CAIR Calls for FBI Hate Crime Probe of Texas Murder
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/28/2009) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the FBI to investigate a possible bias motive for the murder of a Texas convenience store owner, allegedly shot to death by a suspected white supremacist. Surveillance video showed that the store owner, 50-year-old Naushad Virani, was shot during a robbery Friday […]
CAIR: Plane Incidents in Ariz., Mich. Raise Profiling Concerns
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/27/2009) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on airline passengers, crews and security personnel to avoid ethnic and religious “profiling” in the wake of the attempted bombing of a flight arriving in Detroit on Christmas Day.CAIR made that call following two incidents in which innocent passengers were targeted based either […]
CAIR Seeks ‘Swift Justice’ in Attempted Bombing of NWA Flight
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/27/2009) — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called for “swift justice” in the attempted bombing Friday of a Northwest Airlines flight arriving in Detroit.Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told the Detroit Free Press that he was grateful […]
CAIR Asks President to Address Rise in Anti-Islam Hate
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/23/2009) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on President Obama to address what it called an “alarming level of anti-Islam hate in our nation.” In a letter to President Obama, CAIR cited recent incidents in Florida in which a cross with the message “Christian nation, Christian community” was planted at […]
CAIR: NY Muslims Featured in ‘I am American’ Times Square Ad
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/22/09) – A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization announced today that its new public service announcement (PSA), called “I am Muslim, I am American,” began airing this morning on the CBS Super Screen in New York City’s Times Square.The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said its New York chapter […]
Muslim Families First Line of Terror Defense (Boston Globe)
There is a heartening aspect to the otherwise unnerving story of five young American Muslims who flew to Pakistan Dec. 1 with the apparent intention of enrolling in a jihadist group. Law enforcement officials received crucial cooperation from anxious relatives of the five young men. The family members told imams and the Council on American-Islamic […]
Hollywood’s ‘Sinister Muslim’ Stereotype Fades (USA Today)
Muslim voices are finally being heard by and from Hollywood, and it’s in Tinseltown’s best interest to listen. Negative stereotypes of Muslim characters date to at least the black-and-white era, but by the 1990s and the end of the Cold War, one-dimensional Muslim terrorist characters were the generic “bad guy” in countless movies and television […]
Muslim Prayers and Renewal Near Ground Zero
On that still-quiet Tuesday morning, the sales staff was in a basement room eating breakfast, waiting to open the doors to the first shoppers at 10 a.m. There was no immediate sign of the fiery cataclysm that erupted overhead starting at 8:46. But out of a baby-blue sky suddenly stained with smoke, a plane’s landing-gear […]
CA: Local Muslims Upset Over La Mesa Church Event
SAN DIEGO — Several Muslim families invited to a service at Skyline Church in La Mesa said they received the insult of their lives, 10News reported. Muslim churchgoer Omar said he expected the sounds of the season at the church, but that is not what he got. Outside an El Cajon market, Omar told 10News […]
Minn. Leaders Asked to Repudiate Anti-Muslim Incidents
(ST. PAUL, MN, 12/10/09) – The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today called on political and religious leaders in that state to repudiate recent incidents of anti-Muslim hate.In the first incident, a challenger to Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim elected to Congress, said Islam promotes criminal behavior and that […]