ISLAM-OPED: Gulag or Not?
[Parvez Ahmed, Ph.D., is board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group.] Amnesty International recently took a hit on the talk show circuit for calling Guantanamo Bay’s Camp X-Ray detention center “the gulag of our time.” President Bush called the label “absurd,” as did the usual […]
CAIR-FL Rep Speaks at Civil Rights Forum
On Saturday, June 18, the Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) participated in a conference on civil liberties and national security hosted by the League of Women Voters in Miami. The day-long conference, titled “Local Voices: Conversations on Civil Liberties and Secure Communities,” included a panel discussion on what individuals can do […]
Muslims Care: CAIR-OH Helps Clean Burned Church
(COLUMBUS, OH 6/20/05) – On Saturday, June 18, representatives of the Ohio office of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-OH) and members of the interfaith community in central Ohio helped clean fire damage at Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Columbus. The church was gutted by an accidental fire several weeks ago. “It was […]
CAIR: Request or Sponsor a Free Quran
CAIR: Request or Sponsor a Free Quran www.explorethequran.org Almost 14,000 people have requested free copies of the Quran since the launch of CAIR’s “Explore the Quran” campaign on May 17. Residents of California top the list of those asking for Qurans, with 10 percent of total requests. FOR MORE ON THE CAMPAIGN, SEE: “Getting the […]
Ohio Muslims To Help Clean Burned Church
(COLUMBUS, OH, 6/17/05) – On Saturday, June 18, representatives of the Ohio office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OH) and members of the interfaith community in central Ohio will help clean fire damage at Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Columbus. The church was gutted by an accidental fire several weeks ago. WHAT: Muslims […]
The Road to Rendition
Via Guerzoni is a quiet street on the outskirts of Milan in a former industrial neighborhood that is somewhere between decrepitude and redevelopment. High walls line both sides of the road for about 100 yards as it runs between a park and a half-abandoned plant nursery. If you’re in the business of making people disappear””call […]
NY: Bitterness and Exile for Girl in Terror Case
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Slumped at the edge of the bed she would have to share with four relatives that night, the 16-year-old girl from Queens looked stunned. On the hot, dusty road from the airport, she had watched rickshaws surge past women sweeping the streets, bone-thin in their bright saris. Now, in a language she […]
CAIR-VA: Burned Korans Found at Mosque
Members of an Islamic center in southwest Virginia returned from a prayer meeting Saturday and made a shocking discovery: partially burned copies of the Koran had been left in a shopping bag by the center’s front door. Police in Blacksburg said yesterday that they are investigating the incident and trying to determine whether it was […]
House Votes to Curb Patriot Act
The House handed President Bush the first defeat in his effort to preserve the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act, voting yesterday to curtail the FBI’s ability to seize library and bookstore records for terrorism investigations. Bush has threatened to veto any measure that weakens those powers. The surprise 238 to 187 rebuke to […]
CAIR: Burned Qurans Left at Virginia Mosque
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/16/05) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on Americans of all faiths to obtain and read the Quran after burned copies of Islam’s revealed text were found outside a Virginia mosque. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said worshippers at the Islamic Center of Blacksburg found […]