Statement of CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad
STATEMENT OF CAIR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NIHAD AWAD AT THE ‘ISRAEL LOBBY’ PANEL DISCUSSION Good afternoon. My name is Nihad Awad and I am the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. CAIR is the America’s largest Islamic civil liberties and advocacy group, with 32 offices across the United States and Canada. Our […]
CAIR: ‘Israel Lobby’ Panel to be Re-Broadcast by C-SPAN
CAIR: ‘ISRAEL LOBBY’ PANEL TO BE RE-BROADCAST BY C-SPAN – TOP CAIR’s panel discussion on “The Israel Lobby and the U.S. Response to the War in Lebanon” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., was carried live today on C-SPAN. It will be re-broadcast on C-SPAN at 4:42 a.m. (Eastern) Tuesday monring. The panel […]
New Map Proposes Changes in Pakistan, Middle East
NEW MAP PROPOSES CHANGES IN PAKISTAN, MIDDLE EAST WASHINGTON, Aug 26: The US State Department has rejected suggestions that Washington is planning to redraft the boundaries of the greater Middle East, including Pakistan, along ethnic and religious lines. The purported plan appeared recently in the US Armed Forces Journal along with two maps showing the […]
Muslims Alarmed Over Redrawn Map for Islamic World
MUSLIMS ALARMED OVER REDRAWN MAP FOR ISLAMIC WORLD WASHINGTON Muslim circles have expressed alarm and disgust at the publication of a redrawn map of the Islamic world in a journal closely linked to the US armed forces. The Armed Forces Journal, which has published the redrawn map of the world of Islam along with a […]
MA: Islamic Society Subpoenas WTTK in Defamation Suit
MA: ISLAMIC SOCIETY SUBPOENAS WTTK IN DEFAMATION SUIT The group building a vast Islamic mosque and social center in Roxbury has subpoenaed a local radio talk station after one of its prominent hosts, Michael Graham, discussed the project on the air. A lawyer for the Islamic Society of Boston said the subpoena is part of […]
Few signs of UK-style Radicalism Among U.S. Muslims
AMERICA’S MUSLIMS AREN’T AS ASSIMILATED AS YOU THINK If only the Muslims in Europe — with their hearts focused on the Islamic world and their carry-on liquids poised for destruction in the West — could behave like the well-educated, secular and Americanizing Muslims in the United States, no one would have to worry. So runs […]
CA: Muslim Citizens Refused Entry Back Into U.S.
2 LODI RESIDENTS REFUSED ENTRY BACK INTO U.S. The federal government has barred two relatives of a Lodi man convicted of supporting terrorists from returning to the country after a lengthy stay in Pakistan, placing the U.S. citizens in an extraordinary legal limbo. Muhammad Ismail, a 45-year-old naturalized citizen born in Pakistan, and his 18-year-old […]
Video: Woman Detained in W.Va. Speaks Out
CAIR-MI: ONETIME JACKSON WOMAN DETAINED IN W.VA. SPEAKS OUT “The whole incident had its basis in racial profiling,” Rima Qayyum, formerly of Jackson, said in a statement. The assessment from the 28-year-old was read Friday by Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Quayyum, who moved to West […]
CAIR-MI: Family May Sue Airline
CAIR-MI: FAMILY MAY SUE AIRLINE The parents of a former Jackson woman are considering legal action after their daughter was detained 14 hours at a West Virginia airport last week. Samia Qayyum said her daughter, Rima, was the only one stopped Aug. 19, even though non-Muslims also had liquids in their baggage. Two bottles in […]
CAIR-MI: Michigan-Bound Traveler Says She Was Profiled
CAIR-MI: MICHIGAN-BOUND TRAVELER SAYS SHE WAS PROFILED A Pakistani-American Muslim woman with ties to Jackson said in a statement Friday that she was profiled because of her ethnicity and religion when airport security officials prevented her from boarding a flight last week because she was carrying a few bottles of suspicious liquids. Rima Qayyum of […]