CAIR-LA Intern Feels Duty-Bound to Vote (CS Monitor)
Omar Kurdi grew up doing all the typical things of American boyhood: riding bicycles with neighborhood buddies, rollerblading, and getting swept up in game fads like pogs.His pathway to the ballot box, though, has been more unconventional. The Syrian-born college student had to become a United States citizen first.He cleared that hurdle early. At age […]
More U.S. Muslim Women Entering Politics (AP)
Many things have changed for Muslim Americans in the seven years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks: Interrogations from FBI and immigration officials. Additional screenings from airport security. The feeling of being targeted by new anti-terrorism laws. And then there’s this: More Muslims, particularly women, are running for political office, spurred by the perceived erosions […]
Navajo & Muslim
One piece of cloth. “Before I was just some girl, you know,” Amber Tom says. “But then, after, it’s like, ‘Oh, it’s that girl. She’s the girl with the scarf.’ I think that’s what people around here call me. They don’t know my name.” Since we’re talking about labels, these are Amber Tom’s: 20-year- old. […]
CAIR Urges Voting as a Positive Response to Anti-Muslim ‘Hysteria’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/29/2008) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on American Muslim voters to turn out in large numbers at the polls on November 4th as a positive response to Islamophobic bias and stereotyping in political campaigns.The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also urged candidates, public officials and […]
CAIR: Foreign Group Again Linked to Anti-Muslim DVD Campaign
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/28/08) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today renewed its call for Federal Election Commission (FEC) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigations of an apparent attempt by a foreign-based group to influence the presidential election.The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said another media report has linked the Israel-based group […]
CAIR: Group Swamps Swing States with Anti-Muslim DVDs (Wash Post)
A New York-based organization has sent copies of a movie about Islamist extremism to more than 28 million houses and religious institutions in presidential election battleground states over the past several weeks.The 60-minute documentary-style production, “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” includes images of terrorist attacks from around the world, historic footage of Nazi […]
The Extremists Behind ‘Obsession’ (The Atlantic)
I’ve only watched the 12-minute version of “Obsession,” the film sent to more than 28 million people in various swing states, apparently by associates and partisans of the Jewish movement known as Aish HaTorah, or “Fire of the Torah,” but it was enough for to understand that it is the work of hysterics. One of […]
CAIR-LA Rep Participates in Panel on Muslim Images in Media
(ANAHEIM, CA, 10/27/08) — On Thursday, a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Greater Los Angeles Area (CAIR-LA) participated in a panel discussion on images of Muslims and Arabs in the media. At the panelheld at the Los Angeles Press Club, Munira Syeda, communications coordinator for CAIR-LA, was joined by panelists Robert Greenwald, founder […]
CAIR-LA Wins Judgment Against Theater that Canceled Screening
(ANAHEIM, CA, 10/27/08) – The Greater Los Angeles Area Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) announced today that it won a judgment against Starplex Cinemas, which cancelled a contract with the Muslim civil rights group after caving in to right-wing pressure three days before a scheduled screening of the documentary “USA vs. Al-Arian” […]
CAIR-OH: Obama’s Not a Muslim, But Lots of Good People Are
The retired general and former secretary of state appeared on “Meet the Press” last Sunday to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, and then he had this to say about Obama’s religion:“The correct answer is: ‘He is not a Muslim. He’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian.’ But the really right answer is: ‘What […]