CAIR-CAN Survey Cited in State Department Rights Report
CAIR-CAN CITED IN 2005 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT (OTTAWA, CANADA, 10/26/06) – The Canadian office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR-CAN) survey, “Presumption of Guilt: A National Survey on Security Visitations of Canadian Muslims,” was cited in the U.S. State Department’s 2005 Human Rights Report. The human rights report noted the increased number of visitations […]
CAIR-CA: Fund Established for Family of Murdered Muslim
CAIR-CA: Fund Established for Family of Murdered Muslim CAIR-CA: DONATE TO ALIA ANSARI MEMORIAL FUND The Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CAIR-SFBA), is urging the community to donate to Alia Ansari’s Memorial Fund, established a day after she was gunned down in Fremont. The fund has been set up for the […]
CAIR-CA: Community Plans Events to Mourn Murder Victim
CAIR-CA: FREMONT COMMUNITY PLANS EVENTS TO MOURN ANSARI When graffiti was found on a Fremont church by the congregation on Sunday morning, rather than paint over it, they decided to embellish it with a wreath and host a memorial service, pastor Bruce Green said Wednesday. The graffiti, which appeared outside Green’s office at the Centerville […]
CAIR-OH: Forum Explores Immigration
CAIR-OH: FORUM EXPLORES IMMIGRATION Ana Mallen was shocked when a neighbor confided that she was wondering whether her hired household help was documented. Having recently moved to Mason from New York City, Mallen said she’s noticed that immigration is often viewed negatively here. Antagonism about local immigration was among the topics at a community forum […]
CAIR-OH: Furor Over Fasting Muslims
CAIR-OH: FUROR OVER FASTING MUSLIMS Mason school board member Jennifer Miller, who ran on a conservative Christian platform, thinks Christianity should be part of public school education. So when she heard that two Muslim students had been offered a separate room during lunchtime at Mason High as they fasted during Ramadan, it raised her ire. […]
Video: CAIR Rep Discusses Muslim Voter Poll on MSNBC
VIDEO: CAIR REP DISCUSSES MUSLIM VOTER SURVEY ON MSNBC’S ‘TUCKER’ American Muslim Voters Have a Change of Heart CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper gives details about the recent American Muslim voter survey for the 2006 election.
CAIR-MI Participates in Social Justice Forum
CAIR-MI PARTICIPATES IN HEALTH DISPARITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FORUM AT UNIVERSITY (LATHRUP VILLAGE, MI, 10/26/06) – The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) yesterday participated in a forum entitled “Human Dignity, Human Capacity, and Social Justice: Examining Genetics and Health Disparities” at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The 90-minute […]
Transcript of CAIR Rep on MSNBC’s ‘Tucker’
TRANSCRIPT OF CAIR REP ON MSNBC’S ‘TUCKER’ – TOP Host: Tucker Carlson, 10/26/06 It looks like the Democrats’ midterm election momentum may have reached the Muslim community. A poll of Muslim voters by the Council on American- Islamic Relations found 42 percent were Democrats, 17 percent Republicans. Twenty-eight percent, meanwhile, had no party affiliation. So […]
AZ: Muslim Ousted from City Group
AZ: MUSLIM OUSTED FROM CITY GROUP Tensions in the Middle East are manifesting themselves on a Phoenix commission that is supposed to foster unity among people. Phoenix City Council members last week removed Marwan Ahmad, a Palestinian and Muslim, from the Human Relations Commission after more than five years of service, saying he was promoting […]
CAIR: Muslim and Arab Americans Ditch Republicans
CAIR: MUSLIM AND ARAB AMERICANS DITCH REPUBLICANS Increasingly disillusioned with more than five years of the “global war on terror”, Arab- and Muslim-American voters are poised to vote heavily Democratic in the Nov. 7 mid-term elections, according to two polls released this week. Strong majorities of Arab-American voters in four key states — Michigan, Ohio, […]