CAIR-FL: Teacher Discriminates Against Muslim Girl
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville family recently filed a complaint with the school board, claiming a teacher at a Southside elementary school discriminated against their daughter because she’s Muslim. Ten-year-old Alana Scott said she was forbidden to perform with her school orchestra because of her religion. Alana wears a head scarf and said her orchestra […]
CAIR Joins “Torture Awareness Month”
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/1/06) – CAIR today joined a coalition of human rights, civil liberties and faith organizations* in declaring June “Torture Awareness Month.” This action is part of an effort to respond to the growing evidence that the United States government is engaging systematically in the use of torture and inhuman treatment as part of […]
CAIR Offers Training on Islam for Marines, DHS
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/1/06) – Representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently offered cultural and religious sensitivity training at the Marine Corps University (http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/) in Quantico, Va. CAIR’s training was part of the ongoing program of the Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL), Marine Corps Training and Education Command. Those who attended the […]
KKK Uses Prayer Flap as Recruiting Tool
The Ku Klux Klan is using the graduation prayer controversy at Shelby County High School as an attempt to recruit new members. A single Klansman from Louisville showed up with a sign at the high school Tuesday. About two dozen Shelby County High School seniors chanted in front of the courthouse their message to the […]
Government Must Reveal Monitoring
A federal magistrate in Brooklyn yesterday insisted that government lawyers defending former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other top officials in a lawsuit brought by former immigrant detainees cannot dodge the plaintiffs’ persistent and unwelcome question: Are members of the United States trial team and likely witnesses ”” including Mr. Ashcroft and Robert S. Mueller […]
U.S. Troops Kill Pregnant Woman in Iraq
U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women one of them about to give birth when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her […]
CAIR Calls on Rumsfeld to Resign Over Iraq Massacre
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/31/06) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over reports that U.S. Marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians last November in the city of Haditha. Survivors say American troops shot the men, women and children after a bombing killed a Marine on November 19. […]
Iraqis’ Accounts Link Marines to Killings
Hiba Abdullah survived the killings by American troops in Haditha last Nov. 19, but said seven others at her father-in-law’s home did not. She said American troops shot and killed her husband, Rashid Abdul Hamid. They killed her father-in-law, Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali, a 77-year-old in a wheelchair, shooting him in the chest and abdomen, […]
Marines and the ‘Massacre’
GRAPHIC accounts of the apparent slaughter of unarmed civilians have been obtained by The Times as Washington braces itself for the results of an investigation into what threatens to be the most damaging military scandal in Iraq. On Saturday Iman Hassan, a 10-year-old Iraqi girl, told The Times how she had watched US marines kill […]
NJ: Arab-American Candidate Sues After Losing Endorsement
PATERSON, N.J. — An Arab-American political candidate who was dumped by Passaic county Democratic leaders for comments some people interpreted as sympathetic to suicide bombers is suing to get on the ballot. Democrats put forward Sam Merhi’s name as a nominee for a county freeholder seat in the June 6 primary, but withdrew it in […]