Action: Join CAIR Staff at Race for the Cure in DC
Last year more than 50,000 people gathered at the National Mall in Washington, DC to support the Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure®. Participants and spectators alike dressed in pink, the color that has become universally associated with the fight against breast cancer. Among those was a group of women wearing pink hijabs, […]
CAIR-MI: FBI Terrorist List Is Full of Errors (Detroit News)
The FBI’s terrorist watch list is riddled with inaccuracies, including 24,000 people who should not be banned from flying or entering the country and omissions of a few dozen individuals suspected of terrorism, according to the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Justice.An audit by the inspector general supports what a number of […]
Islam Op-Ed: For Geert Wilders, Free Speech is a One-Way Street
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 first-come-first-served basis. Please consider the following commentary for […]
CAIR Welcomes Pope’s Statement of Respect for Islam
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/8/09) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed Pope Benedict XVI’s expression of respect for Islam and Muslims as he began his first trip to the Middle East. After being greeted in Jordan by King Abdullah, the pope said: “My visit to Jordan gives me a welcome opportunity to speak of […]
Michael Savage Among 16 Banned from Britain
Sixteen people banned from entering the UK were ‘named and shamed’ by the Home Office today. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she decided to make public the names of 16 people banned since October so others could better understand what sort of behaviour Britain was not prepared to tolerate. The list includes hate preachers, anti-gay […]
Britain Publishes List of People Banned from Entry
Britain for the first time has published a list of people barred from entering the country for what the government says is fostering extremism or hatred. The list includes popular American talk-radio host Michael Savage, who has called the Muslim holy book, the Quran, a “book of hate.” Savage also has enraged parents of children […]
TX: GOP Group Told Muslims Trying to Overthrow America
What are the intentions of Muslims in America? A local activist told a Republican club Monday night that Muslims are intent on overthrowing America. But the Tarrant County medical examiner, who is Muslim, denounced such remarks as hate speech. Dorrie O’Brien was booked months ago to speak to the North Tarrant Republican Club. She riled […]
CAIR: Taking a Stand for the Iran Journalist
In an effort to support American journalist Roxana Saberi, some faculty and students at Northwestern started a hunger strike Friday. Iran denies it, but Saberi herself has been on a hunger strike since April 21, protesting her eight-year prison sentence. She was arrested in late January, initially accused of working without press credentials. But in […]
New Surveillance Rules Threaten FBI Relationship with Muslims
Muslim groups are rethinking their previous commitments to work with the FBI in light of growing concerns that mosques and other Islamic centers are under surveillance or being infilatrated — without any evidence they’ve participated in a crime, The Associated Press reports. That decision should come as little surprise to the Justice Department, given that, […]
TX: Women Explore Faith with Islam 101
Jacquelyn Harper became a Muslim at the end of January. The 25-year-old said she has never before felt as close a bond with God. “I started reading books (about Islam), and the books I was reading started to really make sense to me,” said Harper, who converted from a conservative confessional branch of the Lutheran […]