CAIR: Another Hijab-Wearing Muslim Traveler Reports Mistreatment
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/7/2010) – A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group today sent a letter to President Obama seeking action on concerns that Muslim travelers wearing religious head scarves, or hijab, are now being automatically singled out for additional security measures and may face mistreatment at airports.[NOTE: President Obama will address the nation […]
CAIR: TSA Tells Muslim Traveler Hijab Now Triggers Security Checks
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/6/2010) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to clarify whether Islamic head scarves, or hijab, will now automatically trigger additional security measures for Muslim travelers.CAIR made that request after a Muslim woman traveler taking a flight Tuesday from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) to […]
Video: Bill O’Reilly vs. CAIR Spokesman on Profiling
Bill O’Reilly and CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper debate the effectiveness of profiling Muslims at airports.
Video: CAIR Rep on Fox News Warns Against Profiling
CAIR Government Affairs Director Corey Saylor advocates for behavioral profiling instead of racial and religious profiling on FOX News’s “American Newsroom.” Click here to watch the video.
New Air Security Checks Draw Criticism (NY Times)
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to mandate extra scrutiny — including full-body pat downs — for people flying into the United States from 14 mostly Muslim countries provoked criticism from foreign officials and skepticism from some security experts that the measures would be effective. American counterterrorism officials said the increased checks reflected mounting concern […]
Police Investigating Burnt Quran at Calif. Mosque
Costa Mesa police are hesitating to call a charred copy of the Koran found outside the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County on New Year’s Day a hate crime until they determine where it came from, officials said. About noon New Year’s Day, a member of the education center was headed inside for Friday prayers […]
CAIR-CAN Condemns Vandalism of Hamilton Mosque
(Ottawa, Canada – January 4th, 2010) – The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) condemns today’s act of vandalism, the fire-bombing of The Hamilton Mosque, in which one of the mosque’s windows was smashed and a bottle with flammable material was either thrown or placed inside the window. CAIR-CAN calls on the Hamilton Police to […]
CAIR-CAN: Canadian Mosque Firebombed
Shock and anger is spreading among Hamilton’s 20,000 Muslims after the city’s largest mosque was firebombed. “They tried to burn the mosque down,” said Zakir Patel, 42, principal of the Islamic School of Hamilton, which is part of the mosque.Patel discovered the firebombing around 8 a.m. yesterday when he opened his office door. Attackers had […]
ACLU Calls College Veil Ban ‘Possibly Illegal’ (Globe)
The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has established a policy banning people from covering their faces on its three campuses, in an effort to ensure public safety, a college spokesman said today. But the new policy has drawn flak from a Muslim civil rights advocacy group, which wants the school to exempt Muslim […]
CAIR: New TSA Screening Rules Amount to Profiling
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/4/2010) – A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today said new security measures announced by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) amount to profiling of Muslims. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the new guidelines, under which anyone traveling from or through 13 Muslim-majority nations will be required to […]