Urge Congress to Include Anti-Profiling Protections in Immigration Reform Bill
Urge Congress to Include Anti-Profiling Protections in Immigration Reform Bill
NDAA House Vote: Ask Congress to End Indefinite Detention, Shut Down Guantanamo Bay
NDAA House Vote: Ask Congress to End Indefinite Detention, Shut Down Guantanamo Bay
Tell Congress that Immigration Reform Should Ban All Forms of Profiling
CAIR Action Alert #700: Senate Immigration Debate Has Begun! Tell Your Senators that Immigration Reform Should Ban All Forms of Profiling (WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/12/13) — CAIR is urging voters to contact their members of Congress to request that they include anti-profiling protections in the immigration reform bill. The Senate today voted to begin its floor […]
A Meeting on Tolerance Turns into a Shouting Match
by Blake Farmer, NPR The public meeting in Manchester, Tenn., about 70 miles from Nashville, was supposed to address and tamp down discrimination toward Muslims there. But instead it turned into a shouting match. Bill Killian, the local U.S. attorney who organized the meeting, told the people in attendance that hate speech was not protected […]
Manchester, Tenn., meeting displays hatred of Muslims, malleability of masses
By Kay Campbell, All Alabama, 6/12/13 MANCHESTER, Tennessee – Last week, within shouting distance of the peace-love-music temporary village that will be Bonnaroo June 13-16, people packed a meeting room to cheer when a photograph of the firebombed Columbia, Tenn., mosque was shown. That’s probably not what they planned to do, but the ecstasy of […]
CAIR Asks Kansas Rep. Pompeo to Correct ‘False and Irresponsible’ Attack on Muslims
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/12/2013) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.)Â to correct “false and irresponsible” remarks he made about American Muslims on the floor of the U.S. House yesterday. In those remarks, Pompeo alleged that American Muslim leaders have failed […]
Anti-Muslim hate come to Coffee County
By Nathan Lean, Manchester Times Last Tuesday evening, anti-Muslim hate reared its ugly head on Hospitality Boulevard. At the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center, a group of several hundred gathered to protest a public forum on Muslim civil liberties sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee (AMAC). The demonstration, though, was not hospitable but […]
Photo: CAIR Reps Attend Dialogue at Residence of the South African Ambassador
PHOTO: CAIR Reps Zainab Chaudry and Nadhira Al-Khalili attend last night's dialogue for women leaders at the residence of the South African ambassador to the United States.
CAIR-MN Seeks Police Retraining After Attacks on Minneapolis Muslims
(MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 6/12/13) — The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today called on the Minneapolis Police Department to offer retraining on proper documentation and investigation of reported bias incidents following claims that two recent attacks on Muslims in that city were mishandled. In an April incident, a Minneapolis Muslim man dressed […]
NSA snooping erodes American values
By Dawud Walid, The Detroit News, 6/11/13 Recent revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI have been involved in widespread collection of Verizon customers phone records — as well as communications from nine internet providers — has sent shockwaves across the country.Programs which started under the guise of counterterrorism during the Bush administration […]