CAIR-FL Meets With Foriegn Journalists
(JACKSONVILLE, FL, 2/25/05) – A representative of the Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) met yesterday with a group of foreign journalists sponsored by the International Visitors Corp of Jacksonville Journalists and the State Department. The journalists are in the United States to discuss foreign policy and counterterrorism issues. Areas of the […]
Europe’s Rising Class of Believers: Muslims
PARIS – As the three young North African women talked about their Muslim faith at a cafe here one recent evening, they could not help noticing how patrons at the next table were reacting. One French man leaned so far back in his chair to hear the animated discussion that he almost joined the group. […]
VA: Professor Traces Rights in Islamic Law
Though often misrepresented and misunderstood in the West, Islamic law has always contained elements of human rights. The very concept of essential rights for all members of the community can be traced back to the origins of Islamic law, Tamara Sonn, the College’s Kenan Professor of Humanities in the department of religious studies, said in […]
U.S. and Mr. Abu Ali
BY UNSEALING a federal indictment against Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the U.S. government garnered headlines about an alleged terrorist plot, instead of the unexplained imprisonment of an American citizen in Saudi Arabia. By producing the 23-year-old Islamic student in a federal court in Virginia on charges he conspired to kill the president, it portrayed Mr. […]
Accomplice in Assassination Plot Died in 2003
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 – A suspected member of Al Qaeda who prosecutors say once talked with Ahmed Omar Abu Ali about assassinating President Bush was killed by Saudi authorities in a shootout 17 months ago, the Justice Department disclosed on Wednesday. The disclosure that a potential witness in the case is dead could complicate the […]
IL: Religious Leaders Decry Taxi Attacks
Spurred by the death of a Pakistani cab driver this month in an apparent dispute over a fare, religious leaders today urged Chicagoans to end the “culture of disrespect” against taxi drivers that they say results in abuse and violence. Meeting at the Downtown Islamic Center, an interfaith coalition said Haroon Paryani’s death showed city […]
Modi Speech at FL Convention Draws Criticism
Human rights groups criticize chief minister of an Indian state. The Asian-American Hotel Owners Association on Wednesday refused to withdraw its invitation to controversial Indian statesman Narendra Modi to speak at a Fort Lauderdale hospitality conference next month. In a brewing debate imported from a far-flung Indian state and imbued with ethnic tensions, the association […]
MA: Muslim Leader Sues TV Station for Defamation
The chairman of the board of the Islamic Society of Boston filed a defamation suit yesterday against WFXT-TV (Channel 25), claiming that an investigative report identifying him as a member of a terrorist group is part of a pattern of anti-Muslim bias in the media. The suit, filed in Suffolk Superior court by Dr. Yousef […]
Bassiouni, Yee Speak at CAIR-Chicago Dinner
WHAT: On Saturday, February 26, the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations will hold its annual dinner with keynote speakers Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni and former military chaplain James Yee. WHEN: Saturday, February 26, 2005Reception 6:30 pm – Dinner 7:30 pm WHERE: he Islamic Foundation of Villa Park, 300 W. Highridge Rd. Tickets: […]
CAIR-Houston Condemns Anti-Semitic Incidents
The words ‘Juden Raus’, meaning ‘Jews Out’,were painted on benches in southwestHouston, including this one at a bus stopat South Post Oak and West Bellfort.Picture Source: chron.com (HOUSTON, TX, 2/24/05) – The Houston office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Houston) today condemned a recent rash of anti-Semitic incidents in that city. SEE: “Rash of […]