CAIR-FL: Festival Celebrates Many Cultures
Davie – The aromas of an Indonesian fried rice dish, peanut cookies and cake made from yucca flour and coconut tempted passersby during the town’s recent Diversity Festival. The treats were being sold at the Suriname American Network’s booth, one of many at the fourth annual event, staged at Robbins Lodge. Ernestine Burleson-Allen and Edith […]
Rank Stupidity
It was always certain the United States’s interrogation prisons at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Bagram air base in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib in Iraq would come back to haunt the Washington administration. As soon as Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced in January 2002 that the captives being held there were “unlawful combatants” to be denied […]
CIA Operative Testifies on Prisoner Abuse
SAN DIEGO ”” Testifying behind a curtain to protect his identity, a CIA operative told a court-martial Tuesday that he saw a Navy SEAL “pummeling” a defenseless prisoner in Iraq. The operative said he saw the SEAL on the back of a prisoner, hitting him. He reported the October 2003 incident to the CIA’s senior […]
MO: Dialogue Helps Bridge Religious Divides
It’s Wednesday night at the local mosque on the corner of Locust and Fifth Street. Upstairs, in the prayer room, about 40 men of all ages stand next to each other in elbow-rubbing distance ”” all facing east toward Mecca, the holy city of Islam. They bend over, kneel, then prostrate, a process repeated several […]
CAIR-OH Annual Banquet
http://www.cair-ohio.com/ WHEN: Saturday, June 11 – 5 p.m. WHERE: Columbus Marriott North, 6500 Doubletree Ave., Columbus, Ohio THEME: “Promoting Civil Rights and Harmony for a Better America” SPEAKERS: Nihad Awad, Executive Director, CAIR-National; James Yusuf Yee, Former Guantanamo Bay Chaplain; Rodwan Saleh, President, Islamic Society of Greater Houston TICKETS: ON SALE NOW! $35 pre-event, $50 […]
CAIR-MI Seeks Independent Probe of Muslim Officer’s Bias Claims
(LATHRUP VILLAGE, MI, 5/25/05) – The Michigan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) today called for an independent investigation into allegations that police officers in Canton, Mich., discriminated against and harassed a Muslim colleague on the basis of his ethnicity and religion. CAIR-MI says that a lawsuit filed by the Muslim officer’s attorneys […]
N.C. Pastor Apologizes For Anti-Muslim Sign
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/25/05) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tonight applauded the decision of a North Carolina Baptist pastor to apologize for an anti-Muslim sign displayed outside his Forest City church. Until today, Danieltown Baptist Church Pastor Rev. Creighton Lovelace refused calls to take down the sign, reading “The Koran needs to be flushed,” […]
Judge Blasts Shackling
A federal judge presiding over the case of a San Diego student charged with lying to a federal grand jury probing the Sept. 11 hijackers railed at prosecutors Tuesday and threatened to throw out the case after learning the defendant was shackled during his grand jury appearances. At a pre-trial hearing U.S. District Judge Shira […]
FBI Records Cite Allegations of Quran Abuse
WASHINGTON (AP) – Terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba told U.S. interrogators as early as April 2002, just four months after the first detainees arrived from Afghanistan, that U.S. military guards abused them and desecrated the Quran, according to declassified FBI records released Wednesday. ”Their behavior is bad,” one detainee is quoted […]
DC: CAIR Rep to Speak at UMAA Convention
WHAT: On Sunday, May 29, CAIR Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar will speak about political empowerment at the third annual UMAA convention in Washington, D.C. The theme of the convention is: “Islam Challenges and Future Prospects – Creating Futures Together, Empowering the Next Generation of Muslims in North America” WHERE: Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, 2660 Woodley […]