CAIR-OH: Airport Officials, Muslim Cabbies to Discuss Prayers
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport officials will meet Monday with Muslim taxi drivers to try to resolve an issue over a mandate the cabbies say bans them from praying as they wait to pick up passengers. The call for a meeting came a day after a religious advocacy group – the Cleveland Chapter of the Council […]
CAIR: Attacks on Va. Islamic School Agenda-Driven
A controversial private school for Muslim children is seeking to expand a campus in Fairfax County, a proposal that has made reluctant partners of neighbors concerned with the impact on traffic and water quality and critics who oppose what they say is the school’s radical agenda. The Islamic Saudi Academy has asked the county for […]
CAIR-MI: Muslims Heartened by Obama Greeting
The thought weaved through excited conversations in mosques throughout Metro Detroit on Friday, as Muslims gathered for their weekly, public prayer: Is this the beginning of the new era that local Muslims and Arab-American leaders have been urging for years? News that President Barack Obama sent a video greeting to Iranians at the start of […]
CAIR Applauds President’s Outreach to Iran
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/23/09) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded President Obama’s recent efforts to engage Iran in a non-confrontational manner. CAIR welcomed the president’s recent video address to mark the Iranian New Year’s celebration of Nowruz. In that address, President Obama repeated his inaugural theme of “mutual respect” with the Muslim world. […]
CAIR-CA, MAS Freedom Join IWJ and in Support of Employee Free Choice Act
(LOS ANGELES, CA, 3/17/09) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations-California (CAIR-CA) and the Muslim American Society’s MAS Freedom (MASF) join Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) in support of the Employee Free Choice Act, which was introduced in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate last week. In a joint statement, MAS Freedom Executive Director Mahdi […]
NYPD Chaplain Embodies Both Islam and American Culture
Around five in the morning one day in the summer of 2007, just as Imam Khalid Latif was preparing for the salatul-fajr, the obligatory prayer between dawn and sunrise, the phone in his small Manhattan apartment began to ring. He had been up late the night before, having just conducted a nikkah, a Muslim wedding […]
CAIR-NJ: Heated Film About Islamic Terror Shown at Area Church
A controversial film about threats to the U.S. from Islamic radicals was shown on Sunday at a Flanders church not to fuel anti-Islamic sentiment but as an indication of the expected return of Jesus Christ, according to the church pastor. . . The film, however, has been sharply criticized by the Islamic community for inflaming […]
CAIR-San Diego Takes Part in Elderhostel Program on Islam
(SAN DIEGO, CA, 3/20/09) – The San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) recently helped conduct an all-day “Days of Discovery” program organized by the Elderhostel organization at the Islamic Center of San Diego. “Elderhostel has organized a wonderful bridge-building program for its members to learn about Islam and Muslims. The […]
CAIR-OH: Muslim Cabbies Seek Accommodation, Not Special Treatment
A religious advocacy group has asked to meet with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson in order to change a new directive at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport that bans Muslim cab drivers who leave their vehicles to pray. The Cleveland-based chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations said earlier this month that Standard Parking Co., a group […]
National Lawyers Guild Sends Letter to AG Holder on FBI Spying
March 19, 2009 Hon. Eric Holder Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 RE: FBI spying in Mosques Dear Atty. General Holder: I am one of many in Los Angeles who were disgusted and dismayed to learn that the FBI has been covertly inserting spies into Islamic mosques in […]