CAIR Video: Vandalism May be Linked to NY Center Plan
Arlington police have stepped up patrols around city mosques after vandalism and anti-Islam graffiti appeared on the South Arlington Mosque. Mosque president thinks it’s sparked by the controversial plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero
CAIR-TX: FBI Confirms Probe of Attacks on Mosque
The Council on American-Islamic Relations just sent word of that a handful of incidents at the Dar El-Eman Islamic Center in on Mansfield Road in Arlington in recent days have sparked an investigation involving the Arlington Police Department and the FBI. Says the release, on Sunday someone set its playground on fire — just two […]
CAIR: Tennessee Lt. Gov Says Islam May be a ‘Cult’
Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, one of three Republican candidates running for governor, has drawn rebukes after suggesting that Islam may be a “cult” instead of a religion. . . The remarks brought a swift rebuke from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country’s most prominent Islamic civil liberties group. CAIR’s spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, told […]
PA: Radio Hosts Suggest Flying Muslims to the Moon
Quinn: “NASA’s new job is not to fly to the moon, NASA’s new job is to make Muslims feel good about science.” Tennent: “You know what? Why don’t we fly some Muslims to the moon? To the moon, baby, to the moon.” Quinn: “Well, it would be a start” (More)
CAIR: Florida Church Plans ‘Burn a Quran’ Day on 9/11
. . . The church called for repeating its “Everybody Burn Quran Day” it celebrates “in remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the evil of Islam.” The church, which also launched several campaigns against homosexuality and abortion, stirred much controversy last year after distributing T-shirts that read, “Islam is of […]
Video: CAIR Rep Debates Islamophobia, Opposition to Mosques
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): “We’re seeing opposition to mosques nationwide. You’re seeing oppositions not only to the Manhattan mosque, there’s opposition to a Staten Island, New York mosque, a Brooklyn mosque. We’re seeing opposition to mosques in Tennessee, Illinois and California.”Hooper contends it is much bigger than the “ground […]
Is the Tea Party Movement Islamophobic?
The current wave of anti-mosque protests around the country represents a new threat to the religious freedom of Muslims in America – a threat directed not at terrorists who act in the name of Islam, but at all Muslims and Islam itself. Incidents of discrimination and bias aimed at Muslim Americans have been rising since […]
CAIR: Calif. Mosque Plans Stir Controversy
A rally has been planned for July 30 in front of the center, although there are questions about who is organizing the gathering and whether it will happen. While no group has claimed responsibility for the rally’s organization, local Tea Party Patriots have called on the local community to join the protest.“An Islamic Mosque is […]
CAIR: Muslim U.S. Army Veteran Caught in No-Fly Trap
A 29-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran sits in a bare apartment in a poor part of the Colombian capital, Bogota. He wants to come home, but he can’t. He thinks it’s because he’s on the federal government’s “no-fly list.”Raymond Earl Knaeble is one of an unknown number of Americans stranded overseas. They can’t fly […]
CAIR: Texas Mosque Targeted by Arson, Hate Graffiti, Slurs
Muslim civil rights group asks FBI to encourage police protection at U.S. mosques(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/28/10) — The Texas office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-TX) reported today that local police and the FBI are investigating possibly bias-motivated incidents of arson, hate graffiti and racial slurs targeting a mosque in that state.[NOTE: CAIR is also […]