Female converts to Islam facing growing scrutiny
By Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service, 4/29/13 BOSTON — When Karen Hunt Ahmed and her Muslim husband divorced four years ago, many friends asked her, “Now you can stop this Islam stuff, right?” Some friends, she thought. “Like it was a hobby I took up when I got married and now I’m supposed to drop […]
CAIR Asks FBI to Probe Okla. Mosque Vandalism as Part of Boston ‘Backlash’
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 4/27/13) — The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate a second incident of vandalism targeting a mosque in that state to determine whether it is backlash from the recent Boston Marathon bombings. CAIR-OK said the American Muslim Association […]
CAIR-MI Files Suit Seeking Adequate Diet for Muslim Inmates During Ramadan
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 4/25/13) – The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of several Muslim inmates against the Michigan Department of Corrections for the denial of an adequate diet during the yearly month-long fast of Ramadan. SEE: Lawsuit Claims Unfair Treatment Of Muslim Inmates The lawsuit, filed […]
CAIR Action Alert #691: Tell Congress that Immigration Reform Should Ban All Forms of Profiling
CAIR Action Alert #691: Tell Congress that Immigration Reform Should Ban All Forms of Profiling Senate immigration bill fails to address profiling based on religion, national origin (WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/25/13) — CAIR welcomes last week’s immigration reform bill, S. 744, which provides a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants. CAIR Action […]
Hate Will Not Fight Itself
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CAIR Decries Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Rhetoric on Boston Bombings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAIR Decries Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Rhetoric on Boston Bombings Muslim civil rights group says Americans have rejected calls to stereotype (WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/23/13) –- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today decried the wave of inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric following the Boston Marathon bombings and […]
Video: CAIR-AZ Vigil Participants Say Bombers Do Not Represent Islam
What’s needed now, loud and clear, are the counter voices of those with influence over would-be copycats. Some immigrant and Islamic religious figures have spoken out including the Council on Islamic-American Relations.
CAIR-DFW Banquet a Success
More than 200 people turned out on Saturday for the annual banquet of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of CAIR-Texas. The sold-out event featured addresses by CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad, ACLU Texas Executive Director Terri Burke and Egyptian-American Rule of Law Association President Sahar Aziz.
CAIR Director Meets with Jordan’s King Abdullah in D.C.
CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad today joined other American Muslim and Arab-American leaders at a meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan in Washington, D.C. Topics of discussion included the ongoing conflict in Syria and the Middle East peace process.
NC needs a freedom of religion refresher course
By C. Welton Gaddy, News Observer, 4/12/13 It is becoming increasingly clear that some members of the N.C. General Assembly are in critical need of a refresher course on the meaning of religious freedom. When asked by a constituent whether she would support a Muslim offering a prayer before the state legislature, Rep. Michele Presnell […]