CAIR-MI Joins Hate Crimes Coalition, Voices Concern Over Hate Flyers
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 4/1/10) — The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) recently joined the Canton Response to Hate Crimes Coalition in Southeast Michigan.The coalition’s mission focuses on law enforcement and community organizations collaboration to educate citizens about bias-motivated crimes, to respond to support victims and to mentor victims and perpetrators during the […]
CAIR: Minn. School Fundraiser Promotes Anti-Muslim Stereotypes
This fundraiser was no bake sale.Fake punches flew and tattooed muscles rippled on Saturday in the gym of St. Michael-Albertville High School, where proceeds from tickets and snacks sold at an indie wrestling show went to the football booster club.In a spectacle of caricatured roles — a fur-clad Norseman, a pair of fighters in kilts […]
Action: CAIR Asks Muslims to Participate in Census Day
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/1/2010) — CAIR is urging American Muslims to participate in “Census Day” by completing and mailing in census forms. (CAIR chapters nationwide are Census 2010 partners.)SEE: Census Day Questions Answered (CNN) What is the Census?The census is an attempt to count every resident in the United States, a process required by the Constitution […]
Muslim Travelers Find Have to Fight for U.S. Visas (Wash Post)
LYON, FRANCE — The clean-cut young Frenchman seemed to have everything going for him. A graduate of an elite French engineering school, he had interned at the upper-crust Rothschild bank in Paris, handled wealth management for a while on Wall Street and was accepted for a prestigious master’s degree program at the University of California […]
What Makes Chechen Women So Dangerous? (NY Times)
Almost every month for the past two years, Chechen suicide bombers have struck. Their targets can be anything from Russian soldiers to Chechen police officers to the innocent civilians who were killed on the subway in Moscow this week. We all know the horror that people willing to kill themselves can inflict. But do we […]
FL: Leaders of New Mosque Hope Non-Muslims Visit to Learn
For the past year, passers-by have been curious about the impressive construction project in the 6300 block of Barclay Avenue — a gilt-domed, turreted, two-story edifice. It is the new place of worship and education for local Muslims, the Islamic Center of Hernando County. And on Saturday, about 500 visitors toured the 10,000-square-foot mosque and […]
CAIR-MI: New Info Released in Killing of Imam
DETROIT (Tell Us Det) – A coalition of political activists and civil rights groups gathered for a town hall meeting at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit to discuss growing concerns regarding the lack of transparency of government entities relating to the fatal shooting of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah by FBI agents and a warrantless […]
CAIR-MI: Jackson, Walid Question FBI Tactics
DETROIT – The Federal Bureau of Investigation was criticized heavily Sunday, by both Rev. Jesse Jackson and Imam Dawud Walid, the Michigan chapter of the Council on Arabic-Islamic Relations Executive Director. Their comments were given during CAIR-MI annual fundraising event in Dearborn.“I am speaking of the tactics of the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigating our […]
CAIR Welcomes Judge’s Ruling on Illegal Wiretaps
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/31/10) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed a federal judge’s ruling that the Bush administration illegally wiretapped the phone conversations of a Muslim charity and two attorneys.U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled Wednesday that the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation and attorneys Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor provided evidence that “they […]
Suit: U.S. Muslims Isolated, Denied Rights in Special Prison Units
CONTACT: press@ccrjustice.orgMarch 30, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging violations of fundamental constitutional rights, including the right to due process, at two experimental federal prison units called “Communications Management Units” (CMUs). The units are being used overwhelmingly to hold Muslim prisoners and prisoners with unpopular political […]