Apply Now for CAIR-CA Youth Leadership Conference
Apply Now for CAIR-CA Youth Leadership Conference (SACRAMENTO, CA, 7/7/06) – On August 17-20, the California chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) will host the 2nd Annual Muslim Youth Leadership and Empowerment Conference in Sacramento. The annual conference is intended to give Muslim youth the opportunity to meet and interact with state legislators, […]
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Editorial: Bigotry on Display in Mosque Incident
Painting a swastika on a synagogue door. Defiling a cross in a church sanctuary. Those are rough equivalents for the offense that took place Monday when a Lewiston man desecrated an Islamic house of worship. Police say Brent Matthews admitted he rolled a frozen pig’s head through the open door of the Lewiston-Auburn Islamic Center […]
U.N. Rights Council: Israel Breaking Humanitarian Law
GENEVA (AP) – The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday deplored Israel’s military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as breaching international humanitarian law and voted to send an urgent fact-finding mission to the region. By a vote of 29-11 with five abstentions, the council approved the resolution proposed by the 57-member Organization […]
More Victims Found as Srebrenica Anniversary Looms
KAMENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) – Forensic experts said on Thursday they had unearthed the remains of 268 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, days before its 11th anniversary. About 500 newly-identified victims of the Srebrenica slaughter, widely seen as Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, will be buried on July 11 at a cemetery near […]
CAIR-San Diego: Interfaith Service at Immigration Hearing
(SAN DIEGO, CA, 7/6/06) – Faith leaders and advocates from San Diego and other Southern California cities conducted an interfaith service in front of the Imperial Beach Border Patrol Station in response to a closed-door House Immigration Hearing. The sub-committee conducting the hearings invited groups such as the Friends of the Border Patrol, an organization […]
CAIR-NY: Yee Calls for Closure of Gitmo Prison
(NEW YORK, NY, 7/6/06) Former U.S. Army Chaplain James Yee yesterday called on administration officials to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison. His announcement, mad at a press conference at the office of the New York chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), comes after the recent landmark ruling by the Supreme […]
CAIR-Houston Meets with Palestinian Ambassador
(HOUSTON, TX, 7/6/06) – CAIR-Houston recently hosted a community meeting with Ambassador Afif Safieh, the head of the Palestinian mission in Washington, D.C. Ambassador Safieh presented a comprehensive analysis of the state of affairs in Palestine. It was decided that there is a need for better communication with the American Muslim community and that there […]
CAIR-OH Offers ‘Know Your Rights’ Workshop
(COLUMBUS, OH, 7/6/06) – The Ohio office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Ohio) recently offered a “Know Your Rights” workshop at the Cooke Road Masjid in Columbus, Ohio. Some 60 members of the local community attended the presentation offered by CAIR-Ohio Civil Rights Coordinator Romin Iqbal. The event was a part of the ongoing […]
CAIR Participates in Dialogue on Migration in Italy
(WASHINGTON, DC, 7/6/2006) A representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently took part in a week-long symposium on migration issues at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center at Lake Como, Italy. SEE: http://www.rockfound.org/AboutUs/SpecialPrograms/Bellagio At the symposium, co-sponsored by the German Marshall Fund (GMF) andRockefeller Foundation, CAIR National Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar […]