CAIR: Muslim Leaders Seek Government Stance Against Islamophobia
Since President Obama’s inauguration speech, and especially after his Cairo address to the Muslim world, Muslims around the world have been waiting for concrete steps to improve U.S.-Muslim relations. A group of scholars, diplomats and American-Muslim leaders are recommending practical steps to achieve that goal. Since the September 11th attacks, U.S. relations with the Muslim […]
CAIR-San Diego Rep Speaks on Islamophobia at Public Library
(SAN DIEGO, CA, 7/14/09) – On Saturday July 11, a representative from the San Diego office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) spoke about Islamophobia at the City of San Diego Public Library. The talk, titled “Islamophobia: It’s Components, Root Causes, and Remedies,” was sponsored by the City of San Diego Public Library […]
CAIR-IL: The Islam-Basher and the Librarian Kerfuffle
A controversy erupted last week in Chicago after it was publicly revealed that a noted anti-Islam blogger, Robert Spencer, had been invited to an American Library Association panel advertised as “dispelling stereotypes about Islam.” Ultimately, the panel was canceled after all the other panelists withdrew. I’ll get into that in a minute, but first, who […]
International Center for Inter-Religious Dialogue Agreed at Vienna Conference
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/14/2009) – Representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today joined other world religious leaders at a conference in Vienna, Austria, in agreeing to establish an International Center for Inter-Religious Dialogue to help promote world peace and reconciliation.The two-day conference, a follow-up meeting to an initiative launched last year by Saudi Arabia’s […]
Obama & Muslims After ‘The War on Terror’
“What if they gave a war and no one came?” read a bumper sticker popular during the Vietnam War. Today’s version might ask, What if they gave a war on terror and no one came? President George W. Bush first used the fateful phrase “war on terror” in an address to Congress on September 20, […]
Islam-Basher Will Not Speak at Library Association Conference
(CHICAGO, IL, 7/12/09) – The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) announced that Robert Spencer, one of the nation’s leading Islam-bashers, will not speak today at the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA) following intervention by CAIR and concerned librarians, and the withdrawal of the other scheduled panelists who protested […]
CAIR: Muslim Americans Encouraged, Hopeful after Obama
Iraqi Americans Wasan Alqaisi and Sumer Majid made a Fourth of July family picnic of kebab — served on hamburger buns with slices of American cheese.Celebrating Independence Day in the U.S. capital, the two Muslim women were doing what generations of Americans have done before them: blending their faith and lifestyle with a U.S. national […]
CAIR-IL: Panel Dropped after Invitation of Islam Critic
The American Library Association has canceled a panel discussion on Islam planned for its annual conference over the weekend, after three speakers withdrew in protest at the inclusion of the fourth, a controversial critic of the Muslim religion.The critic, Robert Spencer, who runs the blog site JihadWatch.org, told The Washington Times that he learned of […]
Chicago: Library Group Panelists Withdraw Over Role of Islam-Basher
(CHICAGO, IL, 7/11/09) – The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) today announced that all other panelists scheduled to speak at an American Library Association (ALA) annual conference session on stereotyping of Islam have withdrawn in protest over the participation of Robert Spencer, one of the nation’s leading Islam-bashers.The Council on Islamic […]
CAIR Meets with German Officials on Murder of Muslim Woman
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/8/09)- Representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) met today with officials of the German embassy in Washington, D.C., to discuss a recent incident in which a pregnant Muslim woman was stabbed to death at a Dresden court while testifying against a man who had insulted her for wearing a religiously-mandated headscarf, […]