The Muslim Observer

The Muslim Observer (TMO) is a weekly newspaper, founded in 1998, focussing on issues relevant to Muslims and Islam. It is based in Farmington, Michigan, United States – a publication by the parent media organization Muslim Media Network Inc..

It reaches all 50 United States and its website, muslimobserver.com, is visited by thousands of people every day. The newspaper claims to have a circulation of 20,000. The Muslim Observer (printed newspaper) is mostly distributed free of charge to the mosques and cultural centers in the community. They show 987 paid subscribers.

It has national and international correspondents, and publishes a wide variety of departments for its readers, including a children's section, a health and nutrition section, and various regional pages, including the ones for Houston, southeast Michigan, and south Florida.

The newspaper prides itself on printing news that cannot be found in mainstream papers. Thus without endorsing their views it will reprint the speeches of people under fire from and vilified by the mainstream media like Hasan Nasrallah or Moqtada Sadr — this despite the newspaper's definite disagreement with the views advocated by those people.

In addition, the paper has other editorial advocacy positions that have remained consistent over the years. Criticism of Israel for abuses is one such area. Another is 9-11 Conspiracy theory. The paper consistently reprints views that undermine the official story of 9-11.

The paper less consistently advocates the somewhat ill-considered but generally accepted American Muslim views on national and international issues, for instance attacking from early on the attempts to intervene in Darfur on the grounds that the people advocating intervention had ulterior motives (namely Sudanese oil reserves and splitting the Muslim community on the basis of ethnicity). In 2014, according to Detroit Free Press (newspaper) and the US census, there are about 210,000 Michiganders who have roots in the Middle East. The Muslim Observer hopes to further expand its circulation base in the future by increasing its readership among this ethnic population.

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