CAIR-NY Takes Part in Pace U Mtg on Quran Desecration
(NEW YORK, NY, 10/3/06) – On Tuesday, October 3, the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) will participate in a town hall meeting at Pace University to discuss a recent incident in which a Quran, Islam’s revealed text, was found in the toilet in a campus men’s room. CAIR-NY is calling […]
CAIR: Workplace Bias Against Muslims on Rise
The restaurant manager from Morocco, the Armenian caterer from Syria and the Yemeni sailor aren’t all Muslims and hail from different homelands. But all three say they suffered discrimination at work after Sept. 11, 2001, because of their national origin or perceptions that they were Muslim. Now, they are among those who have filed lawsuits […]
CAIR-MI Welcomes Training About Islam at MSU
(LATHRUP VILLAGE, MI, 10/3/06) – The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) today welcomed a decision by administrators at Michigan State University to hold diversity training sessions for its faculty and student body. The training will include an Islamic awareness workshop funded by the university and given in conjunction with the Muslim […]
CAIR-MI: Muslims Join Yom Kippur/Ramadan Program
(LATHRUP VILLAGE, MI, 10/3/06) – Representatives from the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn and the Shadhuli Sufi Center of Peace and Mercy in Ann Arbor joined the Michigan Jewish community at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor for a joint fast-breaking program […]
CAIR-FL: Muslims Meet with Archbishop
(MIAMI, FL, 10/03/2006) – Representatives of the Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL), along with other American Muslim leaders, met yesterday with the Archbishop of Miami, to discuss the controversy surrounding recent comments on Islam by Pope Benedict XVI. The Islamic delegation discussed the Florida Muslim community’s specific concerns over the Pope’s […]
CAIR-FL: Muslims Must Not Use Violence
CAIR-Florida Tampa Executive Director Ahmed Bedier appears on the Political Connections “Soapbox” segment to share his views on the violent reaction by a few Muslims to the Pope’s recent remarks on Islam. In his statement, Bedier urges Muslims to respond within the guidelines of Islam, using peaceful non-violent means. center>
CAIR: TN Muslims Critical of Mosque Incident Probe Delay
CAIR: ISLAMIC OFFICIALS CRITICAL OF PROBE DELAY More than two months after officials at the Council on American-Islamic Relations called for an investigation into a video of a man shooting a copy of the Quran and throwing it on the doorstep of a local mosque, authorities said they are unsure if they will prosecute. “It […]
CAIR-PA: Muslims Received Threats
CAIR-PA: MIDSTATE MUSLIMS RECEIVED THREATS, REPORT SAYS The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission says it knows of “at least seven” threatening letters and e-mails sent to Muslims in the York and Harrisburg areas in the past two months. The most recent came to Abul Hasan of Springettsbury Twp., a Penn State York physics professor active in […]
CAIR: VA Teens Take Over Duties of Imam Denied Entry to U.S.
CAIR: AFTER HOMEWORK, DUTY AS AN IMAM The boy, round-faced and thin, stood in front of the hundred or so men, his arms crossed, his eyes closed. When he knelt, they knelt. When he stood, they stood. When he stumbled for a word, squinting to access the search engine of his mind, they waited. In […]
CAIR-St. Louis: Muslims in U.S. are Wary
CAIR-ST. LOUIS: MUSLIMS IN U.S. ARE WARY Since June, area Muslims have become increasingly uncomfortable and even fearful not because of overt attacks or threats against them, but because a sequence of incidents have built upon each other to form an intense, low-grade foreboding. Beginning with the monthlong Israel-Hezbollah conflict through Pope Benedict XVI’s inflammatory […]