CAIR-NY Seeks MTA Diversity Training After Driver Calls Muslim Boy ‘Terrorist’
(NEW YORK, N.Y., 10/29/13) — The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today welcomed a lawsuit filed on Friday against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) after a then 10-year-old Muslim boy was called a “terrorist” by a bus driver and kicked off the vehicle last year. NY: Bus Driver Boots Praying […]
CAIR Asks Okla. Law Enforcement Org to Drop Anti-Muslim Trainers
Muslim civil rights group asks CLEET to use 'credible and objective subject matter experts' (OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 10/28/13) – The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today called on the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) to drop several anti-Muslim extremists who are scheduled to train law enforcement officers during […]
Open Mosque Day goal is to foster understanding
By David Olson, The Press-Enterprise Five Inland Islamic centers are inviting people of all faiths to their mosques to find out more about Islam and meet local Muslims. The congregations in Corona, Riverside, Temecula, Redlands-Loma Linda and Ontario are among 24 Islamic centers in Southern California participating in the 12th annual Open Mosque Day on […]
CAIR-CT, NAACP Seek Investigation of Hate Graffiti
(Hartford, CT, 10/25/13) — The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT) and the New London Chapter of the NAACP today called on local and national law enforcement authorities to investigate hate graffiti scrawled on a New London sidewalk. CAIR said a local resident discovered the graffiti as she was walking to work […]
CAIR Calls for Hate Crime Probe of Delaware Mosque Vandalism
(PHILADELPHIA, PA, 10/25/13) — The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Philadelphia) today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate vandalism of a Delaware mosque as a possible hate crime. Sometime early this morning, vandals targeted the Islamic Society of Delaware in Newark, Del., by tearing down fences, destroying a […]
Minnesota School Drops Anti-Muslim Speaker
Islamophobe claims U.S. Muslims 'will kill your children,' says 'we are in war with Islam' (MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 10/24/13) – Following intervention by the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN), a high school in that state has rescinded approval for an event featuring anti-Muslim speaker Usama Dakdok, who claims that American Muslims “will […]
Why We Work With Our Local CAIR Chapter in Chicago
By Asaf Bar-Tura, Zeek (Forward) Last week, the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) hired its first non-Muslim executive director. What’s more, he’s Jewish. So are some of the most critical reactions. In the Forward, Nathan Gutman reports that the Jewish community “has excluded CAIR from all joint interfaith activities with […]
CAIR-MI Rep Keynotes Interfaith Event at Ford Headquarters
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 10/24/13) — A representative of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) yesterday served as keynote speaker at an annual interfaith event at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. The Ford Interfaith Network's 13th annual event, titled “One Ford, One Community,” was held in recognition of the recent Islamic holiday […]
Dallas mosque feeds the hungry at a ‘Day of Dignity’
Through its Beacon of Light community center, Masjid al Islam mosque in southeast Dallas serves more than 15,000 free meals per year, mostly to non-Muslims. By Bryan Kay, The Christian Science Monitor Not even the recent furlough of federal workers was enough to snuff out the latest community outreach effort of Masjid al Islam mosque […]
CAIR Welcomes Arrest of Missouri Mosque Arson Suspect
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/22/13) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed an arrest in the case of a Joplin, Mo., mosque targeted by arson in 2012. CAIR said the suspect, 30-year-old Jedediah Stout, was arrested in connection with recent arson attempts at a Planned Parenthood […]