Embassy Returns Passport to U.S. Muslim Stuck in Kuwait
CAIR GOOD NEWS ALERT #639(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/6/11) — CAIR announced today that an American Muslim citizen stuck in Kuwait had his passport returned by U.S. embassy officials who had seized it in February.Aziz Nouhaili, a naturalized American citizen, received his passport following CAIR’s intervention on his behalf with the U.S. Department of State. Last week, […]
Embassy Returns Passport to U.S. Muslim Stuck in Kuwait
CAIR-MI Welcomes Return of American Child from Syria
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 6/6/11) –- The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) today welcomed the return of an 11-year-old American-born girl trapped in the war-torn city of Daraa, Syria. Sara Alouh was staying in the home of her Syrian grandparents, which was reportedly damaged in recent shelling by the Syrian military. On May […]
‘My Fellow American’: Short Film Offers Platform for Combatting Islamophobia
America has always been a melting pot, but in the post-9/11 world the environment can be downright hostile. Radio talk show hosts, pundits and politicians utter statements about Islam and Muslims that if they were to say the same about other religious groups, they would face severe consequences. This hateful discourse leaves me wondering how […]
Arab and Muslim Registry Ends, But Its Effects Remain
In the jittery months after the 9/11 attacks, the federal government created a program that required thousands of Arab and Muslim men to register with the authorities, in an effort to uncover terror links and immigration violations. After complaints that the practice, known as special registration, amounted to racial profiling, the Homeland Security Department scaled […]
CAIR-SFBA: Program Examines Japanese and Muslim Wartime Experiences
When Rascha Anayah first heard about a program to bring together Japanese American and Muslim high-school students, she thought “weird.” But in a good way.“You never hear about Japanese and Muslim people getting together and talking,” said the 16-year-old Palestinian-American from Danville. “It’s weird, it’s different.”The Bridging Communities program was created three years ago by […]
Muslim Victim of 9/11 Hate Crime Fights for Attacker’s Life
Days after the 9/11 terror attacks, 31-year old laborer Mark Stroman went on a shooting spree in the Dallas area. In a drug-fueled mission of revenge, he killed two South Asian immigrants and shot another — Rais Bhuiyan — in the face at close range, blinding him in one eye. Shortly after his arrest, Stroman […]
Video: Penn. Imam Fights Street Crime with Mosque Fight Club (CNN)
Editor’s Note: This piece comes from a new CNN special “Stories: Reporter,” which aired onSaturday, May 28at 7:30PM EDT. Watch the video here. Philadelphia (CNN) — Listen to the FBI and you will know that violent crime dropped over almost the whole country last year; murder, aggravated assault, forcible rape. Listen to people in some […]
CAIR Asks Sec. Napolitano to Probe Use of Islamophobic Trainers
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/23/11) — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to conduct an agency-wide investigation of the use of outside trainers who offer hostile, stereotypical and grossly inaccurate information about Muslims and Islam to the nation’s security personnel.That request by the Washington-based Council […]
CAIR: Obama’s ‘Arab Spring’ Address Sets the Right Tone
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/19/11) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today said that President Obama’s speech this afternoon on the “Arab Spring” freedom movements in the Middle East and North Africa sets the right tone but needs to be translated into policies and actions.SEE: Text of Obama speech on the Mideast, North AfricaObama presents Mideast […]