FBI Probe Clouds AIPAC Meeting
All Things Considered, May 20, 2005 ”¢ The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), one of Washington’s most powerful lobbies, holds its annual convention this weekend under the cloud of a criminal investigation involving two former senior members.
Quran the core of Islam
Observant Muslims believe the Quran is divine revelation only in Arabic because it existed in that form in heaven before it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. English editions and translations into other languages do not have the same revered status. AT the birth of a Muslim child, verses of the Quran are recited into […]
CAIR-SC: Meeting to Focus on Security, Civil Rights
South Carolina’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Greater Columbia Community Relations Council are co-sponsoring “National Security and Civil Rights ”” Creating A Balance,” 5-7 p.m. tonight at the Chamber of Commerce of Columbia, 930 Richland St.. A panel of speakers will include Denyse Williams, executive director of the ACLU-South Carolina, […]
CAIR-FL: All Faiths Urged to Read Koran
A Muslim advocacy group is using this week’s furor over a retracted Newsweek report on the Koran’s alleged desecration to educate the public about how to handle Islam’s holy book. ”Within the Islamic text, there is so much respect for people of other faiths,” said Altaf Ali, the Florida director of The Council for American-Islamic […]
NY Muslim Group To Call For FBI Probes Of Beatings
(NEW YORK, NY, 5/22/05) – On Sunday, May 22, the New York office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) will hold a news conference to call for FBI probes of two violent incidents that may have been motivated by anti-Muslim bias. The CAIR-NY news conference will take place today during a community rally in […]
Ex-Official Denies Blocking Mosque
A former Palos Heights alderman testified Wednesday that she wanted the city to buy out a Chicago-based Muslim organization to keep it from purchasing a local church, but denied allegations it was to dissuade Muslim worshipers. “Absolutely not true,” Julie Corsi told a U.S. District Court jury when asked if she was trying to prevent […]
Quran More than A Book for Muslims
DALLAS _ Almost daily, there’s a new unconfirmed accusation that American soldiers or interrogators have mistreated Muslims. But what pushed thousands of Muslims into deadly demonstrations last week was a now-discredited report about the mistreatment of a book. The Newsweek account of a Quran flushed down the toilet was the final straw for many in […]
Newsweek Backs off Quran Desecration Story Account blamed for violent riots in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Newsweek magazine backed away Sunday from a report that U.S. interrogators desecrated copies of the Quran while questioning prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay naval base — an account blamed for sparking violent riots in Afghanistan and elsewhere. At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured last week when thousands of demonstrators […]
Islam as Interrogation Tool: Need for Limits?
Army Sgt. Erik Saar couldn’t wait to get to Guantánamo Bay to help ferret information from the terrorists being held there. When the intelligence linguist arrived, however, he was startled to hear the Muslim call to prayer. Why, he wondered, would America make such a “concession to the religious zealotry” of the detainees? Yet as […]
CAIR-DC: Free Korans
While controversy reached the boiling point surrounding Newsweek’s now-retracted report that U.S. interrogators purportedly desecrated a copy of the Koran, the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington was hosting an audience of 300 for its “Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies” conference. Chief reason for the conference — attended by U.S. government officials, scholars and […]