CA: After FBI Terror Probe, Imams Charged with Tax Evasion
The Islamic Center of Stockton’s imam and three of his associates may have been the subject of an FBI terrorism probe that netted little more than tax evasion charges, attorneys for the men said Wednesday. Saeed Ur Rahman, 44, has been indicted on three counts of tax evasion, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento announced […]
Georgia Mosque Opponent: ‘I Don’t Like Muslims’
LILBURN, Ga — The Dar-E-Abbas Islamic center currently sits on a small plot of land on Highway 29 and Hood Road. They want to raze the current building and build a two-story mosque. It’s that expansion that has residents living in the area up in arms. “I am prejudice, I just don’t like Muslims and […]
Video: Al-Jazeera English Examines Claims of Muslim ‘Spies’ in Congress
CAIR-OK: Sprint Employee Fired After Receiving Hate Call
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma man complains about losing his job after allegedly receiving a hateful phone call at work. A former Sprint worker says he was let go from Oklahoma City’s call center after he hung up on a customer who told him he ‘could go to hell’ because he’s Muslim. Click here to […]
CAIR-OK: Muslim Former Sprint Worker Seeks Policy Change
A former Oklahoma City Sprint employee who is Muslim is asking for an apology and a policy revision from Sprint after a claim of being fired for hanging up the phone on an abusive caller.The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said the employee wants Sprint to change its policy that states employees […]
Minn. Reporter Debunks Claims Against Six Imams
As you have probably heard, the case of the “flying imams” has been settled. The six Muslim clerics who were pulled off a U.S. Airways flight at the Twin Cities airport on Nov. 20, 2006 by Metro Airport Commission police will be paid an undisclosed sum by some combination of the MAC, U.S. Air and […]
CAIR Op-Ed: Bar ‘Flying While Muslim’ Profiling (USA Today)
The recent settlement in the case of the six imams, or Islamic religious leaders, who said their rights were violated in 2006 when they were removed from a US Airways flight in Minnesota should not prevent anyone from acting on legitimate security concerns. But reports based solely on anti-Muslim or anti-Arab bias and hysteria should […]
Sold-Out CAIR Banquet Celebrates 15 Years of Civil Rights Work
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/26/09) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) celebrated 15 years of civil rights and advocacy work Saturday with a sold-out banquet in Arlington, Va.At the banquet, some 750 Muslim community members and activists, interfaith leaders and diplomats from Muslim-majority nations heard addresses by CAIR Board Chairman State Senator Larry Shaw (N.C.), Rev. […]
MPAC: Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory of the Week
This week, four Republican members of Congress, Rep. Sue Myrick, Rep. John Shadegg, Rep. Paul Broun, and Rep. Trent Franks, called on the U.S. House of Representatives’ Sergeant-at-Arms to investigate a national Muslim American civil rights organization, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), for encouraging young Muslim Americans to intern in Congressional offices. By […]
ISNA: GOP Leaders Should Reject Efforts to Smear Muslims
(Washington, DC – October 17, 2009) The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is shocked that four Republican Congressmen found it fit to make serious allegations against a Muslim advocacy group by borrowing passages from a book authored by two well known Islamophobes, and that some of them went out of their way to promote […]