CAIR: Men Sought After Fire at Minneapolis Mosque
CAIR: TWO MEN SOUGHT AFTER FIRE AT MINNEAPOLIS MOSQUE Two men are being sought in connection with an arson fire at a south Minneapolis mosque early Thursday that a City Council member labeled a hate crime. The blaze at the Abuubakar As- Sadique Islamic Center also has caught the attention of the FBI and two […]
CAIR-FL: Candidate Blasted for Views on Electing Christians
CAIR-FL: HARRIS’ COMMENTS DRAW FIERCE REACTION U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a “nation of secular laws” and that a failure to elect Christians to political office will allow lawmaking bodies to “legislate sin.” The remarks, published in the weekly journal of the […]
CAIR-PA: Killing Opposed on Religious Grounds
CAIR-PA: THE RISK OF GENERALIZATION Now is not a good time to be an American Muslim. Though the United States is not waging war against Islam, and protects its practice here under the First Amendment, those who attacked us on Sept. 11, 2001, did so in the name of Allah. Thus, many Americans are suspicious […]
C-SPAN to Air CAIR ‘Israel Lobby’ Panel Live at 1 P.M.
C-SPAN TO AIR CAIR ‘ISRAEL LOBBY’ PANEL LIVE AT 1 P.M. On Monday, August 28, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will host a 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. The panel features Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, […]
Travelers are Jittery after Air Plot Arrests
TRAVELERS ARE JITTERY AFTER AIR PLOT ARRESTS At an airport in Spain, a terrified 12-year-old girl began crying and pointing at two passengers, both Muslim college students, fueling a panic that led to their removal from the plane. A West Virginia airport terminal was evacuated when officials wrongly suspected that luggage belonging to a woman […]
CAIR Op-Ed: Use of ‘Islamic Fascists’ Can’t Help
CAIR: CALLING THEM ISLAMIC FASCISTS CAN’T HELP (Parvez Ahmed is board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington.) After 9/11, President Bush described our fight against terrorism as a “crusade” – a statement he later retracted. In his first press conference after the recently thwarted terrorist plot to blow up planes flying from […]
CAIR Calls for FBI Probe of MN Mosque Arson
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful BREAKING NEWS CAIR CALLS FOR FBI PROBE OF MN MOSQUE ARSON (WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/25/06) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on the FBI to investigate a fire set by arsonists early Thursday at a mosque in Minneapolis, Minn. The Washington-based […]
NY: Muslim Marriage Contracts Help Women Assert Rights
MARRIAGE CONTRACT DRAWS LINE Should anything go wrong in her marriage, Zaynab Abdul-Razacq is confident her rights will be well-protected. Her husband has guaranteed it — in writing. The young Muslim couple chose a path advocated by Islamic scholars concerned about women’s rights: They drew up a Muslim marriage contract that takes into account modern […]
IL: Hospitals Create Areas for Muslim Prayer
IL: HOSPITALS CREATE AREAS FOR MUSLIM PRAYER The corridor of a bustling hospital is not the best place for kneeling in devout prayer, many Muslim families and doctors have learned. But praying in a chapel comes with its own set of problems — forbidden pictures and statues of living beings, pews facing in the opposite […]
Islamic Society Elects First Female President
DR. INGRID MATTSON ELECTED FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF THE ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (ISNA) Plainfield, IN 08/23/2006 – The Islamic Society of North America (www.isna.net) the largest religious organization representing Muslims in North America — has elected Dr. Ingrid Mattson as its President. She is the first woman to head the organization. Dr. Mattson, […]