Airport Profiling Hands a Victory to Terrorists
ISLAM-OPED: AIRPORT PROFILING HANDS A VICTORY TO TERRORISTS ISLAM-OPED is a syndication service of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) designed to offer an American Muslim perspective on current political, social and religious issues. ISLAM-OPED commentaries are offered free-of-charge to one media outlet in each market area. Permission for publication will be granted on a […]
S. Calif. Muslims Targeted in Anti-Islam Incidents
(ANAHEIM, CA, 1/1/10) – The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today reported two incidents of anti-Islam hate targeting the local Muslim community. An official of the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County in Costa Mesa, Calif., reports that a burned copy of the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, was […]
CAIR-MI: Inquiry Into Imam’s Shooting by FBI Ready Jan. 31
DEARBORN — A local police chief is defending his decision to withhold the release of an autopsy report on Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was killed Oct. 28 in a gunfight with the FBI at a Dearborn warehouse. “While I understand the emotions surrounding the case and the sensitivity of the information, I’m standing […]
Was Store Owner’s Death Hate Crime?
LIBERTY, Texas — The motive behind the Christmas Day killing of a grocery store owner is being questioned, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday. Liberty police said Stevie Walder, 31, fatally shot Naushad I. Virani, 51, during a robbery at the Ridgewood Grocery Store in the 4300 block of North Main.“There is video surveillance from the […]
CAIR-MI: Nigerians, Yemenis Condemn Detroit Flight Attack
Southfield — Area Muslims, representing the local Nigerian and Yemeni communities, gathered to condemn the failed terrorist attack aboard a flight headed to Detroit on Christmas Day and send a message to al-Qaida supporters that their actions are not condoned by Islam. “Killing and targeting civilians is unacceptable in Islam,” said Dawud Walid, executive director […]
Video: CAIR Blasts Metro Airport Terror Attack
Nigerian-American and other Michigan Muslim leaders have condemned al-Qaida and its claim of responsibility for the Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound plane.
Failed Attack Reignites Profiling Debate (AFP)
A foiled bid by a Nigerian to blow up a U.S. airliner is reframing the delicate debate about racial profiling in the United States, where men from the Middle East have been foremost under the scanner. U.S. government guidelines prohibit authorities from singling out people on the basis of race or ethnicity. But with airports […]
CAIR-CA Video: Questions Raised Over Airport Profiling
View the video. The director of the Bay Area Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, Zahra Billoo, tells ABC7 when airport screeners focus on anyone who looks Middle Eastern or Muslim, the screeners may miss more important indicators. “If someone is in line and they look shifty, if they look like they have […]
Video: CAIR Rep Debates Airport Profiling on ‘O’Reilly Factor’
CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper debates the issue of airport profiling on Fox’s “O’Reilly Factor.”
CA: Mosque Informant Tells of Role in FBI Investigations
Since he was a teen, Craig Monteilh has pretended to be someone he wasn’t – Russian, Muslim, a white supremacist… His role as an informant in state prison provided early training, says Monteilh, who is African-American, but light skinned. After being arrested for grand theft in 2002, he was sentenced to state prisons in Tehachapi […]