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Dramatic Increase in Hate Crimes Against Muslims; Anti Islam Sentiment E-mail

August 26, 2010

Islamic Information Center

The Islamic Information Center (IIC) is alarmed at the dramatic rise in hate crimes against Muslims, and general growing anti-Islam sentiment in the United States.  Recently, there have been many high profile violent attacks against innocent American Muslims by other American citizens.  The tone of conversation on various major news networks has contributed to such behavior, by encouraging fear and suspicion of innocent Muslims.

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Humanitarian Disaster in Pakistan; 1/3 of Country Flooded; Minimal Aid Has Been Given E-mail

August 17, 2010

BBC map

This is an emergency community alert. A third of Pakistan is now under water, and fresh rainfall threatens two more waves of flooding in the southern Sindh province. Your help is needed to help resolve an already in progress humanitarian disaster.

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IIC St. Louis Chapter To Hold Iraqi Orphan Fundraiser E-mail

August 10, 2010

Islamic Information Center

The Saint Louis, MO Chapter of the Islamic Information Center will be hosting a fundraiser for MyOrphans, an international Orphan sponsoring agency that seeks to help Muslim orphans in various countries, with a focus on specially disadvantaged religious minorities such as Shias. The proceeds from this event will be directed to Iraqi Orphans, and donations will be accepted both at the fundraiser itself and online,

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IIC Condemns Attack by Taliban on Charity Workers E-mail

August 9, 2010

Photo: Afghanistan

The Islamic Information Center (IIC) vehemently condemns the fatal attack on Christian charity workers in Afghanistan this weekend. Taliban fighters ambushed and killed a 10-member medical team, including six Americans, as they were returning from a trip to a remote northern area to provide eye care to rural villagers, their aid organization and local officials said this past Saturday.

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ALIM Convention - Promises Made, Promises Kept! E-mail

August 2, 2010

Islamic Information Center

The Islamic Information Center is proud to announce a successful convention at last week's American Leadership Initiative for Muslims 2010. This was the second annual conference with an action-oriented agenda, dedicated to establishing realistic  plans and initiatives to be enacted in the year following the convention. Due to the overwhelming success of the 2010 convention, ALIM will return in 2011 on Labor Day Weekend!

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IIC Condemns the Attack Against Peaceful Flotilla and Urges Community Action E-mail

June 1, 2010

 

Gaza

 

The Islamic Information Center (IIC) condemns the attack against the peaceful aide carrying flotilla by Israeli forces that took place this weekend, and calls upon community members to take action. IIC joins the growing consensus of human rights organizations calling for the US government to take immediate action.

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IIC Meets with Top Ranking Saudi Shia Scholar E-mail

May 26, 2010

On Tuesday May 25, 2010, members of the leadership of the Islamic Information Center had the opportunity to meet with the top ranking Shi’ite scholar in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Hassan al-Saffar (http://www.saffar.org), at IIC's national headquarters in the National Press Club in Washington DC. Sheikh Al-Saffar is the representative of Grand Ayatollah Syed Sistani in Saudi Arabia, and is the author of more than 100 books on Shiaism. Sheikh Al-Saffar is in the country to visit with the 5,000 Saudi Shia students pursuing higher education in the United States.  IIC wishes Sheikh al Saffar well in his efforts to promote education in the burgeoning Shia community.

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IIC Executive Director In Documentary on Shiaism E-mail

May 24, 2010

The Islamic Information Center is proud to announce that an episode of Interfaith Perspectives, hosted by eminent TV and radio personality, Zarinah Shakir is airing in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. This episode is focussed on Shiaism, and attempts to explain the beliefs and practices of the Shia Muslim community. In this episode Ms. Shakir interviews IIC's Executive and Communications Directors, Rahat Husain and Hajar Hosseini, the respected scholar Sheikh Abdul Jaleel, and community leader Brother Salahudeen Kareem. 

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IIC Commemorates the Death of Lady Fatima; Special Message from Grand Ayatollah Najafi E-mail

May 16, 2010

Ayatollah Najafi

The Islamic Information Center this week mourns the loss of history's greatest personalities: Lady Fatima Zahra. Over the past few days, and for nearly 14 centuries, hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world, from North America, to South America, to Africa, to Europe, to Asia and even to Australia mourned passing of Lady Fatima Zahra, daughter of Prophet Muhammad. 

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