NJ: Bias Discounted in Mosque Fire
NEWARK, N.J. — Investigators and local Muslim leaders are discounting bias as a motive for the fire that destroyed a vacant building in Paterson that a prominent mosque planned to use as a community center. Although the July 24 fire remains under investigation, Passaic County Prosecutor James Avigliano said he agrees with Muslim leaders that […]
CA: A Welcome Fatwa
For most of the last two decades, the West knew the word fatwa through the death sentence laid by Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on author Salman Rushdie for his novel “The Satanic Verses,” which rather mildly satirized his own Muslim religion. The novelist survived (though his Japanese translator was killed in 1991), but had to […]
CAIR-CA Condemns Terror
A chapter of a prominent American Islamic group will meet in Santa Clara today to endorse a ruling condemning terrorism. The fatwa, or edict, against terror and religious extremism was recently issued by the Fiqh Council of North America, an association of Islamic legal scholars that interprets Muslim religious law. The fatwa has been endorsed […]
Positive ‘Explore the Quran’ Feedback
http://www.explorethequran.org To date, nearly 20,000 people have requested free Qurans through CAIR’s “Explore the Quran” campaign. The following are excerpts from e-mails received by those who already received their Qurans: “Dear Muslim friends: My copy of the Qur’an, by Muhammad Asad, arrived in today’s mail. What you sent gives significant witness to your efforts to […]
U.S. Muslims Asked To Pray For Rain In Niger
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/2/05) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on U.S. mosques and Islamic centers to offer prayers for rain in the draught-stricken African nation of Niger during this week’s Friday congregational services, or “jummah.” CAIR, a Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group, is also calling on people of all faiths […]
Support CAIR’s Free Quran Campaign
Support CAIR’s Free Quran Campaign CAIR has pledged to cover the costs of shipping Qurans to all those who submit request, but we need your support to fulfill that pledge. 1) SPONSOR a free copy(s) of the Quran so that people of other faiths may learn the truth about Islam and Muslims. To sponsor one […]
Profiling is Against Our Interests
Letter to the Editor: Charles Krauthammer’s endorsement of the profiling of “young Muslim men of North African, Middle Eastern and South Asian origin” [“Give Grandma a Pass,” op-ed, July 29] restated the misguided belief that using racial or ethnic appearance as a factor in deciding who merits police suspicion makes for good law enforcement. He […]
KS: Local Muslims Condemn Terror
The July 7 bombings in London led imams and other Islamic religious leaders and government officials across the world to release statements denouncing terrorism and vowing to confront religious extremism. Muslims went beyond just condemning the attacks; they also took and continue to take active steps to combat extremism and the exploitation of religion for […]
CAIR-DC: Govt Turns to ‘Moderate Muslim Outreach’
The Bush administration’s new, and still evolving, counter-terrorism strategy stems from the conviction that military might alone cannot win the war against religious extremists, nor can the US succeed without traditional allies. Repairing the transatlantic relationship that was so badly damaged by disagreements over Iraq has been a priority since the second Bush administration took […]
CAIR-CA: Bay-Area Mosques to Support Anti-Terror Fatwa
(SANTA CLARA, CA, 8/1/05) – On Tuesday, August 2, the Council on American-Islamic Relations San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CAIR-SFBA) will hold a news conference at the South Bay Islamic Association (SBIA) to endorse a fatwa (Islamic religious ruling) against terrorism and religious extremism. The fatwa has been issued by the Fiqh Council of North […]