brookhurst Street in Little Arabia--a neighborhood profiled in the Weekly's current cover story--has come a long way since its humble beginnings in 1998. The agency that provides assistance to the county's Arab and Musl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    [UPDATED: Jones To Take Legal Action] Rev. Terry Jones Rally Blocked at UCI Amid Security Concerns, 'Free Speech' Area Shut Down

    ​UPDATE, DEC. 2, 3:06 P.M.:  Rev. Terry Jones told us by phone that the arrest threat he received by UCI police on Thursday is "an absolute outrage and a violation of our First Amendment rights.""We are definitely going to take legal action against the UC Irvine police department," he sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Super King Market Fined Over Half-a-Million Dollars for Selling Fake Halal Meat

    ​I've long shopped at Super King Market in that part of Anaheim that bleeds into Stanton, not just for their super-cheap produce but also to see my Orange County: the waves of Latinos, Muslims, Eastern Europeans, Asians, and plain ol' 'mericans shopping in peace, and even learning from each other- ... More >>

  • Food

    August 25, 2011

    A Silver Spoon in Your Mouth

    [Hole In the Wall] The Pakistani store Irvine Halal Meat sells a great lunch buffet—and a Paki-Mexi burrito from heaven

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Olive Tree to Open Second Location After Ramadan

    Photo by Das UbergeekOlive Tree's amazing lamb​Olive Tree is a magnificent Middle Eastern restaurant, the one Little Arabia location that best fuses all of the region's distinct specialties under one restaurant, and it's reputation is just growing. Foodies from Los Angeles continue to make weekend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Barbara Coe Takes News of Osama bin Laden's Death to Claim (Again) Barack Obama is a Muslim

    ​You'd figure that with the killing of Osama bin Laden by special forces who acted on the order of President Barack Obama that California Coalition for Immigration Reform head witch Barbara Coe might, for even a nano-second, have something nice to say about Obama. Or, at the very least, shut her s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    [UPDATED: Feds' Records Stay Secret, Judge Rules] More Mosque Mole Fallout: ACLU and CAIR Sue FBI

    Craig Monteilh​[UPDATED April 28, 12:12 pm] The Associated Press is reporting today that Judge Cormac Carney has ruled that CAIR and the ACLU may not obtain FBI records pertaining to surveillance of Muslims in Southern California because of unspecified U.S. National Security concerns. Carney made ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Bookworms

    White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Disney Lets Muslim Worker Wear Her Hijab

    Imane Boudlal​UPDATE: Disney releases a statement (see end of post) . . . Disneyland is allowing a Muslim worker to wear her religious headscarf in a position where she interacts with the public.However, the woman in question is not Imane Boudlal, the hostess at Storyteller's Cafe in Disney's Gran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Souhair Khatib, Who Had Her Hijab Removed in OC Jail, to Get Her Day in Appeals Court

    ​The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a new hearing in the case of a Muslim woman who claims her constitutional rights were violated when Orange County sheriff's deputies forced her to remove her headscarf while she was being held in a courthouse holding facility.Chief Judge Alex Kozin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Anaheim Protesters and Others Opposed to Koran Burnings Should Look to Ronald Reagan

    ​It remains unclear whether Terry Jones will go through with burning copies of the Koran on Saturday, as the nutty Florida pastor says in one breath his stunt has been canceled and then in another impose a deadline for New York Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to indicate he will move a proposed mosque near ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Imane Boudlal, Battling Disney Over Head Scarf, Suspended Without Pay?

    ​UPDATED: As promised, the Disney statement (see end of post) . . . Sorry to disappoint the commenters demanding the Weekly to drop this story, but the Muslim restaurant hostess who has clashed with her Anaheim Disney Resort employers over the right to wear a religious headscarf on the job has bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Barbara Coes Calls for the Deportation of Muslims, Says Muslims Train Mexican Drug Cartels

    Coe, in center, with a fool and a deluded guy​California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe has been on a non-Mexican racist run as of late. We talked about the revelation earlier this week that she told a Los Angeles Times reporter, "Go home, chink" nearly 20 years ago; now, in var ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Islamaphobes Target Fountain Valley Schools

    ​UPDATE: Facing a crowd of about 100, the Fountain Valley School District Board of Trustees told anti-Islam activists to go pound sand . . . in Sacramento (see end of this post) . . .Local members of a national group "concerned about" Muslim terrorists posing as Mexicans to illegally cross the sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Barbara Coe Says the Koran Calls for the Mexican Reconquista!

    Coe: Getting pendeja-er and pendeja-er by the weeks--God bless her for that!​Exposing California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe as a venal, decrepit hater is as easy as finding a Mexican in SanTana, but that doesn't make it any less entertaining. Consider an email she sent this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Sound Spectrum's Top 10-Selling Records From the Past Week

    Sound Spectrum in Laguna Beach is a venerable record store with an incredible reggae selection and albums from local artists. The store opened in the late 1960s and remains a small time capsule of Laguna from back then. The shop has some sweet finds, like original psychedelic calendars and gifts. Ow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Dave Eggers to be Honored in Anaheim for Sensitivity to Muslims

    By David Shankbone/Wikipedia CommonsDave Eggers at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival.​A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author Dave Eggers will be presented the 2009 "Courage in Media" award at the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' 13th annual banq ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2009

    Local Muslim Woman Featured on "Speaking of Faith"

