CAIR Asks ICE to Drop Trainer Who Seeks to Convert Muslims
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/20/11) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the second largest investigative agency in the federal government, to drop a trainer who heads an organization that seeks to convert Muslims to Christianity. CAIR also asked ICE to review the use of taxpayer funds for outside […]
La Mirada, Ca. Mosque Vandalized
LA MIRADA – The vandalism of a La Mirada mosque is not being investigated as a hate crime, Sheriff’s Department officials said Tuesday. Someone threw a rock through the mosque’s newly installed rear doors between 2 and 6 p.m. Monday, according to Rezaur Rahman, the president of Muslim Community Services Inc. “This is not being […]
State Fair Booth Volunteers Answer Questions on Islam
Visitors to the California State Fair can find booths demonstrating everything from juicers to cleaning products. For the fourth year in a row, there is also a booth about Islam. On the first floor of Building C, next to a space that sells headphones for athletes, fairgoers can pick up free Qurans and brochures. This […]
CAIR Asks CIA to Drop Islamophobic Trainer
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/18/11) — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on the CIA not to use one of the Islamophobic counter-terror trainers who were exposed this morning on National Public Radio (NPR) for allegedly smearing a respected Ohio Muslim. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also asked the CIA to […]
Halal Not Just for Muslims Anymore
CHICAGO, July 17 (UPI) — With the annual Ramadan celebration just two weeks away, practicing Muslims this year have more alternatives for breaking the monthlong daily fast — a line of prepared foods from Saffron Road that meet halal strictures. The Stamford, Conn., company produces 15 items — 12 of them frozen and three broths […]
Young Somalis Seeking Dialogue
While media attention on Somalia seldom strays from terrorism, piracy, and a 20-year-old civil war, those problems are among the least pressing for young Somali-Americans, according to participants in a weekend conference in Boston. The issues most relevant to them, they said, don’t make headlines: the strain between Americanized youths and their Somali parents, the […]
GOP Presidential Candidate Cain Opposes Planned Tenn. Mosque
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain opposes a planned Tennessee mosque that has been the subject of protests and legal challenges. Cain didn’t bring up the controversial facility in a campaign rally on Thursday, but told reporters afterward that he’s concerned about the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. “It is an infringement and an […]
CAIR-Ohio: Hijab is a Symbol of Faith, Freedom
It happens so often Roula Allouch is almost used to it. Strangers walk up, point to her hijab – the headscarf some Muslim women wear – and tell her she’s in America now, has rights and can’t be forced to wear the covering. She thanks them. Then she tells them that she’s American-born, Kentucky-raised and […]
NY Arab-American Group Banned on the Fourth of July
A Bay Ridge Arab-American group blasted the planners of a Fourth of July picnic this week after its offer to pitch in during the event was rebuffed by organizers who said they didn’t want to turn a patriotic celebration into an “ethnic event.” The Arab American Association of New York said it offered to help […]
‘Ex-terrorist’ Rakes in Homeland Security Bucks
Rapid City, South Dakota (CNN) — Walid Shoebat had a blunt message for the roughly 300 South Dakota police officers and sheriff’s deputies who gathered to hear him warn about the dangers of Islamic radicalism. Terrorism and Islam are inseparable, he tells them. All U.S. mosques should be under scrutiny. “All Islamic organizations in America […]