CAIR: Some Muslims Call Airport Detention Bias
CAIR: SOME MUSLIMS CALL AIRPORT DETENTION BIAS The police report listed the incident as “Security-Other,” but some saw the detention of six imams at the airport here as a case of “Flying while Muslim” – the idea that Muslims come in for extra scrutiny when they fly. The imams were removed from the flight to […]
CAIR: 6 Imams Removed From Flight
CAIR: 6 IMAMS REMOVED FROM FLIGHT FOR BEHAVIOR DEEMED SUSPICIOUS Six Muslim religious leaders were taken off a US Airways flight in Minneapolis on Monday evening and detained for several hours after some passengers and crew members complained of behavior they deemed suspicious, including prayers at the gate. The incident prompted the Council on American-Islamic […]
CAIR: Claim of ‘Muslim While Flying’
AIRLINE CHECKS CLAIM OF ‘MUSLIM WHILE FLYING’ DISCRIMINATION MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — US Airways said Tuesday it is investigating the removal of six Muslim imams who were passengers on a Monday flight heading to Phoenix, Arizona. The clerics, who had been in Minnesota for a national imams conference, were guilty of nothing more than “flying […]
CAIR-AZ: Prayer Got Them Kicked Off Flight
CAIR-AZ: VALLEY MUSLIMS SAY PRAYER GOT THEM KICKED OFF FLIGHT Minutes after their flight arrived at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, five Valley Muslim leaders announced that they had not been acting suspiciously before they were removed from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis. “The crime we did?” said Omar Shahin, one […]
CAIR-AZ: Uproar Follows Imams’ Detention
CAIR: UPROAR FOLLOWS IMAMS’ DETENTION From now on, Omar Shahin won’t be praying at the airport while waiting for a flight. “This was humiliating, the worst moment of my life,” Shahin said Tuesday, a day after he and five fellow Muslim imams were escorted off a US Airways jet at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. “To […]
CAIR: ‘Flying while Muslim’
CAIR: ‘FLYING WHILE MUSLIM’ When six imams were kicked off a Twin Cities flight and barred from another, a wave of outrage and cries of religious discrimination followed. Taken individually, the things the six men did – praying, talking about Iraq, asking for seat-belt extensions – may have passed without notice. But their behavior Monday […]
CAIR-TX Offers Workshop on Islam and Health Care
CAIR-TX OFFERS WORKSHOP ON ISLAM AND HEALTH CARE (SAN ANTONIO, TX, 11/22/06) – The San Antonio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SA) recently offered a training workshop about Islam to some 20 chaplains and interns at the Methodist Hospital in that city. The training included an overview of basic Islamic beliefs and practices […]
CAIR-PA Joins ACLU Panel on Racial Profiling
CAIR-PA JOINS ACLU PANEL ON RACIAL PROFILING WHAT: Racial Profiling PanelWHEN: Monday, November 27, 7 p.m.WHERE: YWCA of Greater Harrisburg, 1101 Market Street Featuring: * Paula K. Knudsen, Esq., ACLU of Pennsylvania* Dr. Shaun Gabbidon, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State-Harrisburg* Samia Malik, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Harrisburg Chapter Plus, a screening of the […]
CAIR-FL: Muslims Sponsor Thanksgiving Luncheon
CAIR-FL: CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS TO SPONSOR THANKSGIVING LUNCHEON (MIAMI, FL, 11/1/2006) – On Thursday, November 23, the Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL), along with the First Baptist Church in Sunrise and the American Black Caucus, will sponsor a Thanksgiving luncheon for the Sunrise community. The luncheon is part of a nationwide CAIR […]
AZ Muslims Protest Removal of Muslim Clerics from Flight
AZ Muslims Protest Removal of Muslim Clerics from Flight