The Pennsylvania chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-PA) today thanked the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for its “prompt and appropriate action” in offering an apology to a Muslim driver in that state who was initially refused the right to take her driver’s license photograph wearing a religious head scarf, or hijab.

2000 Muslims Expected to Participate in Analysis of the Islamic
Experience in America from Malcolm X to the Present

Philadelphia, PA- Amin Nathari, noted author, lecturer, activist and Imam has been preparing for February 2010 for at least 5 years. “I knew that this moment in time would come, God willing, and have reflected on what the agenda and condition would be of Muslims living in 21^st century America. I have written about it, I have lectured and given commentary on the subject, but I knew I wanted and there exists a need for, a broader dialog on these issues,” says Nathari, who is also National Representative of the Islam in America Movement (IAM). “The symposium is the opportunity to forge this discussion, which is imperative to Islamic experience in America.”

Written by Rana Khan, Muslim Link Contributing Writer
"Tawakkul" or "Trusting in Allah" was the message of the evening.
For the brothers and sisters who worked tirelessly since the initiation of the project and the opening of the first branch of Al-Huda School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, there could not have been a more befitting theme for the fund-raising event on December 27, 2009.

By DOUGLAS B. BRILL
The Express-Times

S. WHITEHALL TWP. | Four men carried a coffin Sunday through a crowd in a mosque at the Al Ahad Islamic Center while hundreds of Muslim men chanted and reached for the holy, black turban atop it.