    Proud Bruin and Muslim​Speaking of Faith is one of the country's better public radio shows, a thoughtful, hour-long examination of faith in its many manifestations that local listeners can find every Sunday at 3 p.m. on KPCC-FM 89.3. Last week, the show devoted itself to Muslim listener-submitted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    The Willy Wonka of Muslims Invents a Ramadan Fasting Pill

    ​Azhak Hussam is positioning himself to be something like the Willy Wonka of Muslims. The Garden Grove cosmetics company owner (with a background in pharmacy, according to this article in Anaheim-based, InFocus, a Muslim newspaper) has invented what he calls, the Ramadan Fasting Tablet, which, if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Like Anti-Israel Speakers ala UCI? Go to Israel

    The anonymous contributor known as "the middle" on Jewlicious, which clings to the Muslim Student Union controversy at UC Irvine like the tight white t-shirt does to the shapely Jewlicious Apparel model on the "100 percent Kosher" site's home page, writes that the Irvine campus is getting a run for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Muslims and Christians Talk Jesus at Interfaith Event

    Hot on the heels of President Obama's speech in Cairo, where he quoted from the Bible, the Koran and the Talmud, the Islamic Institute of Orange County hosts an interfaith discussion Sunday about the role and status of Jesus Christ in the Muslim and Christian faiths. "The Path of the Shepherd: Jesus ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 19, 2009

    [Hey, You!] She's Just Not That Into You

    Hot on the heels of President Obama's speech in Cairo, where he quoted from the Bible, the Koran and the Talmud, the Islamic Institute of Orange County hosts an interfaith discussion Sunday about the role and status of Jesus Christ in the Muslim and Christian faiths. "The Path of the Shepherd: Jesus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Posthumous J Dilla record out in June

    A 25-track disc comprised of beats made by the late J Dilla is "dropping" (that's hip-hop for "being released") June 2 on Nature Sounds. Dilla was a much-heralded producer who gained fame in the late '80s with the group Slum Village. Many credit him for helping to place Detroit on the hip-hop map, b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Man Claiming to be FBI Informant Spins Quite a Tale

    A location scout for a spy movie could not have picked a better location for my late December meeting with Craig Monteilh: a table outside a restaurant in a bustling Irvine shopping center. A lensman would appreciate the shadow-erasing clouds hovering overhead on the warm winter morning. And cen ... More >>

  • News

    December 11, 2008

    Hasan Nouri Pitched Plans to Stabilize Aliso Creek and His Native Afghanistan, But No One Listened

    A location scout for a spy movie could not have picked a better location for my late December meeting with Craig Monteilh: a table outside a restaurant in a bustling Irvine shopping center. A lensman would appreciate the shadow-erasing clouds hovering overhead on the warm winter morning. And cen ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Surf City Mayor Debbie Cook Takes on Dana Rohrabacher, OC's Weirdest Republican Congressman

    A location scout for a spy movie could not have picked a better location for my late December meeting with Craig Monteilh: a table outside a restaurant in a bustling Irvine shopping center. A lensman would appreciate the shadow-erasing clouds hovering overhead on the warm winter morning. And cen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2007

    Michelle Malkin Bashes Gwen Stefani

    There are only two national blogs we read, and both of them are conservative: local loudmouth Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin, whose whiny diatribes we've been catching since her days as a syndicated columnist that appeared in The Orange County Register. Malkin is the Filipina-American columnist who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2006

    Hearts and Minds and Robo Calls

    While it can't be called a sign of progress, it is a sign that at least one familiar aspect of American life is taking hold in Iraq. According to Paul Kiel at TPMmucker.com, Not long after Republicans harrassed tens of thousands of Americans with automated phone messages in November's election, new ... More >>

  • News

    September 7, 2006

    Hope

    Persian Constitutional Centennial

  • Culture

    July 13, 2006

    Looking for Mecca

    Natasha Caruanas Facing East needs help finding it

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    Battle of the Christian Titans

    Tired of outraging Muslims, local Christians turn on each other

  • Culture

    May 25, 2006

    Looking for Muslims in the Comedy World

    The Ayatollahs of humor stick it to the Man

  • News

    February 10, 2005

    F. Yoo!

    UC Irvine protesters humiliate torture-memo author

  • Features

    October 7, 2004

    59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

    Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The Presidents Conservative Critics

  • Features

    July 8, 2004

    Terror-Fied

    The War on Terror begins at home. My home.

  • Film

    January 29, 2004

    Rocket the Casbah

    The Battle of Algiers and the histories were condemned to repeat

  • News

    June 5, 2003

    Graham Drubs Dubya

    The Battle of Algiers and the histories were condemned to repeat

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    Danas Follies

    The Battle of Algiers and the histories were condemned to repeat

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    Terror Threads

    Does al-Qaida shop at REI?

  • Columns

    October 3, 2002

    Letters

    Does al-Qaida shop at REI?

  • Columns

    September 26, 2002

    Letters

    Does al-Qaida shop at REI?

  • News

    September 19, 2002

    I Hear America Sinking

    Does al-Qaida shop at REI?

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    November Surprise?

    Does al-Qaida shop at REI?

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Ollie North: Not All Muslims Evil

    But only Christians will go to heaven

  • Features

    October 4, 2001

    Dr. Frankenbacher

    Huntington Beach Congressman Dana Rohrabacher helped arm the terrorists accused of attacking New York and Washington, D.C. Now hes got a new plan to save the world

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