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Spring Issue of IIC Monitor
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The Islamic Information Center proudly releases the Spring Issue of the IIC Monitor. This newsmagazine is a quarterly publication and covers a wide variety of political and social topics. In this issue, there's an analysis of Muslim Shi'ite trends in American society, a look at where the Presidential candidates stand on issues important to Muslims, and a special feature article on Immigration laws and understanding your rights. I invite you to download the magazine by clicking here (PDF Reader Required), or request a copy sent to your address by clicking
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and read through it. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Imam Syed Naqvi
Chairman
Islamic Information Center
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| | Magazine Preview | Preview of this Issue Important Legal Aspects for Immigrant Muslim Families Analysis of Muslim Groups and Practices in the United States. Op Ed: Not Winning | |
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|  Since 2002, the Islamic Information Center (IIC) has been making waves throughout the country. The center was founded to project a positive image of Islam on three main levels in order to change perceptions and build bridges. The first part of society that IIC wishes to work on is to establish interfaith connections with the local and national communities. Next, IIC would like to establish a positive and accurate image of Islam in the print, radio, television, and Internet news media. Finally, the IIC hopes to help portray an authentic representation of Islam to elected officials and government agencies. IIC has accomplished a great deal by pursuing a campaign of presenting Islam to interfaith groups and organizations... | | Important Legal Aspects for Immigrant Muslim Families |  Earlier this month The Department of Homeland Security, and The United States Citizens and Immigration Services (USCIS) introduced a plan that would reduce the Naturalization Background backlog, as well as the green card background... This is great news for the Muslim and Arab communities, respectively; however a much larger battle on the immigration front looms, in the form of NSEERS. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks the Department of Justice created the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS or "special registration" program), a tracking process that required visitors from certain countries-and others whom an immigration inspector decides meet certain classified criteria-to be fingerprinted, photographed, and questioned by immigration officers...
| | | | Analysis of Muslim Groups and Practices in the United States |  The composition of the American Muslim community is far from homogeneous. In fact, American Islam is a mosaic of many ethnic, racial, sectarian, and national groups. Scholars who look at Muslims in America as a monolithic entity often neglect the various nuances that characterize the diverse Muslim population here.
The growing presence of the American Muslim community has led to increased interaction between Muslims living here and those abroad. Globalization and improved modes of communications have further allowed foreign ideas to flow freely, enabling foreign accretions to permeate the lives of American Muslims... | Op Ed: Not Winning
|  Fascism originated in the European hinterland of Mussolini's Italy. It was picked up by Hitler's Nazi Germany. Franco of Spain and Salazar of Portugal emulated it. It had nothing to do with Islamic teachings. Yet, 'Islamo-fascism' is the fashionable flavour on the tongue of many Western politicians who equate today's tensions with the Muslim world to the Allied conflict against the Axis powers in World War II. Here, the meekness and incapacity of the Muslim liberal intelligentsia to counter Western bigotry against Islam has left ample space for zealotry to flourish...
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