Judge Allows Suit on Border Questioning of Muslims to Move Forward
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/11/13) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today announced that a federal judge in Michigan has allowed a lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the FBI over the repeated detention and questioning of Muslims at and inside the United States-Canada border and other ports of entry to move forward. […]
CAIR Director Participates in Qatar’s U.S.-Islamic World Forum
Nihad Awad visits Syrian refugee camp in Jordan before traveling to Doha (WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/11/13) — Nihad Awad, national executive director the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is participating in the 10th U.S.-Islamic World Forum, which concludes today in Doha, Qatar. Awad was part of the “Diplomacy and Religion” working group at the annual […]
‘Sharia’ bill hardly harmless
By Faiza Patel and Amos Toh, News and Observer, 6/7/2013 This week, the Concerned Women for America of NC — a conservative group with a history of anti-Muslim incitement — briefed North Carolina’s legislature on the phantom threat that Islamic laws and customs (commonly referred to as “sharia”) pose to the American legal system. This […]
Middle Tennessee Muslims Vow To Keep Talking After Shout-Down In Manchester
Nashville Public Radio After being jeered by hundreds of conservative activists this week, Middle Tennessee Muslims say they will keep up their outreach efforts in Coffee County. “The comments, the rhetoric, the yells, we’ve heard all of those,” says Remziya Suleyman of the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee. “If it was to scare us […]
Journalists often dismiss red-state Islamic law bans as a joke. But the story isn’t going away.
By Deron Lee, Columbia Journalism Review, 6/7/13 FAIRWAY, KS — For more than three years, lawmakers in Kansas, Missouri, and a host of other states have been pushing bills to prohibit the use of Islamic law–commonly referred to as Sharia–in US courts. There are a lot of serious questions one might ask about this anti-Sharia […]
Action: Tell Our Nation’s Leaders to Stop Spying on Calls, Emails
Will there be an independent investigation of Ibragim Todashev shooting?
By Christopher Balogh, Orlando Weekly On May 29, the Council on American-Islamic Relations held a press conference at an International Drive hotel to demand a private investigation of last week’s deadly shooting of an Orlando man by an FBI agent. As has been widely reported, the FBI turned up at an apartment on Peregrine Drive […]
Mean spirits ‘teabillies’ bring shame to the South
Pam Sohn, The Times Free Press, 6/6/13 I can count only two times I’ve ever been embarrassed to be Southern or Tennessean. The first was when I was a child and George Wallace was grandstanding on television with a crowd of toothless and drawling supporters around him. I thought: Oh, no, now the whole country […]
CAIR Applauds Feds for Standing Up to Tenn. Anti-Muslim ‘Mob’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/5/13) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded federal officials who were heckled last night in Tennessee by an anti-Muslim “mob.” At an event sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council, a large group of protesters heckled and interrupted speeches by Bill […]
CAIR Seeks Probe of Bias Motive for Minnesota Mosque Vandalism
(MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 6/5/13) — The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today called on state and national law enforcement authorities to investigate repeated vandalism targeting a mosque in that state as a possible bias-motivated crime. Officials with the Muslim Society Center in Owatonna, Minn., contacted CAIR-MN after a window of the facility was broken early Saturday. […]