CAIR Awards Rosa Parks Scholarships
CAIR Rosa Parks Civil Liberties Scholarship 1. Applicants must be enrolled in, or accepted by, a full-time undergraduate (12 or more credit hours), graduate (9 or more credit hours), or professional program of an accredited university in the United States majoring in a field that promotes civil rights, social justice and/or the peacefulresolution of conflicts. […]
CAIR Director to Attend OIC Summit in Mecca
CAIR DIRECTOR TO ATTEND OIC SUMMIT IN MECCA (WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/5/05) – The head of a prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group will attend an upcoming summit of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to be held later this week in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. Nihad Awad, executive director […]
CAIR-Chicago: Discrimination Fails Us All
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) believes peace activists from Egypt should be greeted at O’Hare Airport with a hefty dose of institutionalized discrimination. Their offense? Being of the same age group and national origin as Mohamed Atta. “I’m OK with discrimination against young Arab males from terrorist-producing states,” says Kirk. A Sun-Times Editorial [“Telling it like […]
CAIR Calls for Release of Iraq Hostages
CAIR Calls for Release of Iraq Hostages (WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/4/05) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today held a news conference at its national headquarters in Washington, D.C., to call for the release of members of the Christian Peacemakers Teams recently taken hostage in Iraq. In his prepared statement, CAIR Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed […]
CAIR-CAN: McGill Muslims Launch Human-Rights Complaint
Montreal ”” Muslim students at McGill University say they’ve been forced to perform their daily prayers in hallways, in stairwells, even on the increasingly damp and snowy lawn of the main downtown campus. Now, they say, they want to come in from the cold. In the latest chapter of a long-simmering feud with McGill, a […]
VA: Prison Needs Muslim Religious Volunteer
VA: Prison Needs Muslim Religious Volunteer VA: Prison Needs Muslim Religious Volunteer Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia is looking for a “Muslim Religious Volunteer” to “provide accurate, timely and secure religious information, and rituals so that inmates can rehabilitate themselves through spiritual activities.” CONTACT: Mr. Louis Cei, Director of Special Programs […]
Screenwriter: TV Can Boost Image of Muslims
Screenwriter: TV Can Boost Image of Muslims [Kamran Pasha, a former journalist, is a screenwriter in Los Angeles for Sleeper Cell.] The recent images of Muslim youths torching cars and spreading general mayhem throughout France raise a troubling question: Can it happen here?As an American Muslim, my instinct is to deny that such a cataclysm […]
CAIR-NY Helps Train Gitmo Lawyers
CAIR-NY Helps Train Gitmo Lawyers (NEW YORK, NY, 12/2/05) – The New York office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) recently helped train lawyers who will be working with detainees at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Center for Constitutional Rights invited CAIR-NY Executive Director Wissam Nasr to brief some 50 attorneys on […]
CAIR: More Sponsors Needed for Quran Requests
CAIR: More Sponsors Needed for Quran Requests CAIR: More Sponsors Needed for Quran Requests As of today, CAIR has received 24,336 requests from Americans of all faiths for free Qurans through our “Explore the Quran” campaign. So far, CAIR has mailed out some 11,000 Qurans. Another 7,500 will be mailed soon to those who have […]
Incitement Watch: Complaints Follow Talk on Islam
Incitement Watch: Complaints Follow Talk on Islam INCITEMENT WATCH: COMPLAINTS FOLLOW TALK ON ISLAM – TOPShawn Vestal, Spokesman Review, 12/1/05http://spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=104162 A speaker at North Idaho College who declared that Islam is a religion of world domination committed to the death of Christians and Jews has riled up some students, who say the speech fed false […]