Urge Elected Officials to Condemn Israeli Attacks on Civilians
Urge Elected Officials to Condemn Israeli Attacks on Civilians In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful (WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/13/06) – CAIR today called on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact their elected representatives and urge that they condemn Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon that have left dozens […]
TN: FBI Investigating Shooting of Muslim Holy Book
Findings from a preliminary FBI investigation into an online video of two men shooting a Quran and one of them throwing it on the ground outside a Chattanooga mosque will be turned over to federal prosecutors, an FBI agent said. “The FBI has opened a preliminary (probe) to get the facts together,” Gary Kidder, special […]
Israel Bars Palestinian Americans
For the first time since 1967, Israel is preventing the entry of Palestinians with foreign citizenship, most of them Americans. Most of those refused entry are arriving from abroad, but have lived and worked for years in the West Bank. The Interior Ministry and Civil Administration made no formal announcement about a policy change, leaving […]
Washington Post Publishes Op-Ed by Palestinian Prime Minister
As Americans commemorated their annual celebration of independence from colonial occupation, rejoicing in their democratic institutions, we Palestinians were yet again besieged by our occupiers, who destroy our roads and buildings, our power stations and water plants, and who attack our very means of civil administration. Our homes and government offices are shelled, our parliamentarians […]
Islam-Hater Has No Business Selecting Judges
The malicious falsehoods that the Rev. O’Neal Dozier spouts about the Islamic religion belie his allegiance to the tenets of the Christian religion that he purports to practice. The Rev. Dozier is free to believe that Islam is a “cult,” as he called it on talk radio last week, but his openly expressed views deserve […]
ME: Coalition to Call for Solidarity with Muslim Community
LEWISTON, Maine –Church and volunteer organizations in the Lewiston-Auburn area are calling for a show of support for the Muslim community after a Lewiston man was charged with throwing a severed pig’s head into a mosque during a prayer session. The Many and One Coalition, a group that works against racism and prejudice, is holding […]
Con Man Tries to Talk His Way to Lighter Term
A silver-tongued career con man who was accused of using Canada as a base to defraud Muslim associations around the world is again using his mouth to bail himself out of trouble: He has agreed to testify against his co-accused in return for him getting out of an Alabama prison in half the time. Mohammed […]
CAIR-MI: Spying Program Faces First Challenge
DETROIT ”” An attempt to halt the National Security Agency’s controversial domestic surveillance program generated intense legal debate Monday before a veteran federal judge, with opponents branding it a threat to American citizens and defenders contending it is legal and essential to national security. The case is the first major legal challenge to the warrantless […]
CAIR: Con Man Who Targeted Muslims Receives Two Years
A Palestinian man who admitted trying to cheat a Mobile mosque out of $1,500 in a “stranded traveler” scam, will spend two years in prison and then face deportation to his native Israel, a federal judge decided Monday. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Butler Jr. agreed to a recommendation from prosecutors to sentence Mohammed Mustafa […]
CAIR-OH: Security Programs Raise Civil Liberties Concerns
(COLUMBUS, OH, 7/11/06) – Representatives of the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Ohio) met recently with officials of that state’s Department of Homeland Security (OHS) and the Ohio Department of Public Safety to discuss the civil rights ramifications of certain OHS programs. The meeting dealt with concerns over OHS programs such as […]