CAIR-Seattle: Muslim Groups Host Candidate Forum
After awhile it all sounds the same.After you’ve been to a few candidate forums, everything starts to sound the same. In some cases, that’s because it is. At a mayoral forum, it’s a guarantee that in Jan Drago’s opening statement she’ll say something about hitting the “reset button” and James Donaldson will stand tall and […]
Video: CAIR-Chicago Rep Discusses Controversial Muslim Conference
CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab comments on a conference by a controversial Muslim group in Chicago, and on civil rights issues, political empowerment, media monitoring, and community outreach. Click here to watch the video.
CAIR: Oregon’s Fashion Police (Newsweek)
Should your child’s teacher wear a turban, a hijab, a kippah or other “religious dress’? The state of Oregon doesn’t think so. The Oregon Workplace Religious Freedom Act, now awaiting the governor’s signature, requires all employers to let workers wear religious items with one exception: “No teacher in any public school shall wear any religious […]
CAIR-MI Rep Speaks at International Interfaith Conference
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 7/20/09) – A representative from the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) recently participated in an international interfaith conference in Bamako, Mali. CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid addressed attendees regarding the importance of cooperation amongst people of various faiths and the work of CAIR in promoting interfaith cooperation in and […]
CAIR-NY: Call for Eid to Be on School Calendars
NEW YORK // On Eid al Adha last December, Isabel Bucaram-Belguet did not want Huyam, her then six-year-old daughter, to miss the family festivities. So it was with a heavy heart that she wrote to Huyam’s teachers explaining why her little girl would have to skip school and a scheduled field trip.A grassroots campaign for […]
CAIR-IL: Arab-American Officer’s Harassment Case Moves to Trial
(CHICAGO, IL, 7/20/09) – CAIR-Chicago announced today that the discrimination case of an Arab-American correctional officer against the Cook County Sheriff’s Department will move to trial on July 21. WHEN: Tuesday, July 21, 2009; 9 a.m.WHERE: Courtroom of Judge Amy St. Eve, Room 1241, Dirksen Federal Building, 219 S. Dearborn (at Jackson & Dearborn), Chicago, […]
CAIR-MN: Minn. Wal-Mart to Accommodate Muslim Worker’s Prayers
(ST. PAUL, MN, 7/20/2009) – The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) announced today that a Wal-Mart store in that state has agreed to accommodate a Muslim employee’s right to pray in the workplace. CAIR-MN said the religious accommodation came after its intervention in the case of a Muslim Wal-Mart employee who […]
CAIR: Ellison a ‘Good Example of What America Is and Can Be’
Keith Ellison is what he is — the first Muslim elected to Congress, the first African American to represent Minnesota — while trying not to be too much of what he is. But not too little, either.Quietly devout, he unrolls his prayer rug in the privacy of his office in the Longworth House Office Building, […]
Oregon Bill Reinforces Ban on Muslim, Sikh, Jewish Teachers
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/16/09) – A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today joined America’s Sikh community in expressing concerns about legislation awaiting the governor’s signature in Oregon that purports to broaden religious freedom, but would prohibit teachers from wearing religiously-mandated attire such as an Islamic head scarf, or hijab.[Media Advisory: Muslim students at […]
FL Imam Faces Deportation for Not Becoming Informant
As the political crisis in Iran turns toward a slow boil, a North Miami Beach imam is closely watching events unfold there. U.S. authorities could deport him at any moment to the Islamic republic, a country he has never visited. Foad Farahi, 34, a doctoral student at Florida International University, will be part of a […]