CAIR-NY Video: Xenophobia in America
America is supposed to be a nation of tolerance. These days however, rising anger and resentment seems to be bleeding through her stars and stripes.Propeller Protests against the construction of new mosques, illegal immigration, and economic reform, point to a fear and frustration that has some warning of a US public increasingly swapping patriotism for […]
CAIR-San Diego: Muslim Takes Pride in Afghan Cabdriver Father
Some may be quick to dismiss a brown man with a thick accent as another immigrant cabdriver. Look deeper, and what emerges is a college student whose dreams were lost to war and tragedy.In the morning, before my father and I go our separate ways to work, we chat amiably. “Good luck on your day.” […]
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CAIR-NY Calls for Maximum Penalties in Mosque Harassment Case
CAIR-NY Calls for Maximum Penalties in Mosque Harassment Case (NEW YORK, NY, 10/5/10) — The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today called for maximum legal penalties for five teens charged with disrupting services and harassing worshippers at the World Sufi Foundation Mosque in Carlton, N.Y. Media reports indicate that plea […]
Feds to Drop Charges Against Muslim Man Unfairly Targeted by the FBI
Muslim civil rights group renews calls for probe into FBI’s ‘coercive’ tactics(ANAHEIM, CA, 9/30/10) — The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) said today that federal prosecutors have applied to dismiss all charges against a Muslim man whose case has been the center of a debate over the FBI’s […]
CAIR-MI Files EEOC Complaint Against Popeyes
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 9/28/10) – The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) today filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurant in that state on behalf of a Muslim who alleges denial of employment based on his religion. The Muslim job applicant reported to CAIR-MI that he […]
CAIR Alarmed by FBI Raids of Peace Activists’ Homes
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/30/2010) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expressed alarm over recent FBI raids on the homes of nearly a dozen peace activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. CAIR has also received reports of related FBI intimidation of activists in California, North Carolina and Wisconsin.SEE: […]
Video: CAIR Rep Debates Islamophobe Pamela Geller on Park51
CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab deconstructs Pamela Geller’s fear mongering misinformation campaign against the Park51 community center in New York and exposes her anti-Muslim bigotry.
NY: Leaders of Town Demand Muslims Dig Up Bodies at Cemetery on Land They Own
The leaders of a tiny upstate town some 180 miles from Ground Zero are demanding that a Muslim group dig up and remove two bodies they buried on their land. They say the group, a Sufi religious order, is maintaining an illegal cemetery in Sidney, N.Y., – pop. 5,993. A spokesman for the Osmanli Naksibendi […]
CAIR-LA: Disney OKs Muslim Intern to Wear Scarf
Disneyland officials have reached an agreement with a Muslim college intern allowing her to wear a head covering while on the job, Muslim community leaders and Disney officials said Monday.Officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations say the scarf acts as an Islamic head covering, called a hijab, in accordance with her Muslim religion . […]