650+ Attend CAIR-Cleveland ‘Sharing Ramadan’ Interfaith Iftar
(CLEVELAND, OH, 8/1/13) – On Sunday, July 28, the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Cleveland) hosted its 10th Annual “Sharing Ramadan” Iftar banquet with members of the interfaith community. More than 650 guests attended the sold-out event. (“Iftar” is the meal eaten after sunset each day during Ramadan, the Islamic month of […]
Anti-Islam Activists Are Freaking Out About Crayons Now
By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones Anti-Shariah activists have a new target in their sights: Crayola. Late last week the Pickens County (Ga.) Republican party posted a call to action on its website about a new promotion from the world’s leading crayon manufacturer, which had begun offering free Islamic-themed coloring pages in honor of Ramadan. Zut […]
Law enforcement agencies decline Central MN Tea Party invitation to Brigitte Gabriel speech
Bluestemp Prairie Since last month, Bluestem has been following news of tonight’s Central Minnesota Tea Party sponsored speech by Islamophobe Brigitte Gabriel, “one of the most visible personalities on a circuit of self-appointed terrorism detectors who warn that Muslims pose an enormous danger within United States borders,” according to the New York Times. Last night, […]
Muslim Converts in Mexico Make Up a Diverse, Fast-Growing Community
By Bernd Debusmann, Fox News Latino MEXICO CITY — When Moroccan national Said Louahabi arrived in Mexico City in 1994, he and fellow Muslims had to attend religious services at the Pakistani embassy because there were no mosques or Islamic centers. “I started looking for Muslims and a mosque when I first arrived,” Louahabi, an […]
Breaking: NSA Spying Tool Collects Nearly Everything on Internet Users
CAIR Action Alert:Â Tell the president and Congress to stop spying on your phone calls and Internet usage (WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/31/2013) — CAIR is calling on all Americans concerned about privacy rights to contact their elected official and demand that they address new revelation of warrantless government spying. Today it was revealed in documents leaked by […]
CAIR Stands with Sikhs After Hate Vandalism of Calif. Gurdwara
(ANAHEIM, CA, 7/31/13) –Â The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today expressed solidarity with the Sikh community in that state following an apparently bias-motivated attack on a Gurdwara, or Sikh house of worship. The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) reported that a Gurdwara in Riverside, Calif., […]
Action: Urge Your Members of Congress to Ban Racial Profiling by Law Enforcement
CAIR Action Alert 707: Alert: Urge Your Members of Congress to Ban Racial Profiling by Law Enforcement (WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/31/2013) – CAIR yesterday joined other civil rights leaders at a news conference to support the reintroduction of the End Racial Profiling Act of 2013 (ERPA). Introduced earlier this year in the Senate, this bill would eliminate profiling […]
CAIR-San Diego Applauds Board of Education for Dialogue on Trayvon Martin Case
(July 31, 2012 – San Diego, CA) — Last night, a representative from the San Diego office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) briefly addressed the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Board of Education in their meeting and specifically thanked trustee Marne Foster and Richared Barrera for initiating dialogue on the Trayvon […]
Why are 10 and 440 so important?
As-salaamu alaykum (peace to you). Ten and 440 are important numbers. We are now in the last 10 days of Ramadan, a period in which blessings are multiplied many times, and CAIR needs to raise $440,000 in this period to meet our Ramadan fundraising goal to help the people who call on CAIR on […]
Fox News to Scholar: Why Would a Muslim Write a Book About Jesus?
By Daniel Politi, Slate.com It’s got plenty of competition but this may just be the single most cringe-worthy, embarrassing interview on Fox News. At least in recent memory. Fox News anchor Lauren Green had religious scholar Reza Aslan on her FoxNews.com show Friday to talk about Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, […]