FL: Muslim Woman Alleges Bias
An Orlando Muslim woman is suing a Florida real-estate company for religious discrimination after being told she could not wear a head scarf and long sleeves at work. Danine Hammond, 27, said the office manager of Chapel Trace Apartments in east Orange County told her she couldn’t wear her hijab, a head scarf donned by […]
CNN: CAIR Rep Discusses Use of Qurans in Oaths
ARSALAN IFTIKHAR: Conservative judges, including Sandra Day O’Connor, have said that any state action which gives any inclination to the reasonable person that none adherence to the faith of outsiders is unconstitutional. And essentially what this law is doing is saying that anyone who is not Christian, their book is not considered holy. And that, […]
CAIR-FL: Muslim Files Bias Suit Over Head Scarf
(ORLANDO, FL 6/22/05) – The Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) has announced the filing of a workplace discrimination lawsuit by a Muslim woman who says she was denied the right to wear a religiously-mandated head scarf. CAIR-FL said the lawsuit, filed in the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, alleges that […]
CAIR Applauds Sentence for TX Mosque Attacker
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/23/05) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded the sentencing of a Texas man to more than 14 years in prison for attempting to firebomb the Islamic Center of El Paso. Antonio Flores, 58, was sentenced Wednesday for tossing a firebomb into the center’s backyard where children were playing and placing […]
Feces-Covered Quran Left At Tenn. Housing Complex
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/23/05) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on local and national leaders to address growing anti-Muslim sentiment in our society following an apparently intentional desecration of the Quran in Nashville, Tenn. CAIR said Islamic leaders in Nashville reported Wednesday that an Arabic-language copy of Islam’s revealed text was torn, burned, […]
Incitement: Rush Says Quran Isn’t Cool
Incitement: Rush Says Quran Isn’t Cool Rush Limbaugh.com http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_062205/content/cutting_edge.guest.html RUSH: Here’s a story from the News & Record. This is just mind-boggling. Greensboro, North Carolina. “The decision by local court officials to deny the use of the Quran for oaths has garnered national media attention and the scrutiny of a Washington-based Islamic civil rights group. […]
CAIR’s ‘Explore the Quran’ Requests Top 14K
CAIR’s ‘Explore the Quran’ Requests Top 14K www.explorethequran.org UPDATE: More than 14,000 people have requested free copies of the Quran since the launch of CAIR’s “Explore the Quran” campaign on May 17. FOR MORE ON THE CAMPAIGN, SEE: “Getting the Holy Word Out” http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2005-06-01-koran_x.htm SEE ALSO: “Free Korans” http://www.cair-net.org/video/explorethequran.ram ACTION REQUESTED: CAIR has pledged to […]
GA: African Muslim Population Grows
As Ismail Massally launched into his sermon Friday, stragglers removed their loafers and squeezed onto the prayer deck at Masjid Abdullah. Once again, an overflow crowd of more than 300 Muslims packed the tiny plant nursery-turned-mosque off Dickens Road in Lilburn. Massally’s words echoed from the microphone clipped to his flowing white robe as he […]
CAIR-NY: Muslims Say Group Misrepresents Islam
The young Muslim men, with beards and bullhorns, work the streets of Jackson Heights on the weekends. They surface at parades and protests around the city, loudly declaring America the enemy and advocating for an Islamic state. Several weeks ago, they publicly tore up an American flag as payback for the reported desecration of the […]
CAIR to distribute ‘Women friendly Mosques’ Brochure
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/22/05) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group said today it plans to distribute a brochure supporting the religious rights of Muslim women to mosques throughout the United States. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the 28-page publication, called “Women Friendly Mosques and Community Centers: Working Together to Reclaim […]