Officials Asked to Repudiate NY Rep’s Anti-Muslim Remarks
(NEW YORK, N.Y., 4/17/2009) – The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today called on American Muslims and all people of conscience to urge their elected representatives to repudiate Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) bigoted response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report released earlier this week about the rising threat […]
Mich. Muslims Say FBI Using Spies to Entrap Mosque Worshippers
(WARREN, MI, 4/16/09) – The Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan (CIOM) today asks US Attorney General Eric Holder to launch an investigation into complaints that Michigan Muslims are being approached to spy on activities of Muslim congregations by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Through coercion of certain members of congregations, the FBI is […]
Muslim Groups Ask AG to Investigate FBI Tactics
A coalition of Muslim organizations is asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today to investigate complaints that the FBI is approaching local Muslims and asking them to inform on Islamic congregations in Metro Detroit. Muslim leaders in Michigan and across the country say members of mosques are frequently approached and asked to provide information about […]
CAIR-MI: Mich. Muslim Group Says FBI Asking People to Spy
[…] Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said such complaints aren’t new, but concerns grew after a recent revelation the FBI planted a spy in a Southern California mosque…“If there was a specific imam who they felt was telling people to support Osama bin Laden, that’s a […]
Frustration Toward FBI Boils Over for U.S. Muslim Groups
Months of deteriorating relationships between the FBI and major American Muslim organizations came to a head when revelations of a FBI informant posing as a convert in mosques became public in February 2009. The incident, combined with the FBI’s disengagement from communications with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has lead several American Muslim advocacy […]
CAIR-MN: FBI Continues Questioning U Students
The disappearances of young Somali men from Minneapolis, including two students from the University of Minnesota, have resulted in numerous students being questioned by the FBI, both on and off campus. The federal agents have been visiting students in high schools, colleges and the University for information about the missing Somali men.The Council on American-Islamic […]
More Groups Sign Statement Damning FBI for Spying on Mosques
The National Lawyers Guild–last seen in Clockwork four hours ago in relation to a debate it is hosting at Chapman University concerning visiting professor John Yoo signing off on torture while advising the Bush White House–is doing some signing off of its own. It’s joined the 44 groups that have signed a statement blasting the […]
Evangelical Proselytization in the U.S. Military
The May issue of Harper’s Magazine ( www.harpers.org) reveals the continued practice of Christian evangelical proselytization in the American military and a lack of recourse within the Obama administration, according to a leading civil rights watchdog group prominently featured in the magazine’s cover story. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF: www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org) and its founder and […]
NC: Duke Opens Center for Muslim Community
More than 100 faculty, staff, students and members of the Muslim community from Duke and the Triangle gathered Thursday for the official opening of a Muslim Life center at Duke. For Duke’s Muslim Chaplain Abdullah Antepli, the gray clapboard house at 406 Swift Ave. represents “one of the most happy, joyous moments of my life […]
CAIR-IL Protests Congressman’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric
CAIR-Chicago is joining with other members of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) to rally against Congressman Mark Kirk’s anti-immigrant stance. Congressman Kirk has supported numerous anti-immigrant bills and has said he is “…OK with discrimination against young Arab males from terrorist-producing states” (Chicago Sun-Times, November 6, 2005). “Inciting suspicion of immigrant […]