CAIR Asks Muslims to Pray for, Aid Oklahoma Tornado Victims
Home of CAIR-OK's board chair destroyed while family huddled in closet (WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/21/13) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today urged American Muslims to offer whatever assistance they can to help alleviate the suffering of those impacted by yesterday's deadly tornado in Oklahoma. CAIR […]
2012 Legislative Fact Sheets
CAIR’s legislative fact sheets from 2012 are below: Support Comprehensive Anti-Bullying Legislation Support Due Process: Repeal Sections 1021 and 1022 of the NDAA Support the End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 Help Close the DOJ Loophole on Religious Profiling Remove Language Targeting U.S. Muslims from the DHS Reauthorization Act of 2011 Help Reform Immigration Laws […]
CAIR 2013 Legislative Fact Sheets
CAIR 2013 legislative fact sheets CAIR: Oppose Warrantless Government Spying on American Phone Calls and Emails Oppose Indefinite Detention and Immediately Close the Prison at Guantanamo Bay CAIR: Federal Watchlist and Border Crossing Issues of 2013 CAIR: Stop the Extra-Judicial Exile of American Citizens Traveling Abroad CAIR: Stop Racial and Religious Profiling Abuses at the […]
CAIR Welcomes State Department’s Recognition of Rising Islamophobia
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/20/2013) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a new State Department report on international religious freedom, which recognizes that “[a]nti-Muslim rhetoric and actions were clearly on the rise — particularly in Europe and Asia.” According to the report, “Government restrictions, which […]
Huntsville Islamic center welcomes first full-time imam
Kay Campbell, al.com HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – The Huntsville Islamic Center, with its more than 200 families in the congregation that has become a focal point for Muslims across North Alabama, now has its first full-time minister: Imam Ragab Abdelmoneim, 32. Abdelmoneim and his wife, Walaa Abuhany, and their daughters Tasbeeh Abdelmoneim, 3, and Abrar, 9 […]
Anti-bias group hopes to expand into Oklahoma City metro
By Carla Hinton, The Oklahoman, 5/18/2013 Efforts are underway to form a metro-area chapter of an organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism, while promoting racial, religious and cultural understanding and respect. A task force made up of local community leaders recently gathered to discuss the creation of an Oklahoma City arm of the […]
Documentary explores story of 1994 Yuba City mosque arson
By Edward Ortiz, the Sacramento Bee, 5/19/13 In the 26-minute documentary “An American Mosque,” filmmaker David Washburn examines the effects of the 1994 torching of a mosque on the Yuba City Muslim community at the time and and since. The documentary is a timely one, given the widely reported shooting last August at a Sikh […]
Anti-Shariah movement changes tactics and gains success
By Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service, 5/16/13 When Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved a 2010 ballot measure that prohibits state courts from considering Islamic law, or Shariah, the Council of American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit within two days challenging the constitutionality of the measure, and won. But when Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a similar measure, […]
CAIR to File Complaint Over MN Judge’s Questioning on ‘Sharia’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/17/13) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, said today that it plans to file a complaint against a Minnesota judge who inappropriately questioned defendants on their religious beliefs and equated mainstream Islamic principles with terrorism. Before sentencing two Muslim women to lengthy prison […]
Muslims to Tea Party: Welcome to our world
By Sahar Aziz, Special to CNN Reports that the Internal revenue Service has been targeting Tea Party-affiliated nonprofit organizations has grabbed headlines, but should come as no surprise. In part because of ten years of expanding government powers, much of it under the guise of national security, selective enforcement of the law has increasingly become […]